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  1. Important message about pasting text with endnotes appears at wrong time

    Pasting text with endnote(s) does not show a message. You instead get that message the NEXT time you paste an object, even if that object is not a text box containing endnote(s).

    There is also a grammar error in the message, where the word "and" should be ", which" — and there is no period at the end of the sentence.

    This has been in many versions of InDesign. I am using 17.1 now.

    Reproduce:
    - Copy text with endnote(s) to the clipboard
    - Paste text into a new thread
    - Text pastes properly; a new page is added for…

    1 vote

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  2. installed font missing InDesign 17.2 macOS 12.3 (Monterey) and macOS Catalina

    Different clients have the same problem. Installed fonts on the system are not recognised by InDesign 17.2. Other Adobe applications recognise the font and it can be used in those applications. I can recreate the problem, my colleague not. After downgrading InDesign to version 17.01 everything works fine.

    135 votes

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    We've just released InDesign 17.2.1 version which addresses this issue.

    Please update to this latest version using Creative Cloud Desktop application.


    In case the fix does not work immediately for you, please try the following:

    1) Quit InDesign.

    2) Delete the following:

    on Mac:

    /Users/[yourname]/Library/Caches/Adobe InDesign

    /Users/[yourname]/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign


    on Win:

    C:\Users\[yourname]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign

    C:\Users\[yourname]\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign



    Relaunch InDesign & see if it works properly now.


    --

    InDesign team

  3. Column Rules will NOT overprint when option [x] Overprint is checked and color is NOT [Black]

    Use a swatch like CMYK 0,0,0,100 or CMYK 0,0,0,90 or CMYK 100,0,0,0 for a column rule and turn on overprint.

    Overprint attribute will not applied to the column rules.

    Tested with InDesign 17.1.0.50 on Windows 10.

    For more details see into this discussion at the InDesign User Forum:

    column line do not overprint
    davidl72327298, 28.03.2022
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/column-line-do-not-overprint/td-p/12843115

    Download a sample document from my Dropbox account:
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/ug0y2uvhetdlwdh/ColumnRules-DOES-NOT-Overprint.indd?dl=1

    Below the links to two screenshots.
    One is showing Separation Preview with all inks, the other one Separation Preview without Cyan; and this one is showing that CMYK 100,0,0,0 does NOT overprint the yellow background.

    3 votes

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  4. Object Style not recording Shear parameter

    Object Style not recording Shear parameter

    when creating an Object Style from a sheared text box, this shear is not applied when the Object Style is applied to a new textbox.

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  5. high CPU usage version 17.2

    as referred in these posts there is a performance problem with indesign that coming from version 17.0 and still exist(version 17.2):

    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/44374644-high-cpu-usage-2022-17-0-x64

    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/44775886-high-cpu-use-with-version-17-1

    No answer from Adobe , No fix , nothing unfortunately. It uses about 20 % of CPU when you open Indesign , it does not matter there is a document that is opened or not , it uses 20% of CPU all the time. non of other Adobe's 2022 apps have this weird problem.

    6 votes

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  6. resize document view

    I am using Indesign 17.2. When I try to resize the art board by clicking on the bottom right corner, the whole thing automatically becomes larger than my screen so that I have no way to adjust it from there.

    The uploaded image shows the bottom of my screen without any way to access the bottom of the document.

    3 votes

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  7. InDesign 17.2 Gradient Feather and other effects DO NOT WORK

    Gradient Feather and other effects DO NOT WORK in InDesign 17.2
    macOS Big Sur 11.6.5 on iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017).

    2 votes

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  8. picture skin tones colour change to red when I import JPEGs

    Since I updated to ID 17.1, some colours in pictures – especially skin tones of blonde people – turn reddish, when I import them as JPEGs. Please find below an example of the same picture, saved as JPEG and as TIF (in PSD the colours are identical).

    1 vote

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  9. Place multi-page PDF pages: Place Gun will be unloaded after first page is placed to a frame

    New bug with InDesign 17.2 that I cannot see with InDesign 17.1.

    [1] Load multiple PDF pages from a multi-page PDF to the place gun.
    [2] Hover the loaded cursor over a graphic frame to place the first page in that frame
    [3] Click to place the first page.

    Result:
    The first page is placed to the frame

    BUG: The rest of the loaded PDF pages in the place gun are unloaded. The place gun is empty after you placed the first of several pages to a frame.

