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Hello! I've been tasked with typesetting a textbook. It has many footnotes, tables, special text boxes, etc. I'm looking for advice on workflow from people experienced with this type of project.

I've got my master pages, my paragraph styles, table of contents, and many other items like that down.

Now I'm entering the text into the document. I've tried using Place to place the entire Word doc, but it only worked for the first several pages, the rest were all blank, and the special text boxes and tables are, seemingly, irreparably weird.

So it seems I'm left to copy and paste individual sections from the Word doc, and then manually enter each footnote, each table, etc.

If this is how it's done, that's fine. I'm just concerned that there may be a faster way to do it, and I might be wasting time doing it this way.

Thank you in advance for any help you may have to offer!

Hello everyone,

I'm hoping to learn a bit more about Data Merge and it's potential.

I have a catalog that has about 150 individual listings that all have a name, text description, photo 1 and photo 2. In the past, we've always just manually added the images but that was only with 50 or so line items, our business has grown significantly this year so that is no longer an option. These items are used in two applications: individual signs and a catalog.

I am looking for advise on how to set up the Data Merge to include the images from a CSV. I have been playing with using file paths, but have found it to be a little finicky. Another issue is that we have multiple team members that might need to have their hands on this so using a specific users path might be challenging. We could try and dedicate it to a single computer, but is there an option for it to pull from something like Google Drive? What is the best structure to have on the CSV for it to be reliable?

I am completely happy to take any suggestions on the best way to go about this.

I’m designing a magazine with illustrations that span across two pages. When I export as a single-page PDF, each illustration only appears on one page instead of continuing across the spread.

I have to manually duplicate every illustration that crosses two pages to make sure it appears correctly. Is there a way to export the magazine as single pages, without having to duplicate each image manually?

I like to work on a spread view to see how the magazine looks like, but my printer requires a single-page PDF with bleed marks.

**EDIT: image is not following two pages when breaking the spreads to singles pages from the panel (unchecking Facing Pages)**

I need to replace missing "Source Sans Pro (OTF)" fonts with their correct Source Sans Pro counterparts and update the styles.

Every time I try to use a script to do this, it changes the correct fonts, but replaces them with some entirely different font. I suspect InDesign is failing to find the Adobe fonts and then defaulting to the first font in some list instead. The font is always something starting with A.

There are hundreds of these files. They are absolutely riddled with overrides and ridiculously inconsistent. Manually updating fonts or applying templates would be a nightmare.

Anyone have success batch updating styles and fonts to adobe fonts in this way?

no matter what i do, the image i’m placing is cropped and the aspect ratio is shifting. i am holding command shift, i’ve switched between direct selection and selection. i’ve tried object > fitting > auto fit. i don’t know what i’m doing wrong. i am just trying to resize an image without it cropping or changing the ratio.

I have a portfolio around 59mb that i need to get down to 10mb. Ive tried adobe compress pdf, and it says it can compress it to 6mb, but then when i press compress is only compresses it to like 55mb. All the online compressors are also not compressing past that? Its not even a full portfolio yet, so i dont know why this is happening. The only thing ive done different is use two font families (Neue Haas and Plus Jakarta Sans) from adobe fonts, but it says theyre embedded? Im quite new to indesign by the way, any help is needed!

hello, first time here, i have a question, i need the first page to be on the left and the second to be on the right because they complementary, but i dont want to copy and paste everything on the right pages, so, is there a simple way to do it?

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okay so i have been using the cracked version of indesign since 3 years now. I am currently using the 2023 version. It was working fine until last month. Now suddenly i get the pop up "could not connect to the internet/could not verify your subscription". I have tried everything- with the firewall settings, without the firewall settings, trying to open it while the wifi is turned off, while the wifi is turned on. I even deleted and reinstalled it. what do i do? I have an important document to submit next month, 20% of my grades depend on this document and this thing hasnt been working for a week now. Is there any other software that i can use?