Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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"Open Recent" broken in 20.4
EDIT:
Like my issue with the separations preview panel, this is resolved by removing some Dell crapware that was pre-installed on my workstation.
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 -
RTX a1000
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 data1 vote -
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 directly into InDesign text frame.
Observe that all formatting is lost.
Paste the same text into Word or TextEdit — formatting is preserved.
Copy from Word/TextEdit and paste into InDesign — formatting is preserved.
Expected Result:
InDesign should retain formatting when pasting directly from Google Docs, just like it does when pasting from Word or TextEdit.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).
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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 us. This shouldnt be difficult, but Adobe has been doing this for years, and now InDesign 2025 has THREE different Essentials? Thats missing the point entirely and then congratulating yourself for it.
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 -
Can't override the keyboard shortcut (shift-e) for the new PC 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.
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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 the footnote always stay together and do not end up on different pages. Currently, InDesign allows us to anchor objects (like images or frames) to text, but not to link text fragments in different frames or footnotes. Adding this feature
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 model: MacBook Pro 16” M1 Max, 64 GB RAM
• Displays: Dual Apple Studio Displays
• InDesign version: 20.3.1 (latest Creative Cloud release as of June 2025)
• No plugins installed
• Font manager: RightFont (fonts synced via Dropbox folder, no Adobe plugin)
• User environment: Freshly created custom workspaces
• Documents: Problem occurs even with new, blank files
• macOS was clean-installed from scratch before testingThe hangs are unpredictable and extremely disruptive — multiple times a day — making productive work almost impossible. It’s incredibly frustrating to deal with such instability in basic UI operations like opening panel dialogs.
Attached is a .hang report from macOS, which shows the InDesign main thread stalling in:
UI::ModalDialogManager::RunModalLoop()
BscModalDialog::DoModal()
ControlPanel::ShowOptionsDialog()Other threads remain idle, indicating a UI-level deadlock — likely caused by a modal dialog waiting on OS-level window interaction that never completes.
This seems related to changes in macOS 15’s window or dialog behavior, potentially affecting how InDesign renders or processes modal components.
I understand Sequoia is still in beta, but since the issue exists in InDesign’s current public release (20.3.1) and is severe enough to disrupt daily work, I wanted to report it early.
Please let me know if you’d like additional crash/hang logs or screen recordings — happy to assist further.
Thanks,
Marc⸻
PS: This technical explanation and hang report interpretation were created with the help of ChatGPT, since I’m not a developer myself — just a professional user trying to get work done with InDesign.
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 the text box that overlaps with the wrapping object is centering to the entirety of the text box. A 2nd text box on the left is shortened to show where it SHOULD be aligning to. The warping object is on top of the text box, and the text box does not have "Ignore Text Wrap" checked. Any ideas on a fix?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 Teile des y nochmals mit einigen Pfeilen an den zumindest auffälligsten Stellen hervorgehoben. Solche Schriftarten sollte man nicht im Traum für Designsoftware anbieten. Hunderte ähnliche Fehler habe ich Dutzenden Designern und Monotype gemeldet; und sie sind bis zu Nur-noch-online-Plattform dieses Konzerns auch verbessert worden. Durch die Onlinegier ist das jetzt anders und sie bieten ihren Schrott an, den ahnungslose Kunden kaufen. Diese Methode scheint uramerikanisch zu sein: Marktbeherrschung zwar, aber zunehmend schlechter werdende Qualität.
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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Bracket issues
When copying a table from one indesign brochure to another new indesign document. The open and close brackets that were on the original table appears corrupted. The close bracket appears at the front of the word instead. Tried retyping it at the end of the word but keeps jumping to the front.
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Add pins from Indesign to be shared for review
While editing a file in InDesign, I have many ideas or questions to submit to the reviewers audience.
However, I need to wait for all my edition work to be completed and shared for review online before being able to add pins and other comments. This is cognitively quite expensive, and it's not efficient overall.
I wish I could add pins and comments right from InDesign (= new items in the Verify panel), to be published with the next "Share for Review" push.
That way, I would comment at the exact time a question pops up in my mind, without risking forgetting the context or even the whole question.While editing a file in InDesign, I have many ideas or questions to submit to the reviewers audience.
However, I need to wait for all my edition work to be completed and shared for review online before being able to add pins and other comments. This is cognitively quite expensive, and it's not efficient overall.
I wish I could add pins and comments right from InDesign (= new items in the Verify panel), to be published with the next "Share for Review" push.
That way, I would comment at the exact time a question pops up in my mind, without…1 vote -
Bug: Indesign completely hangs when it cannot save file to network drive
Windows 11, Indesign 20.2
Problem summary: when saving a file to a network to which the connection is lost during that save action, ID completely hangs and might also block the entire system.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open any bigger INDD from a network drive, so the saving action takes some seconds.
2. Change something and click save, then simulate a broken network connection by pulling the LAN cable
Reaction: there might or might not be that "Save document" overlay with progress bar being at 0%. At this point, ID has two problems:
a) There is no timeout. It would try to save the document, like, forever.
b) The "Cancel" button, should that overlay be shown, has no effect at all.Windows 11, Indesign 20.2
Problem summary: when saving a file to a network to which the connection is lost during that save action, ID completely hangs and might also block the entire system.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open any bigger INDD from a network drive, so the saving action takes some seconds.
2. Change something and click save, then simulate a broken network connection by pulling the LAN cable
Reaction: there might or might not be that "Save document" overlay with progress bar being at 0%. At this point, ID has two problems:
a) There is no timeout. It would…1 vote -
Restore Command + Resize and Command + Space Zoom Behavior in InDesign
In recent versions of InDesign, two essential shortcuts have been broken or changed:
Command + Drag on a frame no longer resizes the content inside the frame as it used to — or it behaves inconsistently.
Command + Space no longer reliably brings up the zoom tool that allows click-dragging to zoom into a selected area.
These shortcuts were core to efficient, professional workflows for years. Removing or altering them without an option to restore the original behavior is disruptive. Designers rely on muscle memory and speed — this feels like a step backward.Please restore the legacy behaviors or provide an option to re-enable them. These are not minor issues; they impact productivity and long-term users who’ve supported your platform for decades.
In recent versions of InDesign, two essential shortcuts have been broken or changed:
Command + Drag on a frame no longer resizes the content inside the frame as it used to — or it behaves inconsistently.
Command + Space no longer reliably brings up the zoom tool that allows click-dragging to zoom into a selected area.
These shortcuts were core to efficient, professional workflows for years. Removing or altering them without an option to restore the original behavior is disruptive. Designers rely on muscle memory and speed — this feels like a step backward.Please restore the legacy behaviors or…
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