Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Data Merge panel doesn't import UTF-8 data when selecting "UTF-8" encoding option
I’m using Adobe InDesign v. 20.5.0.48 on the macOS v. 15.6.1. I have a “merge.csv” data file encoded in UTF-8 that imports into the Data Merge panel when I select “ASCII” as the encoding but, unsurprisingly, doesn’t display some special characters correctly. When I select “UTF-8” as the encoding option, which should remedy this problem, the file fails to import!
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Review link fails to update if other documents are open in InDesign
When multiple documents are open in InDesign, attempting to update the review link triggers an error message: 'An error has occurred.' The review link will only update if no other documents are open.
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The first letter typed in is English even when my system is set to Hebrew
I'm using Indesign 20.5 on an Intel Mac Pro running Mac OS Sequoia 15.6.
Here are the steps to reproduce the issue:
1. Insert a new text box and enter some English text.
2. Select the text
3. Change the keyboard input to Hebrew.
4. Start typing in Hebrew.The resulting text will be an English letter (corresponding to the Hebrew letter typed in) followed by the correct Hebrew letters typed.
Two things to note:
1. You must select all the text in the text box for this issue to take place.
2. For some reason Adobe fonts are immune…2 votes -
Alternate Layouts lost, names missing and out of order
I've had a reoccuring issue of InDesign documents with multiple alternate layouts 'losing' their layout names and placements.
I've attached a screenshot of what my alternate layouts should look like, and then again what they now look like.
InDesign no longer sees it as an alternate layout.This seems to happen some time after working in a file, or re-opening a file.
No updates have been made to InDesign between closing and re-opening these files.I'm on MacOS Sequoia 15.6
Adobe InDesign 20.52 votes -
Preferences reset popup penalty
When an existing user has been driven by degrading performance to the extreme step of resetting user preferences, please do not also make us undergo the maddening experience of dealing with the ENDLESS blue popups / tooltips / ads for the features we've already seen and considered. You could make an argument for forcing a user to deal with the blue boxes on a major upgrade. A preferences reset is not the same situation. Please consider reducing the burden of this type of visual pollution in our workspaces.
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Add colour values to swatch list when placing file from Illustrator
It would be beneficial if, when placing a file in an InDesign document from illustrator, that the colour value information of that file be added to the Swatches menu. Strangely, the colour values do import into my Swatches when I copy and paste an object I’ve created in Illustrator onto my artboard but not when I place/import that object within a picture box.
Another minor gripe - when pasting an object it does not retain the name of the colour if it has a custom name - it only brings the swatch in as the colour values.
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Share for Review: actual page number is only halfway visible
The field to show the actual page number is too small. It only shows one character of the number.
Tested on a Mac with Chrome, Safari, Firefox.
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Bug on page naming
In Indesign 25.0, on Mac,
Despite having named the pages with a letter (here, "C" in the screenshot) the pages are not correctly named.
Therefore, all my custom scripts that are using the special naming don't work anymore. Please, fix the bug.
It used to work just fine before2 votes -
mass update of path for links in InDesign document
If you need to update the link on an InDesign document you have to manually go into the folder system and find the link, so it is only ever effective when you have all the links in one folder. This is detrimental to saving space in a workplace where you may want to use the same asset in different types of publications. In the Maya application from AutoDesk you can instead manually edit the text for the filepath, or even, change it to absolutes like $user$ which makes it far easier for sharing projects. Please can you enable this feature?
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Close/Minimize/Maximize buttons are hidden under the top menu on Mac OS
For some reason the very top bar of the InDesign window is hidden underneath the top menu (File, Edit, etc.), making it impossible to minimize or move the window to another monitor. Currently the only solution I've found is to unplug my external monitor's HDMI cable from my Macbook which forces the InDesign window to appear properly.
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Find/Change | Glyph | Failure to find characters with applied character styles
Version: Adobe InDesign 19.5.4 and 20.3.1
I cannot post a .zip here apparently, so I've put my InDesign file.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Make a character style that ONLY sets the font to bold.
2. put down a glyph twice, I used the AE glyph (GID/CID 138).
