Indesign users! I'm Marcus from Adobe and I heavily use Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop since I'm a classic graphic designer. I always loved the way you can import and mask images directly inside an object when placing them in Indesign. But what I don't like is setting up grids, not for typographic layouts but more for presenting, so think about Bento grids or block grids in general.

I made a working prototype of a free Bento Grid plugin for Indesign that lets you adjust sections, corner radius, spacing and also the units in real time. I want to know, if you would use this too - please let me know and I will prepare everything to ship the final plugin for Indesign. Thank you so much!

*Note that this is not an official plugin from Adobe, even though I work there. It's more like a fun project to help with my personal pain points and improve my workflow in the apps.

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well!

I’m an university student majoring in Design. Over the last two semesters, I’ve fallen in love with editorial design and would like to pursue a career in the field. I’ve used InDesign for a few projects before, but now that I’m on break, I’ve decided to dive deeper into the software.

I’m currently taking the InDesign Essential Training course with David Blatner on LinkedIn Learning, and I’m really enjoying it. Afterward, I’m thinking of taking the Designing a Book course with Nigel French, as I believe it covers the process from start to finish. Are there any other courses or tutorials you’d recommend? Bonus points if they involve working on a project, as I find I understand things better when I’m actually building something.

Thanks!

Hi everyone! I’m a proposal manager for a midsize AEC firm. We are moving over from formatting documents etc in Word to InDesign. Our new company templates have already been built and for the most part I have the hang of being able to type and edit content directly in the templates as well as export to PDF during production.

We’ve had minimal training during this transition, however, and I basically need to learn the minimal basics to most efficiently do my job for the time being. I don’t need to start from scratch since we already have templates with the necessary links, etc, but can anyone recommend some beginner YouTube videos or other tutorials that can help me transfer content/drafts over from Word as efficiently as possible?

Edited to add: a glossary and/or quick reference guide(s) would also be very helpful! I have a nice keyboard shortcut reference sheet but half the time don’t know what each shortcut actually does…?

Please also be realistic but kind as I’m doing my best. I absolutely want to learn as thoroughly as possible in the long term, but I’m in a time crunch for the time being. Thank you all very much!!

Hello all,

I am an IT guy who has a user that is having issues printing a document. Basically, on certain lines, the right side of each character is cut off. The printer is a Canon iF C5140 and the user has a Macbook Pro M4 Max. One interesting thing to note is that printing from InDesign works fine; it's only when exporting to PDF and printing from Preview that causes the issue.

I have tried using Preview to add a red line (like a strikethrough) to the text, and the line printed fine while the characters still had the same issue, which leads me to believe it might be an InDesign issue. If anyone can offer insight into what might be causing this, that would be greatly appreciated.

hi! i have to use InDesign for a work project but I think im going to lose my shit if I have to deal with this program any more.

whenever i move any image, it gets cut off along the boundaries of the original position. there's a blue box and a red box and when i try to move the picture, it gets cut off based on what's in the blue box. is there any solution other than redoing all four points of the blue frame every time I move an image to see what it looks like?!?

Greetings, I am looking for software that allows me to search for a specific text string inside IDML files generated by InDesign.

Does exists such software?

Thanks in advance!

AL

Maybe I'm over thinking this. I want to include a table in a book that will require it to be in landscape format because of the width. But I want it to print in portrait format like the rest of the book. So the reader would need to rotate the book 90 degrees to see it properly.

If I change that page orientation to landscape in Indesign, will it still "print" in portrait in a PDF?

I am working on a personal project, and I don't understand what's happening. I imported a PNG image into the document, added some text and all that, and when I export project as a PNG, it just becomes super dull, like all the colors are gone. The color profile is sRBG, the original art was exported from the art program as sRBG- I can't figure out what's going wrong.

EDIT: I figured it out. For some god-forsaken reason, ticking "Set transparent background" in export fixes it. I cannot comprehend how this relates but- sure, I guess.

Hi! I’m trying to resize a family tree in InDesign from 2A0 landscape to A0 landscape without cutting off any content or losing readability. I’ve tried several methods, but I can’t seem to get it right. Would anyone be able to help me figure this out? And if someone could make the necessary modifications to the file for me, I’d really appreciate it. Thank you!