Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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2089 results found
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Imported PDF comments not accurate
- ID 14 Mac
- Import PDF comments from file, including strikethroughs, replaced text, comments
- Some edits NOT SHOWN in ID file, though clearly present when PDF is viewed in Acrobat
- Faithful transfer of all edits to ID file (note non-transferred strikethrough of Highlights of Baltics in bottom quarter of screendump)
38 votesHello All,
Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 14.0.3Please upgrade your InDesign application to the latest version to try out the fix.
If you are unable to see the update yet, go to Creative Cloud desktop application, open the menu (three dots) from the top-right corner and click on ‘Check For App Updates’.
If you face any problems with the new update, do let us know in the comments.
You may also follow the below given link for the list of all fixed issues in Id 14.0.3
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html -
InDesign Export PDF - Misisng font style (i.e., italic, bold, tiny text changed)
Dear InDesign Folks,
We've found some font style attribute changed in PDF file, another one issue is Ligature text missed out at PDF file.
Application: InDesign CC 2015.0 Version 11.0.
Windows: 7 & 10 ProSteps & Process:
1. We are generating 2 set of PDF with different Job-options.PAP Layer enabled PDF (i.e., particular layer enabled and creating the PDF, it's contains Images and Text like water mark).
PRINT Layer disabled PDF (i.e., disabled the layer which we enabled in step 2).
Using JavaScript generating 2 sets of PDF at a time.
PRINT, disabled layer and generating PDF with…
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InDesign Export PDF - Misisng font style (i.e., italic, bold, tiny text changed)
Dear InDesign Folks,
We've found some font style attribute changed in PDF file, another one issue is Ligature text missed out at PDF file.
Application: InDesign CC 2015.0 Version 11.0.
Windows: 7 & 10 ProSteps & Process:
1. We are generating 2 set of PDF with different Job-options.PAP Layer enabled PDF (i.e., particular layer enabled and creating the PDF, it's contains Images and Text like water mark).
PRINT Layer disabled PDF (i.e., disabled the layer which we enabled in step 2).
Using JavaScript generating 2 sets of PDF at a time.
PRINT, disabled layer and generating PDF with…
1 vote -
Changes are not tracked when you copy and paste text from more than one cell into a table
This exists in all version of InDesign and InCopy.
To reproduce (see corresponding images):
a) Create a new document with a table filled with text and in InCopy set it to tr.ack changes.
b.) Copy the contents of at least two cells.
c.) Paste the contents into different cells.
d.) Initially these changes will be showed as tracked in story/galley view.
e.) When the document is saved and the reopened these changes are no longer tracked.
- The expected result is that the changes should remain tracked after the document is saved and reopened.
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If the two text boxes are connected, how does the footnote restart from ①
I have a book that needs to be typeset that is single-column and contains footnotes, but the footnotes start at ① for each article.
I don't want to go through and break up each article. I'd like to typeset it in just one text box, but it seems like the footnotes can only be connected.
Is there any solution to this?
It would be nice if it could be split by "page breaks(~P)" or "frame breaks(~R)" or "column breaks(~M)".
You can get the ID file here
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/if-the-two-text-boxes-are-connected-how-does-the-footnote-restart-from/m-p/14789289#M5842141 vote -
placing text at cursor jumps in rtl in InDesign 15.1.1.103
When placing a story at cursor using a right-to-left story frame, the cursor is in the wrong place.
This has also been filed as Bug ID-4219127
6 votesThanks for reporting the issue. We are reviewing it
-InDesign Team
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Khmer script justification is broken
With the CC version, having World-Ready Composer enabled, Khmer script justification is still broken. I tried to use the text with and without ZWSP, and it's all the same. There was a thread talking about it https://forums.adobe.com/message/5030301 but seems no any new update.
The justification is also broken in Photoshop CC.
35 votesHello All,
Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 15.0Please upgrade your InDesign application to the latest version to try out the fix.
If you face any problems with the new update, do let us know in the comments.
You may also follow the below given link for the list of all fixed issues in Id 15.0
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html-InDesign Team
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Adobe InDesign 2024 and 2025 crash when pasting certain string into text box with particular font
Hi, I’m a type designer and font delveloper (for more than 20 years) and have made a custom font (Latin) that makes extensive use of the Contextual Alternates feature (calt). Let's call the font FontXyz, it’s an OpenType CFF font (.otf).
These are the steps that always cause InDesign to crash
1: Text cursor is in an empty text box where my FontXyz is already set
2: Pasting the string “1234,-”
3: CrashI can prevent the crash by:
a: Putting my cursor in between two spaces and then pasting the string “1234,-”
b: Pasting the string without…2 votes -
InDesign 2024 19.4 crashes if you apply a Style Pack to multiple selected unthreaded text frames. In previous versions this worked just fine
InDesign 2024 19.4 (Mac M2 Max chip, macOS Ventura 13.6.7) crashes if you apply a Style Pack to multiple selected unthreaded text frames. In previous versions this worked just fine.
2 votesThe fix of the issue is now available in the latest InDesign 2024(v19.5.0.084). 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 and 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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Style Override Highlighter not highlighted when in use
When I make some style changes in my text, the "Style Override Highlighter" marks theses changes. Great feature, no problem at all.
But when I 1) quit InDesign and 2) start it again, the changed text is highlighted but the "Style Override Highlighter" icon [+a] is highlighted not at all.
