Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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1025 results found
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Arabic shadda and out of position when it comes between ain and lam, and it prevents the ain and lam from connecting
Using the Google font Cairo Variable, in this sequence, "فَعَّل," the medial ain will not connect to the lam. The shade (0651 + 0643) intervenes and sets in the wrong position.
To Reproduce
In InDesign (perhaps other programs as well), key or copy/paste the sequence with Cairo variable loaded and applied. Then Unload Cairo variable and load Cairo Regular static to see what the corrected sequence.Expected behavior
The shadda should be centered above the ain.I have contacted the font manufacturer, and the font behaves as expected in their tests. I also tested the font myself in Illustrator, and…
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InDesign 2025 / v20.0: Glyphs panel is empty
Working with InDesign 2025 (v20.0) the Glyphs panel is not showing anything at all.
Mac
Sonoma 14.7
M3 chip2 votes -
Selected text does not highlight
Selected text does not highlight on some spreads only: when I double-click inside a text frame in InDesign, the usual highlight that indicates the selection does not appear on some spreads in the document, in other it does work.
This makes the work very challenging.1 vote -
Bug: blank lines between footnotes when aligned to baseline grid
Found a serious bug in which aligning footnotes to the baseline grid adds blank lines between footnotes, even if the paragraph style has no space before/after, the leading is smaller than the baseline grid increment, and the footnote options specify no space before or between notes. This is breaking my workflow and I can't find a way around it without deselecting "align to baseline grid," which causes other problems.
3 votes -
Add a Back Button to Navigate Recently Changed Items in Find/Change
I frequently use the Find/Change feature in InDesign for text and style replacements. However, it would be very helpful to have a "Back" button or feature to navigate to the last changed instance, especially when working on long documents.
Currently, the only workaround is manually using Undo (Ctrl+Z/Cmd+Z), but this isn't ideal for reviewing multiple changes. A "Go Back" option would enhance productivity and reduce errors by allowing users to quickly review recent changes.
Thank you for considering this request!
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Cannot Activate Fonts
Cannot Activate Lato Bold, Regular, and Semibold
1 vote -
Overset text
Hi team, I am having issues with overset text. When I drag my text frame outside of the bleed line into the workspace the icon doesn't appear. As soon as I drag it onto my page the icon shows and if I increase the text frame additional text space appears above the word. There is no text wrap on the text frame and is on a completely different layer so arrangement isn't an issue. Can you please help me fix this issue.
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open type numbers
in a workaround for another bug in Indesign (Bug: mixed open type numbers) I use a character style for the optentype numbers variety porportional medaevial. Sometimes (!) applying the style to two numbers does not have any effect, it is necessary to apply to a character before and after the numbers to change the style of the numbers.
Indesign 20.0.1, Windows
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small caps hyphenation bug
small caps in a hyphenated text sometimes(!) change the first letter before the hyphen to a normal minuscle. See image.
As shown in the image: "zwi-schen" is correct, "Tradi-tion" (Times New Roman) resp. "Tra-dition" (Ten Oldstyle) shows the bug.
InDeisgn 20.0.1, Windows
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Footnate Adds Extra Space Above Span Columns
Adding a footnote to the first line of a story adds extra space beneath the second line of a story if line 3 is set to split columns.
3 votes -
merged cells cause missing stroke when reopening or importing document
Versions InDesign 2024, InCopy 2024, InCopy 2022, InDesign 2022
Steps to reproduce:
- Open InCopy
- Make a new document
- Insert a 4x4 table
- select table and set all strokes to zero width
- enter text in col2:row3, col2:row4, col4:row3, col4:row4
- make the bottom edge stroke of col2:row3 4 points thick and color black
- make the bottom edge stroke of col4:row3 4 points thick and color 100% cyan
- save and close the document
- open the document and observe strokes are intact
- merge col3:row4 with col4:row4
- set text in last cell of rows…2 votes -
縦書きテキストの縦横独立変倍による挙動がおかしい
複数行ある縦書きのテキストを、フレームごと例えば横方向だけ50％縮小したとしたら、最後の行だけ縦方向に50％縮小される。逆に縦に50％縮小したら最後の行は横に50％される。
1 vote -
Indesign Beta 2025 Importing a PDF - baseline shift is off
Opening up a PDF (which was orgincailly created in Indesign) in Indesign seemed to shift baseline shifts of body text to -4pt and then the super/sub/ scripts to -7.32pt?
1 vote -
Place excel file, formatted table
I'm trying to place an excel file as a Formatted Table.
It's not working.
I can select Unformatted Table and it works, but I need Formatted Table.
I'm on version 20.0.1 vote -
text selection not fully possible and strange copy result
Text selection not fully possible and strange copy result, both at pagina on master pages (see screenshots).
Indesign 20.0 on MacPowerBook 16", 2021, with MacOS 14.7.1.1 vote -
"Visual Cursor Movement" not working in Arabic in ID 19/19.01
On previous versions of ID with Arabic support, I could press left arrow to move cursor left, right arrow to move right. In versions 19 and 19.01, the cursor goes to the beginning or next line of Arabic text. So I have to select 'Logical Cursor Movement' under settings but now cursor move the opposite way: left arrow moves cursor right.
11 votes -
In Arabic OpenType-SVG fonts, glyphs shift seemingly randomly in all directions
In Arabic fonts with SVG table, glyphs move up, down, left, and right seemingly randomly, and typing more text or adding vowel marks change how the glyphs are shifted.
If the fonts are processed to remove the SVG table, they work fine (but color glyphs are not colored, obviously).
Illustrator and Photoshop do not have this issue, and the font with SVG table works normally.
I tested this with https://github.com/aliftype/raqq/blob/main/fonts/Raqq.ttf as well as https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Reem+Kufi+Ink.
Text used in the screenshot:
خط كوفي ا أ إ ب ت ث ج ح خ
خَطٌ كُوفِي أ إ بَ
This is InDesign 20.0,…
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OpenType features bug, missing glyphs on PDF export and convert to outlines
I've run into a bug when converting text to outlines, and PDF export, relating to OpenType Features.
I have a font, Chartwell, that has worked perfectly in InDesign for 13+ years. I recently received this bug report from a customer, but am able to recreate it on my end.
In InDesign’s UI, everything still seems to work correctly. However, when exporting a PDF or converting the text to outlines, some glyphs disappear completely. (See image)
The font uses complex Discretionary Ligatures to pull off substituting pie chart shapes. The issue doesn't appear for all discretionary ligatures, but something about this…
4 votes -
InDesign 20.0 Dictionary defaults to Croatian and not English
When spell checking a document the dictionary catches every word because it's defaulting to Croatian and not English. all other settings and preferences within InDesign are specified as English.
1 vote -
Selecting text on black background doesn't highlight selection
Version: Adobe Indesign 2025 (20.0)
The probled occured in a file that works perfectly in Indesign 19.5. However, when I open the same file in 20.0, the error occurs.Problem: When I try to edit text on a black background, the selected words aren't highlighted. It happens on some pages but not all. The layers aren't locked.
How to reproduce:
- create a master page with a black background
- create several pages
- add text boxes with white text in it
- try to select the text inside the boxExpected result:
- selected text is highlighted in white…
1 vote
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