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  1. Alignment of text box ignores anchored objects

    When I have an anchored object (lets say an image) hanging at the bottom of the text box, aligning the text to the bottom of the text box will align the text only, and cuts off the image at the bottom.
    I imagine this also happens to images at the top of the text box, when aligning to the top.
    I think that by design, anchired objects should be calculated as part of the text box's content, and should be aligned to the bottom, as text would.
    If not, it should at least be an option to choose from.

    Thank…

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  2. Table of Contents Entry Character Styles

    Table of contents entries (subheading styles in chapters) has a character style applied to it. When I generate TOC, the character styles and anchor markers if any also shows up in generated Table Of Contents. There should be an option to bypass the anchor markers and Character styles. Instead there should be an option given to add a new char style to the TOC entries, like there is for page no and between entry and page no.
    In attached file the underline is getting generated everytime I update the TOC. I have to manually remove the underline. Neither GREP style…

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  3. epub and mp3

    To adobe,
    I am an InDesign user, to create the e-book for the publish.

    Today, I face a serious problem and hope to find out a solution.

    It is the problem, I insert mp3, each page around 4, the similar page around 30-40 page.

    The mp3 maybe not the same on each page, it’s may different, test in the InDesign app, and all is fine.

    If exported to PDF, also it is fine and could sound normally.

    However, if exported to EPUB, the first 16 of the mp3 file, also means the first 4 pages can work, the rest of…

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  4. 1 vote

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  5. Pages navigation jumping two pages at a time

    I've got a strange bug on a 100 single pages document. Sometimes (twice this week) when I'm using the shortcut Fn-option-up/down arrow to jump to the next page, inDesign will jump 2 pages at a time.

    It will behave like this until I double click on a page in the pages panel.

    Weird and annoying, but not sure I can reproduce.

    2 votes

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  6. New Document dialogue allowing impossible column gutter

    When creating a new document in the New Document dialogue, InDesign (17.4) is allowing a impossible column gutters (Page Size: 8.5"x11", Columns: 1, Column Gutter: 12"). The Margins and Columns dialogue will prevent this from happening, the New Document dialogue will not. This causes issues when attempting to change files later using the Document Setup dialogue, even after the Column Gutter is adjusted in the Margins and Columns dialogue.

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  8. buggy footnote placement

    Footnotes are randomly placed in the middle of the text stream, rather than the bottom of the page. I've seen it happen a couple times, but I don't know why it happens. Other footnotes are placed in the correct position.

    In Document Footnote Options, Place end of Story Footnotes at Bottom of Text is UNchecked. However, I get the same result if it IS checked.

    The worst part is that there is NO way to correct this!

    I tried to upload the INDD files, and a PNG screen shot, but in both cases, it produced an error, "Files are not…

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  10. CC Library Issues

    2 CC Libraries bugs since the new update:
    - "Search current library" not working, you aren't able to type anything in
    - When opening the CC libraries window, if you have multiple monitors the window will appear blank, but the thumbnails of all your items in the library will be on the other monitor. Adobe Illustrator does the same. The only fix I've found so far is snapping the window to the other monitor.

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  11. Dots below Arabic yeh out of alignment in text variable

    1. InDesign version is 17.4, Font is Myriad Arabic. MacOS 12.4.

    2. a. Set up a text variable to pick up a head from a page and insert it into a running head.
      b. Add a running head to a page that includes the text variable.
      c. Key Arabic text on a page including a yeh character

    3. See attached image "Yeh as text - Correct alignment.jpg." Note that two dots are centered below the base of the yeh glyph.

    4. See attached image "Yeh as variable text - Incorrect alignment.jpg." Note that the two dots below the base of the yeh glyph are…

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  12. Cell object is null!

    I get the third merged cell as null. Why is that?

    Please to get the error First create new document and table 3 by 3 and merge and select cells like screenshot. Execute the script.

    var sel = app.selection[0];
    var queuedCells = getQueuedCells ([sel]);
    function getQueuedCells (deepCells) {
    var queuedCells = new Array;
    if (deepCells.length > 0) {
    targetIndex = null;
    targetIndex = deepCells[0].parentRow.index;
    for (var dcs = 0; dcs < deepCells.length; dcs++) {
    for (var dcc = 0; dcc < deepCells[dcs].cells.length; dcc++) {
    alert ("(deepCells[" + dcs + "].cells[" + dcc + "] != null) " + (deepCells[dcs].cells[dcc] !=…

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  13. インデザインの画面上に常に存在する黒ベタのバー

    画像のように作業中常に黒ベタのバーのようなものがずっとあります。
    スクロールしても一定の位置にずっとありパフォーマンスが落ちて困っています。(起動時によって下半分の画面の左右中央らへんにいつも出てきます。)
    再起動してもあります。
    これを見えなくする方法はありますか?
    よろしくお願いします。

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  14. Rulers exceeding text boundaries, only paragraph shading or offsets seem to be able to limit them

    The issue is described in this thread (sample .INDD file link included in the thread to reproduce the issue):

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/can-all-column-rules-height-be-re-adjusted-at-once-after-changing-the-copy-text-font-size/m-p/13139262#M488618

    The excess rulers that go beyond the text boundary can only be removed (or masked, not sure which is actually happening) with paragraph shading.

    As a rule, rulers should not go beyond the text boundary, and they should adapt to the text boundary (if font size have been changed, or if other changes have been made that affect the layout).

    But the green arrows show that in some cases the boundary is correct.

    It shouldn't be necessary to add both…

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  15. Rulers exceeding text boundaries, only paragraph shading or offsets seem to be able to limit them

    The issue is described in this thread (sample .INDD file link included in the thread to reproduce the issue):

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/can-all-column-rules-height-be-re-adjusted-at-once-after-changing-the-copy-text-font-size/m-p/13139262#M488618

    The excess rulers that go beyond the text boundary can only be removed (or masked, not sure which is actually happening) with paragraph shading.

    As a rule, rulers should not go beyond the text boundary, and they should adapt to the text boundary (if font size have been changed, or if other changes have been made that affect the layout).

    But the green arrows show that in some cases the boundary is correct.

    It shouldn't be necessary to add both…

    1 vote

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  16. 17.4 x64 Popup Survey Spam

    17.4 x64 When using InDesign, popup: "thnk u 4 using share 4 review; take a survey." Not sharing, advised by Manan Joshi: is bug, file bug accordingly, Now More surveys. Please stop.

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  17. Table border selector problem

    Table border selector lines are extremely thin at minimal UI scaling, hard to select and see. In previous Indesign versions versions it was much thicker. Screenshot attached.

    MacOS 12.5..1, iMac 27" 5K, InDesign 17.4.0.51

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  18. Bug: Conditional text not shown as underlined when text is marked otherwise

    Version: Indesign 17.x on Windows 10
    Problem: Sometimes text is being marked in bright yellow by Indesign. This is something related to character spacing and hyphenation and set. If that text is also set to be conditional, the underlines are not shown. In the attached picture you see it. This is a continuous conditional text.

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  19. Workspace not being saved

    In 17.4, the workspace is not being saved. You have to go to Windows and pick a workspace in order to do anything. What comes up is nothing, no menu bars at all.

    3 votes

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  20. 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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