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1. Preflight panel Overset text not showing page number

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   Preflight panel Overset text not identifying page number

   For a couple different files, I got an error message in the Preflight panel, indicating the presence of Overset text, but NO page number. In both files, it said it was an issue with footnotes, but not where. One of the suggested fixes is to allow Split Footnotes, but that option is already checked.

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   After a lot of sleuthing, we eventually found the error. In one of the two files there were multiple errors in multiple locations. The entire footnote had vanished. The footnote reference was still there, but all of the text of the note had disappeared.

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   As you can see, I had previously lengthened the page to make room for the footnote text at the bottom of the page. But then the program decided, nope, not enough room for that after all, and made the entire footnote disappear.

   When I lengthened the page by 0p1, Poof! the footnote text magically reappeared. If I shortened it by that 0p1 again, the footnote text stayed in place.

   1. Why does it suddenly decide the page is too short, when it was not too short before or after that time?

   2. Why has the Preflight panel gotten less smart than it used to be and can no longer identify the location of the error?

   I upgraded to version 16.0 and got the same results.

   Windows PC, 64-bit, shown here is 15.1.2, but as noted, after I upgraded to version 16.0, the Preflight panel didn't get any smarter.

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   Preflight panel Overset text not identifying page number

   For a couple different files, I got an error message in the Preflight panel, indicating the presence of Overset text, but NO page number. In both files, it said it was an issue with footnotes, but not where. One of the suggested fixes is to allow Split Footnotes, but that option is already checked.

   julietw99713499_0-1606320681951.png

   After a lot of sleuthing, we eventually found the error. In one of the two files there were multiple errors in multiple locations. The entire footnote had vanished. The footnote reference was still there, but… more

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2. Permission issue when opening first time from OSX server

   Permission issue when opening first time from OSX server.
   When opening Indesign file from OSX server, it gives error message: "Cannot open the document ”Xxxx: Xxxxx: Xxxxxx: Xxxxx: Xxxxxxx.indd”. You may not have permission or the document may be open already." When trying again, the file open normally. File is not open already, permissions are ok. Other versions of InDesign opens file ok. Indesign CC2020 / macOS Big Sur 11.0.1.

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3. Activating Font

   My Indesign will randomly start trying to activate source sans pro fonts and will not ever finish activating. I can't cancel it, I can't go online to adobe fonts and decative and then active because it says there is a conflict. Because it's syncing it won't export any of my files until it's done ... and it's never done. The only way I get it to work is to force quit Indesign and it will work until it randomly starts trying to activate it again and the cycle repeats.

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4. Creative Cloud hijacks my entire computer - slow to the point of unworkable

   I see this issue so HUGE in forums everywhere and find it frustrating with the support team coming up with lame answers every time, mostly blaming the user and with micro solutions that are temporary. These issues are known issues and keep coming back. Support close the tickets too readily and we can't re-open those cases to demonstrate how this is unresolved.

   I've tried every remedy including:

   • Uninstall Creative Cloud and all apps and reinstall
   • Many times 'Repaired' - pretty much every restart it needs 'repairing'
   • Used the cleaner tool
   • Cleaned specific cache as instructed
   • Made a second user to ensure it wasn't any preferences or cache issues
   • Watch the activity monitor and close everything else to work
   • Had support help and even up to engineers with no luck
   • Rolling back to 2018 version

   Creative Cloud and using InDesign seems to take up to 2-3G of my RAM to operate which seems ridiculous and taxes the computer too much. That's nearly 50% of the computer's RAM which doesn't seem right. At times I see that I only have 39MB left in RAM and that causes the whole thing to go slow.

   I don't really keep anything on the computer and run external drives so that the main computer is not taxed. Still is slow because Creative Cloud is hijacking my 'virtual memory' apparently. I clean regularly and now have to optimise as I work to make it speed up using CleanMyMac.

   Now there is a new update to InDesign v16.0 and it is not compatible with High Sierra but says I need 10.14 or later. I'm very concerned about updating to Mojave as it seems that it will only increase the amount of RAM being used and make the computer unworkable. I can't upgrade the RAM at the moment, and I do need InDesign to earn my living. I've timed some days that I lose collectively hours of lost time with this slowness and crashing - it is beyond frustrating and been putting up with it for over a year since the 2019/2020 upgrades.

   It really isn't OK that this isn't addressed by Adobe. There are bugs in the code and the cloud based system is too taxing on the RAM. Surely the old way of installing some software on the machine was more manageable.

   Is there any way to reduce the tax on the RAM please?

