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  1. 2 votes

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  2. Horizontal and vertical measurements switched in Move dialog

    I’m one of the dinosaurs who started out in the trade on a typesetting machine, and my preferred system of units uses picas for horizontal measures and points for vertical. This has mostly worked fine for years, but since the most recent update I notice that the Move dialog is using points for X and picas for Y. Not a major issue, but somewhat annoying. (ISTR previous versions with a similar bug in the Cell Options > Text dialog, where the left & right insets were in points and the top & bottom in picas, but that one now behaves…

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  3. 2 votes

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  4. muy dificil cambiar de capa los elementos

    Es muy complejo el mover elementos de una capa a otra, ya que el boton de color no responde de inmediato, ni hablar de usar el stylus, con el es imposible hacer, al cabo de varios intentos recien es posible mover, o simplemente hay que darse por vencido

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  5. 2 votes

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  6. Creative Cloud Panel Broken

    Creative Cloud panel won't let me change libraries from the drop down menu. ID was working perfectly fine before Mac iOS High Sierra. Having to close down ID every 5 minutes due to the cursor issue combined with the CC panel issue makes ID almost impossible to use.

    Seriously, please get ID fixed.

    2 votes

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  7. Not enough contrast in Check Spelling dialogue box

    InDesign CC 2017's Check Spelling results interface is fairly unreadable. In the "Not in Dictionary" and "Uncapitalized Sentence" box, more contrast is needed between the text and background shading. This is true in all appearance settings (dark, medium, light).
    Thanks!

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  8. Can't change page after selecting an XML node, until setting focus to the main page area

    Summary: After selecting a node in the XML tree, double-clicking any of the page thumbnails or master page thumbnails has no effect. The page won't change until I click on the main page area.
    Steps to reproduce (in Windows):
    1. With a document open in Indesign CC, open the XML Structure pane.
    2. Double click on any of the page thumnails in the "Pages" palette.
    Expected result: I exepct the page to load, that I double clicked.
    Actual result: Nothing happens.

    2 votes

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  9. window

    Fuck You Adobe

    2 votes

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  10. The lists of entries for a cross reference is not ordered

    Some panels with items (e.g. links) can be ordered by clicking the column header. Others cannot. Among these are the lists of references to choose from when inserting a cross-reference. These seem to be totally unordered. As a result, it is a pain to look for the right one (e.g. choose from a few hundred in a large document). I consider this a bug because other panels do have this ordering

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  11. InDesign CC 2026 - Arrange windows does not use full screen area

    When using InDesign without the application frame ("Anwendungsrahmen" in the german version we use) active, opening multiple documents and trying to arrange them with any of the options in Windows > Arrange ("Fenster" > "Anordnen") the windows are arranged according to the deactivated/invisible application frame and not the full screen as in previous versions. Also, when the application frame is scaled to the full screen and then deactivated, the arranged windows keep a thin row on the bottom of the screen free (and overlap in the vertical center by this amount). Please see attached screens for visualization.

    1. InDesign Version: 21.0

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  12. Unable to get rid of history and style pack icons on my workspace

    The History and Style pack icons keep appearing on my InDesign workspace panels. I have tried creating several new workspaces, each time without these icons. However, they reappear each time I open a new document.
    InDesign v21.0 on Windows 11

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  13. Frameless mode, wrong window maximized size

    On macOS I work without application frame and my dock is vertically placed at the left edge of the screen.

    In the InDesign 21.0 document windows maximize in the wrong way: The window is expanded to the left up to the screen edge without taking into the consideration position of the dock. But the toolbars are placed correctly.

    In order to reproduce:
    * Put your dock at the left edge of the screen
    * Switch off application frame
    * Maximize windows (green button) holding Alt to switch into + mode (do not use fullscreen mode).

    System: macOS 15.7.1 (24G231)

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  14. Clicking icons (sometimes) does not open the palette

    Version: Indesign 21.0
    Expected result: clicking the icon opens the palette
    Actual result: the palette does not open, even though the icon has a "clicked" appearance
    Steps to reproduce: I haven't figured out, it seems to happen randomly... but restarting the program fixes it

    Note:
    The problem affects the entire column of icons shown in the screenshot, not just the clicked one.

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  15. Can no longer expand palettes to full window screen height

    After upgrading to ID 2026, I can no longer expand my palettes to the full height of my screen. In the attached screen shot, the palette is as tall as I can make it. This seems to be the case for all palettes, not just layers. My screen resolution is 2560 x 1440.

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  16. Text to image missing from Menu Customisation

    I wanted to colour the Text to Image Menu item.
    But it is missing from the choices in the Menu Customisation panel.
    Can you please add it?

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  17. (Ver. 20.5) When measuring with the Gap Tool, the measurement remains grayed out

    (Ver. 20.5) When measuring with the Gap Tool, the measurement remains grayed out and is very difficult to read, especially in dark mode. When measuring with another tool, e.g. the Measure Tool, the boxes with coordinates and measurements activate.

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  18. properties>fill panel expands off page

    Indesign Version 20.5 on OSX Tahoe

    When inDesign is at the top of the screen (i.e maximum screen size), opening the properties panel and then clicking on fill extends the fill sub menu up the screen, rendering half of the sub menu not visible unless you drag the whole application down. I don't think this is intended UI behaviour (hope not), and it's really frustrating to work with.

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  19. Display misalignment when dragging left and right.

    When using Adobe InDesign, I encounter a display glitch whenever I pan left and right by holding down the spacebar, resulting in visual artifacts as shown in the screenshot. The display returns to normal after zooming with the Alt key, but the issue consistently reappears upon panning again.

    I am running InDesign v20.5 (64-bit) on Windows 11.

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  20. placed .svg - can't double click to select the svg content

    Indesign 20.5, Windows 11, german

    settings, perhaps relevant to the bug:
    - is disabled: "highlight objects with selection tool"
    - Extras > "Content Selection Tool" disabled/enabled – makes no difference

    Context: you can double click pageItems with places images and vector graphics to move or scale the content.
    With a placed SVG i can NOT double click to get to the the transformable orange content borders.

    I am forced to use either the "direct selection tool" (white arrow), the content selection tool (focus ring), or the "select content" icon in the controlpanel.

    Can somebody confirm, please?

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