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  1. RTL Text Bugs Despite "Fixed" Notification

    InDesign 20.3.1.073

    Dear Adobe InDesign Development Team,
    We appreciate your efforts in addressing the RTL text issues introduced with the HarfBuzz engine in InDesign 19 (2024) and the improvements made through version 20.3.1.073.
    However, we must bring to your urgent attention that, contrary to your recent "Fixed" notification, several critical bugs remain unresolved, several critical bugs remain unresolved, impacting right-to-left (RTL) workflows (Hebrew & Arabic).

    Critical Bug:

    • #1: Disappearing Punctuation/Text in PDF Export with Drop Cap and Line Break When a drop cap is applied )in justified RTL text( followed by punctuation and a line break, the punctuation marks (and…
    162 votes

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  2. InDesign Help redirects to Adobe Tutorials Webpage Instead of Showing Tool Location in Menus

    I use InDesign a lot, but I don't always remember the location of EVERY tool. Sometimes I just forget the submenu it's in, and go to the search bar so it will show me where the tool is in the program. For some reason, in InDesign ONLY, it will instead redirect me to the Adobe Tutorials website. Often it doesn't even have a tutorial for what I'm looking for, or it takes me to a completely unrelated tutorial.

    This means I either have to read through the whole tutorial and hope that there is an image of the submenu with…

    1 vote

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  3. 2 votes

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  4. Omitted page ranges are affected by sections

    Summary:
    When describing a page range that omits the first/final page, if there is a starting section in the range, the output results will remain in the page range within the section.

    Verification:
    Create an 8-page document (Figure 1).
    Set the start section on page 5.
    Export the PDF (and print as well) and enter “-6” in the page range (Figure 2).

    Result:
    A PDF of pages 5-6 is exported.
    When the PDF is exported again, the page range is set to “5-6” (Figure 3).

    Ideal result:
    should not be affected by the presence or absence of sections.
    A PDF…

    13 votes

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  5. Error on app start: files required for color management missing

    1. InDesign (Beta) 20.3 x64 (Mainline CI #4bdfb98)
    2. Start the app
    3. App should start without error message.
    4. An error message pops up during start up (see screenshot). Have to click "OK" to continue.
    1 vote

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  6. Unable to type letter "g"

    every time I type "g" in a textbox, the font automatically changes to a different paragraph style and the "g" does not type in the textbox

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  7. Auto Style not working

    For the last week or so the auto style feature hasn't been working for me. I keep getting error messages.

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  8. InDesign newer than 20.3 and newer freezes on some documents from 19.X.X

    InDesign 20.3 and 20.3.1 hang and close with an error reporting dialog when opening some documents from InDesign 19.X.X. This issue does not occur in version 20.2.

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

    • Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when InDesign froze?
    • Video recording of the issue
    • Is(Are) the issue related to a specific document(s)/asset(s)? If yes, could you provide us with the document(s)/asset(s)? Please package the entire document (To package the document, choose File → Package…)
    • Please provide spindump report, follow these steps:
    1. Open Activity Monitor: Go to Finder > Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor.
    2. Select the Process: Locate the frozen or lagging application and click on it.
    3. Generate the Report: Click the gear icon in the Activity Monitor window and choose Spindump
    4. Save the Report: Click "Save" to store the spindump file on your system.

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  9. Invisible toolbox

    When opening an existing file (by clicking on the file before opening Indesign), the toolbox on the left appears as an invisible rectangle. It only works properly if the file is closed and reopened from InDesign.

    1 vote

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  10. '단락'의 '보조 메뉴' 일부가 나오지 않음.

    '단락'의 '보조 메뉴'의 반(半) 정도가 나오지 않습니다. 아래 반만 나옵니다. 'Adobe World-ready 싱글라인 컴포저' 이하 메뉴만 나옵니다. 구체적으로 '격자 정렬' 기능을 기준에 따라 수행할 수 없습니다. 끝.

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  11. [ID-4263586] Adobe InDesign 2025 text justify buttons issue

    In the latest update of InDesign 2025 (as of writing this), there is a problem with the text justification buttons in the toolbar.

