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Crash when working with book TOC

I have a book with 10 chapters. I created a TOC earlier and left it for a few months while working on the chapters. When I try to update the TOC, the program crashes. I've tried the create new TOC files. Same result.
Same issue on both desktop and laptop.

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Under Review · Adminamaarora (Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Thanks, we were able to reproduce the issue and looking into it.

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svg mask

InDesign does not keep masks that are embedded in the SVG. It ungroups them, causing hidden parts of the SVG to display.

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Thanks for reporting the issue. We are reviewing it

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Shortcut for duplicate in InDesign doesn't work on MacBook Pro

The keyboard shortcut for Duplicate (option+command+shift+D) in Indesign 14.0.1 doesn't work on my MacBook Pro (OSX 10.14.3).
The work around is to either Alt+Drag or to select the item, select the Edit Menu and then hit the shortcut.

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indesign crashes when deleting marker

when i delete an index marker, indesign crashes. It's not with all markers, just one word that crashes the document. That word is in my table of contents and in my index so both crash.

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Under Review · Adminamaarora (Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Hi,
Please can you share a sample file with which the issue is reproducible?

Thanks
amaarora@adobe.com
Paragraph shading not aligned in justified text when optical alignment is on

If optical margin alignment (story) is ON the paragraph shading doesn't align on the right margin of justified text. hyphens seem to push the edge of the shading out. This is in build 13.1.1 but is also reported in 15.0.0.155. I cannot update to the newest version without buying a new computer—so I won't be anytime soon or maybe ever. So I hope that the bug would get fixed retroactively. My original post is here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/paragraph-shading-text-width-not-justifying/m-p/10750103#M164426

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Thank you for reporting this issue.
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Bad optical kerning for superscript "4"

When a superscript "4" follows a closing smart quotation mark, optical kerning is set to -60 or -70 depending on font. This is too close (basically a crash).

This is annoying for books with lots of endnotes, where superscript numbers usually follow quotation marks.

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Glyph substitution not working with certain Oriya and Bengali glyphs

The following words in cannot be reproduced in InDesign. It seems the glyph substitution is not working in about 1% of cases.

র‍্যানিবিজুমাব — Bengali
ମହତ୍ଵପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ — Oriya
ସ୍ଵେଚ୍ଛାକୃତ — Oriya
କିମ୍ଵା — Oriya

It looks fine above, in any text editor, or in any Microsoft app, but does NOT look right in any Adobe app I tested, such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop CC 2019 and 2020 of each.
I am applying the World-Ready Composers.
I have tried copy+pasting the text from Word and also tried the Place command in InDesign.
I've tested in both the English North America and English Arabic versions.
I've tried multiple fonts, as well. No change.
See attached for examples. Word doc shows as it should be. InDesign shows it wrong. I highlighted the glyphs that are wrong in InDesign as pink.
Thanks!

The following words in cannot be reproduced in InDesign. It seems the glyph substitution is not working in about 1% of cases.

র‍্যানিবিজুমাব — Bengali
ମହତ୍ଵପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ — Oriya
ସ୍ଵେଚ୍ଛାକୃତ — Oriya
କିମ୍ଵା — Oriya

It looks fine above, in any text editor, or in any Microsoft app, but does NOT look right in any Adobe app I tested, such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop CC 2019 and 2020 of each.
I am applying the World-Ready Composers.
I have tried copy+pasting the text from Word and also tried the Place command in InDesign.
I've tested in both the English North America and…
- Screen Shot of bengali&oriya_text_issues_cc2019 InDesign.png 171 KB
- bengali&oriya_text_issue.docx 14 KB
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Under Review · Adminamaarora (Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Thanks for reporting the issue. We are reviewing it

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Forced line breaks within text variables introduces an unavoidable letter space

When a forced line break is inserted within text that is used for a variable, a random, unavoidable letter space is introduced into the variable text.
There are obvious workarounds, but a solution to this would be really convenient.
See attached screenshots for example.
- without forced line break.png 66 KB
- with forced line break.png 62 KB
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Under Review · Adminamaarora (Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Thanks for reporting the issue. We will review it

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Footnote marker is replaced with an unknown character if preceded by a character with a specific Unicode pattern

Footnote marker is replaced with an unknown character if preceded by a character with a specific Unicode pattern. Unicode pattern is U+##1a. Here are some of those characters:

U+011a
U+021a
U+031a
U+041a
U+051a
U+061a
U+071a
U+081a

You could try the attached test file for placement in to an InDesign document. Unicode of the character following the footnote marker is : U+011a