3. For one, apply bold manually.
4. For the other, apply the bold character style.
5. Open the Find/Change Glyph menu and enter the GID/CID used, along with the font and bold style.Expected Result:
Both of the glyphs would be foundActual Result:
Only the glyph without the character style applied will…2 votes -
Bug: Wrong centered text justification in round text frames
Center-aligned text in round text frames is misaligned, i.e. too far to the left. Please see screenshots for all details.
As soon as you convert the frame to a rectangular one, text is aligned to center correctly.
This is simply a calculation bug which should be fixed now finally - it persists for years already.2 votes -
Eyedropper tool should not copy content fill by default.
I don't think I have ever needed to copy the content fill settings from one image frame to another, but by default the eyedropper tool copies how the photo fills the frame, which is pretty annoying.
Requested Feature: Please add a checkbox specifically for content fill. Please have it unchecked by default.
Right now you can only disable content fill from being apply by unchecking "color and tint," which doesn't make sense and is not intuitive.
Expectation 1: eyedrop a frame to copy it's color/stoke/ other attributes, but not content fill which changes the size/position of the image within the…
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Creative Suite apps are INSANELY slow
All Creative Cloud programs are insanely slow and lagging. It's nearly impossible to use 2 or 3 of them at the same time, and I need to restart my computer every hour to even be able to do some very basic tasks. The problem is happening in all programs, Indesign, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro ertc.
This is happening on ALL computers I used in past years, and everything was up to date. It's not about 3rd party add-ons or resetting preferences, or any advice you offer.
Some weeks ago I killed off all Adobe/CC background processes and everything worked perfect until…2 votes -
Błąd koloru tekstu po eksporcie do PDF
Adobe InDesign 19.5.4 x64 (18.5.4 x64, 20.5.4 x64)
Podczas eksportu pliku do formatu PDF występuje problem z kolorem tekstu.
Jeśli plik zawiera grafiki w formacie PNG lub elementy z przezroczystością, czarny tekst po eksporcie ma kolor zielony.2 votes -
Błąd koloru tekstu po eksporcie do PDF
Adobe InDesign 19.5.4 x64 (18.5.4 x64, 20.5.4 x64)
Podczas eksportu pliku do formatu PDF występuje problem z kolorem tekstu.
Jeśli plik zawiera grafiki w formacie PNG lub elementy z przezroczystością, czarny tekst po eksporcie ma kolor zielony.2 votes -
Reveal in Bridge not works
In the image context menu, bridge preview does not work if the image name contains apostrophe characters.
Bridge will not show a file with this name: abc '123' name.jpg
and if there are no apostrophe characters it works (abc 123 name.jpg)[picture context menu] Graphics > Reveal in Bridge
Indesign ver. 20.4 x64 (polish language)
This bug has been present since version CS6
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[ID-4263516] InDesign shows any graphic card in case machine has more than 1 graphic card
Video card not recognized
I have an RTX a1000 video card, and InDesign does not recognize it, even though it is supposed to support the new InDesign GPU according to the data2 votesHi,
Thank you for reporting the issue. InDesign currently has a limitation of showing only 1 GPU card in the InDesign Preferences. Internally we pick the necessary Graphic card for rendering. It is currently under investigation.
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Adobe InDesign Team
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InDesign Strips Formatting When Pasting Text from Google Docs
Description:
When copying formatted text from Google Docs and pasting it directly into Adobe InDesign, all formatting (such as bold, italics, font size, and links) is lost. However, if the same text is first pasted into Microsoft Word or TextEdit, the formatting is preserved and can then be successfully pasted into InDesign. This suggests the issue is specific to InDesign’s handling of clipboard data from Google Docs. As a workaround, I currently have to use an intermediate application like Word, which slows down my workflow.Steps to Reproduce:
Copy any formatted text from Google Docs (e.g., bold, italic, links).
Paste…
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Better Text Box Controls
Could the in port and out port boxes be shifted slightly away from the bounding box corners? They’re currently positioned very close to the resize handles, which makes it harder to resize text frames — a much more frequent action than linking text.
While you're at it, please expand the interactive area around bounding box handles so the cursor stays in Scale mode slightly farther from the corners, reducing accidental switches to the Rotate tool when resizing objects.
2 votes
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