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  1. Share for Review strikethrough & replace text from online edits aren't visible in InDesign or online viewer

    Strikethrough & replace text from online comments aren't visible in InDesign or online. the comments are visible although the visual mark up on the page is missing. Ive tested mutliple browsers and all the same.

    Highlighting and draw tool are working correctly.

    Indesign version 19.5. Chrome and Edge browsers.

    This was working as of a couple weeks ago, now is not.

    1 vote
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  2. Object effects has stopped working

    Trying to add a drop shadow to text and non of the Objects/Effects capability are available. Links non-responsive. WHY?

    1 vote
    1 comment  ·  Effects/Transparency  ·  Admin →
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  3. Randomly occuring corruption in PDF export.

    Two variations of this issue. Both occur when processed by a Fiery RIP. Screen Preview and PitStop show nothing wrong.

    1) PDF starts to RIP, but partway through it fails.

    2) PDF RIPs, but (some) sections of text containing ligatures are substituted for completely wrong glyphs.

    In both cases, re-RIPing the same PDF gets the same error, but exporting a new PDF solves it. (It occasionally takes more than one attempt at re-exporting)

    We also use Xmpie to generate personalized letters, and the glyph error text issue will start at some increment of 100 records and last exactly 100 records…

    1 vote
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  4. Control Bar not usable in an undocked window when using Application Frame

    Most of us here are professionals. Professionals use multi-monitor setups. Some (myself included) may even use the Application Frame feature anyway.

    When I do, and have multiple documents open, I happen to need to undock one of the documents that is open in Tabs and move it to my second monitor so that I can view them both at the same time.

    So I have one document open in the application frame, and on the second monitor I have a floating window of another document.

    If I now have the floating window active and I want to resize an object…

    1 vote
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  5. 19.2 Arabic version, missing periods in exported PDF

    In an exported pdf, periods (or other ending characters) at the end of paragraphs are missing, if the paragraphs were aligned right or justified in the original English version.
    The time-consuming work-around option is to make the period LTR char direction.

    2 votes
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  6. pdf export failure background task

    hello,

    my indesign (19.4) doesn't want to export the pdf file for print, which is really annoying.

    1) all photos are cmyk;
    2) all colors are cmyk;
    3) if i export the pdf in pages as separate files, it works.

    otherwise no can do. pic attached.

    it is the second project this situation occurs and the first time the workaround was to save the file again, with another name, then work with this new copy.

    also i mention that the indesign file seems very large (177 mega), although it has 42 pages only... may be some pics are big and…

    1 vote
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  7. world composer opentype

    InDesign 19.4.0.63, two different Mac Studio M2, MacOS 13 and 12.7.4

    1 - Create new document
    2 - Go to Parent, in either page of the default spread, create a text object
    3 - Add TYPE -> ADD SPECIAL CHARACTER -> CURRENT PAGE NUMBER
    4 - Select all, change font of this text object to Minion Pro
    5 - Finally, change it to SMALL CAPS
    6 - Add PAGES -> add over 100 pages

    RESULT:

    • IF the Composer is set to ADOBE PARAGRAPH for that text object,
      • it will appear fine on page 100... the three digit number is properly…
    1 vote
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  8. missing print presets after upgrading to v 19.5

    I am running InDesign on Windows. All of my print presets have disappeared. Is there a way to restore them? If I can't, how can I prevent this from happening again? I have been working on InDesign for 6 years, and this is the first time it's happened to me.

    1 vote
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  9. Small arrows to adjust the coordinates

    I love the new "Properties" window that adjusts automatically. But I really miss the little arrows next to the x/y coordinates and width/height to be able to adjust the values. Please add them back! :-)

    1 vote
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  10. Lost scaling info when copy-paste

    When I select many objects and texts in Indesing and want to copy-paste it in another document, all objects lost their scale and position info and paste in total mess.

    those ale: simple objects from Illustrator, tables, texts, frames with photos.

