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  1. when importing documents from Word and mapping to paragraph styles

    Everytime I start mapping styles on import InDesign crashes. This is taking up too much time, I have tried exporting/saving the doc as an rtf etc but to no avail. I am running Sonoma 14.4 on a brand new Macbook Pro 16"

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  2. Font window

    Font window frozen in center of screen, won't go away. Using Indesign 18.0 for MacOS.

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    1 comment  ·  Crash/Freeze/Hang  ·  Admin →
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  3. About InCopy pop-over window unable to close

    In the process of looking up the InCopy version number for another bug report, I opened the About InCopy window. This opened on my second screen and will not clear. There is no exit button, ESC does nothing, clicking it does nothing, clicking the links changes the content of the box but doesn't open any other options, clicking away from the box sends it behind the current window but does not close it. I cannot use InCopy as it is unresponsive underneath this pop-over box. The box can be cleared by closing out of it in Alt+Tab gallery, but the…

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  4. Copy

    The tool "copy" is crashing the Indesign. Inside the software and between softwares. This issue turns the workflow so slow...

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  5. InDesign 2024 crashes when closing

    InDesign 2024 version 19.3 on windows crashes very often when it should close.

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  6. Starting or Closing Indesign makes a freeze

    Adobe InDesign 18.5 | Windows 11
    Working in a company.
    Since the last Update 2 from our collueges have freeze while starting or closing Adobe InDesign.
    Already tried older version, clean fonts, temps and caches.

    Task-Manager shows this (screenshot)
    Nothing from the CEPHtmlEngine solutions in Adobe worked.

    Someone has a idea?

    6 votes

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  7. 2 votes

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  8. INdesign Beta AI Text to image not working

    After typing prompt, Iand pressing generate, the program stops responding. Attached screen.

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  9. Glitching and Lagging

    Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1 (as well as previous release)
    InDesign 19.01 (as well as previous releases)
    Apple M1 Max

    InDesign (and Illustrator) have become infuriating to use. All graphics and text are constantly glitching when scrolling or zooming. When selecting an element for some reason there is a lag where it things that I am clicking and dragging the element cause it to move. Sometimes it moves a pixel or get thrown across the page.

    I have tried the following
    In Preferences,
    Disabled Animated Zoom to no effect.
    Disabled GPU Performance to no effect.
    Changed Both Display Performance options to…

    2 votes

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  10. Computer: Mac Sonoma 14.4 Indesign: 14.4 AMFID and TRUSTD

    Yesterday I updated both Mac and Indesign. Today I regret.
    When autoflowing a very large file (which yesterday would have taken around 10 minutes) - now it runs for hours.

    Strangely I have noticed that while the delay is happening in Indesign - amfid begins to take 64% of my CPU on the Activity monitor. trustd runs around 24-27%. Indesign is running 9-10%. Once I shut down Indesign or the task finally completes, but amfid and trustd disappear from the activity monitor. Could this be the source of the delay. This is truly keeping me from my work.

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  11. InDesign crashes when I try to change styles with the preview box selected.

    I am running InDesign 19.0.1 x 64 on a Windows 10 machine

    When I try to edit a paragraph style that includes bullet points, and with the Preview box checked, my computer crashes. As you can see in the screen capture video, it is an intermittent issue, but InDesign crashes the majority of times I am trying to edit the bullet paragraph styles. It also happens when I try to change the Anchored Object Options in my Object Styles panel.

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  12. InDesign won't quit

    Since the update to v18.5, InDesign won't quit after working on a document. If I simply just open the program and won't open or create any document, it closes perfectly. But once a document is created or opened, the program itself won't quit afterwards and just sits/hangs there requiring force quit.

    Resetting the preferences and dumping the caches didn't help either. Running Win 11 Pro x64. Nothing else is changed except ID got updated yesterday to v18.5.

    I don't want to uninstall and reinstall because it's not a 'major' issue - just posting here so it's known and hopefully they…

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  13. search

    When I try to open a window using the help search bar, the screen freezes.
    I can't press any buttons and requires crashes.

    I'm on Mac OS M1 Pro - Sonoma 16.2.1
    (Double check on intel i9 12.6.3 - no issue)

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  14. glitch

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    My indseign starts glitching as soon as I move a picture or make a frame. It goes half black or fully purple and blue. Its impossible for me to figure out how to fix it. I've tried restarting the app. But that doesn't matter. I don't have any problems with the other apps.

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  15. Text frame options (Ctrl B) doesnt open since 3 days

    Text frame options (Ctrl B) doesnt open since 3 days. Indesign freeze. And the Windows desktop background dissapears somtimes. I use this funtion for every project. So I don't know what to do now?

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  16. iCloud

    When opening files stored on iCloud, most of the time InDesign freezes/crashes (spinning beach ball forever). The file usually opens, but then freezes once you move the cursor around a bit or try clicking a menu, etc. I've tried opening the same files saved to my local drive with no problems. The links in these files also reside on iCloud. If I download the InDesign file first, sometimes it doesn't crash. However, if I have links to update, I have to make sure to update each of them first or InDesign crashes.

    InDesign 19.2.0.46
    macOS Sonoma 14.3.1
    MacBook Pro M3…

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  17. Not opening

    I keep running into a bug where InDesign won't open. I click the application, get the first loading screen, and then it disappears and closes. I've tried restarting my computer but the issue persists. The only way I've found to fix it is uninstalling and reinstalling the program. It's a pain to have to do it everyday though.

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  18. InDesign freezes when a new document is created

    InDesign freezes when a new document is created

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  19. Adobeフォントを600個近くアクティベートしていると起動はするがフリーズ状態になる

    adobefontのアクティベート数が現在700個あります。
    この状態でInDesignは起動はするがフリーズ状態で操作を受け付けない。
    30分放置しても変化なし。
    adobeサポート側では「フォント数が多いと起動できない」と言われましたが、確かにadobeフォントの同期を無効にすると使用できます。
    フォントもadobeフォントをアプリ上でダウンロードできる。
    しかし、premiereではテキストスタイルに登録したフォントが書体が分からずアプリ上でもadobeフォントを検索できない。
    フォントを多くアクティベートしていても使用できるように改善を希望します。
    InDesignバージョン19.2
    windows11 23H2
    デスクトップパソコンCPU、GPUともにスペック高め。

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  20. Share for review is not working properly

    I've seen other people comment on this, and have had this crash several times in several different docs, but the Share for Review tool in InDesign is basically broken on a regular basis. Update content constantly just gives me a spinning wheel. The image quality is extremely lo res when reviewing (which was "resolved" by an Adobe team member saying "it would slow down load speed" which in this day in age is frankly absurd. Fix your "Share for Review" feature, I've almost lost two clients to it who thought we sent them garbage and who also needed something delivered…

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