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  1. Comment Feature is not working properly

    Working with InDesign comments is extremely unsatisfying. The interactions are super slow (this might be because of my file, but still. comments should be displayed quickly as they are not big in file size). The pins are fixed, while text that is about to be changed will change position.

    Also, not all comments are displayed or load really late. It's really confusing to figure out where they are and it's not possible to click a pin on the pages to view them.

    The feature is really important. InDesign is a proper software with an outdated UI.

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  2. Thai Launguage and Optical margins

    With Thai language and world-ready paragraph composer on InDesign 19.3, by default optical margins are enabled. but this does not produce desirable adjustments. It does hang the left margin outside just a little but it does not recalculate the line for Left Justification. So the right side become shorter by the same amount as it moved the line to the left.

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  3. Never break a word with Thai hyphenation dictionary

    In English it is possible to add a hyphenation word to the user dictionary and if you want the word never to be hyphenated, type a tilde before its first letter. This will force the word to never break.

    However with Thai you can add the word with the tilde but InDesign will not respect that word. The word will still be broken.

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  4. fontproblem – strange ligatures – invisible font

    Hi there

    In InDesign CC23 we have the problem that we sometimes have some issues with ligatures. We have the font Minion Pro activates in the Library. and somehow have the problem, that the ligatures appear to be a completely different character, see the screenshot.
    the problem could be resolved by deleting the Minion Font from the application folder > Ressources > Required > Fonts. the Ligatures changed back to the correct character. Or i deactivate the minion regular in the finder. But i need the font for other apps as well, so i need to activate the regular font…

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  6. Table language

    BUG

    When converting text to a table, in the most recent build of InDesign prerelease, text language is lost.

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  7. 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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  8. Placing a Word document into Indesign not working

    When attempting to load a Microsoft Word document into am Indesign document All I get is the title then 3 blank pages. The word document is 43 pages, A5, long and contains some images. I am using Place and Shift Click to place it into the document. I have attache the word document here.

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  9. Errors in file creation means that some devices cannot open epub file. ID Version 19.3

    E-Pub checker defines issues consistently
    "data-idGenAnimationEndState" is not a valid custom data attribute (it must have at least one character
    after the hyphen, be XML-compatible, and not contain ASCIl uppercase letters). The errors are always in reference to lines 17 and 20 in the code. When I attempted to load the file I received notice: The (ID created files) are 'not supported' and cannot be uploaded to this site. The publications with these errors contain gifs. They play ok on my mac and android devices though not on some similar devices.

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    Please send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com :

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


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  10. installed font missing InDesign 17.2 macOS 12.3 (Monterey) and macOS Catalina

    Different clients have the same problem. Installed fonts on the system are not recognised by InDesign 17.2. Other Adobe applications recognise the font and it can be used in those applications. I can recreate the problem, my colleague not. After downgrading InDesign to version 17.01 everything works fine.

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    We've just released InDesign 17.2.1 version which addresses this issue.

    Please update to this latest version using Creative Cloud Desktop application.


    In case the fix does not work immediately for you, please try the following:

    1) Quit InDesign.

    2) Delete the following:

    on Mac:

    /Users/[yourname]/Library/Caches/Adobe InDesign

    /Users/[yourname]/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign


    on Win:

    C:\Users\[yourname]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign

    C:\Users\[yourname]\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign



    Relaunch InDesign & see if it works properly now.


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    InDesign team

  11. Inaccurate Type 1 Warning

    This issue is purported to be fixed, but I'm still getting a false type one warning after upgrading to the last version of InDD 18. (18.5.2). The flagged font is Whitney Black, the only font out of the the entire OT Whitney family that's installed on my MacBook pro that gets flagged. Whitney Black also shows up twice on my font list, even though there is only one version installed and used in my stylesheets. The font is clearly OT in the replace font dialog box, does not trigger a preflight warning and exports fine to PDF.

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  12. unable to change de

    I am unable to change default font (tried all prescribed methods), it became the default after being used for a drop character, now it is substituting that font for all my paragraph style fonts.

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  13. Transparency not working on Illustrator files

    Using ID 19.1 and Illustrator 28.2 I'm no longer able to view transparency on imported Illustrator files. Toggling CPU or GPU or Overprint Preview selection doesn't help. Changing color profiles as suggested by a similar bug report in the past doesn't help either.

    This issue only started in the past few days A recent Adobe update probably caused this since I haven't updated my OS recently.

    Note: updating to MacOS 14.3 didn't fix issue. My machine is a 2019 iMac with Vega 48. Problem doesn't appear on 2017 iMac or an M1 Mac mini.

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  14. Wrong alphaphetic order in index

    Alphaphetic index order is wrong in Finnish InDesign 19.3.

    For example this is the result:

    Koivu, Jukka 143, 208, 209
    Koivula, Pauli 80
    Koivu, Saku 132, 142
    Koivusalo, Timo 110, 111
    Koivu, Tuire 143
    Kolmonen, Jaakko 17, 18

    Should be this:

    Koivu, Jukka 143, 208, 209
    Koivu, Saku 132, 142
    Koivu, Tuire 143
    Koivula, Pauli 80
    Koivusalo, Timo 110, 111
    Kolmonen, Jaakko 17, 18

    Also the W-beginnings word should be in own section, not in V-beginnings.

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  15. InDesign 2024 crashes when closing

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

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  16. Book/TOC

    For InDesign 2024: 19.3x64, there are problems with the TOC 'update Furniture'. After page a few pages the 'Running Headers' disappear from the page while it should be placed. With InDesign 2023, this was working, so this is a bug with the latest InDesign version.

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  17. rtl paragraphs line break wrong direction issue

    In rtl text, I use rtl paragraph direction. when I add \n (forced line break) the remaining part of the text changes direction, unless I change character direction of \n character to "right to left". I use "default" as default character direction of paragraphs.

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  18. I can't create my Composite Font and all of my C.F are missing

    Latest Version, Korean ver.

    Text > Composite Font > New > (making composite font) > save > ok > loading > pop up that i don't have access rights

    And When i open my works that i made with my personal composite font, pop up that indesign fail to make composite font (my composite font's name).

    I made a composite font and used it well, but when I turned on my computer and turned on InDesign, all the composite fonts were gone.
    Therefore, I tried to recreate the composite font, but the above window popped up and I couldn't use…

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  19. Mac OS. The floating windows for Text Wrap, Paragraph, etc. go blank over time.

    Mac OS 14.3.1. InDesign 19.3. The floating windows for Text Wrap, Paragraph, and possibly others go blank over time. The only way to fix it is to quit, and relaunch while deleting preferences. Then preferences have to be redone. This has been happening for several years, over several operating systems, many InDesign versions, and at least two different iMacs.

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  20. Select multiple cells in a table that are not next to each other.

    Good morning,

    When we creating a table in Indesign, it is impossible to select several cells at the same time, if they are not side by side.
    There is no shortcut yet that allows you to do this.
    This would save a lot of time, being able to change the background color, or font, of several selected cells.
    For the moment, we have to take the cells one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one... Not really fast...!

    Thanks in advance for future updates! :-)

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    Bonjour,

    Lorsqu'on créé un tableau dans Indesign, il est impossible…

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