This happen when file format of the file is either RTF or DOC. Its not a issue with DOCX.
- Problem-Char1.doc 23 KB
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Under Review · Adminamaarora (Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Thanks for reporting the issue
We are reviewing the bug
Invisible character

Apply all Auto Edits inserts an invisible character before which then interferes with Find and Replace. When pasted into a GREP search, it looks like ~I, but can't be found. It can be manually removed, but this is not helpful, as I need to be able to perform a comprehensive Find/Replace.
- Screen Shot 2019-04-02 at 1.45.40 PM.png 84 KB
- invisiblecharacter.png 141 KB
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Under Review · Adminamaarora (Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Thanks for reporting.
We will review the issue

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PDF Hyphenation Bug when line has cross-reference, hyphenated word, and option is to create Tagged PDF

When exporting an InDesign document to PDF, the hyphenated word is displayed incorrectly in the output PDF.

It only happens with a line that has cross-reference object, hyphenated word, and option is to create Tagged PDF.

InDesign 2019 (14.0.1) (MAC/PC) . Also tried it with previous versions and it has the same issue.
- Screen Shot 2019-02-12 at 5.32.23 PM.png 77 KB
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Crash on deleting duplicated XML tag

Indesign CC 2019 (Version 14.0.1)
Mac OS Mojave on Mac mini (Late 2014)

Hello, I have a document ready to import XML data, with existing XML structure and tagged elements in page.
Afterwards I import XML data into XML structure and then duplicate (copy and paste) text frame that contains a table with an image placed into a cell table.
If I try to delete resulting duplicated XML tag, application crashes.
Same result if I duplicate (copy and paste) XML tag directly.

These are the steps:

1) Open document with prepared XML structure and tagged elements in page.
2) Import XML file into XML element.
3) Duplicate text frame that contains table (copy and paste)
4) Delete duplicated "Table" tag

The problem seems to be in copying XML element (or text frame) and them paste it: resulting XML structure of the element is incomplete for the cell that contains the image.

Nothing happens if I import XML into new document without structured and tagged XML.

Expected result: delete XML duplicated tag
Actual result: application crash

Indesign CC 2019 (Version 14.0.1)
Mac OS Mojave on Mac mini (Late 2014)

Hello, I have a document ready to import XML data, with existing XML structure and tagged elements in page.
Afterwards I import XML data into XML structure and then duplicate (copy and paste) text frame that contains a table with an image placed into a cell table.
If I try to delete resulting duplicated XML tag, application crashes.
Same result if I duplicate (copy and paste) XML tag directly.

These are the steps:

1) Open document with prepared XML structure and tagged elements in page.
2) Import…
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Thanks for reporting the issue and providing the test files. We are able to reproduce the crash.
We are going to review this issue.

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shift doesn't work at all

I updated the version yesterday.... shift doesn't work any more!

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Under Review · Adminamaarora (Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Thanks for reporting the bug. We will review it

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Printing Error: The Adobe Print Engine has failed to output your data due to an unknown problem

Since I update indesign to CC 2019 I can't print to booklet all of my .indd files which were overwrited in .indd version CC 2019 (and even the older versions can't be printed to booklet...).
I got the error message : "printing error : The Adobe Print engine has failed to output your data due to an unknow problem"

indesign 14.0.1
Windows 7 version 6.1
printer : Adobe PDF

Here is the error log :

%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%

%%[ Error: invalidrestore; OffendingCommand: restore ]%%

Stack:

-save-

%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%

it seems that the log tells the problem is in the page 1 but when delete this page the problem persists with the other pages...

My print settings are in the text file attached to this post

Since I update indesign to CC 2019 I can't print to booklet all of my .indd files which were overwrited in .indd version CC 2019 (and even the older versions can't be printed to booklet...).
I got the error message : "printing error : The Adobe Print engine has failed to output your data due to an unknow problem"

indesign 14.0.1
Windows 7 version 6.1
printer : Adobe PDF

Here is the error log :

%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%

%%[ Error: invalidrestore; OffendingCommand: restore ]%%

Stack:

-save-

%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% …
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Under Review · Adminamaarora (Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

We have been able to reproduce the issue and it is currently under investigation.

