I have been trying to use Master Pages in InDesign for sometime now. On a few occasions the feature works but generally speaking, it is impossible to do so. Thus making the creation of documents hard going when one has to amend each individual page!!!!!!
Also, why is everything crashing all the time it's a nightmare! Can you please help?
Please help! Anyone know how to ensure placed AI files in ID remain in their original colorspace? I have logos that keep defaulting to LAB once placed in Indesign even though they are created in CMYK and Spot colours respectively.
Thanks,
exasperated.
(BTW, been on technical help through the portal since October 2013 and still getting the run around from technicians in another part of the world who can't call back in the correct time zone!) And of course there is nobody to complain to, can't access a contact or anyone!
It's very annoying.
I've gone through all the styles and removed all the Word Imported Lists.
I know I can go to Type>Bullets and Numbering>Define Lists
But you can't multi-select them.
And pressing Delete brings this up
Here's what my panel looks like when I go the List:
I just want to remove them all together.
Any one any ideas?
All my saved doc will not open. I get the following message:
Cannot open "name of doc.indde" because it was saved by a newer version of Adobe InDesign (CS7.0)
I don't even have CS7...in fact does it even exist ?
Plz help
Hi, in InDesign CC I have a problem with text in interactive text fields. I would like to write text that is editable after exporting interactive pdf. Because I have many formulars with many many text fields, and my clients would like to edit the text but not write (or paste) everything again. Is it possible to insert text that remains editable after exporting to interactive pdf ? Hope you can help !!!
and btw - is it possible to use other fonts than Times somehow ? Thank you 
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Maria, Denmark
What is the best way to reduce the size of a large file, with graphics, when sending to a printer?
I have reviewed several of the posts about endnotes and now am not sure which method to follow. I have a book file with more than 70 files. Each of these files [a chapter] has endnotes which are to appear all at the end in one chapter called endnotes. they restart numbering for every chapter [i.e. chapter 1 has endnotes 1-5, chapter 2 has endotes 1-9, etc]
The problem is that the text has already been carefully formatted and I don't want ot lose the formattign - so I cannot simply reimport the word file- which has the endnotes manually with numbers like 3, 4, 4.1, 4.2, etc.] I'd liek to make the endnotes dynamic as I must prepare teh document for Kindle and epub as well.
i mus t now insert the endnotes manually in each chapter - i know of the script to convert footnotes ot endnotes. But it is my understanding that teh script will place teh endnotes at teh end of each chapter/file. If I then try to copy these all into one file at teh end - I'm pretty sure I will lose the dynamic links.
I could try to do this using cross-reference but from what i've read it's pretty flaky across multiple documents and prone to crashing.
I could also combine all my separate chapters into one humongous file - using the "move" pages command.
This will be very tedious and seems to defeat teh whole purpose of the book but will enable me to use the footnotes to endnotes script.
Which is the lesser of 2 evils -or is there something else I can do?
I work on multiple-page publications which very often require footnotes. Here is how my Indesign template looks:
As you can see, we style our footnotes to appear in a scholar's margin on the right hand side. From scrutinising the help function on footnotes, I can't see how I could automate footnote numbering to look like this. Can anyone prove me wrong/assist please?
Hi,
A few months ago I installed the trial versions of Adobe Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop on my MacBookPro. After they expired I purchased the standard student edition and used the provided key number to unlock the full versions. However, everything (including the sample fonts list, icons and opening menu) are pixelated and blurry. As a design student, it is incredibly distracting to see font that isn't smooth like it should be on a retina display...
I've updated Indesign to version 8.0.1 but to no avail. What could be wrong and how might I solve this problem?
Thank you,
Cuong
Hi,
I'm having an issue with the GREP find/replace in InDesign 5.5. I need to put bracket "[ ]" around text marked in "French: Canadian" language.
I thought a basic GREP find/replace would do the trick, but it mess up the Character styles in it, by changing the position of where it is applied.
Allow me to explain.
Here are the parameters of my grep search.
Find what: .*
Change to: [$0]
Find Format: + language: French: Canadian
When I execute this, the character style applied to a text will get bumped by the numbers of characters that I added to the left of the $0 in the Change To param. Meaning that, If I add more characters to the left of the string $0 in my Change To like so "MORE_CHARACTER[$0]", the character style will be moved by the number of character added before, in this case by 15 characters.
So for example using this
Find what: .*
Change to: MORE_CHARACTER[$0]
Find Format: + language: French: Canadian
The text before will look like this
This is a string that has a character styles on the first occurence of the word "has".
The text after will look like this
MORE_CHARACTER[This is a string that has a character styles on the first occurence of the word "has".]
