Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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indesign add text tutorial
The new Indesign "add text" tutorial on the Adobe site has the incorrect practice files linked to it. I'd like to be able to download the correct files to work with. Thank you.
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Align the Arabic text dots
In Arabic
When more than one line of dots
The text is not aligned correctlyPrevious versions do not have this problem
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Fit frame to content creates duplicate text boxes
Indesign 16.4 on Mac 10.15.3
Selecting multiple text boxes and hitting "fit frame to content" causes all text boxes to duplicate.1 vote -
Want to be able to anchor an object to the text it belongs with AND have the text wrap around it
Because of the way text anchors work in Indesign, I always have to anchor objects that require text wrap to something ABOVE the actual text I want the image to stay with. Why does Indesign work this way - i.e., not allowing text to wrap before the anchor? This is a problem the image will now be separated from it's text when the text breaks a page, defeating the whole purpose of anchoring. Is this really so hard to fix?
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InDesign 2020: crashing, undo doesn't work, missing fonts, text wrap is broken, so many bugs
The Undo bug is back. I tried to undo some text (in a table) and it reverted the document back to the previous save and then crashed.
On re-opening, ID complains that it can't find my installed fonts that I used in the document. They show up in the document, it just complains that they are not there. These are fonts that I bought and installed, so I know they are available.
I have also been having problems with text wrap not working half the time. I set a box (I've tried both image and text boxes) to text wrap…
4 votesAs per the customer, the issue got resolved by uninstall and re installation of InDesign 2020.
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text color not selected in swatches
In both these images the text selected is black fill (100% K) with no stroke, but the text color is displaying both fill and stroke as NONE. in one instance the paragraph style is overridden, but the other example the paragraph style of 100% K fill is NOT overridden.
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black glitch
while I move a photo or any text, a black rectangle is created along the entire screen that prevents me from seeing what I'm doing, and it disappears as soon as I stop doing what I was doing
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auto sized frame cuts off text descenders
When a text frame is set to auto resize by height, the descenders are cut off the last line of text.
Indesign 13.1 running on late 2015 iMac, High sierra 10.13.6
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Preferences won't fully show text
Preference menu truncates the preferences option so it can not be read. Unable to resize window to see the text.
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Option Type > Fill with Placeholder Text doesn't work
Nothing happens when I click on the menu option "Type > Fill with Placeholder Text". Version: Indesign 17.3 x64, System: Windows 10 Pro.
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text bold italic regular
Cannot easily change text with bold italics and bold regular to non-bold italics and non-bold regular.
- On Windows 7, InDesign 14.0.1 x64:
- In a normal text window, type "regular" in non-bold regular Times New Roman font.
- Then type "italics" in non-bold italic Times New Roman Font.
- Select the entire "regularitalics" phrase.
- Click Ctrl-B. The entire phrase correctly becomes bold.
- Click Ctrl-B again. Expected behavior: The entire phrase should revert back to regular. Actual behavior: Only "italics" reverts back to regular. The "regular" remains bold.
1 voteHi,
Please let us know if using the short cut keys ctrl+shift+b/i helps to change the font style.Thanks,
Aman -
be able to right click on a text and modify the style directly
be able to right click on a text and modify the paragraph style directly and on the image content blocks modify the object styles directly
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Selecting text on black background doesn't highlight selection
Version: Adobe Indesign 2025 (20.0)
The probled occured in a file that works perfectly in Indesign 19.5. However, when I open the same file in 20.0, the error occurs.Problem: When I try to edit text on a black background, the selected words aren't highlighted. It happens on some pages but not all. The layers aren't locked.
How to reproduce:
- create a master page with a black background
- create several pages
- add text boxes with white text in it
- try to select the text inside the boxExpected result:
- selected text is highlighted in white…
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text frame anchored causes ID to hang
I have a text frame (with text wrap, and also an inline image) anchored to a line of text in the main story.
When I adjust this frame while it is still anchored, it causes ID 16.0.1 to hang. This is the same behaviour as in versions before. No crash report because of ID 'just hanging'. The fix is force quitting.
macOS 11.0.1. This was also happening with earlier versions of macOS.
The remedy is: 'Free' anchored object, make adjustments, and re-anchore the frame.Added info:
possible connection: this happens when anchored to text with paragraph shading!1 vote -
Hebrew that is conditioinal text does not export properly to PDF.
- This is the case in InDesign 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.1, current beta version. 2-4. Hebrew text with diacriticals (vowels and others) that is marked as conditional text exports to PDF incorrectly. Diacritical marks are missing or misplaced. Sometimes an unexpected box appears. The same file, with conditions removed exports correctly to PDF. (Other exports, e.g., JPG) are correct. The same file exports properly in 18.5
- Attached files: a. Hebrew text with condition applied and same text without condition applied. This is the pdf export. I would provide the indd file but this webpage does not accept indd files. b. Screen with…
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23.0.3 Adobe PDF Preset / Transparency Flattener Preset "Convert Text To Outlines" Not Working
In all previous versions of Illustrator and InDesign, when saving a PDF, I have been able to set my PDF settings to convert all text to outlines by checking "Convert All Text To Outlines" in my Adobe PDF preset. Since my recent update to 23.0.3, this feature is no longer working properly. The setting is still an option, however, upon save/export of the PDF, text is not converted to outlines as it previously was.
I have reached out to customer support for this issue and have been informed that this issue is "expected behavior of the software".
How is this…
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ID 16.0 – Crashing in Split Layout View When Cutting and Pasting Text
InDesign crashes when doing the following:
- Open or Create a document.
- Enable split layout view
- Create a text frame in each view
- Fill one of the text frames with type
- Cut some of the type into the other frame
- Cut some more of the type from the filled frame
- Copy the text in the other frame
- Undo the cutting of the text
- Re-cut the text
- Paste the text into the other frame
- CRASH
Video of the bug: https://youtu.be/ex7BsXfeSUA
This is present in both ID 15.X and ID 16.0 and crashes with documents created in both new and old versions of…
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Selecting text in table inside Story Editor
InDesign 19.0
When I try to select text in a table using Story Editor, the mouse selects text starting one character to the right from where I click. This starts in the 2nd row of text. For each row below that, the selection starts one additional character to the right.
For example, I have a table with 5 rows and each row has the text 'ABCDEFG'. If I try and select the letter 'A' on row 2 by clicking at the start of the text and dragging to the right, the selected text will skip the letter 'A' and…
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Text justification algorithm is *really* sloppy.
When the justification is set to "justified," when I add or delete text, text moves down from previous lines, making those earlier lines look really stretched out with huge spaces. This happens constantly. It looks really bad, and there's no logical reason for it.
This happens whether "Hyphenate" is on or off.
Each line of text should always hold as many words as it can hold (without shrinking anything to fit). What happens on any later line should never cause any change in previous lines.
I'm using InDesign v. 19.3 x64 in Windows.
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Pasted text acquires overprint attribute
Copying a number of items from one document to another, all of the text that did not have an outline had its overprint attribute turned on, despite being off in the source file. It was particularly annoying to fix because most of the text was white (Paper swatch), for which the overprint setting is uneditable: I had to turn all the white text to a different colour, uncheck the overprint, then make it white again. (Using InDesign v14.0.2 on Mac OS v10.12.6.)
IMO there should never be a reason to overprint items using the Paper swatch anyway, so this attribute…
1 vote
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