When fonts aren't activated in an InDesign document, InDesign CC2019 slows down and is practically unusable unless you activate most or all of the fonts used in the document. This wasn't the case in previous versions of InDesign, when you could deactivate fonts intentionally in order to troubleshoot files. In long form documents that may use multiple fonts, this was an especially useful tool.

As InDesign documents are frequently separated from their fonts, especially when using font managers instead of Document fonts, this slowdown becomes a burden when checking files in larger workflows and inhibits font troubleshooting. Could the behavior in previous versions of InDesign, where the activation of fonts was not a requirement for file responsiveness?

An Adobe Indesign CC 2019 (version 14.0.2) file has fewer than 15K characters. A return, followed by the text “ppp”, appears 27 times in the file. They can all be found using the “Text” version of find, searching for “^ppp”. However, using the “GREP” version of find, searching for “\rppp”, only the last one is found. (I am running MacOS Mojave, version 10.14.5 on a MaxBook Pro, retina, 15 inch, mid 2015).

I followed the purported fix found at https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/search-issue-in-long-documents.html but with no success.

Indesign files are invalid file types for attaching to this bug post; however I have a sample file illustrating this bug and am willing to send it along if it is wanted.

CC 2019. Mac OSX 10.14.6

We have encountered a file corruption whereby we are now unable to open an indesign doc. We get the error message as shown in the screen shot however nobody in our office has this plugin. The operator who created the file cannot even open the file - we are lost as to what has happened to this file as nobody in the team has any additional plugins. We are running the latest version of CC.

Has anybody else come across this issue as we cannot even search online for such a plugin - does it even exist? What has happened?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Currently we are re-building the file!

Version of Adobe InDesign
14.0.2 x64

Steps to reproduce the issues
1. Placed a Word document. Reformatted etc - lots of work done.
2. Tried to Find/Replace all ellipses to ensure they have a Thin Space before and after. InDesign Find/Replace finds no ellipses (but I am looking at them, having already replaced three periods with ellipses throughout the document).
3. Tested in a new document - problem does not occur there. But it does if I paste the text from the previous document in.
4. Tried exporting to IDML and re-opening to remove any corruption. This made no difference.
5. Tried Find/replace with [None] as Character Style - miraculously ID now finds the ellipses.

Expected result
ID finds ellipses when searching for them!

Actual result
ID can't find them unless Character Style [None] is also searched for (in Format).

Test file, screenshot, video or GIF capturing the issue (optional)
2x screenshots available - N.B. the first one shows both an ellipsis and one which is just three dots ...

14.0.2 x64 on Windows 10

Steps:
1. High Quality display mode (default settings)
2. Place any EPS vector file.
3. Attempt to resize it while holding ctrl-shift to maintain ratios.

Expected result:
The vector file, resized.

Actual result:
Grey box. I have to zoom in or out to get the screen to "refresh" and show the correct image.

Similar issue happens with placed AI file. Very simple, clearly. Just a triangle. Made in the latest version of Illustrator.

The Youtube button is an EPS.

Related: If I use the option "Greek Vector Graphics on Drag" it performs correctly, only now I'm viewing a low res image momentarily where on a Mac I was not. It's a "fix" but it's not an acceptable solution to a feature that should work.

InDesign 14.0.2 french
Windows 10 x64 Pro 1903 - 18362.239

I need to import 148 PDF with 5 pages into each files.
I prepare 5 frames into the A-master.
CTRL+D from the 1st page to select my files.
For the demo, I use 3 files.

Only the second PDF is imported.
All other PDF are visible in Links panel, but with no pages imported.

If I do an the same import without frames on the A-master, I am able to place 5 pages per ID page. But it's longer, without the same scale, etc.

Please check my video attached.
I attach my 3 PDF of the demo.

I've just test under 13.1.1: the bug is already there :-(
Thanks to my users not to tell me...

I also tried to do the same by duplicating my page with no frames on A-master but on the page itself: same result, only the second PDF is imported.

If I choose 2 pages on each PDF, I got 2 PDF on 3. Better, but not enough (frames on page or A-master).

Last test: import without advance options, so only 1st page is imported.
It worked: I got the 3 first pages imported...

Please help :)

I have Adobe InDesign 14.0.2 x64, and my book chapters keep showing a spinning wheel when i try to make any change. Say I need to add one letter, after doing so the ball has to spin 10 times until i can do anything else. This is extremely time consuming and is wasting my time when I have to wait 2 minutes after any tiny change before I can make another. I have seen others posting issues about this over a year ago. All fixes people have suggested do nothing for me. Please help.
In reading that it could be cross references causing the issue, i opened chapters to which my current chapter refers, and i still get the spinning ball, but not for as long.