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  1. InDeisng 2025 windo resizing while working on project

    While working on a project the application window resizes itself automatically multiple times. Using a Macbook Pro M1.

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  2. Strange that there is no option to align to bleed(cut-offs) in the alignment panel?

    Strange that there is no option to align to bleed(cut-offs) in the alignment panel?

    Is it that the officials don't think it's useful?
    I personally need it. What about you guys?

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  3. Pages panel: buttons are hidden behind page number text when window is thin

    When the pages panel is as thin as possible, the buttons such as delete page are behind the text that says the number of pages. It is therefore not possible to click on the buttons. I always use this panel in a thin band, and it is now less practical.

    Version: InDesign 20.0.0

    3 votes

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  4. Why were the "cancel" and "don't save" buttons swapped for Adobe '25 products?

    Why were the "cancel" and "don't save" buttons swapped for Adobe '25 products? Why was this switch made? Makes no sense. I am having to unlearn 25+ years of muscle behavior. Why!

    9 votes

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  5. Guides aligned with cursor and not object

    Just updated to InDesign 2025 (v 20.0) and had to switch back to the previous version due to the smart guides functioning strangely. The guides should show up in the center or edge of the object so that I can align it properly on the page and in relation to other objects. Instead, it's producing the guidelines from wherever my cursor is when I click and drag the object. This has made it much more difficult to do simple things like center objects, since it's just centering my cursor instead. I've never had any desire to align things based on…

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  6. App window resizes after presentation mode

    InDesign 2025 (v 20.0) on Mac OS 14.6.1

    When opening presentation mode (Shift + W or View > Screen Mode > Presentation …) and going back to default/preview mode the application window resizes.
    When having the app window to its full size after presentation mode it changes back to its smaller size that you can toggle by using the green plus icon on the top left (Mac Version).

    When setting both window states manually to full size and toggling between the two (without effective size change) once it works afterwards the window stays in the same size when escaping presentation…

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  7. UI Interface Overlapping

    Adobe Indesign 20.0

    Reproduction: Opening InDesign or working on a file with extensive links

    Expected Result: UI elements act as intended and do not overlap other portions of the interface, does not interfere with workflow

    Actual Result: Portions of the UI are unusable due to overlapping and cannot see the last few links in the Links panel

    First noticed this error on 10/16/2024 after updating InDesign the day prior

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  8. Overlapping icons and labels at bottom on Pages window

    Icons and Labels are overlapping each other on the pages window. I attached a screenshot. BTW, my InDesign version is 20.0

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  9. Alternate glyphs change order unpredicatably

    If I show some alternate glyphs (whether in the tiny popup - can we resize this? - or in the Glyphs panel), when I select one, the order of the other glyphs changes. This is really annoying - can they PLEASE stay in the same order, so I can easily switch between them. The current (wrong) system goes like this:
    Type a word
    Highlight a character
    The miniscule glyphs pop-up pops up
    I choose the second (miniscule) glyph in the pop-up
    I don't really like it
    I choose the third glyph in the pop-up
    Hold on - isn't that the…

    1 vote

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  10. InCopy: Paragraph Panel Bugs When Placed in Top Menu Area

    I’ve noticed an issue with the Paragraph panel when it's placed in the top menu area of InCopy. The Space After option disappears and only becomes visible when the panel is pulled out or moved to the right-side menu.

    Additionally, the Drop Cap feature behaves oddly in the top menu. It restricts the character selection to a range of 6-150. However, once the panel is pulled out, I can select 1 character as expected.

    Please ensure the Paragraph panel functions consistently in all locations, similar to how it works in InDesign, where I haven’t encountered these issues.

    Also, I couldn’t…

    1 vote

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  11. Panel UI out of place, some options missing

    Some panels UI out of place, some options missing or hidden. This started happening after latest update.

    Indesign version 19.5, MacOS version 14.6.1 (23G93)
    Restarting application and/or computer not helping.

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  12. Blue banner

    Blue "Save and Revert to your custom workspace..." blocks bottom of screen and I can't find a way to get rid of it.

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  13. Control Bar not usable in an undocked window when using Application Frame

    Most of us here are professionals. Professionals use multi-monitor setups. Some (myself included) may even use the Application Frame feature anyway.

    When I do, and have multiple documents open, I happen to need to undock one of the documents that is open in Tabs and move it to my second monitor so that I can view them both at the same time.

    So I have one document open in the application frame, and on the second monitor I have a floating window of another document.

    If I now have the floating window active and I want to resize an object…

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  14. responsive

    InDesign is not responsive, when I open it on my Macbook pro, it gets "stuck" and does not adapt to the screen size. Plus when I click on the full screen enlargement icon it doesn't work.

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  15. Paragraph and Table palette contents empty/gone

    1. Version of Adobe InDesign, InCopy or InDesign Server
      InDesign 19.0.1

    2. Steps to reproduce the issues
      Open the Paragraph Palette

    3. Expected result
      There is content there, text, fields for adjusting spacing, etc.

    4. Actual result
      There is no content, no fields to enter or adjust spacing measurements

    5. Test file, screenshot, video or GIF capturing the issue (optional)

    p.s. this is fixable by deleting preferences, but I don't want to lose all my preferences. Is there a way to save preferences before deleting them and restore without reintroducing the problem? I will find out.

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  16. Scaling problem multiple monitors

    InDesign Version: 19.4
    Open InDesign on an external monitor (on Mac OS–Sonoma)

    Problem:
    InDesign is in many cases unusable for me, because the window sometimes just scales itself down to a very tiny size without any reason.
    Sometimes it happens when I try to zoom in in a document and in many other situations too.

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  17. 'Text style' (Character/Paragraph) Drop Down Visual Bug

    Adobe InDesign 19.4, Apple M3 Max, Sonoma 14.4 and 14.5 (at least).

    'Text Style' drop downs for character and paragraph show persistent white box, without any of the styles showing. White box blocks UI actions below.

    Occurs randomly, resolves randomly. Restart not guaranteed to fix the issue.

    Expected result: The drop down displays the relevant text styles...
    Actual result: Empty white box...

    1 vote

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  18. Two Monitors - UI Window Always Loads Off Screen - Can't Resize Mac OS 14.5

    This has been a bug for at least 5 years with InDesign (see link at the bottom of the post).

    When a Mac user has two monitors, if the primary monitor is situated "lower" than the secondary monitor in a side-by-side configuration in the Display "Arrange" setting (see screenshot, main display is laptop, on right), then the windows will always load slightly off screen, locking the user out of moving them or rearranging them.

    There is a temporary fix to put the main monitor "higher" than the secondary monitor in the horizontal arrangement.

    However, this is an unacceptable long term…

    9 votes

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  19. UI settings greyed out

    No one EVER solves this. Those of us who work on TV monitors (for the large size) can never get the panels text (among other things) to scale up so they are legible. This causes great eyestrain and is just terrible, over all. Usually, it is suggested that I change my resolution, but I can't do that, because it would ***** up everything else on my computer, including ID. This problem has been around for about 20 years, and the folks at InDesign don't care. They have never fixed it.

    2 votes

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  20. InDesign resets window position set by Magnet utility on macOS

    In the current v19.4 (2024), when I use the common utility Magnet to resize the InDesign window (i.e. the Application Frame) to full screen, InDesign itself will reset the window position as soon as I ⌘-tab out of InDesign and return to it. No other app on my Mac does this, and it's very frustrating. Manual window size changes are honoured.

    There are other inconcistencies about InDesign's window positioning on macOS too — if it opens on my laptop screen, the application bar (above the control panel) appears under the menu bar and is almost invisible.

    Please fix.

    3 votes

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