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  1. Indesign 2024 not working with window-snapping apps

    I recently upgraded to InDesign 2024. I use BetterSnapTool to arrange my app-windows in order to have a efficient and practical workflow. But InDesign 2024 does not work with BetterSnapTool (BST) or any other window-snapping apps due to this reason I received from the BST support:
    "Unfortunately all window manager apps on macOS are affected by this, Adobe has broken their window resizing behavior in their recent updates. Their products do not respond correctly to window resizing requests using the macOS Accessibility API anymore. As of now I don't think there is anything I can do to fix this. If…

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  2. Images or graphics disappear (Mac M1; Sonoma 14.5) (ID V19.4)

    Hi, It
    This Problem happen >> InDesign performance issue: Text disappears while editing <<
    I'm unable to copy images or certain objects.
    Images or graphics disappear, and I can't click or select them, even though they're still visible in the layer panel.
    I've tried using the "Alternate" function, but the image still disappeared.

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  3. Find Color not working

    Find Color [in document] fails to find specific color swatches.

    1- I deleted all unused swatches.
    2- I tried to track down redundant or undesired swatches that remained (in example, it was a pantone red/orange)
    3 -"Find color" could not locate where swatch was used
    4- I deleted the pantone swatch and converted to magenta in order to visually locate magenta in my document since "find color" did not do so.
    5- Found the color in a text field

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  4. Running Header issue with anchored textframes (for alternative titles)

    If I use an anchored textframe to have abbreviated versions of the headlines as running head, they override every following trigger until the end of the story.

    I use character styles as trigger set to 'last on page'.

    Please fix this. (Or configure a better way for customizable running headers. Preferable in combination with the table of content)

    See also the following post:
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-randomly-skipping-text-variable-triggers-for-running-headers/m-p/11700448#M408635

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  5. Text and picture boxes flash white when selecting and moving

    This is a problem I’ve been experiencing for some time and it’s still present in the latest version I’ve updated to.

    Whenever I select any item on the page - a picture box or text box - and I drag to another position, the item flashes white for a frame as I move it. This occurs whether I move the item with or without holding down the Shift key. It is only the item that flashes, not the rest of the page, but if I am moving a large shape or the background image, it becomes uncomfortable to the eye.

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  6. Colours not previewing when changing Paragraph rules and text colours

    When changing the colour of text or paragraph rules in my document, the colours are not changing on the page - they are still showing as white, even though both rules and titles have been changed to orange.

    If I drag the text block off the page to the bleed/slug area, the correct colour change can be seen. When I export the pages to PDF the colour is also showing up correctly, yet I can’t see them when working in the document. See screen shot below.

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  7. Reflowable EPUB3: "Page Navigation" export option adds a space inside hyphenated words at page breaks

    1. Version of InDesign: 19.4

    2. steps to reproduce

      • create a new InDesign file
      • add a text frame to the blank page
      • add enough text so some words are hyphenated at the page breaks for the next pages
      • export to epub3
      • enable "Page Navigation" on EPUB export
    3. Expected result
      Page navigation markers are added without interrupting the hyphenated words at the page breaks.

    4. Actual result

      When using the "Page Navigation" export option for reflowable EPUB exports, InDesign adds a <span> and </span> tag pair with a blank space character in the HTML export instead of simply dropping the soft hyphen that was…

    5 votes

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  8. opening an IDML zeroes the pasteboard dimensions

    EVERY time when I open the IDMLs (probably from previous version of indesign - now I have 19.4 x64) the pasteboard dimensions are set to zero.
    And only with IODML - opening INDD goes normal.

    I think its a last update issue.

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  9. Find/change

    Find/Change is really slow to search when i add a Find Format style [None] in the search.

    The search works fine in my document if I just search on a text word or other styles but when I add [None] to ensure it doesn't change other character formats applied it then takes forever to find it.

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  10. InDesign black screen after I disconnect from the external monitor

    Black screen in InDesign after disconnecting from external monitor. If I close InDesign and restart it, it works again. But that's very annoying for my colleagues and me.

