Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Enable subfolder searching for missing links
Enable subfolder searching for missing links
Please implement an option for InDesign to automatically search subfolders when trying to relink missing files. Currently, when linked files are reorganized into subfolders, InDesign requires manual navigation to reconnect them, even when they're in obvious locations relative to the original path. A smart subfolder search would save significant time when managing complex projects with many linked assets and reduce frustration during file organization changes.
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Convert All Fonts to Outlines
Add "Convert All Fonts to Outlines" checkbox in PDF Export dialog
Please add a simple checkbox in the PDF Export dialog to automatically convert all text to outlines. This feature would streamline print workflows by ensuring text doesn't shift or cause issues during printing. Both CorelDraw and even Adobe Acrobat already offer this functionality, so it makes sense to include it directly in InDesign's export process. This would eliminate the need for manual text conversion or post-processing PDFs in other applications.
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Continuous numbering
There should be a function that allows you to decide if you want continuous caption numbering throughout the document (also if a the frame of a page has no frame linked. It is so annoying to have all the time the numbers wrong.
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"recent" files date modified
It's January 2 and all my recent files (updated within the last couple weeks or month, meaning December) are showing up as being from "1 year ago" which is not quite true.
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Command-S shortcut activates DON'T SAVE
Command-S shortcut activates DON'T SAVE
InDesign 20.0
MacOS 15.1
Swedish languageI noticed that Command-S activates the Don't Save button in the dialog shown in the image.
- Command-W to close the document
- The dialog shows Cancel, Don't Save and Save
- Command-S will activate the Don't Save button!
I tried it on two Macs with the same setup.
This is a serious bug and it's much worse than a crash.
After a crash the changes will be kept by the crash restore feature. If someone use the Command-S shortcut in the scenario described here they will erase all changes with no…
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Uso elevado de CPU en InDesign 2025 (v. 20.0)
La última versión del programa (20.0) consume muchísima CPU. Esto no ocurría con la versión previa.
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Issue Report: Kerning Not Applied with Ligatures Enabled in InDesign 2024/2025 (Regression from 2023
Description:
A kerning issue occurs in Adobe InDesign 2024 and 2025 when using ligature-supported fonts like Microsoft Uighur Font. Manual kerning adjustments fail to apply when ligatures are enabled. This problem does not occur in InDesign 2023, where disabling ligatures allows kerning to function as expected.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Font Setup: Use Microsoft Uighur Font in InDesign 2024/2025. (I use my personal font)
2. Text Input: Type a word containing the ligature اللہ (e.g., any two Arabic text).
3. Enable Ligatures: Ensure ligatures are turned on (Character panel > Ligatures: ON).
4. Apply Manual Kerning: Attempt to adjust kerning…1 vote -
[ID-4261037] JavaScript is not working in InDesign 20.2.0
allow me to get a version of 20.1 from the cloud until you fix the problem
1 voteWe tried executing the script shared by you at our end and found that the extension you are using for the script should be ".scpt"(applescript) and not".jsx"(javascript). Please try changing the extension of your script to ".scpt".
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Adobe InDesign Team
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indesign reverting unit selection
Each time I set up a new document in InDesign (and only in indesign this happens), it defaults to Pica measurement (my preference is set to mm) and when I change it and begin to fill out the measurements, it reverts back to pica 2-3 times before it'll stay on mm.
I've tried:
-re installing
-changing/checking preferences
-resettting preferencesUnsure if a bug or something I've missed.
2 votes -
overlapping text on paragraph break in INDD
When formatting text using a parent page element that's been activated (by using Shift + CMD + Click) on a page, and forcing a paragraph break so that the text goes from two lines to three, the first of the now three lines "hides" behind the second line. The current fix to this issue is to make an edit to the first line so it "pays attention" to the change and goes where it's supposed to.
Font used: Los Feliz OT, Bold, 27
Justification: BottomScreenshots included of before the edit, during the edit, and fixed, with hidden characters turned…
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table of contents
I have InDesign Mac 20.1. I have a Book consisting of 3 documents. In the documents there are Figure captions in Minion Pro font. When I have an N-rule (option hyphen) in Caption and I create a table of contents (ToC) the N-rule becomes superscript Stempel Garamond LT Std in the ToC even though the caption style is Minion Pro
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Before tag and after untag frame with different behavior
If you tag a frame object (XML), this object does not behave the same after untagging as before tagging. In other words: tagging is not fully reversible. You can see a difference in the layer panel and in the exported PDF tag structure (Tagged PDF)
How can this behavior be reproduced?
