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  1. The characters 'hn' when typed in Myriad Pro Bold display as Ú

    Myriad Pro Bold font when applied to the word 'technician' changes the word to 'tecÚician'.

    This fault is happening in InDesign Beta (16.3 Mainline CL #1099664) on MacBook Air M1.

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  2. Find command highlights text in background

    In long INDD documents with text flowing from one page frame to another, the text often does not refresh properly when the page is turned. Using the Find command then often highlights text that is in the text story but is not visible on screen when highlighted by the Find command. The attached JPEG shows an example of the problem. The JPEG is a screenshot of an INDD page showing a Find for "Brown" but with random text highlighted at line 15. "Brown" is there, but it is in the background, and it cannot be selected, edited, etc. The only…

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  3. Find/Change in empty cells of a table

    I am trying to add a bullet (or any other character) in empty cells in a table in InDesign. With GREP this works, but only cell by cell via 'Change'. 'Change All' does not work, however. I tested this in both CC 2020 and CC 2021.

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  4. Disappearing text when I type the character ,,T"

    So, I have an InDesign file, which is a brandbook for a partner. Few paragraph styles and some items, nothing secial. I use Prompt (Google font) installed on my system. As soon as I hit (smallcaps) T when writing the text OR becomes unvisible or it breakes to the basic paragraph style AND it wont display the T. IF I copy and paste the text from outside of InDesign then it displays T. And the All Caps T works as well. This bugg is really annoying. Could you look into this issue?

    I'm on MacOS BigSur 11.2.3
    and latest InDesign…

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  5. Some text in tables is shifted to the right after the PDF export

    After the PDF export, some texts in the table cells were shifted to the right in the PDF file. The texts are not correctly positioned one below the other. The values of the deviations from the correct position are up to 0.5 point, but different.
    I tested it in InDesign CC 2018, 2020 and 2021.
    The problem occurs if "Create Tagged PDF" is not activated in the PDF export options and metric kerning is selected. I've tried different fonts.
    The PDF file with the suffix "High Quality Print" was created with the job options "High Quality Print" ("Create Tagged PDF"…

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  6. Text wrap only affects text beneath not working

    Latest installed, 16.1. Text box is beneath other text, Text Wrap Only Affects Text Beneath is not checked, yet it's not wrapping. File is confidential, can send to developers if you want.

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  7. Text wrap select subject or user-modified path causes hang ID 16.1

    Using ID v 16.1 on an iMac running Catalina.
    To reproduce: I just have to touch any image that has select subject or user-modified path text wrap applied and attempt to move it or modify it in any way. One image just caused the hang by existing, I couldn't work on the file until I deleted it.
    Expected result: For the text to wrap around the image without causing program to hang.
    Actual result: endless beach ball spinning until I force quit and try again.

    I just spent the entire day trying to work on a large project (200 pages…

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  8. bullet numbering not resetting

    To make numbered lists automatically reset between body copy text, I set body copy to be a numbered list without any numbering at level 1.

    Numbered lists are level 2. With tick box 'reset numbers at this level after Any Previous Level'

    But the numbered list doesn't get reset when there are body copy between.

    It only resets if the level 1 paragraph style is actually numbering.

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  9. footnote

    Footnotes start at 1 every time I open a new text field on a single file. I want the footnote numbers to follow.

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  10. Variable fonts: Feature Variations not working

    In the current version of Adobe CC, Variable fonts’ Feature Variations are not working. Please have a look at the Trial version of my typeface Pangea (https://fontwerk.com/de/fonts/pangea-superfamily):
    https://christoph.koe.berlin/_temp/PangeaVAR_Trial_2.000.ttf

    Axes for Weight, Italic, Apertures, Extenders, Inktraps and Spacing are working, but as soon as you move the sliders of the the last axes (Single-storey a, single-storey g and Straight l) the font is marked as missing and jumps back to the basic style.

