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  1. Hyperlink bug: hyperlink format is spilling over to other paragraphs

    There is a bug with the Hyperlink format in my Incopy Version 16.4.1 running on Mac OS 12.6.3:
    1) I am inserting a Hyperlink in my Incopy document. It is then shown in blue, underlined, Times New Roman. See screenshot.
    2) Next I am formatting it as "ohne" Zeichenformat (German) in order to have it in the same format as the other text.
    3) I close the file (check in) and open it again (check out).
    4) Suddenly, the remainder of the the text is formatted in Hyperlink format. This is a bug.

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  2. Duplicated AllPageItems collection when nesting Table inside another Table

    1 create new blank document, 1 page, no primary textframe
    2 creatte empty TextFrame,
    3 insert Table [2x2],
    4 insert another Table [2x2] to the 1st table - into 1st cell,
    5 insert another Table [2x2] to the 2nd table - into 1st cell,
    6 now insert image into 3rd table - from step 5 - as InLine object after a space - so the cell is not converted into Graphics cell,
    7 run script:

    var items = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
    for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++)
    $.writeln(items[i].toSpecifier());

    Expected result:

    /document[@id=1]//text-frame[@id=246]
    /document[@id=1]//rectangle[@id=286]
    /document[@id=1]//image[@id=282]

    Actual result:

    /document[@id=1]//text-frame[@id=246]
    /document[@id=1]//rectangle[@id=286]
    /document[@id=1]//image[@id=282]
    /document[@id=1]//rectangle[@id=286]…

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  3. How to Edit Adobe InDesign Documents Online?

    Are you looking for a way to collaborate with others on your Adobe InDesign documents online?

    While InDesign is primarily designed for desktop publishing and not for online editing, Adobe offers a cloud-based solution that allows you to collaborate with others on your InDesign documents online.

    But here the hassle free solution for you. Silicon Designer is an online editing platform based on Adobe InDesign Server:

    1- It offers the highest-quality output, at scale, and a fully customizable user interface.

    2- It is modular and extensible, easily integrated with shopping carts, DAMs, and other systems.

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  4. I too am having a PROBLEM with hyphenate!! It is breaking words in absolutely wrong places:  examples:  so-mething, ge-nerations, Cz-echoslo

    I too am having a PROBLEM with hyphenate!! It is breaking words in absolutely wrong places:  examples:  so-mething, ge-nerations, Cz-echoslovakia - you get the idea. Have any of you had any resolution with your issues?

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  5. tool panel/character panel disappears

    Since INDesign 2023 my tool bar and character panels occasionally disappear. When I click out of the app and then come back to it later. They aren't there. When I go to the Window menu, I can get them back, but this is happening a few times a day and is an annoyance.

    Never had that in 15 years of InDesign.

    p.s. It happened once in Photoshop too!

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  6. Wrong hyphenation Spanish

    Indesign 2023 Spanish hyphenation is wrong.

    Some words starting with "des-" are hyphenated after "des-" and should be hyphenated after "de-". Example of right hyphenation:

    • desempeño > de - sem - pe - ño
    • desagradecido> de - sa -gra - de - ci -do
    • destilar> des - ti - lar

    This problem has appeared in last versions of indesign.

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  7. Buttons do not work in Indesign

    Certain buttons aren't working in Indesign. E.g. I can't click into the preflight panel, or the pop-up comes up for a millisecond, too fast for me to click into it. This is happening with the Preflight panel, the 'align to' button in the Alignment panel, and other toggles like it. Incredibly frustrating. I've tried restarting but the issue persists.

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  8. Using the Keyboard to pan (Space bar) has stopped working

    Using the Keyboard to pan (Space bar) has stopped working

    Using InDesign Version 8.1 and MacOS Monterey Version 12.6

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  9. Pages panel thumbnail resolution

    When InDesign 2022 (17.0) came out, the resolution of the thumbnails in the Pages panel was lowered, even with Display Performance set to High Quality Display. It's not just the greeking of the text. I can see the pixels themselves.

    This forces me to still have to use InDesign 2021 so that I can see the contents of the pages in the thumbnails.

    Screenshots posted for comparison.

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  10. エクセルから表のコピペ

    2021/22において、エクセルから表をコピーするとインデザイン上で改行が増えている。(1行ごとに改行)および(1行目に改行)。
    イラレではこの現象は起きていません。
    MacM1にて。

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  11. Copy and Paste error InDesign Mac

    If you start a line with a figure space and copy the paragraph and paste the paragraph the figure space is removed from the copied paragraph. The paragraph starts with the first character.

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  12. Don't provide the GPU Performance menu for Windows

    It's outrageous that a giant corporation doesn't have support to GPU Performance for windows, when we sign the creative cloud plan doesn't shows that works differently in each operational system. Please, develop this functionality as soon as possible!!

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  13. IDML export ruins vertical Rulers on Masterpages

    Bug.

    Placed vertical Rulers on right handed Masterpage are jumping to the left handed Masterpage saved as idml.

    Need to be fixed.

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  14. Shift scroll Horizontal ctrl scroll zoom

    On nearly every program I have ever used, Shift + scroll = horizontal scrolling, and Ctrl + scroll = zoom. I would like there to be a way to adjust this to make page navigation much faster and easier for me.

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  15. spelling checker word is off-centered in box

    There's a bug in latest update for InDesign — spell check — the word that is identified as possibly misspelled is not centered in the box (screen capture attached below).

    Thank you.

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  16. Visual ghosting on stage

    Hello,

    I have had some issues (possibly since the last update) with visual "ghosting" artifacts. Use to be, it would have been an issue with the refresh rate of a monitor, or not having the latest Nvidia graphics card update, but neither of these appears to be the issue.

    I'm open to some recs to fix this issue. Please see the image for a clearer explanation of the problem.

    And yes, when I move the stage/the issue, visibility does go back to normal.

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  17. eyedropper tool not sampling correct color or images color.

    Eye dropper tool has not been working in InDesign properly for weeks FIX YOUR ****. I cant take colors from images. IDK what it is doing specifically but it only seems like it is sampling text properties and solids not images. Its working perfectly fine in photoshop and Illustrator just not InDesign. Should not be encountering such a simple bug on a paid service

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  18. W switch between normal and bleed mode

    Pressing W switch between normal and bleed mode and not between normal and preview mode for this specific document.

    And sometimes no shortcut is working for this INDD.

    It seems I can't upload an INDD (but no rules for uploaded files, why?) so I put the document and a screenshot with the version of InDesign here for 2 weeks: https://we.tl/t-z2fsKnVm8o

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  19. Layout Adjustment Moves Anchored Frames

    Layout adjustment moves anchored frames vertically even when the anchor is set relative to the text baseline and the text baseline doesn't move.

    ***Worse still, the shifted frames also DO NOT SHOW AS OVERRIDDEN even though their position no longer matches the settings in the object style applied to the frame.

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  20. Cursor continually freezes, Indesign auto shortens swatches pane

    Glitch happens at random intervals, but so frequently that it's becoming maddening. Right now it's happening every 30 seconds to a minute, seriously F'ng my workflow today.

    M1 MacBook Pro, occurs whether I'm using my Wacom tablet (often I blame this first). It seemed to have happened after the last updated, along with an accompanying issue where I have to continually reset my workspace if I disconnect/connect to an external monitor. If I don't reset my workspace, Indesign refuses to show any tool panels.

    See attached video.

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