Adobe InDesign is the preeminent page layout application for professional design work. It contains features for both print and electronic (ePub, interactive documents, digital magazine) publication.
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How to repair InDesign document that categorically crashes the Application
I have a document that I created that now categorically crashes ID. I've tried opening the file on multiple computers (Windows) and multiple versions of ID (7 and 8). The document opens, and then, the ...
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Master page display on top in InDesign?
I read this question regarding Fireworks layers, where it said that master pages have to be applied underneath other layers.
Is this true for InDesign as well? If not, how does one put the Master ...
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unique serial number on page each time a pdf or indesign doc prints
Im having to design a document for internal use that needs a unique serial number on copy of the sign off sheet.
Im aware that indesign has a numbering function (to number book/magazine pages) but ...
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InDesign: In a table of contents, conflicts between bold & italic text
In my InDesign document, figure captions are bold when they appear in the body of the document, and non-bold when they appear in the list of figures. But when I need to italicize text in a figure ...
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Encyclopaedia-style InDesign running headers, where pages have many, one or zero headings
So, you can have a heading running on each page that varies automatically based on the most recent heading (or, occurrence of any other paragraph style) by putting text with InDesign text variables ...
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Convert Quark files to InDesign files
Is there a quick way to convert Quark files into Indesign without having Quark?
I have InDesign CS4 and need to make changes to a Quark file.
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How do I get InDesign to import XML into table cells?
First, let me preface by saying i've read through James Maivald's Designer's Guide to InDesign and XML, but i'm still really confused.
I have an XML document that looks like:
<foo>
<bar>
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The way it's supposed to work with books in a team in InDesign is not coherent, then how to properly work?
Imagine this scenario:
User A opens the book
User B opens the book and make important changes
User B saves the book
User A closes the indesign and it's asked if wants to save the changes to the book
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How to add catchwords using InDesign
Many books before 1800 used a feature called catchwords, repeating the first word of the page at the bottom of the previous page. Wikipedia has a small article on them and there's a good question ...
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Indesign and syntax highlighting
I have a poster which I have made, it is basically lots of java code and looks like a wall of text.
I want to add syntax highlighting to this so that the code is more readable. I know that I can ...
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InDesign: Is there any way to lock all the styles (paragraph and character) and master pages and keep all of them in a master document only?
I'm setting up a workflow for working in a book with various chapters and I don't want the designers to change the styles in one document in the book. I just want to be able to change the styles in a ...
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InDesign CS6: How should I structure pages of lists?
I'm having several different parts of a publication I'm doing where I'm presenting essentially a list of compound data. Examples are contact specifications (data points are [Name,Phone,Email]), recent ...
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Using PhotoShop to create a magazine
My question:
Can I create a magazine exclusively using PhotoShop?
My understanding:
It should simply be a case of using CMYK and an adequately high resolution.
Other software:
InDesign is pretty ...
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Insert a variable on many pages in Adobe InDesign to fill in when printing PDF
I have a "Name" field on many worksheet pages which I want automatically filled in with a particular student's name when printing. I know in InDesign I can just create a master page that those ...
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Disappearing InDesign Text
I am working on a page someone else created as a master page, and want to add a text box to the page. I created the box and placed my text in it, but the text is not visible. If I drag the text box ...
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How to set different color to guides(Ai,Ps,Id,Fw)?
I've been working on this file with a lot of guides(in Illustrator) and at some Point I was wondering is there a way to give different color to guides ? Like the gutter guides to be black, the main ...
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Indesign adding white strokes to stroked text when exporting to pdf
I am working on a very basic InDesign project (my first one), and have one trouble that is progressively driving me crazy.
I need some bold text, and so have added a 0.25pt black stroke to my 10pt ...
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InDesign: Blank pages on 1,4 when creating a booklet?
I'm trying to supply the printer with a 2-page saddle up print job - which I'm assuming is a 2 page spread stapled in the middle and folded.
The document is a 22 page booklet, The 1st page is the ...
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What resolution do I need for images placed in InDesign?
I am creating a A4 Print PDF file from InDesign. From the InDesign file I am doing the following :
File > Adobe PDF presets > [High Quality Print]
Doing this exports a PDF file from InDesign pretty ...
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InDesign Data Merge and hiding missing data
I have an InDesign document which is filled from the data in a CSv using data mrege. The csv has columns for name, phone, email etc, but some of the data in the ccsv isn't filled in as it is not all ...
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Why is my background white when exported as PDF in InDesign?
I have a problem with Adobe InDesign. When I change the page's background color (by modifying the Swatches>Paper color), and export it to PDF by going to File>Export, in InDesign - the outcome of that ...
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Indesign: how to style a paragraph so that it will occupy no vertical space in the document flow (similar to “float” in css)
I am laying out a book that has line numbers on every fifth line. I want it to look like this:
line # text line text line text line text line text
text line text line text line text ...
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How to setup a duplex document printed both sides with page numbers in InDesign
I'm about to create an A4 business brochure magazine style of 8 pages and i was wondering how to setup my document.
I have two options. 1 would be creating an A4 document, facing pages with proper ...
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Small caps not appearing on Windows computer
I've made a document on inDesign CS5 on OSX containing a section typeset in Palatino small caps. These appear fine when viewing the exported PDF on a Mac however on a Windows computer some of the ...
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Weird color distortion when using an effect on top of an image in InDesign
In Adobe InDesign, I have placed a pink image that I brought in from Photoshop. The below screenshot is how the pink looks like in Mac Preview (I'm on Mountain Lion).
