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  1. Menu not appearing when clicking toolbar hamburger button

    I got the problem that the menu that should appear when you click on an "hamburger" button in the top right corner of a toolbar doesn't appear.
    This happens on a second screen when you got more than one screen/monitor, and the main screen has higher resolution than the second one. It also only happens to toolbars that are positioned near the bottom edge of the second screen and where the menu height is larger than the distance between the "hamburger" button and the bottom edge of the screen.

    2 votes

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  2. Disproportionately large window "Tables of contents"

    Hello
    I encountered a bug in Indesign when opening the application window for creating or modifying tables of contents, indeed it is disproportionately large, it is impossible to reduce it.
    thanks for your help, is this with the new windows update?

    1 vote

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  3. Menu not appearing when clicking toolbar hamburger button

    I got the problem that the menu that should appear when you click on an "hamburger" button in the top right corner of a toolbar doesn't appear.
    This happens on a second screen when you got more than one screen/monitor, and the main screen has higher resolution than the second one. It also only happens to toolbars that are positioned near the bottom edge of the second screen and where the menu height is larger than the distance between the "hamburger" button and the bottom edge of the screen.

    2 votes

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  4. Menu not appearing when clicking toolbar hamburger button

    I got the problem that the menu that should appear when you click on an "hamburger" button in the top right corner of a toolbar doesn't appear.
    This happens on a second screen when you got more than one screen/monitor, and the main screen has higher resolution than the second one. It also only happens to toolbars that are positioned near the bottom edge of the second screen and where the menu height is larger than the distance between the "hamburger" button and the bottom edge of the screen.

    2 votes

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  5. UI Default Too **** Small!

    UI in InDesign 15.0.1 is way too small by default and not scalable. Many users have been complaining about this for years, yet you guys refuse to do anything about it, while charging us up the wazzoo for subscription fees. If this is not addressed soon, we may all abandon you for Canva.

    1 vote

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  6. InDesign 2022 crash when updating modified links in an existing document

    I just updated to InDesgin CC 17.0. I have a MacBook Pro 2020, with OS 10.15.7. Trying to open an InDesign CS 6 file with modified links to other InDesign documents causes the application to hang up and I have to force quit it. It doesn’t matter if I choose update links or don’t update links in the dialog box. In trying to quit and reopen I did manage to recover the document, but I still cannot resolve the modified links problem, since the application hangs up every time I try to update the links in the links pallet. Same…

    1 vote

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  7. InDesign 2022 crash when packaging

    I just updated to InDesgin CC 17.0. I have a MacBook Pro 2020, with OS 10.15.7. Trying to package InDesign document with fonts included causes the application to hang up and I have to force quit it. When I tried to package without fonts included, it worked, and saved the links.

    1 vote

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  8. Pressing letter "2" changes text layout / format, but only in one document

    Pressing letter "2" changes text layout / format, but only in one document

    Hi, I've had this issue with one InDesign file. Whenever I press letter "2", text formatting in that paragraph changes, and the letter "2" won't appear. Copy+paste works, but that should not be the answer. This problem occurs only in this one document (and been here over several version updates), so I assume it might be some sort of quick key setting, and I don't know how or where to fix it (already searched through quick key listing). Please help?

    2 votes

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  9. I need this function.

    성경 책에서, 온전한 텍스트를 가지고 있을 때,

    각 구절의 앞의 절을 표시하는 숫자 부분을

    그렙을 통해서, 위첨자로 바꾸는 작업을 하고 있습니다.

    그런데, 최근 전자책에서,

    TTS 기능에서,

    이 부분을 읽지 않게 해줄 필요가 생겼습니다.

    그래서, 이 부분을 윤곽선 만들기로

    일괄적으로 한꺼번에

    윤곽선 만들기가 되면 좋겠습다.

    현재는 이 기능이 준비가 안 되어 있기 때문에

    하나 하나 선택을 해서,

    윤곽선 만들기를 하고 있는데,

    한꺼번에 선택을 해서,

    한 번의 명령으로

    윤곽선 만들기가

    작업이 되면,

    조금이라도 더 번거로움이 해결되어서,

    일을 효율적으로 할 수 있게 될 것으로

    기대하고 있습니다.

    고맙습니다.

    또 하나의 주 사용 이메일

    zurah@naver.com 입니다.

    1 vote

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  10. version 17.0 while launching shows blank black screen

    Screen gets stuck on black screen and no option comes up.

    InDesign version 16.0 works fine.
    Tried reinstalling the app but shows same issue.

    3 votes

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  11. Images disappear from the screen when effect (FX) is used elsewhere on document

    Photoshop tifs, Illustrator EPS and ai files disappear and are not rendered when an FX is used on a font or Illustrator file. The moment I delete the item with the FX, the images reappear.
    InDesign 2021 - 16.4
    Mac OX 10.14.6

    1 vote

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  12. Just upgraded and the first file I open is duplicating lines and parts dissappear

    Scrolling is impossible - I get duplicated lines and parts of the document page disappears. In order to correct I have to do command "0" and the problem clears, but the second I try to scroll to the next set of pages it does the same thing

    1 vote

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  13. Load DTD throws error in InDesign 2022 (17.0)

    When using the structure menu to load a DTD , the latest version of InDesign sometimes throws an error with a single period as the message. I'm using the same DTD I've used successfully in previous versions of InDesign.

    Error text:
    .
    Line 941, Column: 18

    In the context of this DTD, line 941 column 18 points to the % sign used to refer to an earlier parameter entity. This has never been a problem for InDesign before:

    <!ELEMENT sam (%paragraph_styles; | table | footnote | endnote)+ >

    Even using the same DTD in the same file, this issue doesn't…

    16 votes

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  14. InDesign 2022 - Wrong Icons in Toolbar

    It looks like the icons for selection and direct selection are flip-flipped in the toolbar.

    Selection should be black, and direct select should be white.

    4 votes

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  15. publicrelations@westerncounties.ca

    My Adobe Indesign updated to 2022, but my User Interface font is very small and I can't increase the size. The choice to increase UI size is greyed out (see attached screen shot). Any ideas on the issue?

    1 vote

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  16. Can't open some Indesign files in finder

    Since the latest 2022 update certain Indesign files will not open via finder - either by double clicking the file icon or going command>O. The app doesn't even acknowledge your action, only workaround is by opening via the app which is an absolute pain. Absolutely ridiculous.

    3 votes

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  18. Good morning, I was updated to Indesign 2022 (version 17 X64) and tried to install the Blurb plug in for indesign. This did not work a

    Good morning, I was updated to Indesign 2022 (version 17 X64) and tried to install the Blurb plug in for indesign. This did not work as expected. Indesign does not see the plug in under data. Any solutions?

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  19. When converting type to outlines on a curve, the text breaks.

    Adobe InDesign 17.0

    Restarted, reinstalled, removed preferences. Nothing corrects this error.

    Ideally the type would be as show before the type is converted to outlines. Instead this happens: https://www.screencast.com/t/fQxHtfNE

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  20. Missing Glyphs on PDF export in InDesign v17.0

    using the google font Signika, quotation marks and colons give me a missing glyph upon export to pdf. When using v16.4, this is not an issue.

    12 votes

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