- InDesign User Guide
- Get to know InDesign
- Create and lay out documents
- Documents and pages
- Create documents
- Work with parent pages
- Work with document pages
- Set page size, margins, and bleed
- Work with files and templates
- Create book files
- Add basic page numbering
- Number pages, chapters, and sections
- Convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
- Share content
- Understand a basic managed-file workflow
- Save documents
- Grids
- Layout aids
- Documents and pages
- Add content
- Text
- Add text to frames
- Threading text
- Arabic and Hebrew features in InDesign
- Create type on a path
- Bullets and numbering
- Glyphs and special characters
- Text composition
- Text variables
- Generate QR codes
- Edit text
- Align text
- Wrap text around objects
- Anchored objects
- Linked content
- Format paragraphs
- Format characters
- Find/Change
- Spell check and language dictionaries
- Typography
- Format text
- Review text
- Add references
- Styles
- Tables
- Interactivity
- Graphics
- Color and transparency
- Text
- Share
- Publish
- Place, export, and publish
- Printing
- Extend InDesign
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
Install plug‑ins
The InDesign plug‑in modules are software programs developed by Adobe, and by other software developers working in conjunction with Adobe, to add features to Adobe software. A number of importing, exporting, automation, and special-effects plug‑ins come with your program and are automatically installed in the Plug‑Ins folder. In fact, most of the features you see in InDesign are provided by plug‑ins.
Once installed, plug‑in modules appear as options on menus, in dialog boxes, or in panels.
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If an installer is provided, use it to install the plug‑in module. Otherwise, drag a copy of the module into the Plug‑Ins folder inside the InDesign application folder.
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Follow any installation instructions that come with the plug‑in.
You can use any commercial plug‑in designed for use with InDesign. Adobe Technical Support can help you isolate problems related to plug‑ins. However, if it has been determined that the problem is directly related to a plug‑in created by another company, you will need to contact that company for further support.
Use Extension Manager to configure plug‑ins
Use the Extension Manager application to inspect and customize the set of installed plug‑ins. For example, you can get detailed information about installed plug‑ins, create custom plug‑in sets for different tasks or workgroups, and isolate plug‑ins when troubleshooting problems. You can also disable plug-ins.
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Select Help > Manage Extensions (Windows), or InDesign > Manage Extensions (macOS).
For more information on using Extension Manager, select Help in the Extension Manager application.
Integration with Creative Cloud Add-ons via the Browse Add-ons menu
You can search and install plug-ins, extensions, and more for Adobe InDesign and other products from the Adobe Exchange website.
- To add-on InDesign with the additional plug-ins, select Window > Browse Add-ons. These add-ons can be free or paid. All the installed or acquired plug-ins from the creative cloud app for InDesign get synced to InDesign from this workflow. It takes you to the browse add-ons webpage.
- These add-ons are later visible in Window > Extensions, downloads or location mentioned in the where to find description of the add-on. To view the add-ons you've downloaded, go to the browse add-ons webpage, and in the left side pane of the webpage, there is an option of View my add-ons. It also lists for which products and respective versions these add-ons are supported on.
When file-syncing is ON, the browse add-ons sync to the creative cloud account.
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