Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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417 results found
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Linked PDF images not exporting to PDF correctly
InDesign (16.2.1), Windows 10
Logos saved as PDFs and placed in an InDesign file appear with a gray vertical line on the right side of the image frame when the file is converted to PDF. There is no stroke or fill on the image frame; further, I checked a PDF with the same PDF logo in it that I created a month ago and it did not have the line. The line appears when the PDF is printed.
We found that reverting back to v16.1 resolved the issue. Also, relinking a JPG or TIF of the logo worked in 16.2.1,…
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Error in screen display (see screenshots). Screen view hangs again and again.
System:
Indesign 16.2.1
Apple MacBook Pro 2019, i9, 16 GB und iMac 2019, i5, 16 GB
OS Big Sure 11.3..12 votes -
Image date merge
Since InDesign 16.4 the image data merge won't work. The images are not displayed on the screen and not in 'links'.
After merging there are also no pictures.1 vote -
Premier Pro style file linking
I recently had the joy of relinking a project I was working on in Premier Pro. Right click, "Link Media...", the gui opens, I click "locate", hit "search" and hey presto! The experience is blissful.
Please do this everywhere! Especially in InPhosTrator.
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Weird Bug with Resize to Frame
Resize frame to content messes up and I'm not sure if it's something to do with a setting I have set since this doesn't always happen.
Basically, I'll have a frame around some content with text in it.
When I hit "resize frame to content" ctrl-alt-c, it resizes the frame to the full document width, which looks like the example.
I obviously expect the frame to resize to the content, not to be super wide like the entire document.
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[INDD 2020 and 2021] Placed SVG InDesign ignores code dominant-baseline="hanging"
It seems that the SVG import filter ignores code:
dominant-baseline="hanging"
when rendering text in the placed SVG graphic.For full details see the following discussion at the Adobe InDesign Forum:
Error in text when placing SVG file
henriettel95062788, Aug 01, 2021
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/error-in-text-when-placing-svg-file/td-p/12221523SVG graphic is attached to the first post. Or download it directly from the forum:
https://community.adobe.com/havfw69955/attachments/havfw69955/indesign/439638/2/144781.139522.140088.2.2_FILE.svgNeeded font Lemon-Regular can be downloaded from Google-Fonts:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/LemonRegards,
Uwe Laubender
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InDesign 16.3.2 Poor Graphics Performance - MacOS BigSur
When background assets have transparency applied, dragging and positioning foreground assets causes a corrupted display.
MacOS BigSur 11.5 Late 2015 iMac Retina 5K Core i7 32GB AMD Radeon R9 M390
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Option + drag and shift to contstrain keys not working
InDesign 16.0.2
The usual function of holding the option key on mac and dragging an object to duplicate has stopped working. In the same way, clicking shift when moving an object or drawing a frame no longer constrains it's dimensions.
Both of these features still work fine in Illustrator (25.1)
The attached video show me trying to draw a square by holding shift when drawing a shape but it doesn't constrain the proportions as it should. It also shows me then trying to duplicate the shape by holding option (mac) and dragging. The cursor changes to suggest that it's working…
6 votes -
CC Libraries
InDesign 16.1. CC Libraries gets stuck. I cannot select any pictures Editing is only possible again after a complete restart. After a while it gets stuck again.
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bug: start/end line not clickable in Indesign
Indesign 16.3.2, Apple Silicon M1 chip, MacBook Pro macOS Big Sur 11.5
I've discovered a bug. When I try to click on the option to add a start or end to a line, the option disappears directly. So it's not possible to click on one of the options. Right now I can't add a arrow to the end of my line. I hope it will be fixed really soon!
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Images not importing within frame
Indesign has started randomly importing images incorrectly - sometimes with the frame much larger than the image, sometimes with the image out of the frame bounds, forcing me to resize each frame to fit the image. Very frustrating.
See screenshot of image as it should import on the left, and on the right how it actually imports.
2 votes -
New Bug Indesign 16.2.1 | Contours conversion error (inside/outside aligned)
This bug seems to only affect older InDesign documents and graphic elements from them that were created before the update to 16.2.1. The bug can NOT be reproduced in completely new 16.2.1 documents with newly created elements!
