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  1. Feature Requests: Table Cell Intersection Styling and Multi-Page Table Cell Support for Merged Cells

    Request 1: Multi-Page Table Cell Support for Merged Cells
    Current Problem:
    InDesign cannot break merged table cells across pages, creating significant limitations for complex hierarchical tables. When a merged cell spans more rows than can fit on a single page, the entire table becomes unviewable or requires manual workarounds.
    Real-World Scenario:
    • Level 1: A main category (e.g., "Strategic Goal") spans 30 rows
    • Level 2: 30 detailed items, each in individual rows
    • Current Issue: The merged cell cannot break across pages, making the table unusable
    Proposed Solution:
    Implement automatic cell threading for merged cells across page breaks, similar…

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  2. Bracket issues

    When copying a table from one indesign brochure to another new indesign document. The open and close brackets that were on the original table appears corrupted. The close bracket appears at the front of the word instead. Tried retyping it at the end of the word but keeps jumping to the front.

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  3. [ID-4244288]Problem with Variable fonts - some glyphs are displayed with a lighter weight on changing axes.

    Some variable fonts works as expected, but for some, the font displays at a lighter weight (perhaps regular?) when the weight is set for anything heavier than about 750. It appears that the heavier weight's metrics are used.

    In my my limited test, the weight prints properly.

    I'm on a 27-inch, iMac 2020, Mac OS 13.5.1, InD 19.

    Examples:

    70 votes

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    The fix of the issue is now available in the InDesign 2024(v19.1.0.043) and above. We recommend you upgrade to the latest version for the fix.

    If you are unable to see the update, go to the Creative Cloud application click on the context menu on the top right, and click on Check for App Updates.

    Adobe InDesign Team

  4. Accessible PDF exports paragraph lines in individual content containers

    Steps:
    1. Create a simple InDesign file, and type in a paragraph on several lines, apply any paragraph style
    2. Export to a tagged PDF and examine the <P> tag in the Tags pane

    Expected result: The entire paragraph is in one content container

    Actual result: Each line of text is in its own content container. The paragraph is really hard to read in the PDF when pressing Down Arrow with NVDA or JAWS. This causes each line to be read separately, e.g. with NVDA the default is to have "Use screen layout" as Off.

    In InDesign lines can be…

    4 votes

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  5. When duplicating groups in Cell Styles, new styles are not appended with " copy", two styles with same namae

    When duplicating a group of cell styles, the resulting duplicate group's name is appended with " copy" but the style names contained within that group folder are not appended with " copy" and therefore you have duplicate style names in the Cell Styles. Additionally, when duplicating more than one style within a group, sometimes multiple "copy" styles are created, and other times, they are not, rather, the edit style dialog box appears...but on save, no style is saved into the group. Seems a bit kluge.

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  6. Change Format selection for "Change Case" disappears after altering Find Format

    Indesign 2025
    When searching for a style for which I want to perform a change case operation, it works fine. If I then want to change the style that I'm searching for, when I confirm that change and return to the main window of find/replace, the parameters for the "change format" window get wiped out...I believe this only happens with change case. I tested this by changing the case in the Basic formats to "all caps". I found that if I used any other parameter, or any other parameter in conjunction with the new "change case"...the "Change Format" parameters remained...but…

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  7. Alternate Layouts lost, names missing and out of order

    I've had a reoccuring issue of InDesign documents with multiple alternate layouts 'losing' their layout names and placements.

    I've attached a screenshot of what my alternate layouts should look like, and then again what they now look like.
    InDesign no longer sees it as an alternate layout.

    This seems to happen some time after working in a file, or re-opening a file.
    No updates have been made to InDesign between closing and re-opening these files.

    I'm on MacOS Sequoia 15.6
    Adobe InDesign 20.5

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  8. Alternate Layouts lost, names missing and out of order

    I've had a reoccuring issue of InDesign documents with multiple alternate layouts 'losing' their layout names and placements.

    I've attached a screenshot of what my alternate layouts should look like, and then again what they now look like.
    InDesign no longer sees it as an alternate layout.

    This seems to happen some time after working in a file, or re-opening a file.
    No updates have been made to InDesign between closing and re-opening these files.

    I'm on MacOS Sequoia 15.6
    Adobe InDesign 20.5

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  9. Better Text Box Controls

    Could the in port and out port boxes be shifted slightly away from the bounding box corners? They’re currently positioned very close to the resize handles, which makes it harder to resize text frames — a much more frequent action than linking text.