The character styles that was applyed is no longer applied to the first "has", but it is instead applied to the "ng " of the word "string" and the space after.
Am I suppose to do the grep replace differently?
We've just started doing NCR work for customers. As I had no idea how to data merge I had someone come in and show me how to do so.
My first NCR jobs are job sheets, so I fit two onto a page and need 2 pieces of data on them.
I have made the spread sheet as I was shown and saved it as a CSV. I then used the data merge to place the info where needed. However, when I click create merged document it comes up with a buffering kind of symbol and freezes. InDesign then follows by failing to respond.
It's really confused me as I've tried to redo it a few times and at one point, it did work straight away, so I'm pretty sure I've done the process correctly. Whereas I had a stupid moment and forgot to save before doing the second set of data. I'm back to square one now.
Is this an issue for anyone who merges data and is anyone aware of how I can fix this?
We need to get this done sooner rather than later.
New problem we're experiencing today. Wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same issue?
Almost every other mouse click within InDesign results in a Pinwheel and an unresponsive InDesign.
I've tried all the tricks...managing fonts, deleting preferences, deleting cache, removing plugins, etc.
Next and drastic step is a total wipe of my system but I'm trying to avoid that!
Indesign CS6 v8.0.2
Mac OS X 10.6.8
Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
16Gb Memory
Any help is strongly appreciated.
Why is the free trial of InDesign not fully fuctional? I can't even set up a page layout. What good is it if I can't use it enough to decide if I want to purchase it.
What kind of company produces dialog boxes that look like this one:
How uselessly uninformative can anyting be? Column on the left can't be expanded so I can't read it because I don't know what Transpar...y means. And Adobe doesn't get it because they're a bunch of subhuan geeks who tink in terms of abbrevs lk ths. W cnt ths stpd cmpny lrn h t cmmicate? Fk u u stpd shthds. Ur a bnch of a...h**ls
Hi,
I've installed InDesign CS6 recently in English (International). I need to typeset a Chinese text vertically.
I've heard of shareware plugins like "World Tools Pro" that can enable CJK special typesetting options, but I need a cheaper approach.
Does anyone know how to typeset CJK text with a freeware plugin or internally without plugins? 
Buttons created in InDesign don't function in Acrobat after PDF export. They used to. What happened?
Hi, I'm importing a csv file into Indesign to do the data merge, but some of the fields changed their appearance, CSV file don't save original number characters from original excel worbook, and is dumping something else, is there any other file extension we can import to use the data merge function.
I've been fighting this annoyance for months... in fact, I don't know if I've ever had this work properly since I've upgraded to either CS6 or CC (which is what I'm on currently). Basically, I'll be working on a small document (usually 2-3 pages), and when I go to type text into a text box, the cursor lags behind the speed at which I'm typing. After a second it catches up, then lags again, then catches up. It's incredibly frustrating, as it takes forever to type just a simple sentence. I've tried a couple of things with limited success: I've started with a brand new document instead of creating a copy of one of my template documents; I've tried switching fonts; I've tried shutting down other Adobe apps and only have InDesign running; I've tried setting my view performance to fast display (which makes working on a document near impossible). These have only increased responsiveness minimally, up to a certain point until I add more elements to the doc, or not at all.
This makes no sense to me, because I am running OS X Mavericks on a 13" MacbookPro with a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 8 GB of RAM, and a 250GB Flash Storage drive. I keep all my apps and fonts on the internal flash drive and all my files on an external hard drive connected via USB 3. I can literally work on 2GB layered Photoshop files with hardly any lag, but when it comes to typing a few words in InDesign, it acts like it can't keep up. I opened up the Activity Monitor to see what was happening when I tried typing text in InDesign, and found that there was no change in memory used (just over 1 GB whether actively typing or inactive), but there was a huge jump in CPU load (up to 87% when typing).
Inserting the type tool cursor, clicking and dragging to highlight text, and using the eye dropper tool to highlight text and apply a text style all seem to be affected by this slow down. Most other functions (such as placing images and rendering high quality display view performance) seem to work fine. Not sure about shape/vector drawing... there may be a slight lag on selecting an anchor point and dragging to move its position.
Any ideas? Thanks,
Jeff
Mir ist es nicht gelungen, herauszufinden, wieviel InDesign (ME) in Deutschland kostet, und wo man bei Adobe danach sucht. InDesign (ME) ist die Version, die nahöstliche Sprachen (Arabisch, Hebräisch) und ihre Schreibrichtiung von recht nach links unterstützt - was das "normale" InDesign CC anscheinend nicht tut. Auch würde ich gern wissen, ob es die 30-Tage-Testversion auch für InDesign (ME) gibt.
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