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  1. Share for Review strikethrough & replace text from online edits aren't visible in InDesign or online viewer

    Strikethrough & replace text from online comments aren't visible in InDesign or online. the comments are visible although the visual mark up on the page is missing. Ive tested mutliple browsers and all the same.

    Highlighting and draw tool are working correctly.

    Indesign version 19.5. Chrome and Edge browsers.

    This was working as of a couple weeks ago, now is not.

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  2. Character style based running header text variable does not pick up character styles applied by nested line styles

    As with Grep styles the text variable character style is not found when it is created using Nested Line Styles. This means I have to use normal nested styles and add end nested style markers into the text. Not ideal or as fully automatic as I would like.

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  3. 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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  4. Adding a word starting with the Danish letter æ makes InDesign crash

    Add a word starting with the Danish letter æ to an index invariably crashes InDesign, both the small æ and the capital Æ, no matter which method we use. Words where this letter is not placed at the beginning, like “bæverfælde", are no problem, nor are the two other Danish characters ø and å.
    We also tried to add the words from a list, using a script which places index markers on every instance in the document; this did not make InDesign crash, but no entries were added either :-(
    Perhaps connected to the fact that it is no longer…

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  5. missing print presets after upgrading to v 19.5

    I am running InDesign on Windows. All of my print presets have disappeared. Is there a way to restore them? If I can't, how can I prevent this from happening again? I have been working on InDesign for 6 years, and this is the first time it's happened to me.

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  6. If a user selects 'allow viewers to Search and Copy text in the published document' when publishing online, all the hyperlinks stop working

    When publishing online, if a user checks the box, 'allow viewers to Search and Copy text in the published document', all the hyperlinks stop working properly. If you're lucky, a link may work the first time you click it, but then it won't work if you click it again (Latest version of INDD on a Mac).

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  7. Small arrows to adjust the coordinates

    I love the new "Properties" window that adjusts automatically. But I really miss the little arrows next to the x/y coordinates and width/height to be able to adjust the values. Please add them back! :-)

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  8. Lost scaling info when copy-paste

    When I select many objects and texts in Indesing and want to copy-paste it in another document, all objects lost their scale and position info and paste in total mess.

    those ale: simple objects from Illustrator, tables, texts, frames with photos.

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  9. The new Text Wrap is missing all the adjustment options

    There are no adjustment options available in the 2024 version of Indesign. There are only preset options that can't be adjusted up or down in size or amount of wrapping.

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  10. Scripting Windows: Add page item after add swatch will delete added swatch

    In ExtendScript on Windows only, adding any InDesign page item after adding a color will delete the color:

    var doc = app.documents.add();
    // adds black CMYK color
    sw = doc.colors.add();
    // this line will delete the color that was just added on Windows only
    var rect = doc.rectangles.add();
    alert(sw.isValid);

    This actually manifested for me as a crash bug. This script crashes InDesign 2024 Windows:

    var doc = app.documents.add();
    var sw = doc.colors.add();
    doc.rectangles.add({fillColor: sw});
    

    This crashes because the last line deletes the swatch when it adds the rectangle, then tries to use the swatch.

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  11. Library thumbnail not showing

    When modifying or creating an object in library, the existing or new thumbnail is not showing. Instead, it is showing only the CC icon.

    I am using 19.5 x64 on Windows 10 Enterprise OS.

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  12. align panel

    My Align panel is just blank. Some of the Align options are showing up in my top dock area, but I need the Distribute options and those are nowhere to be found. All of my software is up to date (I'm on an iMac), I've tried restarting... still nothing. This was working find just last week and a couple days ago I noticed the panel was blank.

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  13. button value

    Broken in 18.3 and 19.5: Non-ASCII text in the "Button Value" field in the "Buttons and Forms" panel fails to export to interactive PDF.

    To reproduce this issue:
    1) Create a radio button
    2) Add non-ASCII text to the "Button Value" field
    3) Export to Interactive PDF
    4) Look at the mouseover tooltip and see that the Button Value has lost any glyphs beyond U+00FF.

    I've attached a PDF file demonstrating the issue.

    2 votes

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  14. Modifier l'original

    Je cherche à modifier dans Indesign, l'application qui s'ouvre par défaut lorsque je veux modifier une photo.
    Je veux que Photoshop s’ouvre et non Aperçu quand je clique sur « Modifier l’original »…
    Et éviter de passer par "Modifier avec…" qui est beaucoup trop long pour 500 photos ! Avez-vous une solution ? Merci d'avance.

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  15. InDesign hangs when placing CJK tagged text with ruby

    I'm currently using ID 2024, but I have tested other versions of ID, back to CS6, and they all have the same problem. I'm currently running Windows 11, but the problem also occurs in Windows 10.

    Steps:

    1. Install the Adobe font family, Source Han Sans TW, on your computer.
    2. Download TaggedText.zip and unzip it
    3. Open InDesign in the CJK version
    4. Create a new document with these grid attributes: Direction = Vertical; Font = Source Han Sans TW, Normal; Size = 16 pt; Vertical = Horizontal = 100%; Char Aki = 0 pt; Line Aki = 10 pt; Characters = 40;…
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  16. View position moves to center after exiting presentation mode

    InDesign: 19.5
    Mac Os: 14.5

    In the newest InDesign update, entering and exiting presentation mode changes the previous view position on the page to the center.

    To reproduce: Zoom into any part of spread / page that isn't in the center. Enter presentation mode. Exit presentation mode. The view will now have jumped to the center of the page instead of keeping the previous position in view.

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  17. Align to decimal tab stop behavior changes to left justified if ligatures present

    Indesign 19.5

    Create something like a manual numbered list with the first tab set as a decimal tab stop and any word in the first line that contains a ligature.. It can be as simple as "[tab]2. fi".

    Expected result is the period would align where the decimal tab stop is set. This will happen up until a ligature is introduced.

    Once a ligature is present on the first line, the decimal tab stop behaves like a left-justified tab stop instead.

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  18. GDI Handles

    Indesign 19.5 x64 does not cleanup GDI Handles on Windows 10 build 19045.4529, version 22H2.

    This only occurs when the feature 'Turn on Overprint Preview' is enabled, and you start scrolling. When you disable that feature, you can scroll again without the GDI Handles being hogged by Indesign. The handles rae, after the feature is disabled, not released.

    A 28 page project, and a scroll up and down trough the project, costed me almost 600 GDI handles, and when I'm at 10.000, Windows just stops serving new ones and Indesign will crash.

    Expected outcome: GDI Handles do either not increase…

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  19. 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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  20. Acrobat extension for Chrome renders sheared rectangles incorrectly in PDF exported from InDesign CC 2022 / 24

    Filled sheared rectangles in PDF documents exported from InDesign are rendered incorrectly in the Adobe Acrobat extension for Chrome, but displays as expected in other PDF readers [ Preview, Safari, Quickview, etc. ]. The sheared rectangles are displayed as a box of the fill colour with the outer bounds of the sheared shape. Adding a stroke suggests the sheared rectangle is preserved, but is not honoured by the fill.

    Work around: Adding an additional anchor point, or rounding the corners, appears to correct this issue.

    Apple Macbook Pro [ M1 Pro, 32Gb, macOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79) ]
    Adobe InDesign CC…

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