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  1. Spell check does not work

    When I open the dialog, it already says "Spell Check Complete" at the top. I changed what to search, to get it to say "Ready to Check Spelling" then clicked "Start", but nothing happens—just goes back to saying "Spell Check Complete".

    InDesign Beta (16.3) running on M1 MacBook Pro.

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  2. Page tool doesn't allow me to align Pages in Spread.

    When i Disallow Document Pages to Shuffle and Mix 3 Pages in One Spread, lets say as an Example i Want to make a cover, the Page tool doesn't let me align the pages if i need it to, please see the video.

    My InDesign Version is InDesign 2021 - 16.1.x64 - Running on Windows 10 Pro - X64

    3 votes

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  3. 2 votes

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    Please send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com :

    Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when InDesign the issue occurred?
    • Video recording of the issue?
    • Is(Are) the issue related to a specific document(s)/asset(s)? If yes, could you provide the document(s)/asset(s) to us? Please package the entire document (To package the document, choose File → Package…)


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  4. Opening new document and no access to most menu items

    v. 16.1

    1. open existing document
    2. most menu options greyed out, not available even by shortcuts
    3. i should be able to open a document and print or copy something or paste into... no functions are available!
    4. at some point, the functions come back, but i'm not sure when or how.
    1 vote

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  5. InDesign 16.1 and MAcOS 11.3 Big Sur

    After the update to Big Sur, InDesign is very slow, the cursors have delays to change states. Very difficult to work with.

    2 votes

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  6. Linked PDF Drawings in Indesign Document not showing in Exported Document

    Linked PDF causing exported PDF File to not show embedded information, with pop-up showing "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the PDF document to correct the problem

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  7. ID 16.2: duplicating a spread displaces all unlocked objects vertically!!

    ID 16.2:
    With the Adjust Layout feature activated:
    duplicating a book cover spread moves up all unlocked objects vertically with about but not exactly 0.5 mm (some below half the height with + 0.513mm, some above half the height with -0,508 mm)

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  8. The number on the Image Place Thumbnail is not correct

    It should reflect the number of images 'in' the cursor. But its 1 too high.

    When 2 images are loaded, it shows 3.

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  9. Smart Guides not working when scaling

    When Using the Scale Tool, objects are not snappy to Smart Guides.

    3 votes

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  10. 2 votes

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  11. InDesign crashes when creating new document

    InDesign crashes every time I try to create a new document. I can only start from an existing document. Version 2021

    3 votes

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    To identify the cause of this issue, we had started our investigation with the aim to resolve it. You might have also received an email from us seeking more details to help in our investigation.

    We’ve concluded our investigation and came up with the finding: Either the issue is fixed in the latest release of InDesign or the issue was intermittent in nature at the time of its reporting and is not reproducible now.

    We recommend you upgrade to the latest version of InDesign 2023(v18.2.1.455) as it is more robust and contains a lot of bug fixes.

    We seek your support in our continual effort to improve InDesign.

    Adobe InDesign Team

  12. ID 2021 (16.1) slow performance with all palettes open

    Running ID 2021 (16.1) on MacPro (2019) 3.3 Ghz / 192Gb / AMD Radeon Pro W5700X 16 Gb / MacOS 10.15.7.

    So, I would like to report a bug related to the palettes in ID. I run a 2 monitor setup with my work on one screen and all my ID palettes on on the second screen. I have run this way for 10+ years. This has always been OK until I moved from InDesign 2019 (14.0.3) to ID 2021 (16.1) 2 months ago.

    The performance of ID 16.1 is unacceptably slow. It is as if you have a really…

    2 votes

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  13. Find command highlights text in background

    In long INDD documents with text flowing from one page frame to another, the text often does not refresh properly when the page is turned. Using the Find command then often highlights text that is in the text story but is not visible on screen when highlighted by the Find command. The attached JPEG shows an example of the problem. The JPEG is a screenshot of an INDD page showing a Find for "Brown" but with random text highlighted at line 15. "Brown" is there, but it is in the background, and it cannot be selected, edited, etc. The only…

    1 vote

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  14. can't disable home screen

    I'm unable to disable the home screen. Option is grayed out. I have a paid subscription.

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  15. Indesign/LTS version (15.1.3) don't update font menu accordingly system registry (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Fonts)

    Editoriale Domus Spa
    My enviroment: InDesign LTS version 15.1.3 (mandatory) - InCopy LTS version 15.1.3 (mandatory) - Extensis UTC 7.0.10 (mandatory) - clients OS Windows 10/MacOS Mojave- Font family OTF/TTF.

    Fonts get activated, then again so that theindesign/incopy document refreshes and detects the fonts but unfortunately this could result in significantly longer loading times for large files and other unexpected performance issues.
    The fonts are active for the whole system (reg query "hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\fonts)
    and app., Bloc Notes for example.

    I have opened tickets with Extensis. Here is the answer after testing in their environment

    (Extensis)

    Apr 28, 2021, 1:59…

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  16. Wrong swatch color for color using hsb values

    I'm using InDesign version 16.1 on Mac OS X 11.3
    When setting a color using HSB values, the color which is created is wrong.
    In the screen shot I added you can see two swatches, both have the same related values.
    One is set via HSB the other by RGB.
    The HSB preview is totally wrong.

    2 votes

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  17. Find/Change in empty cells of a table

    I am trying to add a bullet (or any other character) in empty cells in a table in InDesign. With GREP this works, but only cell by cell via 'Change'. 'Change All' does not work, however. I tested this in both CC 2020 and CC 2021.

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  18. 3 votes

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  19. Disappearing text when I type the character ,,T"

    So, I have an InDesign file, which is a brandbook for a partner. Few paragraph styles and some items, nothing secial. I use Prompt (Google font) installed on my system. As soon as I hit (smallcaps) T when writing the text OR becomes unvisible or it breakes to the basic paragraph style AND it wont display the T. IF I copy and paste the text from outside of InDesign then it displays T. And the All Caps T works as well. This bugg is really annoying. Could you look into this issue?

    I'm on MacOS BigSur 11.2.3
    and latest InDesign…

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  20. opacity lines bug

    Is this a bug or it's something I messed up? See the image to watch what it's happening when I change oppacity in a graphic. When exported no lines are visible, it's only in the previsualization.

    3 votes

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