I wanted to add some lines to ...
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Is there a way to script InDesign to read the EXIF information of a photo?
I'm thinking of making a photo portfolio in InDesign and I have the following functionality in mind:
First I would make a document of several pages containing placeholder images. Each page has a ...
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Convert Images to CMYK in Indesign
I have a large Indesign Document (about 200+ pages), and in about the half of the pages the images were copied & pasted into the document instead of linking them.
These images are now somewhat ...
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Generate InDesign content using XML
I'm trying to generate some content in InDesign CS5 by importing XML data, but I can't figure out how to do it. Here's what I have:
XML
<stuff>
<person>
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InDesign: Threaded text with different master pages
I have two master pages, "2-col Master" and "4-col Master". I start out with a 4-col page and insert text. InDesign will insert the remaining pages (each with 4-cols) until the text is complete. How ...
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Vectors or 300 dpi TIFFs for printing?
I have worked with CreateSpace before and used AI vector images on the cover and interior PDF of a book, but the images all printed pixelated. After complaining, CreateSpace told me to only use 300 ...
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ID renumbering TOC
I need to create a master table of contents that incorporates
two 100-page documents. Each document has its own table of contents. So, the
master TOC would list both of the TOCs of the two documents ...
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How to make Indesign tables of contents interactive, with clickable jump links in the exported PDF
I couldn't find any simple resource saying how to make Adobe Indesign tables of contents interactive, so that each item in the electronic version of the exported PDF is a live hyperlink / cross ...
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Inserting a new column in InDesign changes the paragraph style by adding a + to the name. Why?
When I add a new column to a table in InDesign CS6 and I click into a new created cell it has a + in the style name. When I hover over the style it shows: "Overrides(alt+click to clear): (align: flush ...
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Converting InDesign CS6 document to printer spreads using print booklet
I am trying to create a press ready PDF for a 16 page InDesign document using Print Booklet. I see the Print Booklet preview and everything looks fine, spreads are correct, etc. However, when I run ...
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Creating a book using InDesign [new to this!]
I'm learning about InDesign (using versions CS5.5 and CS6 - depending on which computer I use), and whilst I am competent at using it at a basic level - creating INDDs, creating joboption files for ...
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Font conversion from (unknown file type - maybe .pfa) with .afm
I have been given a font that has a .afm file with another file that doesn't actually have a file type. I'm unsure what the file type is meant to be but, on my Mac, when it installs it, it can read ...
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Is the maximum ink percentage embedded in the pdf color profile?
I am placing some Photoshop-made artwork into InDesign and exporting to PDF for print. My artwork is quite dark, and Ps's eyedropper tells me that some of my blacks are around the 90/95/95/85 mark. My ...
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Problem printing Booklet in Indesign to a PDF using postscript
I have this message in Acrobat Distiller when trying to PDF a booklet from Indesign CS5: Acrobat Distiller 9.5.1 Started: Wednesday, 1 August 2012 at 10:22 AM Adobe PostScript software version: ...
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InDesign: How do I automatically style body text differently depending on the prior paragraph style?
in indesign, I have a paragraph style line number
and another style body text
when a paragraph of style body text is preceded by a paragraph of style line number, I would like to style that body ...
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How can I prevent Export/Printing of an InDesign document if placeholders are still in place?
Pretty straightforward, as in the title.
Our University paper's staff sometimes doesn't have the manpower to even Search for Lorem Ipsums, and often times other basic omissions occur, like updating ...
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How to create a bookmark that is a URL in InDesign?
In InDesign, how do I create a bookmark (i.e., a bookmark that will be exported to a PDF file) that is a hyperlink to a URL?
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Use data merge of indesign using console or through an API
I am trying to evaluate Adobe Indesign for my needs. In this regards, I asked
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6164612/generate-a-catalog-for-print-and-web
I looked at the tutorial posted in the ...
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Indesign exports A4 document as US Letter .pdfs
When exporting a document created in InDesign which has A4 selected under File > Document Setup > Page Size into a .pdf by using File > Export > Adobe PDF (Print) format and use the default 'High ...
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Can I set DPI per image/page as opposed to document-wide in InDesign?
I am making a book with some of my photography. I have not been blessed with the best camera in the world so my images range between 1100px squared to 2000px squared. The print size per image will be ...
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Resetting InDesign's “Document modified outside of book” warning
This feels more like a Super User question than Graphic Design, but I figure someone here will be more likely to know the answer.
Using InDesign 5, I have a "book" collection that I use to keep a ...
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InDesign 5.5 Section Numbering
I am putting together a telephone directory, and I was trying to figure out a good way of getting section markers to work for me.
My setup has 3 towns: Burford, Paris and St George. Under each of ...
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How do I use a document more than once in a book in inDesign CS6?
When setting the page ordering of a book in inDesign, I am having trouble figuring out how to have the same document show up twice. I am creating a business book that has the same forms appearing ...
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InDesign - exporting PDF and viewing it in proof colours?
I exported a PDF from InDesign CS5 - it worked well, no issues with the program or the output of the PDF. My problem relates to color - this area's fairly new to me.
My OS is Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow ...
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InDesign - Can't see purple alignment lines in CS6
In InDesign CS5 I could draw a text box, drag it on page, and see purple lines that helped me align. Where did they go in CS6? I don't see them as I drag text boxes. Ideas?
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Indesign cs5.5 export as Epub interactive
i'm testing how far i can go with interactive epub format ebook.I've just added two buttons (prev and next) and 3 overlapping pictures to make a mini-slideshow. I've tested this on my pc with the ...
