Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Bug - Overprint not working correctly
I have noticed colours not displaying correctly when overprinting. It is happening on images, blocks of colour, everything.
It seems that Cyan won't overprint Cyan. Magenta won't overprint Magenta. Yellow won't overprint yellow.
I've tried all the colour profiles but that doesn't help. I have created a pdf from InDesign to illustrate the issue. The stars point to the incorrect overprints.
I believe it is also happening in Illustrator.
I updated my apps hoping that might help but I have the same problem on the latest versions.
I've working in printing for a long time and this seems like it…
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document stuck halfway below view after zooming
this is a bit hard to describe but basically when i'm working on a square shaped document, when zooming in or out—i think mostly out?—the document will stick halfway visible (see screenshot) and the only way to see the full page again is to hit cmd-0 to have it centre itself back on the screen. this happens to me uncountable times an hour and it's a real pain.
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share for review
Last summer we encountered an issue working with the [Share InDesign documents for review] feature. After transferring Indesign documents between colleagues for holidays, it turned out that this function does not work when InDesign documents are processed on other devices. Not even within our license.
Indesign claims (attachment transcribed from Dutch):
No access for review. You cannot create or update a review share since you a not the owner of the review. Please save this as a new document to create your own review.Easy to write, but we do not want to bother our customers (stakeholders) by sending them…
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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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Links Not Auto Updating when Modified in InDesign 2025
My workflow typically involves opening links from the InDesign document to edit by selecting the link from the Links panel and choosing Edit Original. In InDesign 2025, however, I've noticed that links are no longer updating whether it's a PSD or AI file and I assume other file types. This has never been the case before.
I tried a test with a new file and placed two assets to the file. One was a PSD and the other was an AI. I then opened the links from InDesign, made an edit to each (one at a time), saved, closed, and…
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New Version will not recognize/open DOCX files. I do not even see them in the "all files" import tab. I had to resave as a *.doc file to use
New Version will not recognize/open DOCX files. I do not even see them in the "all files" import tab. I had to resave as a *.doc file to use
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Can't select a swatch color for text or table fills
While in an InDesign document, I can't change the color of text or fills within a table. When I click to apply, it thinks for a second, then makes a beep (the sound you hear if you have an open dialog box and you click outside of it), and then reverts back to the previously assigned color. I've tried overriding the paragraph/table styles, but hasn't worked yet. Anyone else experiencing this? I'm on version 19.5.
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program freezes after Save As
InDesign v.19.4 freezes after Save As is used. The program is inaccessible and has to be force quit and restarted. It will reopen the document when it starts up again with no data lost. An annoyance, but at least no work is forfeited.
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Drag and Drop from MacOS Preview App
I would love to be able to drag and drop images from the macOS Preview app instead of having to drag and drop images from finder. When the images imported aren't named properly it can be annoying to find the right one. Usually I have images opened in the Preview app and would love to just be able to drag and drop them from there.
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Applying the Brush to the Arc Only
When we apply a brush, it applies it to the entire angled circle. When we draw an angular circle, can we add the option to apply brushes only to the arc? The color of the straight lines should be "none" so that the circle is not distorted.
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Print to PDF with trapping gives undefined error.
How about Adobe fix this problem of printing to PDF with trapping. It had been giving this problem since v18. Every printer that images film or plates use the trapping feature for assistance in press registration. Adobe InDesign is useless in creating PDF files with trapping. I guess I will have to start using my Quark Xpress program to do this.
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problem with Hyphenation
In the generated PDF file, in some cases, an additional letter is added to the hyphenation sign
When you copy the text from the pdf file, an additional symbol appears. How do I fix this problem?1 vote -
InDesign resets window position set by Magnet utility on macOS
In the current v19.4 (2024), when I use the common utility Magnet to resize the InDesign window (i.e. the Application Frame) to full screen, InDesign itself will reset the window position as soon as I ⌘-tab out of InDesign and return to it. No other app on my Mac does this, and it's very frustrating. Manual window size changes are honoured.
There are other inconcistencies about InDesign's window positioning on macOS too — if it opens on my laptop screen, the application bar (above the control panel) appears under the menu bar and is almost invisible.
Please fix.
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screen redraw
InDesign 18.x through 19.5. Mac, Apple Silicon, M1 Max w/ 96 GB RAM and at least 1 TB free storage, M3 Max w/128 GB Ram and at least 1 TB free storage.
Basically, sometimes the screen becomes “corrupted” and weirdly glitched. Closing the file and reopening fixes it, but that is not acceptable when it is super frequent. Which it is.
This has been a problem for over a year, across multiple full InDesign versions. It happened on my M1 MacBook Pro, and still happening on my M3.
Typically these documents involved a placed PDF page that itself is a scanned…
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Some dielines converting to filled shapes
Environment:
CS 2025 (InDesign 20.0.1, Illustrator 29.1)
Mac Studio (M2 Ultra, 192gb, Sonoma 14.7.1)We receive dielines as .dxf files from engineering. We open these files in Illustrator and create a layered file (dieline and art), export the individual layers as dieline and art, then impose the project using InDesign. Some dielines are changing from a stroke to a filled shape (think Minus Front) once the .pdf file is written from InDesign. (line verified as line in Illustrator in both the Illustrator document and the pdf generated of the dieline to use for imposition. InDesign generated (imposed) pdf file is…
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縦書きテキストの縦横独立変倍による挙動がおかしい
複数行ある縦書きのテキストを、フレームごと例えば横方向だけ50％縮小したとしたら、最後の行だけ縦方向に50％縮小される。逆に縦に50％縮小したら最後の行は横に50％される。
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Undefined property 'endnotes'.
doc-endnote (deprecated)
epub:type="endnotes"Both codes are thrown as an error!
Validator woblink.com1 vote -
set default save location to original file folder
Please make a setting in preferences with two options for default file save locations:
a) Always save to last used folder (the folder you used in the last save to session)
b) Always save to doc uments original folder (the folder where each individual document currently is saved and opened from)Currently InDesign uses option a) which in my case is a total desaster since everytime I am in a hurry saving or exporting something the file lands in some other project folder where i can search / delete or move it afterwards which results in a bad workflow.
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Indesign Beta 2025 Importing a PDF - baseline shift is off
Opening up a PDF (which was orgincailly created in Indesign) in Indesign seemed to shift baseline shifts of body text to -4pt and then the super/sub/ scripts to -7.32pt?
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Punjabi / Gurmukhi character encoding errors after exporting to interactive PDF
InDesign 2025 and 2024:
Punjabi / Gurmukhi documents exported to interactive PDF have character encoding issues. Some glyphs cannot be read by screen readers or output to braille.
After many hours of research and testing, it was discovered that exporting from InDesign 2023 does not create this issue.
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