What happens:
For example, if you create a circle with the dimensions 200X200mm and a 10mm thick outline, this results in a circle with the dimensions
210X210mmBut if you now change the contour orientation from center to inside, the dimensions change unproportionally in height:
Instead of 200 x 200 mm the circle becomes quasi
an "egg" 200 x 199.999 mmIf you…
2 votes -
File viewing corrupt
After a file has been open for a while, the image becomes distorted and gets worse as you scroll
1 vote -
Unable to drag & drop images into Indesign 2021 Open File
- Set-up a new document
- Have added text and images as normal.
- Command + D is successful when placing an image, however, drag & drop does nothing. No image shows in the thumbnail near the cursor either.
This is an issue as it is much quicker to drag & drop than placing the images from different locations.
8 votes -
Can't place an image from a shortcut created on a server ?
Why can't we import an image from a shortcut folder on a server ?
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Edge smoothing in Indesign 16.3.2 creates lines where there should be none!
Something that is extremely annoying and obstructive when designing. This was once different and better!
No matter if e.g. black or dark frames with white "narrow - narrow" outline or areas that cover others, hairlines appear everywhere where there shouldn't be any.
I don't know with which update this has crept in. But it nevt infinitely and it was no improvement.
The only way to get rid of these lines is to disable edge smoothing completely. But then you have a pixelated view with the charm of the 80s. So this is not an alternative either!
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GPU Unchecked.png 29 KB -
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Indesign 16-3-2.png 17 KB -
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Edge smoothing in Indesign 16.3.2 creates lines where there should be none!
Something that is extremely annoying and obstructive when designing. This was once different and better!
No matter if e.g. black or dark frames with white "narrow - narrow" outline or areas that cover others, hairlines appear everywhere where there shouldn't be any.
I don't know with which update this has crept in. But it nevt infinitely and it was no improvement.
The only way to get rid of these lines is to disable edge smoothing completely. But then you have a pixelated view with the charm of the 80s. So this is not an alternative either!
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2- edge smoothing Frames with lines.png 185 KB -
2 edge smoothing -frames by placed tranparent pictures.png 843 KB -
Bildschirmfoto 2021-07-16 um 19.33.07.png 102 KB -
Bildschirmfoto 2021-07-16 um 19.40.31.png 104 KB -
Bildschirmfoto 2021-07-16 um 19.05.56.png 8 KB -
GPU Unchecked.png 29 KB -
Mac Catalina.png 18 KB -
Indesign 16-3-2.png 17 KB -
Bildschirmfoto 2021-07-16 um 19.40.07.png 53 KB -
reduced view.png 20 KB -
Bildschirmfoto 2021-07-16 um 19.45.47.png 67 KB
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Handling error sizing with frame with contour (centered/outside).New bug!? Frames with contour: Are now shifted into each other after simult
Scaling with undesirable erroneous result:
Affects frames whose outline is either:
A. centered or
B. aligned to the outside of the frame
(Frames where the contour is aligned on the inside of the frame are not affected by this error. There the scaling still works correctly as desired).Recently, such frames (with a contour A/B) shift into each other undesirably after simultaneous resizing (see screenshot) and lose their original arrangement to each other!
I don't know with which version this new bug appeared,
but it is annoying and makes work slower again.With Illustrator the error does not occur. There…
2 votes -
No frame edges for lines or ankerpoint visible anymore?
Problem: Line objects no longer have "frame edges" in the normal view! Lines without line thickness, white lines (which do not lie over a background), individual nodes are thus invisible in the layout!
To find slipped lines again or to find several rest fragments like single nodes again becomes a patience and search game!
The (line-) or frame edges appear only if you either select everything or if you move the mouse over the line or the single node randomly (mouseover). Simple is different!
This was not always so! No idea when this was changed! But it was a very…
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Flipped text in PDF created from Canva
When placing a PDF with certain stylized fonts, the text is being flipped and enlarged. Seems to be specific to Mac OS.
PDF docs have been created in Canva. They appear correctly when opened in Adobe Acrobat Pro, both on Windows and Mac. They are being placed in InDesign, and at that time the text titles being flipped and enlarged. I am working from v. 16.0.1. This was not an issue in previous versions. When I use png docs instead, and place those, I have no issues. I have been an Indesign user for about 3 years.
4 votesThe fix for this issue is available in the latest InDesign release 16.2.1
Please update to this latest version to get the fix.—
Adobe InDesign team
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