    WHAT WORKS:
    [1] Load multiple PDF pages from a multi-page PDF to…

    83 votes

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  10. wrap shape

    Every time I use "wrap around object shape" -- and it's a box or shape I've created within InDesign -- it crashed InDesign. Thankfully, it recovers well. If it's on an imported shape or something I actually draw with the pen too, it works as it should. But the crashing when it's a rounded rectangle is frustrating. I have to remember NOT to use it or do the keep aways differently.

    1 vote

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  11. UI scaling window problems

    There are numerous problems with the new UI Scaling Feature when it is set to any size other than the smallest. I've attached several screenshots and a screen recording.

    Screenshot 1: New document window. Toolbars slightly overlap the buttons and the ruler.
    Screenshot 2: On the right edge of the main window, there is a gap between it and the panels.
    Screenshot 3: Bottom of the main window has a white bar along the bottom.
    Screen recording: Panels that all collapsed down to an Icon or Icon/Name only don't pop up in the right position when you click on them.

    5 votes

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  12. Crash: Dynamic spelling with special word

    There is a crazy bug: when the dynamic spellcheck is active (German, Duden) and you are typing in a text frame hintereinanderherschlichen (it’s a German word) indesign crashed immediately.

    We don’t know why, but then, after the crash, and when the dynamic spell check is still active, InDesign crashes again when it tries to recover the document.

    Systems: Apple OS Montery, InDesign 2022 German

    1 vote

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  13. New Animate palette bug

    In InDesign 17.1.0.50 OSX, the Animate palette is smaller than its tools !
    In my screen capture, you can see 3 right points (transformation center points) that are so on the left that I cannot click on them.
    Even if I enlarge the palette, the 3 right points are still unusable, and it is the same when I I save the workspace and restart InDesign

    Thank you for reading

    1 vote

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  14. My InDesign crashes when I use the quick apply shortcut (command enter).

    I use InDesign 17.1 2022 on M1 MacBook with macOS Monterey (all updated).

    Any document I'm working with, when I hit cmd+enter for quick apply, InDesign crashes. I've been sending crash reports but haven't got any feedback yet.
    it doesn't happen all the time but almost daily it crashes a few times like this.

    1 vote

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  15. find/change

    My Find/Change box is not working. Need help with this. It's worked previously.

    4 votes

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  16. object size and position options doesn't work as expected for grouped objects

    Currently if you use the size and position options in the object styles panel, it applies the x,y position to all objects individually in a group rather than to the group itself.

    Anchored objects currently handle grouped objects in the correct way. This feels like a bug/oversight.

    Would expect a group of objects to behave as 1 rather than being each item being treated individually within a group

    Images attached of a group of objects before and after having a position applied via the size position object style option

    2 votes

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  17. Save as is greyed out, cannot save to computer

    When app is opened, document can be saved to the computer just once, after that 'save as' is greyed out.
    Using Indesign22 with Monterey. Am having the same issues with Illustrator 22 and Photoshop 22.

    Tried these already -

    1. Reset preferences.
    2. Removed Suitcase fusion and font doctor.
    3. Performed font cache and restarted computer.
    4. Validated fonts in font book.
    5. Installed 25.4.1 version of A but same issue. (Illustrator)
    6. Current Ai version is 26.1. (Illustrator)
    7. Issue is with creating new files. But same happens with old files.
    1 vote

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  18. Swipe gesture not working in Android Chrome.

    Swipe gesture not working in Android Chrome.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/us/indesign/using/publish-online.html
    Among the contents of the above page, "Smoother page transitions with swipe gesture improvements" is specified.

    However, the swipe gesture function works normally in IOS-based browsers, but does not work in Android-based browsers (Chrome).

    Very inconvenient for Android based customers/clients.

    To go to the next page, touch the bottom of the screen to bring up the navigation menu/button that disappears every time, and then press the "next page button". The customer/client should repeat this behavior on every page.

    This is a very serious bug and must be fixed asap.

    I've tested it…

    1 vote

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  19. qr code card

    made a card QR code. I can used every single field and it works fine until I add the address. It stops working. I am very concerned because I am working on this for a client.

    1 vote

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  20. color swatch

    1. Adobe Indesign 2022
    2. Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts>Panel Menus>Color: Add to Swatches>Assign a hotkey. Select a color and use the hotkey to assign a color in the InDesign document, and it will 100% of the time crash the program.
    3. Expected result is to have the selected color swatch created in your swatch library.
    4. InDesign will crash/close.
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