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  1. Glitches on Indesign version 18.2.1

    We have glitches with indesign 18.2.1 with graphics card Geforce RTX 3060 (newest driver) on Windows 10 (newest patches).
    See attached picture.
    Reproduction: Move and zoom the document. Sometimes it takes some time to reproduce.

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  2. Window resizing doesn't work in 18.1

    Hi, just updated to ID 18.1 and when I go to resize the document window to make it narrower (just grabbing the right side), it resizes the entire thing – height and width, doesn't go back to the way it was properly and ends up on the bottom of the screen, instead of just making the window narrower.

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  3. Fonts search and list not working properly

    Indesign doesn't let me search for fonts in the search bar of the fonts list dropdown. I can start typing, and then one font comes up, and I can't continue typing to bring up the font I want.
    Also, once I start typing in the fonts bar, I can no longer use my arrow keys to scroll through the fonts list and it's very frustrating.

    2 votes

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  4. app window resize from maximize

    indesign v. 18.0
    when app launches in max window and resized. it resizes off my 4k monitor

    3 votes

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  5. Problem loading font blocks export

    It is common that when importing a text from Word or simply activating a new font (I use FontXplorer X Pro) InDesign stays in the activation process infinitely. This unfinished process blocks any export. The solution is to close InDesign.

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  6. Conditional texts applied to wrong parts when exported to an idml

    1. Version of Adobe InDesign, InCopy or InDesign Server: v17.4.1 x64

    2.Steps to reproduce the issues:
    Export an Indesign file with conditional text settings as an idml file and open the idml file in the InDesign application.

    1. Expected result
      Conditional text settings are applied to the same paragraphs and texts as the InDesign file from which the idml was exported.

    2. Actual result
      Conditional text settings are applied to unexpected paragraphs and texts! Seems like this only happens when one or more of the condition is displayed and does not happens when all the conditions are hidden...

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  7. Objects drawn with Pen tool (including paths for text) disappear when placed over Photoshop file—text wrap is NOT the issue.

    As a children's book designer, I often type on paths, and almost always place text over images. Everything was fine until InDesign's February 2023 update. Now, anything I draw with a pen tool on my text layer—shapes, or paths for type—are invisible, unless I turn off the image layer below it. Note that text wrap for the image is turned off. Text wrap is not the issue!

    Attached are side-by-side screenshots showing my attempts to type on a path. The text disappears when the image layer is turned on. As an experiment, I also drew a random shape with the…

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  8. Style packs is missing

    I am having trouble finding the style packs in Adobe InDesign 18.1. Can you provide assistance?

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  9. EPUB – Endnote backlink issues for INDB files

    When exporting EPUB 3.0 (and 2.01) from an InDesign(2022, version 17.4) book file, endnotes only link in the first chapter where they are found. Subsequent chapters reveal <a> tags with empty href attributes.
    Backlinks are required by virtually all ebook publishers. For academic books, endnotes are essential and the request for EPUB formats is only increasing.

    So far Adobe Car's response: "Currently, we do not have a workaround for this issue other than creating a single document instead of book or manually modifying backlink in the exported EPUB file." This isn't acceptable or even always possible.

    5 votes

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  10. Font menu doesn't jump to the selected font in the list when font menu preview is enabled

    Pre-Indesign 18.0 when accessing the font menu it jumps to the position in the list of the current font.

    The same action in indesign 18.0 - the current font is selected in the Recent Fonts section as the top of the list. This is quite annoying.

    If Front Preview is disabled in preferences, the pre-18.0 behaviour is the result, but of course there is then no preview.

    EDIT: I set Type preferences - Number of recent font to display = 0 which has resolved my issue.

    2 votes

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  11. split layout view, copy, paste, undo, paste without formatting, crash

    Reproducable crash in InDesign when working in split layout view.

    1) move to split layout view
    2) copy text from right window
    3) Ctrl V in left window
    4) Ctrl Z to undo
    5) Ctrl-Shift V to paste without formatting
    6) crash (the expected result here obviously being InDesign not crashing but pasting the text without formatting).

    Filed multiple reports from these crashes.

    Currently working on PC with Win10 and InDesign 18.2 x64, but this has happened on both Mac and PCs, with 2 different employers as well as privately (and thus 3 different server/hard drive configurations), clean installs as…

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  12. Unable to resize textbox from bottom

    The Open Type option prevents us to resize the box from the bottom, which is annoying. Please move it slightly off-center. Thank you.

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  13. Bottom toolbar/scroll bar dissapears when in fullscreen mode

    At first i thought it was my monitors, but it also does it when I have InDesign open on my laptop. I'm running the latest Microsoft update, and when I select Fullscreen on the InDesign window, the bottom bar disappears, so I'm unable to use the bottom scrollbar. It only re-appears when i minimize the window

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  14. Ventura Indesign file not found

    I have a number of files when I double click them to open, I get an error saying "<file name> not found. If I make a copy of the file, I can then open it. I don't know it that's an InDesign issue or a Ventura issue.

    Running an Apple M1 Max, with Ventura 13.2.1, and Indesign 18.1

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  15. PDF Export sous Indesign 2023

    avec la nouvelle version 2023, impossible de faire des PDF ou TRES TRES LONG à faire même des Basses définitions.
    les tâches en arrière plan (copie d'écran jointe) mouline pendant des minutes et des minutes, les polices et le fichier restent "en file d'attente".
    Je vais tenté de réouvrir mon fichier sur la version 2022.

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  16. InDesign 18.0 (2023): still having issue where certain weights of fonts won't load/work (other weights/styles in the family do work).

    The only way I've been able to solve this is to revert to version 17.1 (had same issue with 17.2).

    4 votes

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  17. paragraph style options "Bullet or Number position"

    Hello,
    I am contacting you regarding a problem with the new version of InDesigns’ (version 18.0).
    The problem is that using the "Bullet or Number position" in “Paragraph style options” to change the size of a column in a table, results in the text disappearing.

    Please check out the PDF and the video (in comment) below for further explanations.

    Looking forward to your comments/feedback.

    Best,
    Alexia

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  18. Une integration du PDF comme pour Adobe Illustrator

    Je me demande pourquoi la lecture PDF peut être faite à partir d'un fichier AI, alors que ce n'est pas le cas sur indesign. ce serait pratique pour le travail à distance. il faut que le fichier PDF soit à jour, alors que le fichier indesign a pu évoluer.

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  20. Indesign quits after mac goes to sleep

    Have to open In-Design (18.1) again (not sure if it's an actual crash) after the Mac (mini - Ventura (13.2.1) goes to sleep after an hour. Other Adobe programs don't do this.

    Upon opening InDesign, it won't automatically open the Properties and Tool floating pallets even though it is marked to open under the Window drop down menu and that I've set it up that way before opening or creating a new file. The other floating pallets selected will show.

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