Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Stop with the tips and tours!
Stop popping up these tool tips and "tours." I don't want them. I don't need them. I have work to do.
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embeded Illustrator documents in InDesign looses page information, after being used in library
We have following situation:
InDesign library with an embeded Illustrator document. this document has pages (used for different icons). I have placed page 3 of the Illustrator file in as InDesign document. I place the element in an library in InDesign.
I place the same object from the library in the document. The Element looses the pageinformation. the preview is still correct, but when i export an PDF it collects the information from the illustrator file again and it has an other icon in its place…So it is a massive problem of missmanaging elements and creates Errors in production!…
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Indesign opens on wrong screen with multiple monitors (Mac OS)
This issue has been going on for years now. I recently updated to inDesign 2025, but it's still not solved for me:
Expected result: I've assigned InDesign to open on my external monitor, just like all my other Adobe apps.
Actual result: It completely ignores this, and just opens on my Macbook screen. The window resize buttons will be hidden behind my menu bar, so I have to alt+drag the window to make the buttons appear again. Then I can drag inDesign to my external monitor.
I've seen posts going back to 2019 about this issueI'm on Mac OS…
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Adobe Indesign 2024 - frequent "Hang" issues & "error report" messages.
We recently purchased Adobe Indesign 2024 and we are frequently facing "hang" issues where the screen gets stuck on opening an indesign file or while adding few lines of texts while editing a file. we are neither able to perform any further action nor close the indesign program. Only if we end the task we are able to exit.
We have also been getting error report frequently and the working indesign file gets closed.
In addition to that for the past 2 days, we are getting a pop-up message showing "do you want automatic recovery?" message, clicking yes on which…
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[ID-4253441]"Don't Save" and "Cancel" Positions are reversed in InDesign 20.0
"Don't Save" and "Cancel" Positions are reversed in Indesign 20.0.
Why in the world would they do this??? Yet another meaningless update to hinder production.
Not OS related, as I have not updated my OS since updating to Indesign 20.
Mac Sonoma 14.7
3.6 GHz 10-Core Intel Core i9
AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB
39 votesHi,
Thank you for reporting the issue. It is currently under investigation.
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InDesign 2025 stealing focus
InDesign 2025 and 2024 steal focus from all other Windows apps on a mult-monitor Windows 11 system. Make. It. Stop. Now. Please.
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[ID-4257184]InDesign 2025(v20.0) Performance issues: Delay or beach balls on basic operations
Problem:
InDesign Performance issues: Delay or beach balls observed on basic operations on Macintosh
Steps to Reproduce:
No reliable reproducible steps
Impacted workflows:
- Switching to InDesign
- Open/Closing of Document
- Edit/Scroll/Copy-paste/Highlight operation on Text
- Text disappears, illustrations disappear
- Imported or added text turns black until a style is applied.
- Font menu highlight not following my mouse movement
- Text will not change fonts until I click the mouse inside or outside the text box.
- Resize a document window, the corner flies below the screen border
- Click or Drag of the mouse
- Switching between tools
- "Waiting for UXP plugins to finish up…
97 votesHi,
Thank you for reporting the issue. We are currently investigating the issue and updated the status in the Uservioce thread. However, the issue is still not reproducible in-house and we need additional information
- Screenshot of Memory usage while the issue is observed
- Is the "Contextual Task bar" shown? If yes, Disable it from "Window->Contextual Task bar"
- Please follow the below steps for InDesign 20.0.1.32 and InDesign PR 20.1.0.28 on Macintosh
- Open Terminal in full screen mode
- Drag the InDesign application on terminal (e.g. "/Applications/Adobe\ InDesign\ 2025/Adobe\ InDesign\ 2025.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe\ InDesign\ 2025")
- Copy the logs when you start facing the slowness in a text(.txt) file. Share the file with us at sharewithID@adobe.com.
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Navigating through pages with keyboard shift page up / page down jumps multiple pages Indesign V19.x and 20.0
Navigating through pages with keyboard shift + page up/down was already flaky in the last couple versions of Indesign jumping two pages at once, especially after opening a document. With version 20.0 it now jumps two and sometimes three pages at once and even back when it should go forward. Sometimes navigating stalls completely and ID is "thinking" for several seconds before it jumps huge amounts 10-20 pages or completely at the end /beginning of the document. This behaviour is not seen when navigating via the pages palette.
The documents in question do not have large media files linked where…
2 votesWe would need more info on when you are using shift + page up/down key and what is the expectation. Are you using these when in Presentation mode?
Using page up/down key, does not solve the purpose?
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InDesign 2025 does not import settings from 2024 correctly
InDesign CC 2025 does not import Keyboard Shortcuts nor Workspaces. I had to install them manually. The new “Export setting” or “Import settings” features are obviously useless (as expected).
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InDesign 20 won't open InDesign 19 file...
