Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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7163 results found
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"Open Recent" broken in 20.4
EDIT 2:
I updated this post to say it was resolved after I removed some dell software which also fixed an issue I had with the Separations Preview panel. However, I forgot that I had reverted to 20.3 - after updating again to 20.4 this is still an issue.
Original post:
The Open Recent menu is not opening the file I click on but is opening a random file from the list.
I thought this might be something to do with the new GPU performance feature but it happens with it disabled.
ID 20.4 Win 11
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paragraph style override with archivo font
I have setup a set of paragraph styles with different usage, but all of them can't be applied to my document. It keeps on giving me archivo black which is not the setting. During setup, all of them works well, but once applied to new textbox, regardless of what font that i chose, it will only give me archivo black font
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Pasting from Illustrator hang
Pasting from Illustrator into Indesign results in a forever-spinning beach ball...
InDesign 20.4
Illustrator 29.6
MacOS 15.51 vote -
[ID-4263516] InDesign shows any graphic card in case machine has more than 1 graphic card
Video card not recognized
I have an RTX a1000 video card, and InDesign does not recognize it, even though it is supposed to support the new InDesign GPU according to the data2 votesHi,
Thank you for reporting the issue. InDesign currently has a limitation of showing only 1 GPU card in the InDesign Preferences. Internally we pick the necessary Graphic card for rendering. It is currently under investigation.
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Adobe InDesign Team
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InDesign Strips Formatting When Pasting Text from Google Docs
Description:
When copying formatted text from Google Docs and pasting it directly into Adobe InDesign, all formatting (such as bold, italics, font size, and links) is lost. However, if the same text is first pasted into Microsoft Word or TextEdit, the formatting is preserved and can then be successfully pasted into InDesign. This suggests the issue is specific to InDesign’s handling of clipboard data from Google Docs. As a workaround, I currently have to use an intermediate application like Word, which slows down my workflow.Steps to Reproduce:
Copy any formatted text from Google Docs (e.g., bold, italic, links).
Paste…
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leave User Workspaces ALONE
Leave User Workspaces ALONE!! Updates should automatically grab the current workspaces and copy them in, STOP trying to shove three versions of "essentials" down our throats. Not all of us have admin access, so deleting after every update isnt an option. It also stops non-admin users from migrating manually. To say this is frustrating would be an understatement.
"Essentials" is TRASH, but every **** update removes any custom ones I have (YES even if I choose migrate, it doesnt do anything so I stopped bothering) and force it into "Essentials". Just STOP. You DO NOT know our workspaces better than…
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DA NUOVO DOCUMENTO CAMBIA FORMATO UNA VOLTA IMPOSTATO
Ci sono una serie di bug irrisolti da tempo:
Cambio di formato.
Se si scrive del testo in un nuovo documento in automatico scrive con colore registro e non solo nero
Indesign è lento a selezionare le finestre di testo o immagini utilizzando un mac di ultimissima generazione con 16 gb di ram
Si blocca diverse volte in fase di impostazione nuovo documento
sistemate per cortesia che è da mesi che ci sono questi problemi1 vote -
[ID-4265137] Can't override the keyboard shortcut (shift-e) for GPU preview
Go to Keyboard Shortcuts, to View > GPU Preview toggle and delete the Default context shift-e shortcut (as it's already used in my set for Reveal in Bridge). Save, works fine for that session, forgets next restart.
1 voteHi,
Thank you for reporting the issue. We have been able to reproduce the issue and it is currently under investigation.
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Adobe InDesign Team
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[ID-4265002][ExtendScript] Folder.execute() no longer works in Indesign 20.4
Folder.execute() no longer reveals the folder and activate the Finder. It does nothing. Tested on Indesign 20.4 on MacOS 15.5.
Steps to reproduce:
- Run this ExtendScript:
Folder.desktop.execute();
Expected result: activating the Finder, revealing the Desktop folder.
Actual result: nothing.
See also this post on the forum.
32 votesThe fix of the issue is now available in the latest InDesign 2025(v20.4.1.004). We recommend you upgrade to the latest version for the fix.
If you are unable to see the update, go to the Creative Cloud application click on the context menu on the top right, and click on Check for App Updates.
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Adobe InDesign Team
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[ID-4264855] Issue with Animated Zoom in GPU
New PC GPU zoom doesn't seem to centre the zoom on the cursor leading to not super useful behaviour (you have to zoom and then drag with the hand tool to get back to what you were originally trying to zoom into). It's very disorientating.
5 votesThe fix of the issue is now available in the latest InDesign 2025(v20.5.0.048). We recommend you upgrade to the latest version for the fix.
If you are unable to see the update, go to the Creative Cloud application click on the context menu on the top right, and click on Check for App Updates.
