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  1. Add pins from Indesign to be shared for review

    While editing a file in InDesign, I have many ideas or questions to submit to the reviewers audience.
    However, I need to wait for all my edition work to be completed and shared for review online before being able to add pins and other comments. This is cognitively quite expensive, and it's not efficient overall.
    I wish I could add pins and comments right from InDesign (= new items in the Verify panel), to be published with the next "Share for Review" push.
    That way, I would comment at the exact time a question pops up in my mind, without…

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  2. 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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  3. Hyphenation settings see note references as a character

    Hypenation settings consider a note reference as a character, so if you have a footnote callout at the end of a word and hyphenation settings are set to "before last 3" it will make 2-letter hyphenation.

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  4. Bugs in Your Thesis? Here’s How to Avoid Costly Mistakes Before Binding!

    Working on your thesis and battling pesky bugs, whether they’re formatting errors, citation glitches, or last-minute typos? We’ve all been there! These small mistakes can become big headaches, especially when you’re ready for Thesis Binding. A single overlooked error can ruin a professionally bound copy, wasting time and money.

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  5. Bug: Indesign completely hangs when it cannot save file to network drive

    Windows 11, Indesign 20.2
    Problem summary: when saving a file to a network to which the connection is lost during that save action, ID completely hangs and might also block the entire system.
    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Open any bigger INDD from a network drive, so the saving action takes some seconds.
    2. Change something and click save, then simulate a broken network connection by pulling the LAN cable
    Reaction: there might or might not be that "Save document" overlay with progress bar being at 0%. At this point, ID has two problems:
    a) There is no timeout. It would…

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  6. Restore Command + Resize and Command + Space Zoom Behavior in InDesign

    In recent versions of InDesign, two essential shortcuts have been broken or changed:

    Command + Drag on a frame no longer resizes the content inside the frame as it used to — or it behaves inconsistently.
    Command + Space no longer reliably brings up the zoom tool that allows click-dragging to zoom into a selected area.
    These shortcuts were core to efficient, professional workflows for years. Removing or altering them without an option to restore the original behavior is disruptive. Designers rely on muscle memory and speed — this feels like a step backward.

    Please restore the legacy behaviors or…

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  7. Subject: Why Did You Break the Zoom Tool in InDesign?

    Subject: Why Did You Break the Zoom Tool in InDesign?

    Dear Adobe Team,

    Can someone please explain why the Command + Space + drag-to-zoom behavior in InDesign was altered? This used to be a seamless, intuitive part of the workflow — one of those tiny things that made a big difference for power users.

    Now, depending on the version or OS, it either doesn’t work, lags, or flat-out refuses to cooperate unless I perform keyboard yoga. This is not an improvement. This is disruption disguised as innovation.

    I’m not asking for a new feature. I’m asking you to restore a…

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  8. Interaction between Text Wrap, Optical Margin Alignment and Numbered List

    When a text frame with activated Optical Margin Alignment containing numbered list wraps around another text frame the numbering is incorrectly aligned. The affected numbers noticeably stick outside of the text frame and thus create unpleasant left margin. Only numbering on wrapped lines is affected, numbering below the wrap behaves as expected.

    Similarly, if the text frame is modified so as its border lays entirely outside of the area affected by wrapping offset, the optical alignment of the numbering behaves as expected. This at least provides some workaround.

    I am attaching a screenshot of the behaviour as well as a…

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  9. Deleting an odd number of pages causes the text frame derived from the primary text frame to double

    1. specify a primary text frame for both the left and right pages on the parent page. (figure1)
    2. Delete an odd number of pages. At this time, the parent page is reapplied.
    3. The text frame will be doubled. (figure2)

    Deleting (or adding) an even number of pages will not result in this behavior.
    Deletion/addition of an odd number of pages should not cause doubling.
    Specifically, we would like the text chain of the text frame for which the primary text frame is specified to be retained. (figure3)

    Reference:
    I believe the primary text chain is a feature that was added with…

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  10. "Feedback Menu" is Blocking

    The Feedback Menu appears to be programmed to be thread blocking - while it is active, users are unable to drag and drop images into their canvas. On closing the feedback menu "how likely are you to recommend indesign...", the images that the user has attempted to drag and drop into the canvas are populated. This can be confusing if the feedback menu is minimized or not apparently open to the user.

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  12. 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 “-”,…

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  14. Title Case Is Not Actually Title Case

    I'm editing book with over 1,000 pages. I am selecting copy, changing case to Title Case, but it just capitalizes first letter in all words. There needs to be another case option. Title case needs to be setup so it makes a "title" of a book so words like "of" are not capitalized. New option can be called First Letter Caps, and Title case can be fixed to address words that should not be capitalized in a title of a book or headline.

    The Old Man and the Sea (Actual Title Case) The Old Man And The Sea(Not Title Case)

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  15. page layout panel not scolling

    Pages Panel does not scroll to all pages in document, whether in horizontal or layout view. If panel is enlarged and the pages all fit, you can see them. If you shrink the pages to a smaller size (from jumbo to extra large) and they fit in the view panel, you can see them. But if it is a large document (more than 25 or so pages) you cannot scroll far enough to view pages past about 25 in extra large view.
    Fully updated version InDesign 20.3.1. on Mac.
    Every file I open is like this. Most files were created…

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  16. text won't appear over a pdf or imported image

    when i import an image or a pdf, any text that i try to have over it (such as putting a page number in the corner of the page) disappears. it's not that the text doesn't appear when the imported file isn't there, just that it is disappearing as it goes "beneath" the image or pdf. sending the imported file to back or the text to front does nothing.

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  17. transparency .ai

    I work with the latest illustrator (29.5. 1) and InDesign (20.3. 1). Since the last updates an .ai imported in InDesign is no longer transparent. If I save it as .eps in Ai, then yes. Please solve otherwise I would have to convert all my previously made .ai files.

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  18. image box not working

    When drawing image frame, the option to link an image no longer appears. Can only insert images in the document by using Place option from menu drop down. There should be a button that shows when I draw an image box that gives me option to link in a image from files- a new image or relink an image. Neither of these is available.
    Version Adobe InDesign 19.5.1x64

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  19. Footnotes display spanning columns correctly, don't print across both columns

    First time I've had to use the footnote options in InDesign. I have several pages with footnotes which occur at the bottom of each page in each associated text block. Span across columns is checked in both the Footnote Style I created, as well as in the Layout options. The footnotes display correctly on screen as intended. (See second screenshot)

    When I print spreads from InDesign to an Epson P5000, the footnotes only print the text that is under the lefthand column. All of the footnote text on the right disappears. (See first screenshot)

    Exporting the pages to a PDF…

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  20. Changing Description in Buttons Does Not Stick

    A description is needed in buttons for accessibility. This works fine if you add the description when you first create the button but if you try to edit the description it does not not stick. The only workaround is to recreate the button from scratch.

    MacStudio 2022, Sequoia 15.5, InDesign 20.3.1.

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