   Current computer: Mac OS10.13.6, Retina 4K, processor 3GHz Intel Core i5, Memory 8GB 2400 MHz DDR4, Mac HD, Graphics: Radeon Pro 555 2048 MB

   Model Name: iMac
   Model Identifier: iMac18,2
   Processor Name: Intel Core i5
   Processor Speed: 3 GHz
   Number of Processors: 1
   Total Number of Cores: 4
   L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
   L3 Cache: 6 MB
   Memory: 8 GB
   Boot ROM Version: 166.0.0.0.0
   SMC Version (system): 2.40f0

   I see this issue so HUGE in forums everywhere and find it frustrating with the support team coming up with lame answers every time, mostly blaming the user and with micro solutions that are temporary. These issues are known issues and keep coming back. Support close the tickets too readily and we can't re-open those cases to demonstrate how this is unresolved.

   I've tried every remedy including:

   • Uninstall Creative Cloud and all apps and reinstall
   • Many times 'Repaired' - pretty much every restart it needs 'repairing'
   • Used the cleaner tool
   • Cleaned specific cache as instructed
   • Made a second user to… more

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5. bad hyphenations in english

   InDesign CC2021 (16.0) is making very bad hyphenations in English: Great Britain. Some examples in the Screenshot. Thanks for solving.

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6. Option-Click/Drag to duplicate spread does not work anymore with MacOS 11.0.1 update

   1. InDesign 15.1.3
   2. To Duplicate Spreads in Pages Panel — Option-Click/Drag to duplicate spread does not work anymore with MacOS 11.0.1 update. It used to with previous MacOS.
   3. Expected Result: the grab hand would have a plus sign, then duplicate spread.
   4. Actual Result: The grab hand operates as "Move" not "Duplicate".

   Right/Click Duplicate does, however (but who has that much time? : )

   Thank you

   InDesign 15.1.3

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7. Bug with InDesign 16 Word and Textedit

   I noticed a huge performance bug.

   When I am working on a book with many pages and switch to an app like Word or Textedit and then back to InDesign, I get a beach ball for 30–60s. Only in InDesign. When I quit Word or Textedit, the beach ball disappears and InDesign runs normal again.
   Restart eg. doesn't help!

   System: Big Sur
   InDesign 16.0
   MacBook Pro 16"

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8. control panel will not stay on the screen.

   control panel will not stay on the screen.

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9. Serious InDesign Server slow down with Catalina

   We are stuck with serious performance issues with our scripts for InDesign Server (mostly Applescripts) after upgrading from Mojave (macOS 10.14.6) to Catalina (macOS 10.15.7). The problems are alike with Indesign Server CC 2019 and CC 2020.

   The current machine is a Mac Mini (2018) is used as development server for our current project. But when taken in production (very soon) the solution that is the outcome of the project must be able to run on a machine that demands Catalina or later. And this solution will rely heavily on high performance.

   Earlier we managed to solve some permission issues that came with the upgrade (described in another post). But I’m afraid the current performance problems 'are much deeper rooted and can only be solved by Adobe and/or Apple.

   We haven’t encountered any resembling performance issues with other applications than Indesign Server, or with scripts working with tasks that does not involve InDesign server on these machines or other macs running Catalina. The slow down with InDesign Server are abnormal.

   The problems manifests themselves in several ways:

   1. The time it takes for a script to do its tasks have raised to unacceptable levels. In the very best cases, it has more than tripled.
   2. Processing time also varies a lot between executions of the same script – for no apparent reasons.
   3. Processing time is often even higher when initiated by a soap call than when the same script is run from a script editor.

   For evaluation I have used one and the same script working with one and the same document. The test document (relatively light in our context) is opened from a template with around 350 empty text- and image frames. The script first analyses the document, recording all frames with a certain label content and makes a setting record for those frames based on the label content. Then it imports text and place images according to those settings.

   Under Mojave it takes just above one minute for the script to do the job – both when started with a soap call and directly from an editor. Processing time is varying between 1:02 and 1:12, which I consider to be a ”natural” variation.

   After the upgrade, the scores for editor executions have varied between 2:08 and 3:44. Started with soap the time varies between 3:30 and above 5 minutes

   The increase in process time – at least 300 to 500 percent with soap calls – is of course unacceptable. The large variations is also a problem in itself

   Notes:
   • The process time scores above referes to the time amount from when the script starts to work with the document until it’s finished with the document (so any delays outside of the document processing is not included).

   • We cannot pick out certain actions that has slowed more than other. The recording of document content is heavily decelerated – taking between 40 seconds and 2 minutes and more, compared to taking a few seconds with Mojave. Likewise, the process to place text and images, fit images to the frame and so on have slowed down to the same extent.

   • To confirm the problem, we have also done the same tests on a fresh machine delivered from Apple with Catalina pre-installed, a lot of RAM and no other installations than the necessary for doing these tests – with the same disappointing results.

   We are stuck with serious performance issues with our scripts for InDesign Server (mostly Applescripts) after upgrading from Mojave (macOS 10.14.6) to Catalina (macOS 10.15.7). The problems are alike with Indesign Server CC 2019 and CC 2020.