ID 20
Mac OS 14.7
InDesign will not open an Indesign 19 file that was fine yesterday, I get the beachball, converting box then nothing. I tried opening through InDesign and the Finder - nothing. I 've re-started ID - nothing. Some ID 19 files DO open though...6 votes -
GPU performance and scrubby zoom missing
I'm using the most up to date version of InDesign and I cannot find my GPU performance anywhere. I wanted to use this to fix scrubby zoom, because my scrubby zoom is gone as well so I can't zoom in and out smoothly now. No matter where I look I can't find anything about GPU performance on any tab in InDesign and I'm starting to get really frustrated. Without GPU performance to fix the zoom, I can't use the program effectively without the scrubby zoom.
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Uso elevado de CPU en InDesign 2025 (v. 20.0)
La última versión del programa (20.0) consume muchísima CPU. Esto no ocurría con la versión previa.
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Deleting spreads takes many minutes
The time it takes to delete spreads increases with the number of spreads being deleted. To delete 200 spreads in one go, it takes ten to twenty minutes. This operation should be instantaneous.
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Screen tearing while scrolling
I'm having issues with screen tearing in InDesign 2023 and 2024. I've tried resizing UI, testing an earlier version of InDesign (hence 2023), making sure my computer was set to best performance over battery saver, etc. Inevitably when I scroll around, lines of text will jump around or break. I'm operating a brand new windows 11 computer with 16gb of RAM, and this is a two page InDesign document with one image, so...
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Eyedropper Tool resets to Color Theme Tool after each update
It's not exactly a bug, but a constant annoyance: I use the Eyedropper Tool a lot. After each Indesign update it is reset to the Color Theme Tool in the tools palette. Could you please have it remember how it was set (or actually make the Eyedropper Tool the default and not the Color Theme Tool)?
I primarily use it to copy formatting from text. When I'm in the Text Tool highlighting the text and then wanting to change to the Eyedropper Tool its only then that I notice it has been reset. Then I always have to change from…1 voteHello Christian,
Thanks for your post. We will review your request.
A simple thing that you could do after each update is to simply press the Keyboard Shortcut 'I' to make the Eyedropper Tool the frontmost (bringing it above Color Theme tool).
That will also make it remain the default from thereon and will cease to be an annoyance to you.
Hope this is helpful.
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Certain dialogue boxes appear partially off screen and can't be moved back on screen
Certain dialogue boxes appear partially off screen and can't be moved back on screen. For example, the Find/Change dialogue box and the Export dialogue box [specifically export to PDF (Print)] have both become almost unusable for me because important sections of those two boxes are located off screen. See attached screenshots. Dialogue boxes that allow you to expand them by clicking and dragging the edges/corners of the box are less of an issue - they often appear partially off screen, but once they're expanded at all, the whole dialogue box pops back into view. The Find/Change and Export dialogues do…
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Problema al usar la lupa en pantalla hdmi
Indesign 19.5
.Problema con la lupa: cuando uso indesign en la segunda pantalla (hdmi), cundo amplias hace una ampliación máxima y después no permite disminuir, tienes que encajar en pantalla para volver a ver el documento completo. Esto en la pantalla nativa del macbook pro no pasa.
Este problema no pasa con otros programas de adobe como ilustrator o photoshop.1 vote -
History Window
Using the hotkeys Command > Z to undo constantly brings up a tour of the History window. Don't want to use it or I would already and am really over it telling me to. Please how do I stop the prompt?
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Pinch gesture in macbook changes size of selected image instead of zoom
While working on a macbook air m3, you can use the pinch gesture to zoom in and out of the page, put when you select and image in a box (orange outline) and then use the pinch gesture while your cursor is hovering over any part of the image, even parts that are out of the frame/box, it changes/transforms the size/dimensions of the image instead of zooming. While the image is still selected and you move you cursor away from the image the zoom then works.
The attached video shows how using the the pinch gesture zooms in and out…
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Panels move from Extended Display to Main Display on waking Mac from sleep.
Setup:
1) Mac as Main Display, External Monitor as Extended Display
2) App Window on Main Display, All panels on Extended Display
OR
1) Mac in Clamshell mode, 2 External Monitors (one is Main Display, other is Extended Display)
2) App Window on Main Display, All panels on Extended Display3) Mac goes to Sleep.
4) Wake up Mac from Sleep.Result : Some panels move to the Main Display, some panels remain partially on both Displays.
3 votesAvailable in Prerelease Builds · AdminRavi Kiran (Senior Lead Quality Engineer, Adobe InDesign) respondedFix for this issue is available in the latest PreRelease build (20.1.0.28) of InDesign available via Creative Cloud Desktop application (look under the Pre-release tab).
If you would like to join InDesign PreRelease program, do the following:
* Go to https://www.adobeprerelease.com/
* Sign in with your Adobe ID (Email address associated with your Adobe account)
* Click Available Programs
* Find InDesign Prerelease and click Join
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