    1. InDesign version 16.1, MacOS 10.14.6 and above
    2. Steps to reproduce the issues: Install font via FontBook, move sliders in last three axes
    3. Expected result: Glyphs a, g,…
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  11. Il serait TOP de pouvoir faire un fichier recherché d'une cellule de tableau vide, ou bien qui contienne tel ou tel chiffre

    Il serait TOP de pouvoir faire un fichier recherché d'une cellule de tableau vide, ou bien qui contienne tel ou tel chiffre

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  12. textframe loses focus

    Since having my computer upgraded to Catalina (10.15.7), InDesign (both 14.0.2 and 16.1) loses focus when I click off of a text frame. I’ve attached a video made in 16.1.
    When I click off a graphic frame, behavior is normal—I can immediately click another element on the page. But when I click off a text frame, note how the Swatches panel disappears and I must click again on the page so InDesign regains focus so that I can then select another element on the page.

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  13. textframes lose focus

    Since having my computer upgraded to Catalina (10.15.7), InDesign (both 14.0.2 and 16.1) loses focus when I click off of a text frame. I’ve attached a video made in 16.1.
    When I click off a graphic frame, behavior is normal—I can immediately click another element on the page. But when I click off a text frame, note how the Swatches panel disappears and I must click again on the page so InDesign regains focus so that I can then select another element on the page.

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  14. Letters 'fl' become invisible

    Adobe CC 16.1 x64

    Paragraph style applied to text in text frame:
    [No Paragraph Style] + next: [Same style] + Helvetica Narrow + Oblique +size: 10 pt + left indent: 0.4375 in + first indent: -0.125 - hyphenation + tint: 90% + list: bulleted

    When I type "cash flow" the fl both become invisible as soon as I type the 'l'. Does not happen with any other paragraph style. Does not show as being a different style or color or anything. Letters are still there because I can highlight the space they take up.

    How can these become visible?

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  15. African Ajami diacritics not shaping properly

    InDesign Version 16.01 and 16.1

    InDesign is not properly shaping Arabic diacritics that are used for African languages. When typing the African diacritics they do not attach properly to the base letter and they break script connection. If they African diacritics are substituted for MSA diacritics using Stylistic Sets then it works properly. This problems occurs for all variants of the African Damma.

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  16. Type 1 Fonts

    Preflight has the ability to flag Type 1 fonts. This is a great way to see if you are using fonts in a document that will not be supported in the future. The problem is there are OpenType Type 1 fonts and PostScript Type 1 fonts. In Preflight, when you click on Type 1 fonts not allowed, it also flags OpenType Type 1 fonts.

    Would be very important to identify exactly what fonts will not be supported in the future.

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  18. Outlined text

    I'm using InDesign v 16.1 for a Mac. I just encountered an issue with outlining text. As you can see in the "Display in Preview" png, all of the text is visible and matches what I actually see in InDesign. All of this text is outlined by pressing command + O. When you look at the "Display in Acrobat" png, the yellow outlined text appears to be transparent. Again, all of the text in the png files are outlined. This issue is also visible at our print shop. The workaround I found is just to keep the text live, but…

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  19. Outlined text

    I'm using InDesign v 16.1 for a Mac. I just encountered an issue with outlining text. As you can see in the "Display in Preview" png, all of the text is visible and matches what I actually see in InDesign. All of this text is outlined by pressing command + O. When you look at the "Display in Acrobat" png, the yellow outlined text appears to be transparent. Again, all of the text in the png files are outlined. This issue is also visible at our print shop. The workaround I found is just to keep the text live, but…

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  20. fonte embaralhada

    In the current version of InDesign (16.1), there is often a font error that shuffles the entire content. It usually occurs in the font "Frutiger 77 Black condensed".

    My system: Dell Optiplex 3060, Core i5 3.20Ghz, Ram 16GB, NVIDIA GT 730 graphics card.

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