   The current machine is a Mac Mini (2018) is used as development server for our current project. But when taken in production (very soon) the solution that is the outcome of the project must be able to run on a machine that demands Catalina or later. And this solution will rely heavily on high performance.

   Earlier we managed to solve some permission issues… more

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10. "Go-to-Folder" Shortcut Not Working When InDesign Opens Finder

    About two updates prior to the last 2021 update that was released, the shortcut Commnand+Shift+G that would normally open the "Go-to-Folder" dialog box when doing something like relinking an image stopped working.

    Unlike windows, where a file's location path can be copied and pasted at any time into an address bar, the "Go-to-Folder" menu can only be accessed via shortcut on Mac (as far as I am aware). It is very inconvenient to have to go through every folder individual folder, when I want to relink or place something, instead of being able to directly go to where the file is located.

    About two updates prior to the last 2021 update that was released, the shortcut Commnand+Shift+G that would normally open the "Go-to-Folder" dialog box when doing something like relinking an image stopped working.

    Unlike windows, where a file's location path can be copied and pasted at any time into an address bar, the "Go-to-Folder" menu can only be accessed via shortcut on Mac (as far as I am aware). It is very inconvenient to have to go through every folder individual folder, when I want to relink or place something, instead of being able to directly go to where the file… more

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11. Windows 10

    In Windows 10, when I close an InDesign file, and open another without closing InDesign completely, my keyboard functionality ceases to work. I have to relaunch InDesign.

    This happened on my previous laptop of 7 years, and now does the same with my new one which is 2 weeks old. I thought it was just because my old laptop was getting old, but since it's doing the same on a new computer, I figured it must be a bug.

    Using the latest Windows 10 20H2 version, latest InDesign to date of 7 Nov 2020 (v 16.0 x64), Lenovo Legion Y540.

    Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz
    Installed RAM 8.00 GB
    System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

    Edition Windows 10 Pro
    Version 20H2
    Installed on ‎10/‎30/‎2020
    OS build 19042.610
    Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.31.0

    In Windows 10, when I close an InDesign file, and open another without closing InDesign completely, my keyboard functionality ceases to work. I have to relaunch InDesign.

    This happened on my previous laptop of 7 years, and now does the same with my new one which is 2 weeks old. I thought it was just because my old laptop was getting old, but since it's doing the same on a new computer, I figured it must be a bug.

    Using the latest Windows 10 20H2 version, latest InDesign to date of 7 Nov 2020 (v 16.0 x64), Lenovo Legion Y540.

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12. InDesign 2021 is not allowing me to open files created in previous version

    I cannot open any files created in previous version. I had to reinstall InDesign 2020 to be able to do my work. InDesign 2021 is giving me a message about damaged files, is trying to repair them but without any success. So this version needs to be fixed asap.

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13. Placing photo in frame

    When I'm trying to place for example photo in frame (cmnd+D of File -> Place...) nothing won't happen. Just rolling the beach ball...

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14. Error on Save : "Indesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but appears to be damaged."

    Indesign constantly comes up with a weird error when ever I click save while in a document - 'Indesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but appears to be damaged. click Ok.

    Also I know in the previous version that whenever I zoomed in too much I would get constant crashes. Hope it's been fixed in the version but I won't hold my breath.

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15. Adobe InDesign 15.1.2.: when I try to open a ID file, an "Open a document" alert appears.

    Fix or delete that bug.

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16. dragging from cc libraries causes screen to move over

    HI, this bug has been around since forever. Please fix it.

    When dragging items in from cc libraries the page will move over a little bit. If you drag multiple times eventually you have to re-centre the screen. Its very very annoying.

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17. Track changes slow

    The track changes feature is very slow. If I click on »accept and search for next« (sorry, I’m running a German locale of InDesign) in a long document (100+ pp.), I’ll have to wait for the next tracked change.

    Please speed this up!

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18. Handtool Spacebar not working (CC2020)

    When ending Sleep Mode on my MacBook Pro, the Handtool via the spacebar in InDesign does not work nor in any other Adobe Application. No other Application open besides Mail. Restart Applications doesn´t help. Just a whole Restart of the Computer.

    Happens with macOS Mojave (10.14.6)

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19. Keyboard Shortcuts dont work often with InDesign

    Using windows 10 - InDesign 2020

    Keyboard shortcuts often will not work, forcing me to minimize or restart the program to get them to work again. Very annoying.

    shortcuts that I am using for example( W to enter workspace mode, Ctrl-Z for undoing and even Ctrl-S to save)

    Adobe, stop adding features until you fix the issues that are present. especially ones that have been around for years or months.

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20. Hyperlink shows up grey in hyperlinks panel despite the URL NOT working

    When using the hyperlinks panel, links will show up grey when the URL is non existent, they don't show up as red.
    The screen shot shows group 42 which is grey, when it should be a red error.
    the other shot is my indesign version--using CC

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