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  1. 1 vote

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  2. Translation typo

    Your missing a capital on the "commentaires" option in the French translation of window menu

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  3. 'Apply italic' Shortcut Issue

    Prior to v16, Shift-Command-I applied the active font's italic to selected text. But in v16, it is applying the font's bold italic.

    I see no way to affect this in the Keyboard shortcuts panel. It simply lists "Apply italic" with the correct shortcut.

    3 votes

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  4. Start screen after a while has some glitch fonts in the titles

    Hey, in InDesign 16.0 there is a problem with the start screen.
    After a while, the titles of my last used documents are getting distorted. Seems to be a Problem with the UI font …

    3 votes

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  5. shortcuts

    Just updated (16.0) and none of the quick keys work in InDesign 2021, anyone else have this?

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  6. Layered Illustrator File Import

    By activating the layers during import, they are not always displayed in Indesign. This makes it impossible to work with all the files already prepared.
    In the previous version of Indesign everything worked perfectly.

    2 votes

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  7. Can't select gradients from swatches

    Since installing the new InDesign 2021, I'm not able to apply my colour swatches to the gradient bar. When I click on a colour swatch, it changes the main fill rather than the gradient colour.

    This was working before the update.

    3 votes

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    To apply a swatch to one of the gradient stops, you have to hold down the Alt key and then click on a Swatch in the Swatches panel. Clicking directly on any of the swatches changes the fill color of the object to the Swatch color instead of changing the color of the gradient stop.
    Please confirm the above in the previous release as well as InDesign 2021.


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  8. Error on Save : "Indesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but appears to be damaged."

    Indesign constantly comes up with a weird error when ever I click save while in a document - 'Indesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but appears to be damaged. click Ok.

    Also I know in the previous version that whenever I zoomed in too much I would get constant crashes. Hope it's been fixed in the version but I won't hold my breath.

    15 votes

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  9. image damaged or incompatible

    "Error encountered while reading JPEG image. Image might be damaged or incompatible. Resave the image with a different setting and try again."
    I have a set of at least 100 JPEGs that work perfectly fine with any other program, but won't load in Indesign

    12 votes

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  10. InDeisign 16.0 is not exporting .pdf

    I updated to the newest version on InDesign. Now I am trying to export my magazine for print - the blue circle in the upper right just keeps spinning and the background tasks menu just stays at 0%

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  11. 1 vote

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  12. I've had to renter my pasword and code from text 6x in the last 2 1/2 hours. How is anybody supposed to get any work done when updating apps

    Why is updating apps such a pain in the butt!!!!
    Had to log into a different ID to get past supposed firewall issues and then had to keep using password and code sent to text on my phone every time I opened an app.
    VERY UNPRODUCTIVE AFTERNOON. THANK YOU CREATIVE CLOUD!!!!!

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  13. Dialog Boxes Missing

    Common dialog boxes are not appearing normally on macOS. The dialog boxes include: missing/updated links as a document is open, Export PDF flows, Open, Save As. The boxes seem to activate in the incorrect space, or don't appear unless focus is given to another app by switching and then switching back to InDesign.

    3 votes

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  14. resize group is copying the group

    With the new CC2021 I have a group of objects. Trying to resize them not only resizes them but copies the entire group leaving the old group in place!

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  15. CC LIBRARY BUG/ISSUE / indesign 2021 16.0

    In photoshop when I click on an asset in cc libraries to edit that was created in INDESIGN - Indesign does not open to allow me to edit that asset. INDESIGN previous version would launch automatically when an asset was clicked to edit!

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    The fix for this issue is now available in the latest update of InDesign – version 16.1
    Please update to this version to get the fix.


    Adobe InDesign team

  16. InDesign 16.0 saves Converted files in last used folder, not containing folder

    On Catalina OSX (10.15.7), InDesign 2021 (16.0) saves a Converted file to the last used Finder folder, rather than the folder the document is contained in.

    Happens with 'Save As...', as well as saving InCopy assignments.

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    The fix for this issue is now available in the latest update of InDesign – version 16.0.1.

    Please update to this version to get the fix.


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  17. Icon doesn't show

    File doesn't show InDesign icon - InDesign 2021 - 16.0 + WIN 10

    7 votes

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  18. 2 votes

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  19. InDesign 2021 (InDesign 16.0) locked when left unattended for an hour.

    This was installed for me overnight, and appeared to be running as expected. When I left my computer running for an hour while I ate lunch I came back to find the application locked. When I tried to force it to quit the entire machine locked, and I was required to force it to shut down and restart.

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  20. indesign for mac pauses

    InDesign CC 15.1.2 with a VPN connection to a server continually gives me the spinning beach ball whenever I do the simplest thing, even when the document itself is on the desktop (but has to be connected to images on the server). It's on a Macbook Pro 15,1, running Catalina with 32GB ram, 2.6Ghz 6-Core Intel Core i7. It's been happening since the last 2 updates.

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