    While you're at it, please expand the interactive area around bounding box handles so the cursor stays in Scale mode slightly farther from the corners, reducing accidental switches to the Rotate tool when resizing objects.

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  10. Game

    En cherchant un nouveau site de jeux en ligne à tester, je suis tombé sur plinko app et j’ai découvert qu’ils offrent des bonus exclusifs pour les joueurs venant de France. J’ai commencé par la roulette, juste pour voir, et après quelques tours tendus, j’ai décroché un joli gain. Depuis, c’est devenu mon petit moment de détente quotidien, parfait pour mêler frisson et relaxation après le travail.

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  11. [ID-4261684] Hang when "How likely are you to recommend INDESIGN" dialog appears at startup

    Twice now, I have started InDesign, opened a book, opened a file from the book, and pressed command-F to open the Find dialog. The Find dialog opens, and I begin to type. Then, the "How likely are you to recommend INDESIGN" dialog appears over it, and the cursor (and my typing) goes to that dialog instead. The spinning beach-ball appears, and InDesign is unresponsive; to recover, I have to force-quit the application.
    InDesign 20.2
    macOS Sonoma 14.7.1 (23H222)
    Apple M1 Ultra

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  12. Outer Edge Bleed Option for Facing Pages

    Description:
    InDesign currently applies identical bleed settings to all four edges of each page, even in facing-page layouts.
    For publications such as magazines, catalogs, and books, the inner (spine) edge bleed between facing pages is unnecessary and can cause issues in visualization, export, and imposition.

    Feature Request:
    Add an option in the Document Setup and Export Settings to enable Outer Edge Bleed mode.

    In this mode, bleed is applied only to the top, bottom, and outer edges of each spread.
    The inner edge between facing pages would have no bleed, resulting in a cleaner, more accurate PDF output that reflects…

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  13. Accessible alt text for hyperlinks needs to be supported by scripting

    With InDesign scripting, it's possible to search for "searchTerms" from one column of a tab-delimited file, then set corresponding hyperlinks from another column. This means I can set hundreds of hyperlinks in just a few minutes. However, it remains impossible to set the hyperlink's alt text with a script — that function isn't scriptable. So either I ignore this important accessibility requirement (not an option), or I still have to manually edit each hyperlink, one at a time, wasting many hours and introducing the possibility of errors on each one.

    For example, a document contains hundreds of product numbers or…

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  14. Can't move objects properly, they jump out of the frame InDesign V20.1

    When I want to move the frame around the page, the object jumps randomly on the side of the screen. Does not fallow the mouse. Cannot do precise layout.

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  15. Application Window resizes to bottom half of screen after waking Mac from sleep

    Despite this long-standing issue being declared "fixed" in InDesign 2024 19.2, it's still happening. It's also happening with Illustrator and Photoshop.

    MacStudio, macOS 15.5, all Adobe apps up to date as of date of posting.

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  17. 레이아웃 조정 버그

    레이아웃 조정 시 글꼴 크기 조정 옵션을 선택했는데도 불구하고 페이지 크기에 맞추어 글꼴 크기가 조정되지 않습니다.

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  18. Adobe InDesign 2024 and 2025 crash when pasting certain string into text box with particular font

    Hi, I’m a type designer and font delveloper (for more than 20 years) and have made a custom font (Latin) that makes extensive use of the Contextual Alternates feature (calt). Let's call the font FontXyz, it’s an OpenType CFF font (.otf).

    These are the steps that always cause InDesign to crash
    1: Text cursor is in an empty text box where my FontXyz is already set
    2: Pasting the string “1234,-”
    3: Crash

    I can prevent the crash by:
    a: Putting my cursor in between two spaces and then pasting the string “1234,-”
    b: Pasting the string without the “-”,…

    2 votes

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  19. Cant move objects on second monitor

    Cant move objects on second monitor
    So i use a laptop usually and things are normally fine. however for some reason now all objects on my second monitor is not moveable. i can click on the object and when i attempt to move it theres a red circle icon. if i move the indesign window to my main screen everything is moveable and the problem only happens on the 2nd monitor. I've tried reseting preferences, nothing is locked.
    I am using the latest version of indesgn

    4 votes

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  20. [ID-4214608]Page numbering of last pages not visible when View Pages is set to Horizontal in Pages panel.

    When the pages panel is filled up vertically with the pages, and when the panel is set to "View Pages > Horizontally," the panel does not scroll all the way to the bottom, and the page numbers of the bottom pages are cut off.

    This is easily reproducible in any new document with reset InDesign preferences.

    26 votes

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