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  1. password

    Add the possibility for a password on adobe.link's from AdobeIndesign for more safety.

    PASSWORD #INDESIGN LINKS

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  2. InD 19.1 export to IDML extends conditional text

    1. InDesign 19.1
    2. Create a doc with several paragraphs of text. Apply a condition to, say, the 2nd paragraph. Export to IDML. Open the exported doc.
    3. The reopened file should look like the original.
    4. The condition is now applied to additional paragraph(s). However, if the condition is removed from the paragraph marker, the problem disappears. There was a similar problem about 10 years ago saving docs with conditional text. The conditions would exin the same way. This happened just with normal saving, not exporting.
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  3. Variable font changes to Italic when a custom axis value is set, without user input. Also, the Italic axis cannot be controlled.

    This may be related to a somewhat similar Illustrator bug:
    https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/46249144-variable-font-changes

    Summary:
    1. Variable fonts that have separate but related roman/italic font files are handled badly by InDesign (and Illustrator). In InDesign, if you set a custom axis value such as Weight or Optical Size, the font changes to Italic immediately. This issue occurs in fonts such as Roboto Serif and Apple SF Pro, which are well-tested, popular, and important by many measures. It also occurs in fonts that have internal data that is known to be good, at least as far as FontBakery testing shows. It doesn’t occur in…

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  4. InDesign 19.1 -- I cannot select or edit type. I'm on a new iMac running Sonoma 14.2.1.

    The attached screen video capture shows me trying to edit a due date for an assignment. I cannot edit the file at all.

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  5. Reading order issue when a footnote is split over to next page or column

    When a footnote split over to next page or column, the accessible PDF generated from InDesign CC 2023 has notes reading order messed up. The first note reference on the page where the portion of a note comes in from the previous page/column reads the continued note text and likewise the second note reference reads the first note and so on. Eventually the last note is read at the end regardless it's note reference. It's a serious issue because not only the reading order needs to be fixed for the last note on the page that has splitting to the…

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  6. fonts not exporting to pdf properly

    I am using Indesign 2024 on Mac Ventura. Adobe Premier Pro Garamond Cyrillic fonts are fine in InDesign but do not show properly when exported to PDFs. This is ridiculous if not inexcusable. It's an Open Source, Adobe font. Spend time fixing issues like this instead of destroying programs by deleting scroll bars.

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  7. Crash on launch in 19.0.1

    Crash on launch immediately after splash screen appears. New to 19.0.1.
    Using macOS Sonoma 14.1 on a 27" iMac (Intel).

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  8. Custom fonts in bold/black appears thin and bold in latest versions of InDesign and Photoshop

    Custom fonts in bold appears alternately as bold and thin in the latest version of InDesign (19.0.1) and Photoshop (25.1) I've tried deleting all apps and installing again, but it doesn't help. The problem only occurs in Adobe programs. Not in Word etc. It works fine, when I'm installing an older version of InDesign, fx 18.5.

    The font that is used is the Google font "Outline".

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  9. "PDF not Created in InDesign"

    A PDF was exported from Adobe InDesign, opened in Abobe Acrobat, annotation tools were used, and the PDF was saved under a new file name. Attempting to open the comments in InDesign with the "Import PDF Comments" tool returns an error stating the PDF was not created in InDesign.... but it was, and only Adobe tools have been used.

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  10. IL PANNELLO CAMPIONI NON FUNZIONA CORRETTAMENTE

    Nella palette campioni non è più possibile scegliere se applicare il colore al testo o al box, la funzione è disinibita, non viene mostrata nemmeno l'icona di riempimento/traccia

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  11. Trackpad Scroll Not Working

    Trackpad scrolling in Indesign 19.0.1 is unusable both horizontally and vertically. It sometimes works if I place my curser directly in the scroll bar, but outside of that when I try to scroll it either has a huge lag and skips around or just refuses to move my page. I work on a laptop with 100+ page documents daily so this is massively impacting my workflow.

    PC laptop running windows 10

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  12. PDF comments imported incorrectly

    1. Both ID 2024 and 2023 (19.0.1 and 18.5.1)
    2. A PDF file created with ID 19, and was commented by the client. When I import PDF comments it sometimes crashes, and afterwords ID does import the comments, but most of them are "broken" and appear as "unmapped comments".
    3. Attached are screenshots from both versions after importing comments from same file. Dark screenshot is from version 19.
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  13. Windows<Effect

    Can't move the slider by mouse in the Effect panel tool

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  14. 블럭상태에서 한글을 입력하면 글자가 분리됨

    블럭상태에서 한글을 입력하면 글자가 분리됨.

    수정할 글자를 블럭으로 잡고 글자를 입력하면 (예:ㅇㅣㅂㄹㅕㄱ) 이렇게 분리돼서 써집니다.

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  15. layer visibility of placed ai file is not updated when edited in Illustrator.

    When layer visibility of a placed Illustrator (.ai) file is edited in Illustrator, InDesign does not update. The layer that is not visible in the .ai file is still visible in the InDesign file.
    Manually placing the revised .ai file into InDesign shows the file correctly.
    Windows
    ID v 19.0.0 x64
    AI v28.1 (64-bit)

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  16. Montserrat Font errors

    The Montserrat font is not displaying correctly in the program, I exported a page to see if it is just a display issue but it is not, the font is still displaying incorrectly even when exporting the file, I checked in Illustrator but it is displaying normally, fix this problem please. It even stuck when I was doing my typography tests, specially with the Bold style

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  17. Text disappearing while editing

    On my MacBook Air when I use InDesign and I am editing text it frequently disappears then when I zoom in again it will reappear. It only ever disappears from view, it is never lost but still very annoying. It will do this about every 4 words I type.

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  18. Behavior of "Change" button different than behavior of "Change All" button

    When finding and changing the paragraph or character style of some text to another paragraph or character style, using "Find" and "Change/Find" retains any local formatting (italic, bold, underline, superscript, etc.) in the affected paragraph. "Change All," however, removes all local formatting in the affected paragraphs.

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  19. Redefine style changes Grep Style

    When redefining a style based on changes to an existing style (and that existing style has a GREP style in use), the style parameters of the style or grep style are changed. Whereas, if you edit a style directly and apply the same changes, the grep style is unaffected. See video.

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    In the 1st case in your video, you have applied a local override to the Style by changing. That's why you see a + in the name of the Style. When you Redefine that Style, the overrides go away and the Style gets redefined with the new attributes.


    However, in the 2nd case, you are Editing the Style directly by opening the Style dialog. So any changes you make in the dialog automatically becomes part of the Style itself and there is no need to Redefine it from the panel menu.


    It is working correctly.


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    Adobe InDesign team

  20. eyedropper + shift

    Eyedropper tool bug, when I'm trying to use the optionnal command "Shift" (the eyedropper become a target), it supposed to grab only color, which is not the case on 19.0 on mac, it seems to work as a normal eyedropper :s

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