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  1. Hebrew Font Issue in inDesign 2024

    I'm having an Issue with inDesign 2024, every single release of this version.
    The issue is a font that I have, squeezing together some letters, this issue doesn't appear in inDesign 2023, as a result I i'm stuck in that version:
    Here's an example of it the first image shows the 2024 version and the second one the 2023

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  2. Hilfe - PDF in deutsch

    Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

    meine Meldung an den Support wurde sofort bearbeitet. Leider kamen wir auf das Ergebnis, dass die Hilfe - PDF leider nicht auf u.a. "deutsch" vorgehalten wird.

    Vom Support konnte ich direkt die links bekommen, diese waren alle nur in englisch erhältlich.

    Mein Problem,...
    da wir eine JVA sind und die Strafgefangenen keinen Internetzugang haben, kann ich diesen, zur Optimierung ihres Wissens, keine Literatur an die Hand geben die im Internet vorgehalten wird.

    Wir benötigen die Hilfe-PDF in deutsch für folgende Programme:
    - Indesign
    - Photoshop
    - Illustrator
    Vielleicht gibt es ja in Zukunft eine Lösung…

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  3. Windows 10 / InDesign 19.5 x64 - Text Frame and Zoom Window Problems

    When attempting to use the Text Tool to creat a text frame by using the click / drag / release method either nothing happens (99% of the time), the text frame is invisble (I confirmed a text frame was created by viewing 'Undo Create Text Frame'), the release of the mouse pointer occurs on its own.

    Expected result: create a text frame in a single movement: left click the mouse on a location, drag while the mouse button is held down, release the button to create a text frame

    Actual result: 99% of the time nothing

    When using the click…

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  4. TEXT WRAP

    TEXT WRAP do not show correct. How to correct. Use InDesign 25.19

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  5. text color not showed in track change

    In the Story Editor, when Track Changes is activated, there are 3 types of visual indicators for change: text color, background color, and marking. In practice only the marking and the background color work, while the text color is always displayed in black. Attached is a screenshot.

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  7. QR code clickable

    Hello. I have an idea regarding the InDesign program. It would be great if the generated QR codes in the interactive PDF were clickable. Is it possible to implement this? Currently, I manually assign hyperlinks to each QR code.

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  8. Recent files pulling in recently placed files instead of recent INDDs

    When right-clicking the Indesign icon in the taskbar, the recent files shown are all files I recently placed in docs, instead of indesign files I was actually working on. I definitely did not open these in indesign.

    See screenshot.

    Indesign 19.5
    Windows Build 22631.3880

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  9. Almost all my settings get lost when ID updates or crashes

    Almost all my personal settings get lost when ID updates or crashes - settings just get changed to default - it's really annoying!

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  10. export PDF "hyphenation problem"

    When the line thickness of the text is given at the specified settings, the hyphens appear in the program, but when the pdf is saved, the hyphens disappear.

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  11. icon

    .indd files are not showing up with icons in File Explorer. We have tried verifying default program for file extension, icon file path in the properties, updating graphics drivers, verifying the registry values, Revo uninstalling and then reinstalling, clearing Windows shortcut cache, but nothing is making the .indd files appear with the correct icon. We are using InDesign 2024 installed through Creative Cloud on Windows 11.

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  12. GDI Handles

    Indesign 19.5 x64 does not cleanup GDI Handles on Windows 10 build 19045.4529, version 22H2.

    This only occurs when the feature 'Turn on Overprint Preview' is enabled, and you start scrolling. When you disable that feature, you can scroll again without the GDI Handles being hogged by Indesign. The handles rae, after the feature is disabled, not released.

    A 28 page project, and a scroll up and down trough the project, costed me almost 600 GDI handles, and when I'm at 10.000, Windows just stops serving new ones and Indesign will crash.

    Expected outcome: GDI Handles do either not increase…

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  13. Indesign 2024 Unable to Recognize Variable Fonts from Documents Created with Previous Version

    InDesign 2024 (v19.0) fails to recognize variable fonts from documents created in previous version. Specifically, Helvetica Now Variable weights and widths are reported as missing. Running MacOS Sonoma (but the same system opens the file without issue when using InDesign 2023… can’t be an OS issue.)

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  14. Hide Frame Edges

    I'm working on Windows 11. I'm not sure what the InDesign version is but I just bought it two days ago.

    Everything has been smooth so far but when I needed to hide the Frame Edges I met this issue. From what I found out there are two options: View > Extras > Hide Frame Edges or simply Ctrl + H

    Neither case worked.

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  15. InDesign V19.1 Updated Jan 18 2024 Bug: Double click on text frame moves the frame every time

    With the new version 19.1, every time I double click on a text box to change text, after each double click the text box is moving a tiny bit. This happens every time in any document and after a program restart.

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  16. style from word not recognised

    When I, in a word document linked to Indesign add a style which begins with the name of anther style, followed by a comma (no space) and more text, InDesign does not recognise that this is a new style but instead treats it (and calls it) by the other (shorter) style name. Workaround is to e.g. use an underscore instead, but it took me quite a while that is was this issue that caused the strange indesign behaviour.

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  17. # in URLs of Hyperlinks in Hyperlinks panel is substituted with %23 when opened in browser from panel

    Hi together,
    when working with hyperlinks with URL destination an URL like:

    https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/HTML/Elemente/a#Siehe_auch

    will not be transferred to the browser as is when the menu command "Go to Destination" is used or if the "green" bullet in the panel is clicked that indicates a correct and connectable hyperlink destination.

    Instead character # will be substituted with %23 like that:

    https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/HTML/Elemente/a%23Siehe_auch

    The implication could be two-fold:
    [1] The browser could show an 404 error
    [2] The browser could not navigate to the named anchor and the view of the page is showing the top part of the page.

    The URL above…

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  18. Files won't open

    Trying to open some files from File Explorer or within InDesign: Adobe Creative Cloud message states: "InDesign could not open "[file name]" because it has been created in a newer version - Adobe InDesign 19.4. You can convert and open this file but you may lose out on content created using the features specifgic to the latest versions. For the best experience, we recommend updating InDesign to the latest version." I am always updated since I use the auto-update feature for all products. If I attempt to use the "Update" link provided I get this message: "You're up to date!".…

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  19. When I use InDesign, it often suddenly starts loading and loads very slowly.

    When I use InDesign, it often suddenly starts loading and loads very slowly.

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  20. Variable font not working in Indesign.

    Problem:
    Variable font not working in Indesign.
    Main problems with Monotype Helvetica Neue Variable, but sometimes others also cause problems.
    (Note: via my Myfonts I received a new font-file and installed this - same problems - so it is not the font file which is broken…)
    I discovered that the program/software/app Indesign itself is causing this problem - not only the variable function does not work any more - as soon as I try to use the variable function the whole document is not working properly: can't save, can’t undo, etc !!!
    This makes working with a variable font in…

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