    1 vote
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  11. update to v24

    For as long as I can remember, dating back to the early single-digit versions of Adobe products, it was advised to make separate backups of user settings that were often found in obscure directories on a user's own computer. I dared to trust Adobe this time around, hoping that the update to version 24 of InDesign and its option to delete old versions, would respect the user settings that I so painfully put together. FAIL. Adobe failed to maintain them and deleted them from existence. Adobe should be putting a disclaimer on their update process to prompt users of all…

    11 votes
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  12. InDesign 2024 crashes if using MultiFindChange plugin

    In Windows 11 Pro version 22H2, InDesign 2024 crashes when using MultiFindChange plugin and do anything by

    9 votes
    2 comments  ·  Crash/Freeze/Hang  ·  Admin →
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    Need More Info  ·  AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

    We have released InDesign 2025(v20.2.0.036) with many stability fixes. We recommend you upgrade to the latest version (if you’re not already on it) as it is more robust.

    If you still face this issue even after updating, please submit the crash report to us. (Guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html )

    Also, please send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com :

    • Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when InDesign crashed?
    • Video recording of the crash
    • Is(Are) the issue related to a specific document(s)/asset(s)? If yes, could you provide us with the document(s)/asset(s)? Please package the entire document (To package the document, choose File → Package…)

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    Adobe InDesign Team

  13. Scripting Windows: Add page item after add swatch will delete added swatch

    In ExtendScript on Windows only, adding any InDesign page item after adding a color will delete the color:

    var doc = app.documents.add();
    // adds black CMYK color
    sw = doc.colors.add();
    // this line will delete the color that was just added on Windows only
    var rect = doc.rectangles.add();
    alert(sw.isValid);

    This actually manifested for me as a crash bug. This script crashes InDesign 2024 Windows:

    var doc = app.documents.add();
var sw = doc.colors.add();
doc.rectangles.add({fillColor: sw});

    This crashes because the last line deletes the swatch when it adds the rectangle, then tries to use the swatch.

    1 vote
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  14. shortcut presets resets to default

    Several people in our team have the problem.
    That every time we restart InDesign CC23 (18.5) the shortcut set is reset to default. the saved shortcut set is still availlable but we have to select it again.

    We work on MacOS 13.6 with Apple M1 Chips.

    Thanks and regards
    Dominique

    5 votes
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  15. align panel

    My Align panel is just blank. Some of the Align options are showing up in my top dock area, but I need the Distribute options and those are nowhere to be found. All of my software is up to date (I'm on an iMac), I've tried restarting... still nothing. This was working find just last week and a couple days ago I noticed the panel was blank.

    1 vote
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  16. Modifier l'original

    Je cherche à modifier dans Indesign, l'application qui s'ouvre par défaut lorsque je veux modifier une photo.
    Je veux que Photoshop s’ouvre et non Aperçu quand je clique sur « Modifier l’original »…
    Et éviter de passer par "Modifier avec…" qui est beaucoup trop long pour 500 photos ! Avez-vous une solution ? Merci d'avance.

    1 vote
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  17. Publish online - Play videos

    I was trying to play a video in Publish Online there are 4 buttons to play each video but every time I click on one button, it all comes out in one click.

    The links to each button seem all correct but when it comes to playing online it seems the button doesn't control the videos

    1 vote
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  18. Align to decimal tab stop behavior changes to left justified if ligatures present

    Indesign 19.5

    Create something like a manual numbered list with the first tab set as a decimal tab stop and any word in the first line that contains a ligature.. It can be as simple as "[tab]2. fi".

    Expected result is the period would align where the decimal tab stop is set. This will happen up until a ligature is introduced.

    Once a ligature is present on the first line, the decimal tab stop behaves like a left-justified tab stop instead.

    1 vote
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  19. 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…

    1 vote
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  20. 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.)

    6 votes
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