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what is this "T" icon that's in the bottom left of my logo? Is it to identify it's an Illustrator file? To identify that it's an image?

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The past few days I haven't been able to export any documents as PDFs. I have tried opening new documents with both the same and different page sizes, with more than one page, and saving them locally/to an external drive. The export dialogue box never pops up, and I have to force close the app via Task Manager.

Edit: Also tried rebooting. Am using 20.5 (newer versions have been causing crashing/freezing issues)

Any suggestions?

Hello everyone. The Help page about editing PDFs in InDesign (Convert PDFs to InDesign Documents) mentions:

"Use the Preserve InDesign Editing Capabilities during Export PDF. This will help recreate the PDF as it was originally created in InDesign."

I cannot find this option anywhere in InDesign. Am I right that this option was removed ages ago and the Help page is grossly outdated?

Thank you!

PS: Am I the only one who thinks PDFs opened in InDesign look worse than PDFs converted to DOCX in Acrobat?

I've formatted my book in AdobeIndesign and kept my paperback and hardcover the same dimensions. KDP accepted the hardcover version, but they marked my paperback as having insufficient bleed? It's the exact body file as the one I used for the hardcover.

The issue is that all of my chapter beginnings have illustrations. But KDP marks just a few of them, like four out of sixty. Every single chapter beginning is based on the same parent page, so if KDP wants to be upset with my bleed, I'm not sure why it isn't marking every single one. Maybe this post would make more sense in a Indesign subreddit, but I thought I'd start here and see if anyone has had similar issues?

Ingramspark accepted the files just fine, so I have no idea what the issue is. Like I've given them plenty of bleed.

For the life of me, I can't figure this out. I need to sync my workspace, and export settings between my desktop and my laptop. Something I've delayed for years as I've yet to have to extensively work remote, but now I'm going to need to. I want to then apply this to Illustrator and Photoshop as well, but one thing at a time.

Searching Adobe's docs, it looks as though when the apps first launched after install, you are asked if you want to turn on Creative Cloud Sync or not. I'm guessing I chose no, but I've had it installed for years.

After that, it says to click on a Sync button in bottom-left hand of screen. I don't have that. I've searched through the help section of InDesign, and found nothing. I've searched online, and found nothing. I know I'm missing something, but coming here as a last resort.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing?

I find that I have to reset my preferences up to 3 times a day due to some of the tools not working the way they should. My text wrap feature stops allowing me to see any measurements when trying to create the text wrap. So I have to reset. It works sometimes for the rest of the day or gets wonky in a couple of hours and I have to reset again. Same thing with the gradient pallett. I lose all my pre-sets such as document sizes, etc. and have to reset all my units/increments. Any ideas as to how to fix?

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Working on a few multi-language layouts in InDesign recently and ran into a recurring issue.

When everything is properly structured (styles, linked text, etc.), creating versions for different languages is manageable.

But the moment text is:

• Part of placed images
• Inside graphics or backgrounds
• Or flattened into visuals

…the workflow starts breaking down.

What I’ve been doing so far:

• Recreating those elements manually
• Going back to source files (if available)
• Or leaving some visuals unchanged depending on deadlines

None of these feel ideal, especially when scaling across multiple languages.

Curious how others here handle this:

• Do you avoid embedding text in visuals altogether?
• Maintain separate source files for every asset?
• Or have a better workflow for adapting those elements?

Feels like a small thing, but it adds up quickly in real projects.

Sou novo no indesign e estou diagramando um livro que será impresso. Gostaria de saber como fazer para adicionar uma ilustração no verso da capa e da contracapa. Devo criar arquivos separados para a capa e o verso, ou dá pra fazer tudo num único arquivo de capa?

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I am struggling to get my open PDF pages to my current InDesign project. My untitled document needs to go into my Senior film proposal document.

I’m having a comic professionally printed which I drew as spreads, but my printer wants a single pages PDF, I didn’t account for any extra bleed drawing room on the insides where the art reaches the fold, I am wondering then if the inner edge bleed of each page is just 0.125 inches of the page beside it? Or did I mess up by not drawing extra extending bleed image of the page itself?

Hi! Editing a document created by someone else for my job, and I am wondering what this object/table/grid is.

I can't find any settings for this, and I feel like I have tried everything. I want to be able to make the left column larger without the alternating gray and white background shading pushing off the page. When I move the vertical gray line to the right, it creates that space I want in the left column, but extends the alternating shading sections off of the page (it doesn't do this to the text itself). When I move the vertical gray line to the left, it makes the alternating shading less wide, but I don't get the wider left column that I want.

I have tried tables (greyed out), paragraph shading (wasn't checked off), and tried to select the gray lines themselves, but the text itself has editable bounds, not the shading. Any help would be super appreciated! I can upload a video showing my issues if this was too hard to understand. Thanks!!

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I have formatted a book using inDesign. When I export the file to ePub, a couple of pages that are supposed to be at the beginning, are shown at the end of the book instead. I've checked the export tags but they seem to be ok. Can anybody help me fix It?

When I export the file to PDF, the DNG images I inserted are grainy.

How do I export them correctly? The images, being in DNG, are at maximum quality, straight from the camera, but when exported, they become grainy.

Furthermore, the PNG images I inserted are displayed perfectly.

How do I fix this? Thanks in advance.

This is for a printed magazine. I know how to add in page numbers using the parent pages, but I need page 1 to start on what is technically page 3 (don’t want page numbers on cover or inside cover). Any way to do that without manually having to add the page numbers?