- Create a new InDesign document.
- Draw a placeholder (empty) graphic frame
- Assign any XML tag to the frame
- Remove the XML tag
- Export a tagged PDF
What is the difference between the object before tagging and after untagging?
The layer panel shows a different status.
The frame before tagging…
2 votes -
InCopy: Notes in text shifting randomly when exported as PDF.
InCopy version 18 and 19.
To recreate the issue : add a note to any point of a text paragraph in InCopy and export the document as PDF. This results in the note (yellow sticky note) shifting randomly within the PDF document.
What should happen is that the yellow sticky note should be in the area of where the note was initially anchored in InCopy, after you export it as PDF.
8 votes -
Skewed Images when opening saved file
After I make an InDesign document, if I don't make a PDF copy before quitting out of InDesign, the entire document containing placed images and text is lost when I quit out of it. Having the PDF allows me to see what I had done in InDesign, but I can't of course update or alter the PDF.
I tried tossing out the preferences (shift+control+opt+command (mac) while launching InDesign) and it didn't change anything, it's still giving me skewed images.
Any idea why this is happening, and how to fix it? I don't even know what to call it. It's a…
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Book Preflight panel uses [Basic] preflight profile instead of the indicated working profile
Hello,
i noticed some strange behaviour of the Book Preflight panel. While it shows the current working preflight profile as selected, it will instead use InDesigns [Basic] preflight profile. To actually use your desired preflight profile, you have to open the list of profiles and select it (again). Even though it already shows as selected.
To reproduce this error, i duplicated the [Basic] preflight profile, named it "Test Check" and additionally disallowed RGB color under COLOR > Color Spaces and Modes Not Allowed > RGB. I then selected it as working profile in the preflight settings.
I then set up…
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ID incorrectly enables Overprint when converting a text to paths
This bug has been reproduced in Indesign 15.0 and 18.5. MacOS Sonoma.
When you convert a BLACK text to outline, Overprint Fill is automatically enabled in the Attributes panel. The ‘Overprint’ selection remains applied even if you change the colour of this object.
I've just had a print advert blown out of the water by my client because half of his logo had disappeared. It was blue and was overprinted even though I hadn't set anything like that.
It came about in the way described above: a text was converted into paths, the resulting logo was recoloured in blue -…
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Text Variables using Running Headers don't show up in Table Header Rows when table is threaded across multiple pages
I have a table running across multiple pages. In the Header row I want to have a Text Variable using Running Header to pull the text using a particular paragraph style. The text variable doesn't show up. If I unthread the table so it's just a single frame, it appears.
My workaround is to unthread to one frame, convert the text variable to text, then rethread. It works if I do this at the end, but defeats the purpose of using them if customer wants last minute edits.
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Keyboard Shortcuts don't work after opening from Bridge with only one InDesign file open
Very specific bug this but as Bridge sits at the centre of my workflow it affects every file I open!
Steps to reproduce:
1) Open InDesign
2) Open a file from Bridge - right click, open or double click (keyboard shortcuts work fine the first time!)
3) Close file in InDesign
4) Open a file from Bridge as aboveNow most keyboard shortcuts - eg. Place: ctrl-D - won't work. Holding space gives you the temporary hand tool but that's about it. You have to hit alt-tab twice to get back to normal shortcuts working.
If you open another file…
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I can’t permanently close the suggestion window. Every time I tap on an image, it reappears, and it’s really annoying. Can you help me? I pr
just put a button don't show again, please.
1 vote -
BUG: Small Caps not applied correctly to Variable Text with World-ready Composer
Using Adobe Indesign 19.3 on MacOS 14.4, Apple M1.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Make new document.
2. Define a text variable "Test" with custom text "Handgloves".
3. Insert variable in text frame.
4. Set the composer for that paragraph to "World-ready..."
5. Set the paragraph in Small Caps
6. Try different fonts.Expected result: small caps.
Actual Result: only first two characters are changed to small caps. Typing characters after the variable placeholder changes how many characters are changed to small caps. See attached video.
Workaround is to change the paragraph to a non World-ready composer.
Note: may be related…
12 votes
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