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  11. Publish Online

    When creating a document using Publish Online, there are several pages with graphical issues / glitches that aren't reflected in the original working file. We would like a fix for this please! I've got the published link below so you can A-B it against some of the attached screenshots from the original working file.

    Indesign v: 19.4 x64

    Here is the online published doc: https://indd.adobe.com/view/c2dd71db-83fc-48e7-a917-86440f6ed2cf

    2 votes

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  12. InDesign 19.4 crashing when clicking on text box

    I have a Lenova ThinkPad Windows laptop on Win 10 Enterprise, Build 19045. After updating from 19.3 to 19.4, the program began crashing whenever I clicked on a text box.

    I tested with different documents with the same results. I tried a few of the "usual" fixes for crashes (including removing the prefs folder and exporting to IDML) with no success, so I downgraded to 19.3. Downgrading fixed the problem, so there appears to be a compatibility problem with my system.

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  13. undesired text reflow

    When anchoring an object to which text wrap has been applied, the text in the paragraph receiving the anchor reflows in an undesired manner, affecting layout in minute but important ways. Trying to fit book copy around an image without creating spaciness within the shortened lines is hard enough without having all one's adjustments made null when the text shifts due to an anchor that has nowhere else it can be placed.

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  14. Logical error: searching words in selected text with Find/Change unselects text

    When using the Find/Change dialog to find text, there is an option to only search in a "Selection" of text. When the word is found, Indesign will mark that word, which would also unselect the text and no further search in the selection could be done. This is a logical bug.

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  15. Table window does not show measurements when table is selected

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    19.4
    Happens from time to time when the cahracters disappear completely or partially and gains functionality after quiting ID several times or restarting Mac.

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  16. Paragraph and Table palette contents empty/gone

    1. Version of Adobe InDesign, InCopy or InDesign Server
      InDesign 19.0.1

    2. Steps to reproduce the issues
      Open the Paragraph Palette

    3. Expected result
      There is content there, text, fields for adjusting spacing, etc.

    4. Actual result
      There is no content, no fields to enter or adjust spacing measurements

    5. Test file, screenshot, video or GIF capturing the issue (optional)

    p.s. this is fixable by deleting preferences, but I don't want to lose all my preferences. Is there a way to save preferences before deleting them and restore without reintroducing the problem? I will find out.

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  17. horizontal and vertical restrain with shift key not working.

    InDesign 19.4 will not allow me to constrain proportions when resizing a photo box. The window simply closes to re-crop the image. It does allow resizing the photo IN the box with the direct selection tool. It also will not allow me to constrain horizontally or vertically when shift-dragging any item. It also does not restrain the line tool. It also does not allow me to rebuild preferences.

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  18. Scaling problem multiple monitors

    InDesign Version: 19.4
    Open InDesign on an external monitor (on Mac OS–Sonoma)

    Problem:
    InDesign is in many cases unusable for me, because the window sometimes just scales itself down to a very tiny size without any reason.
    Sometimes it happens when I try to zoom in in a document and in many other situations too.

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  19. misaligned InCopy Galley/Story cursor when World-Ready composer and inline notes are used

    The cursor in InCopy's Galley/Story view is misaligned when the underlying paragraph style specifies a "World Ready" paragraph composer AND inline notes precede the cursor in the same paragraph as the cursor.
    Steps to reproduce:
    - Launch InCopy 2023
    - Make a new document.
    - Enter text for two paragraphs.
    - Make a paragraph style for the first paragraph and specify the "Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer." Apply that style to the 1st paragraph.
    - Make a 2nd paragraph style based on the first, but specify the "Adobe Paragraph Composer" (i.e., NOT World-Ready). Apply that to the 2nd paragraph.
    - Insert…

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  20. Variable font sliders are laggy

    Variable font sliders are much less smooth in InDesign, compared to Illustrator. They are much laggier.

    Attached is a screen recording of the Acumin variable font being used in Illustrator (top) and InDesign (bottom).

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