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Adobe InDesign Team
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[ID-4264967] ExternalObject("lib:PlugPlugExternalObject") now throw an “I/O Error”
IOError: I/O error
occurs when callingnew ExternalObject("lib:\PlugPlugExternalObject")
after updating to InDesign 20.4 on macOS 15.3 votesThe fix of the issue is now available in the latest InDesign 2025(v20.4.1.004). We recommend you upgrade to the latest version for the fix.
If you are unable to see the update, go to the Creative Cloud application click on the context menu on the top right, and click on Check for App Updates.
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Adobe InDesign Team
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Make it possible to anchor a graphic to the beginning of a paragraph without five or six tries and two or three zooms
It'll go AFTER the first letter…it'll go some random place in the first FEW letters, but before the first one? Especially if the first one is a sans-serif letter "I"? HAHAHAHAHAH! No. Not without cajoling, retrying, zooming, threatening, and telling it what a good little cursor it is.
I realize this isn't an exciting problem, but it's been literally decades of this feature being…what's the technical term…bad.
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Feature request: Link text in body and footnote Please add a function to link a word or phrase in the main text to a word or phrase in a fo
Dear Adobe InDesign team, I would like to request a new feature for Adobe InDesign: the ability to link a word or phrase in the main (body) text with a corresponding word or phrase in a footnote (or another text frame), so that if the main text moves to another page, the linked text in the footnote will also automatically move together. This feature is very important for professional publishing workflows, especially for complex academic, multilingual, and religious books. For example, in Islamic or scholarly works, it is critical that a term in the main text and its explanation in…
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On my last page the content would all just disappear — just a blank page (but the linked images were still showing in my links pallet). As
I'm just reporting the bug and how I worked around it until your latest version is released.
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InDesign 2025 (v20.3.1) freezes when interacting with modal dialog panels on macOS 15.5 (Sequoia)
Hi Adobe team,
I’m experiencing repeated, non-reproducible hangs in InDesign 2025 (v20.3.1) when interacting with certain modal dialog panels — such as Panel Options, Color Panel settings, and similar. This occurs on macOS 15.5 (Sequoia). After clicking inside one of these dialogs, InDesign sporadically becomes unresponsive (beachball), requiring a force quit via “Force Quit Applications.”
The issue existed before a complete clean install of macOS and continues to occur even after the fresh system setup with no migration or prior settings carried over.
Here are the key system details:
• macOS version: 15.5 (24F74) – Developer Beta (Sequoia)
• Mac…1 vote -
vertical alignment within a text box is ignoring the space taken up by a wrap object
I'm on Adobe InDesign 20.3.1 on an M1 Max MacBook Pro currently running Sequoia 15.5, but I always keep my system and apps up to date within a day or two of an update being released.
The text wrap isn't affecting the vertical centering of text box content in the way it should. The vertical alignment within the text box seems to be ignoring the space taken up by the wrapped object, leading to the content being centered within the entire text box rather than just the available space above the wrapped object.
In the screenshot, you can see that…1 vote -
Converting pdf to an indesign doc removes all the hyphens
Imported a PDF as an InDesign doc and it has removed all the hyphens. for example the word 'multi-disciplinary', has become 'multidisciplinary' - I'm having to do a find on the PDF doc and manually add them back in but wanted to let you @Adobe
v 20.3.1 InDesign
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I'm not able to sect pages for export
Hello.
When I try to export a pdf I'm not able to select the pages, I've only the option 'All pages'.1 vote -
MathML: Fehler der Bedienung sowie weitere Schrecklichkeiten
MathML hat das Problem, dass, wenn man die Grundformel eingefügt hat, beim nächsten Mal im Editor keine mehr zur Verfügung steht. Problematisch ist das, wenn man den ersten Eintrag im Dokument gelöscht hat. Man sollte immer an die Grundformel kommen, auch wenn man tausendmal klickt, um es im übertragenen Sinn zu sagen. Außerdem ist die verwendete Schriftart des MathML fürchterlich ausgeführt: verschobene Ankerpunkte, ungenaue Kurven etc. Dazu kommt noch, dass die Zeichen am Rand teilweise beschnitten werden. All das ist im typografischen Sinn – unangemessen.
Bezüglich der Kurvenführung sehen Sie sich als Beispielglyphe das y an! Ich habe einige fürchterliche…
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Typing letter in Paragraph/Character style Shortcut field results in invisible shortcut being assigned
How to reproduce this serious bug:
-Double-click a Paragraph or Character Style to edit
-Type a letter in the Shortcut field
-Witness the field remanining blank
-Click OK.Typing this letter in the document will now assign this style, while the letter remains invisible in the Shortcut field.
A solution (provided the user will ever figure out what's going on) is to select all (Cmd-A) in the shortcut field and press delete (or maybe just delete is enough).
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