Customers facing similar issue, please share the document with santalwa@adobe.com

Regards
InDesign Team
Extendscript hangs CC2019 (14.0.2) on macOS
Code below works fine on Windows and CC 2018 on Mac. But CC 2019 Mac it hangs the app once clicking the OK button in window 2. I've tried three different Macs including Mojave and High Sierra. All the same result. Pretty sure it's not just me. This bug has broken a number of my scripts that present a secondary window for saving settings.

var w1 = new Window("dialog", "Window 1");

var btnOpenWindow2 = w1.add("button", undefined, "Open Window 2");

var btnOk1 = w1.add("button", undefined, "OK");

btnOpenWindow2.onClick = function () {

openWindow2();

};

btnOk1 = function () {

w1.close();

};

w1.show();

function openWindow2 () {

var w2 = new Window("dialog", "Window 2"); var btnOk2 = w2.add("button", undefined, "OK"); btnOk2.onClick = function () { w2.close(); }; w2.show();

}
Code below works fine on Windows and CC 2018 on Mac. But CC 2019 Mac it hangs the app once clicking the OK button in window 2. I've tried three different Macs including Mojave and High Sierra. All the same result. Pretty sure it's not just me. This bug has broken a number of my scripts that present a secondary window for saving settings.

var w1 = new Window("dialog", "Window 1");

var btnOpenWindow2 = w1.add("button", undefined, "Open Window 2");

var btnOk1 = w1.add("button", undefined, "OK");

btnOpenWindow2.onClick = function () {

openWindow2();

};

btnOk1 = function () {

w1.close();

};

w1.show();

…
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Thanks for reporting the issue, we are reviewing it

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AIGPUSniffer quit unexpectedly every time I launch Indesign CC 14.0.1

I am using Indesign CC14.0.1 on a MAC - OS Mojave V 10.14.1
Whenever I launch Indesign I get a crash pop up saying AIGPU Sniffer has quit unexpectedly.
Indesign is fine to work in however I am fed up with this AIGPU issue coming up all the time and don't know if it is effecting anything else?
I've had loads of issues with the latest CC - really not impressed Adobe! Any suggestions on how to stop this happening?
- Screenshot 2019-04-01 at 23.17.32.png 33 KB
- Screenshot 2019-04-01 at 23.23.18.png 26 KB
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Thanks for reporting the issue to us. We are currently investigating the issue.

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objects do not snap to objects within a group

When scaling or repositioning objects contained within a group, the object should snap to other objects within that group (when smart guides are enabled)

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Crash when placing DOCX with paragraphStyles

Version: InDesign 14.0.1, macOS 10.14.3

Steps:
1. Open attached InDesign document (please rename .jpg in .indd, there was a bug while uploading the file)
2. Place "ThisDocumentHasParagraphStyles.docx" in the document
3. InDesign crashes :-(

It seems it has something to do with the ParagraphStyles that are in the Word document. If I try to place the DOCX file named "ThisDocumentDOESNTHaveParagraphStyles.docx", then InDesign doesn't crash.

Attached is a screen video capture of the process (rename .jpg in .mp4 please)

Please help!
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Thanks for reporting. We will look into the issue

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Creating TOC cause InDesign crash

I have a document of 97 pages and I need to create the TOC with one single style (it's a list of product SKUs).
Every time I click OK on my TOC dialog to create the TOC InDesign crashes.
I tried to convert the document in IDML and reopen it but I have no luck.

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Story editor with »missing glyph symbols«

Same Problem in story editor with »missing glyph symbols« when a table is in text flow:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/31365199-story-editor

Sample document:
https://adobe.ly/2XGbc6Y

InDesign 14.0.1
macOS Mojave
- story_editor_with_missing_glyph_symbol.png 903 KB
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Crash when working with book TOC

svg mask

Shortcut for duplicate in InDesign doesn't work on MacBook Pro

indesign crashes when deleting marker

Paragraph shading not aligned in justified text when optical alignment is on

Bad optical kerning for superscript "4"

Glyph substitution not working with certain Oriya and Bengali glyphs

Forced line breaks within text variables introduces an unavoidable letter space

Footnote marker is replaced with an unknown character if preceded by a character with a specific Unicode pattern

Invisible character

PDF Hyphenation Bug when line has cross-reference, hyphenated word, and option is to create Tagged PDF

Crash on deleting duplicated XML tag

shift doesn't work at all

Printing Error: The Adobe Print Engine has failed to output your data due to an unknown problem

Extendscript hangs CC2019 (14.0.2) on macOS

AIGPUSniffer quit unexpectedly every time I launch Indesign CC 14.0.1

objects do not snap to objects within a group

Crash when placing DOCX with paragraphStyles

Creating TOC cause InDesign crash

Story editor with »missing glyph symbols«

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