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  1. Inability to process transparency effects in rollover button states.

    I want to create a rollover effect for my TOC. It's a three page TOC. There are almost 200 listings. I cannot make every line a button. That would be crazy. So I wanted to just place the text on one layer, and a 50% transparent box that is a button that appears on rollover. But evidently that cannot be done? How else might I handle this?

    1 vote

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  2. Indesign - Texts keep disappearing with any edits. Have to scroll away and back to see new text

    Macbook Pro 13 M1 2020 - Brand new set up last week
    Indesign Subscription V 16.2.1

    Happening all the time - work taking forever.
    Please advise, this problem is driving me up the wall, any help appreciated

    1 vote

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  3. Small interface and large cursors with duel monitors on Windows with Indesign 2021

    I am using a 15' Dell laptop with 27' Asus monitor and whenever I move the InDesign window from my laptop to my larger monitor to work on, the interface stays small and pixelated. The cursor is overly large and I am unable to change the UI interface to fix this. The bug has disrupted my workflow and ability to utilize all of InDesign's feature effectively.

    4 votes

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  4. Mac InDesig 16.1 opens files on Synology NAS as read-only

    Has anyone report any permission problems with Mac OS Big Sur 11.2.3? I am opening InDesign files and on my Mac and they open fine. On another Mac, same OS, they are opening READ-ONLY. The permissions on the Synology haven't changed since we bought it.
    I already contacted Synology. We have 4 Macs running the latest InDesign. This read-only problem is happening on 2 of them. We are connecting AFP.
    We did try on one Mac to reboot in recovery-mode and reinstall the OS. We also uninstalled and reinstalled InDesign. Neither fixed the problem.

    2 votes

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  5. Share for Review - Not Working

    I have tried share for review both with clients (who have CC) and with my team members (who all also have CC) and have been unsuccessful every time. When selecting the link that is sent to the users email, they are then redirected to their "Synced Files" and not the review link.

    This has happened whether we share it as private, public w/ password, or public. We have also tried logging out of CC and back in with no luck.

    2 votes

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  6. Share for Review breaks when INDD files are duplicated for versioning

    Everyone I know who uses InDesign duplicates files regularly to create various versions of documents. Share for Review seems to have a major problem with this. When I create multiple versions of a document by duplicating an original, InDesign cannot seem to differentiate between the various versions, even if they have different names and are completely separate files. The only solution seems to be if you have only one document open at a time and break the link to start over. It's maddening, as I have 9 versions of important documents that I need to share for review, and when…

    3 votes

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  7. close book in event handler is out of sync

    function closeBooks() {
    var books = app.books.everyItem().getElements();
    var i, ilen = books.length;

    for (i = 0; i < ilen; i++) {
        if (books[i].modified) {
            books[i].close(SaveOptions.ASK);
        }
    }
    alert('done');
    

    }

    if you call the closeBooks function, everything works fine.
    But if the function is used as a handler, the "done" message appears immediately, before the for loop complete.

    try adding a beforeQuit eventListener:
    app.addEventListener('beforeQuit', closeBooks);

    and close InDesign having one or more modified books to see this (strange) behaviour.

    The same function works fine if you target documents.

    InDesign CC2021 16.2.1 on MacOs Catalina 10.15.7

    1 vote

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  8. Unable to create a new document in Indesign 2021 (16.2.1)

    Both Idesign 16.2.1 and 16.1 applications open to a black screen with a menu bar at the top. I am unable to create a new document unless I use the legacy settings under Edit. This issue started on June 21, 2021. All previous versions work fine.

    1 vote

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  9. Margin Issues When Threading Tables

    InDesign 2021

    Background: I'm working with an InDesign Template file that was set up with two pages (not facing) and a lengthy table in a text box.

    Issue: Whenever I thread my text box with the table it contains, the table over stretches the margins on only the additional/threaded pages. It remains within the set margins on the original pages, and if you try to adjust the table on the overset pages, it shirks it on the original pages as well.

    Why is this? Why is the table changing size (width wise) on only the threaded pages, and how do…

    1 vote

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  10. In a document imported from word, endnote links don't work.

    I imported a word document with endnotes in indesign 2021. The link between the reference numbers and the endnote texts doesn't work. Any suggestion?
    Thanks.

