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  1. search

    When I try to open a window using the help search bar, the screen freezes.
    I can't press any buttons and requires crashes.

    I'm on Mac OS M1 Pro - Sonoma 16.2.1
    (Double check on intel i9 12.6.3 - no issue)

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  2. glitch

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    My indseign starts glitching as soon as I move a picture or make a frame. It goes half black or fully purple and blue. Its impossible for me to figure out how to fix it. I've tried restarting the app. But that doesn't matter. I don't have any problems with the other apps.

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  4. in design 2024: Master pager transparency incorrectly exported on publish online

    I have a same master page (G), applied to several pages. When I publish online, some of them are ok, and others are not working on transparency texts.
    (Although on The EPub preview I can see them all ok)

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  5. diacritic position

    in find and change , When searching, he does not sense diacritic position

    as show in below

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  6. object style not include image

    object style properties must include feature that can I to add the image
    object style not include image ?
    Can you add it because it is important?

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  7. action feature

    hello, Is there an action feature in InDesign, like Photoshop?
    Is there a script that records the work steps and then applies the steps automatically when clicked?

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  8. Unable to drag & drop one character

    This task can only be done by selecting two or more characters.
    When I need to drag, e.g. a colon to the next word, it doesn't work!

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  9. 19.2 Arabic version, missing periods in exported PDF

    In an exported pdf, periods (or other ending characters) at the end of paragraphs are missing, if the paragraphs were aligned right or justified in the original English version.
    The time-consuming work-around option is to make the period LTR char direction.

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  10. Indesign Auto-Save No Longer Included in App

    Adobe InDesign Version 19.2
    Using MacBook Pro Max M3 16-Inch, Nov 2023
    Running MacOS Sonoma Version 14.3.1

    Apparently there was previously an option in InDesign which auto-saves your documents as you go (with options in Preferences to specify how often you wished the app to auto-save the active document from 1 to 60 minutes). This feature is similar to what Adobe Premiere Pro app has -- even while saving via the "Save As" feature (which overwrites a previous version with the same file name), the auto-save application feature saves the document as you work with it, so that you can…

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  11. Setting defaults for anchored objects doesn't work

    I'd really like to be able to set defaults for how an anchored object attaches to the text when I drag to anchor it. Right now it attaches from the bottom right. I'd like to be able to set that to fit my needs.

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  12. version 19.2 x64. The version update lost my language setting (English-Hebrew).

    The English-Hebrew setting was lost during the last few updates, which removed the ability to create bullets with a hanging indent. A minus value in the first line indent always led to an error. It was solved by uninstalling and re-installing, which then gave me the text direction options again. So a workaround is possible, but it must be done every time I update.

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  13. Objects transformed with the Shear-Tool aren't displayed correctly in Review and with Acrobat Extension for Chrome

    In my corporate design, I use rectangles with a shear angle of 45°. However, these rectangles are displayed incorrectly in the Review and in the Chrome browser with the Acrobat extension. Such rectangles are then not displayed at an angle, but as a larger rectangle. In the two uploaded images you can see the comparison of how it is designed in Indesign and how it then looks in the Review.
    Correcting this display error is very important to me. Of course, I could also draw the slanted rectangle with the path tool. But this is very impractical because I can't…

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  14. Text frame options (Ctrl B) doesnt open since 3 days

    Text frame options (Ctrl B) doesnt open since 3 days. Indesign freeze. And the Windows desktop background dissapears somtimes. I use this funtion for every project. So I don't know what to do now?

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  15. Items jumping to front

    My team are currently having a glitch where items that have been sent to back are jumping back to the front even if the item is locked. There doesn't seem to be a pattern to this as this is happening while working elsewhere in the documents and if often only noticed once it has been PDFd. It is effecting images/text boxes and solid shapes.

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  16. QR code clickable

    Hello. I have an idea regarding the InDesign program. It would be great if the generated QR codes in the interactive PDF were clickable. Is it possible to implement this? Currently, I manually assign hyperlinks to each QR code.

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  17. Crop marks encroach inside bleed zone

    I work in a print shop. Bleed and crop marks should NEVER, NOT EVER, encroach into the bleed zone. InDesign should be set up to default the crop mark offset to automatically match the specified bleed, so that the crop marks in a PDF appear OUTSIDE of the bleed zone.

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  18. Text wrapping Bug Verson 19,2

    When I tab a text box, Text wrapping an image doesn't work

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  19. Graphic was exported and printed as gray "fast display" placeholder

    I exported a book and checked that with preflight for missing linked images and correct printing resolutions. everything came back ok. however one picture was not correctly linked and exported as the gray placeholder usually seen when "fast display" is enabled.

    Apparently, the resolution of the gray placeholder is high enough as not to trigger the "too low res"-preflight setting of the printer. They did flag a different picture, which i replaced, but this square was undetected.

    The image was "corrected" by relinking it, even though the linked path was correct and it did not show up in the linkpanel…

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  20. Chapter number variable doesnt change

    I tried to make the chapter numbers automatic in each chapter, but it doesn't change; it just says "1" in all chapters.

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