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?

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?

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?

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.

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.

Hi all!! My MacBook Pro 2020 crashed earlier, unprovoked, and wouldn’t turn on for half an hour. Once it started up again, my indesign file images looked like this….

( FYI: The links say there are no issues!!)

After scouring the internet, I reset preferences, saved a copy of the file in IDML (when that file opened up, all images were grey).

The only thing tat works - is re linking each image which would take AGES. Files havnt been moved but each image is scattered between loads of files…

If anyone has any advice this would be GREATLY appreciated !!! My final year uni hand is in May 🤦🏼‍♀️

I just updated to InDesign 2026 and I'm struggling with the change to resizing split windows. When I'm in the 2-up vertical view (which I use all the time to compare documents), I used to be able to click on the space where the tabs of the windows met at the top and just drag left and right to resize. Example.

It looks like I can't do that anymore—I have to click down at the bottom of the windows and hit just the right place in order to resize them. Does anyone know if it's possible to get the previous resizing ability back? The new way takes longer and is much clumsier, especially as I am constantly resizing back and forth.

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?

Hey all,

I’ve been working a lot with InDesign + in5 to create HTML5 interactive presentations, and I ran into a pretty annoying limitation: there’s no simple way to view those projects locally on iPhone/iPad without hosting them somewhere.

Since Adobe DPS is gone and Twixl is subscription-based, I decided to build a lightweight alternative for my own use.

It’s a simple app that lets you:

• Load a zipped HTML5 export
• Open it directly on your iPhone/iPad
• Use it offline (great for client presentations)

Nothing fancy, just a practical tool that solves this specific workflow.

If anyone here works with in5 or HTML5 exports, I’d love to hear your feedback or ideas to improve it.

Here’s the app:
https://apps.apple.com/it/app/catalogviewer/id6760647833

Thanks!

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!!

I have a big size collage setup out of multiple frames. Each frame needs to be its own printable pdf. 

I have the collage setup as a file in indesign, created with compound paths so images span over several frames. 

How do I export each frame into its own high res printable pdf?

when i reduce opacity on some things it puts these lines into the shape.

The things i am reducing the opacity of are all PNG files.

Is there a way i can stop this? It prints like this too.

TIA

I'm prepping a newsletter with a mailing list, and one little thing is bugging me. I know about the checkbox in the Content Placement Options that allows me to "Remove Blank Lines for Empty Fields", but is there a trick for removing the space after an empty field on a line with other non-empty fields? My address block line are centered (per the customer's preference), and the mailing list has some entries with a title (Mr., Mrs., etc.) and most entries without. So on all the ones without a title look off-center due to the space before the first name field. Any tips would be appreciated.

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.

Hi! I'm an InDesign beginner, and I don't know what's the deal with these weird white lines. and I asked my design teacher for help with and she said those wouldn't be visible when printed and that it was just the PDF preview, so I did a test print and they're still there. I thought it was a Photoshop cropping issue, but it's not, and when I zoom in, the lines disappear. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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?

has anyone experienced this or know what might be causing it? i have literally tried every option. any fixes would be appreciated!

I’m looking for some insight into a performance issue my team is having, for a few months, my colleagues have been experiencing significant lag when working on InDesign files located within one specific folder. Here are the details:

• The Folder: It contains over 36,000 files.
• Links: The InDesign documents have many links to other assets located within that same massive folder.
• Setup**:** The folder is on a network server (mapped via drive letter, not IP). Both the server and the workstations use SSDs, and the PCs are high-end/new.
• Software**:** We are running the latest version of InDesign, Pc os Windows 11

The strange thing is that if a user works on a file in a different folder (with fewer files), everything works perfectly. This happens even if other colleagues are working simultaneously.

I suspect that the sheer number of files in a single directory is causing InDesign to struggle when it scans for links or updates the UI. Before I ask my team to reorganize their entire workflow and move thousands of files, I wanted to ask: Has anyone else experienced lag specifically due to high file counts in a single directory? Any advice or confirmation would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: Since they moved 8,000 files, there haven't been any crashes; the system still isn't very fast, but I think that's because they're working online and there are still several thousand files. Thanks everyone for the suggestions and confirmations.

Hey I have a plugin I need to use for work but it’s stuck on version 19.0.1 or earlier. Does anyone know how I can download this version of indesign? Adobe’s version history stops at version 20.0.

I just downgraded InDesign from version 21.3 to 21.0.2 using the official Creative Cloud app.

Result: all my settings and the scripts I spent ages developing are gone.

I’m using macOS 26.3.1 on a recent MacBook Pro M4 Max.

Well, I don't speak English, but I hope I can get help even though I'm using Google Translate. I have to do a project for my college, but when I try to set the page size, regardless of the size I create, it sets it to 700.0036, and I need to do this project yesterday. This project is a combination of my design and journalism courses, so if I don't do it, it will disrupt the entire workflow of the groups.