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  11. Smart guides not working at all

    Snap to grid and smart guides or any function where cursor automatically snaps to edge, corner, or center point is not working. I am currently using version 16.0. I have restarted the program 5 times. All of these features are check marked and turned on despite the features not working at all.

    I will not work on my project because of this issue. I need to rely on the precise support of smart guides and snap to guides in order to do what I have to do. I'm very disappointed with this bug and upset I'm set back so much…

    7 votes

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  12. Applying character or paragraph style causes eventual crash

    I make extensive use of the command-RETURN keyboard shortcut to apply character and paragraph styles. It seems that if I use this shortcut enough times, InDesign will crash. This happens several times a day, forcing me to reopen all my files and try to remember where I was.

    1 vote

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  13. InDesign to Acrobat Accessibility Bug

    When performing Acrobat remediation on InDesign publications containing correct export tagging, the Acrobat Reading Order tool shows "P" tags at the end of each line of text (as well as additional "P" tags in the middle of lines). The Acrobat Tags panel shows no paragraph tags -- just broken up lines of text.

    Fortunately, these broken up lines are not reproduced as such by the screen reader. So why does Acrobat identify each line of text with a "P" in the first place?

    This issue needs to be fixed as it creates a dilemma and lot of unnecessary remediation work…

    2 votes

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  14. Crash while export to JPG

    indesign 16.2 (mac version) crashes every time exports jpg and it tries to overwrite existent jpg

    2 votes

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  15. cross-reference bug InDesign 2020

    I'm working with a 50-page document using the latest version of InDesign (15.1.1 x64) on Windows 10. Cross-reference not only takes minutes to create but also takes that amount of time to update. It's become a useless feature of InDesign.

    13 votes

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  16. InDesign Server taking long time to initialize

    SUMMARY
    Recently it's been taking longer than 5 minutes for InDesign Server to spin up a new instance when executed by Windows system. This issue appears to be user specific. 

    SYSTEM
    Operating system version: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
    Processors: Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz x 4
    Adobe InDesign CC Server 2017 12.0.0.81

    ISSUE:
    InDesign server seems to be taking a long time (> 5 minutes) during initialization.

    COMMAND:
    ./InDesignServer.exe -configuration [name] -port [number]

    OUTPUT:
    Initializing InDesignServer for port 57106: ================================================================================
    InDesign CC Server Version 12.0 x64 .
    Copyright 1999-2016 Adobe Systems Incorporated and its licensors. 
    All rights…

    2 votes

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  17. Looking for InDesign 2020 to install on new MacBook Air

    Hi there, I just got a new MacBook Air and searching my CC for Versions of InDesign 2020. I need it to work together with the publisher app «Wood Wing Studio» which doesn't work on InDesign 2021. But my Creative Cloud only show's me Versions to intall from InDesign 16.0 upwards. I also had InDesign 2020 installed on my old MacBook Pro running on Big Sur and had no problems with it. Is there any solution for this? Thanks!

    1 vote

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  18. Pasteboard settings are broken

    Adjusting the pasteboard size between pages is broken - see screenshot, I've set it to zero and still each page is miles apart. Sick and tired of these endless bugs.

    2 votes

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  19. Broken Creative Cloud links when linking to InDesign documents after InDesign 2021 Update

    I work for a global creative agency. We use Creative Cloud for all of our lockups, logos and vector artwork.

    Since updating to InDesign 2021, we've noticed that all Creative Cloud links are broken and when we export a file with embedded InDesign documents within it, we need to go through and open every single InDesign file again.

    We now have to check every single link in every single exported PDF as there is almost always some broken assets that show up as white boxes.

    InDesign doesn't give any alerts for broken links in this instance either.

    5 votes

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  20. Problem copying font from Acrobat Pro DC PDF (to Word and Indesign)

    [Adobe Indesign 2021 - 16.3 / Suitcase Fusion 21.3.0]

    Since the last update, I am unable to copy/paste from a PDF in Acrobat the accented characters of the French dictionary (ô, é, è, ç, à) to Word or Indesign, whatever the font is (Adobe font or personal font).

    The glyph disappear when pasted.

    The glyphs exists in the dictionary when looking at the panel in Indesign.

    1 vote

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