    Previously, you could click these buttons and then just keep typing into your currently active text frame, which is what one would expect from previous versions of InDesign.

    With the latest update, keyboard focus instead shifts over to these buttons, taking focus away from the text frame and your current text cursor position.
    This is completely useless, and makes it more difficult than it should be to, say, change the justification at a certain line of text…

    2 votes

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  12. Can't acess to color_window

    After updating to the latest version of InDesign (20.3.1) I cannot access the color window. Neither in the swatches nor in the sidebar as you can see in the side window.

    Images attached.

    Can you help?

    Thanks.

    2 votes

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  13. 1 vote

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  14. InDesign doesn't export 16 bit grayscale or 48 bit color images

    Tested on version: 20.2 x64

    Dear Adobe Support Team,

    When importing high bit-depth images—such as 16-bit grayscale or 48-bit/64-bit color (TIFF/PSD formats)—into Adobe InDesign, we’ve observed that even when disabling down-sampling and compression, the exported PDF converts these images to 8-bit grayscale or 8 bits per component for color (i.e., 24-bit RGB or 32-bit CMYK), rather than preserving the original bit depth.

    While we understand that limitations may exist within the current Acrobat SDK, it is important to highlight that:

    The Adobe PDF Library SDK (PDFL SDK) explicitly supports the creation and reading of 16-bit image objects in multiple color…

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  15. Not able to set default font when it comes from Adobe Fonts library

    Purista font family is installed but when I try tu pick it from menu as default font (in type panel or top app menu) it is visible in brackets with name changed - as a missing font.

    When I create a document it is still missing (screenshot _31). Then I have to reactivate adobe fonts by turning off Adobe fonts for a while (screen _32) and after it it works like it should (screen _33).
    Plase help with this issue.

    InDesign 20.3.1 x64
    Windows 11 Pro 24H2 26100.3476

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  16. Email hyperlinks work once, but cease to work after clicking envelope link in Hyperlinks Palette

    When clicking an email link in the Hyperlinks Palette, the email does, in fact, spawn my mail application (Mac Mail) and the email and subject line are correct.

    However, when I return to Indesign to further edit the email link, and then I double click on that hyperlink in the Hyperlinks Palette, the email is no longer visible...it drops out.

    Additionally, the email is not available from the list of links (those links, BTW, are not shared links).

    And...the link, when I double click it, changes position in the list of hyperlinks, making it difficult to track what link you're…

    1 vote

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  17. Placing Images mac photos cant access album structure

    Hi All,

    when placing images into indesign (commmand d) then selecting images in the finder like window (technically speaking this might be the ilifemdiabrowser plugin from apple) , i cannot access the photos library album strucutre anymore. When going to movies (filme) i get the menu where i can choose the subfolders, with images (bilder) it does not work. Further, when trying to choose media (top menu on placing window) it cant access it. I suppose it is some kind of issue with adobe not getting access to the os photos system. I tried solving it in the mac settings,…

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  18. Aligning objects keeps button selected

    When clicking align left edges / horizontal centres / vertical centres etc the button remains highlighted.
    Then when trying to use the keyboard arrows to move the previously selected object - object does not move with the arrow key inputs.
    This only happens on the top control panel rather than the separate align window.

    2 votes

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  19. slow reaction

    20.3.1 the version I just updated too (my bad! I should know by now not to update anything). Now, it takes a few seconds to recognize I've clicked on anything. I expect it would immediately acknowledge the click as it did before the update.

    2 votes

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  20. exporting to pdf crashes ID

    I think my company just updated our licences and suddenly ID crashes when trying to export to pdf. I tried saving as a new file and exporting, it worked a couple of times, but at no point would it export over an existing (closed) pdf.

    Added to the above, my keyboard suddenly decided not to respond. I put in new batteries, but it did not work until I did a restart.

    I have tested exporting from indd, idml, both did not work. I'm re exporting as I fix errors I see in the pdf that were missed in ID.

    I…

    1 vote

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    Please submit the crash report to us. (Guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html )

    Also, please send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com :

    • Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when InDesign crashed?
    • Video recording of the crash
    • 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…)

    Adobe InDesign Team

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