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  1. Fonts with a certain suffix in the family name not showing up in the font menu

    InDesign 17.2.1 macOS 12.3.1
    When installing four different regional packages each of them following this family name structure: name + region, being the family names:
    MyFont APAC
    MyFont CYR
    MyFont EMEA
    MyFont NALA
    Fonts with CYR in the family name don't show up in the font menu, while the rest of the fonts do.
    The fonts are somewhere though as InDesign does not complain about the fonts not being installed when opening a document set in that font.

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  2. The wrong InDesign version is started.

    1. InDesign 16.4.2; 17.2.1 for PC
    2. try to open indd file or idml file
    3. InDesign 17.2.1 should start
    4. InDesign 16.4.2 is starting

    I have two versions of InDesign installed on my Windows computer, versions 16 and 17. After automatically patching the older version to 16.4.2 today, all .indd and .idml files open with the older version instead of the new one. My attempts to manually change this setting keep getting overwritten, I suspect by the creative-cloud software. Is there any way to change the setting?

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  3. External Object 'lib:AdobeXMPScript' not exist!

    Try to execute the attached code in the screenshot.
    And you will this error:

    Error Number: 52
    Error String: I/O Error

    18 votes

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  4. Poor GPU Performance

    With the GPU enabled, InDesign is very slow. (everything is slow, even typing text is very long...)
    On previous versions I did not encounter this problem.
    If I disable GPU acceleration, and use the CPU instead, InDesign is a bit faster.

    I use inDesign 17.1 / MacOS Monterey 12.2.1
    on a Macbook pro 15" 2015 (Intel Core i7 2.8Ghz + RAM 16Go + GPU : AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2 Go)
    The Mac is connected to a 4K display

    1 vote

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  5. Copying a URL Hyperlink auto formats to a opening another indesign file

    I've been having URL hyperlinks that are copied Document A into Document B are auto format as a shared location that is Document A. But all I want is Document B to have the same hyperlinks, and nothing I've tried will prevent "shared destination" as being the default. All I wanted is the an image with a hyperlink to copy into Document B as a URL. Instead I have random InDesign documents opening without warning and then indesign crashes. I've ended up needing to delete all hyperlinks (attached to both text and images) and entirely reformat each one. Without accidently…

    2 votes

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  6. public online

    Textspalter faller bort när man publicerar online! felet skiftar och kan dyka upp på t ex omslaget nästa gång.

    2 votes

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  7. Running headers do not support superscript, subscript, ...

    Running headers do not support the usage of superscript, subscript, ... Using only Indesign, there is no solution. Could you please fix this?

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  8. InDesign hyphenates certain words incorrectly

    InDesign hyphenates certain words incorrectly. Examples include "worldview" and "Princeton," which InDesign hyphenates as "worl-dview" and "Princ-eton." I'm in InDesign 17.2.1, but this has been the case for all versions. It would be understandable if these were foreign or unusual words, but common words like this should never break this way.

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  9. dashed lines

    Hi I'm just wondering what could be causing dashed lines to print with 'ticks'? The file exports to PDF showing as normal (first image) but prints dashed lines as shown in the second image.

    The same thing happens (randomly) with images created in Illustrator as well as boxes created in Indesign.
    thanks

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  10. Layout options for multiple records from data merge

    I have recently discovered Data Merge and it works great for most things. However I need to output multiple records per page set out head-to-head. This is so the output can be printed and folder in half with the text on both side the right way up. More detailed controls would be big help.
    Unless I have missed something.

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  11. 7 votes

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  12. Adobe Digital Editions bug in Windows

    Fixed-format epubs created by InDesign (17.2.1) show correctly in Adobe Digital Editions (14.5) on Mac (OS 12.3) but incorrectly in Adobe Digital Editions (14.5) on Windows (10). I have attached screenshots that show the difference. I was unable to upload the original files.

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  13. InDesign 15.1.4 / MacOS 10.13.6 / Auslassen von verbundenen Textrahmen

    Bei kleinsten Änderungen am Fließtext werden sporadisch einzelne verbundene Textrahmen übersprungen! Und zwar im gesamten folgenden Textabschnitt! Ständig muss das Dokument auf leere Textrahmen geprüft werden. Das ist bei 500 Seiten kein Spaß und macht ein professionelle Arbeiten nahezu unmöglich!
    Gibt es eine Lösung?

    trnaslate.google:
    With the smallest changes to the continuous text, individual connected text frames are sporadically skipped! And throughout the following section of text! The document must be constantly checked for empty text frames. That's no fun with 500 pages and makes professional work almost impossible!
    Is there a solution?

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  14. opening an idml-file failes, ID is crashing without crashreporter

    ID 17.2.1
    MacOs 12.3.1
    iMac (Retina 5K, 27 Zoll, Ende 2015)

    An IDML-file saved with ID 17.2.1 I can not open with ID 17.2.1 again.
    ID is crahing and the Adobe/ID-crashreporter is not shown.
    Only the MacOs-crashreport appers.

    I'd like to attach/upload this file as . idml and zipped as .zip, but the dialog shows something like "this format is not supported". I'm logged in. - Why that dos not work?

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  15. 2021 cannot create new document

    I just updated from 2020 to 2021 version.
    Now, when trying to create a new document, the dialogue works as expected but when clicking "erstellen" (create) nothing happens.
    Even after restarting the whole system (Mac Catalina).

    47 votes

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  16. Separation preview ink percentages wrong

    I just upgraded to the 2022 (v17) version of InDesign, and my separations preview percentages are blatantly wrong (e.g. what should have 200% ink coverage was showing up as 0% for every swatch). Even when it gave believable percentages of ink coverage, it still lagged significantly behind the 2021 (v16.4) version. My coworkers had the same issue, but when we reverted back to the prior version, we had no trouble.

    5 votes

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  17. Bug: Find/Change resets search mode

    Windows 10, Indesign 17.x
    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Create a table with several columns, fill column(s) with text
    2. Mark any column, open Find/Change
    3. Set search mode to "Selection", put the find word and change word, then click "Change all"

    Expected result: nothing changes in Find/Change
    Current result: search mode changes back to "Story"

    1 vote

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  18. hyphenation across columns persisting after deselecting option in style

    Issue happens to text that is assigned a paragraph style and located above footnotes.

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  19. copy

    Allow normal use of copy and paste with system-wide shortcuts from PDF comments. Most of the time I try to copy text from a PDF comment to paste into a document, the selection disappears and no "copy" option appears. I need to be able to copy and paste text from comments as easily as any other text. This issue is seen in 17.2.1 on an M1 iMac running Monterey 12.3.1.

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  20. overprint is unpredictable in INDD and AI

    In the latest versions of INDD (17.2.1) and AI (26.2.1) i find that the overprint settings have become unpredictable. I have just received feedback from a client, that the date on a flyer i designed for him is illegible. In the attached print-file the date actually is overprinting. In INDD though the element is not set to overprinting. I have had the same issue with another document this week in AI.

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