Troubleshooting Posts

When a reader changes Document Setup, nothing happens! Here’s one common reason this might happen.

Just in time for Halloween: here’s how to make (or find) a ghost lurking in your InDesign document.

Q: When does a drop shadow not appear to be a drop shadow? A: When it isn’t applied to the frame.

Did you ever want a list of a document’s paragraph styles where each style name appears in the style’s formatting? Here’s a script that does just that, along with some general tips on copying and pasting script code.

David says no one in their right mind would edit an InDesign file directly off a server, Anne-Marie says he’s stuck in an early 90’s time warp. So we ask an expert.

Ever look at one of the crash reports that InDesign generates and wish you knew what to look for? InDesign guru John Hawkinson shows the way.

In which an exploration of why a PDF file is too large leads to two discoveries and an awesome tip

Some third-party plug-ins may break after 7.5.1 update

While InDesign CS5.5 is decidedly better for creating EPUB files, there is a bug you should know about.

It can be confusing when choosing split columns does nothing