Solution shortcurt: Click on [+a] in character style panel, then on [+a] in paragraph style panel and it should behave the way it should. But it would be better if it'd be working the way it should.
German InDesign 2020, Mac OSX 10.14.16
18 votesHi,
Since for most of issue the issue no longer occurs, or is resolved after cleaning InDesign cache and preferences, we are closing the issueThanks
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Imported PDF comments on graphics transferred to text on page
- InDesign 19.0
- Add Acrobat comments to placed Illustrator graphics in an exported PDF, then import the PDF to PDF Comments in the source InDesign document.
- One would expect a warning dialog or just unmapped comments in InDesign.
- Instead, InDesign tries to map the comments elsewhere on the page.
- Screenshot shows the example I encountered with strikethrough markup. Instead of the % signs in the graphic, InDesign wants me to delete random letters and spaces in the text.
1 vote -
Graphic Frame Text Wrap in Find/Change Object
I'm running InDesign 12.0.0.1 (2017) on mac OS 10.12.6 (Sierra). I was originally trying to write a script to automate changing text wrapping on all graphic frames in the active document to wrap to the largest area (TextWrapSideOptions.LARGEST_AREA). When I couldn't get a script that should have worked to function properly, I decided to try automating Find/Change Object queries. That's when I discovered that the manual queries weren't function. Allow me to elaborate:
Here's what I want to do:
Change the "Wrap Options > Wrap To" setting (TextWrapSideOption) for all graphic frames to "Largest Area" (…1 vote -
"Show Asian Text Options" setting not appearing in Perferences
"Show Asian Text Options" setting not appearing in Preferences after I looked under "Type" and everywhere else - make it unable to type in Chinese with InDesign
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Data merge doesn't work with UTF-8 unicode file
DataMerge is failing to import UTF 8 text as Unicode.
- Create UTF 8 Text file for merging.
- Open previously functional InDesign document with keys already established.
- Select data source
- Choose text file (UTF8 no BOM) (if you have BOM, file isn't recognized)
- Tick show import options (never needed to do this before)
- Make sure its Unicode.
- Data still comes in in ASCII even though I chose Unicode. This has to be a merge problem because I can cut and paste the data into the InDesign file without issue.
Reported version - Adobe InDesign CC 14.02
11 votes -
idml pasteboard
When exporting file from indd2020 to idml, the pasteboard automatically disappears. Whatever the pasteboard dimensions were before, it becomes 0,0 when converted to idml.
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When I copy and paste from Illustrator CC into InDesign CC, instead of the vector art I get this text.
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 22.1.0, SVG Export Plug-In -->
<svg version=”1.1”
xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” xmlns:xlink=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink” xmlns:a=”http://ns.adobe.com/AdobeSVGViewerExtensions/3.0/”
x=”0px” y=”0px” width=”5.9px” height=”5.9px” viewBox=”0 0 5.9 5.9” style=”enable-background:new 0 0 5.9 5.9;”
xml:space=”preserve”>
<style type=”text/css”>
.st0{clip-path:url(#SVGID2);fill:none;stroke:#231F20;stroke-width:0.421;stroke-miterlimit:3.864;}
.st1{clip-path:url(#SVGID4);fill:none;stroke:#231F20;stroke-width:0.421;stroke-miterlimit:3.864;}
</style>
<defs>
</defs>
<g>
<defs>
<rect id=”SVGID_1_” width=”5.9” height=”5.9”/>
</defs>
<clipPath id=”SVGID_2_”>
<use xlink:href=”#SVGID_1_” style=”overflow:visible;”/>
</clipPath>
<circle class=”st0” cx=”3” cy=”3” r=”2.8”/>
</g>
</svg>4 votes -
Hyperlinks to text anchors deleted when exporting to PDF and using Adobe World-Ready composers
The Adobe World-Ready composers break hyperlinks to internal text anchors when the document is exported to PDF.
Internal document links are composed of a source and a destination. The hyperlinks seem to get dropped when the destination is in a paragraph that uses one of the World-Ready composers.
The hyperlinks appear to work correctly in the hyperlinks panel within InDesign. It's only once the file is exported to a PDF and opened in a program like Acrobat that this issue becomes apparent. When reviewing the output in Acrobat, the destination no longer appears to be present in the document at…
3 votes -
story editor
Using Indesign 17.2 on x64 PC. Brand-new machine with fresh install.
To reproduce the issue open the story editor then close it.
Expected result: The story editor closes and I can resume working in the main document window immediately.
Actual result: When I close the story editor, the window disappears but all the tools on the toolbar, except the text tool, remain greyed out and I can't do anything in the main document for around 30 seconds.
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alternate layout - copy text variables (just like styles to new group)
I had a job that was originally designed to be a PDF online in color. Then at the last minute, the client asked for a B&W version for print (to keep costs down). They still weren't done editing so I made an alternate layout and checked "copy styles to new group", then made all the color adjustments to those styles and the new B&W master pages. However, I had a running header in the original version. Well, the running header on the B&W version picked up the last section head from the color version, making the B&W version incorrect. I…
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Mongolian
Issue: InDesign does not support Mongolian vertical text direction from left-to-right.
Version: InDesign 2019, 14.0.2 x64
Steps:
1. Place or paste Mongolian text into an InDesign text frame by using the attached Word document
2. Skew the text frame 90 degrees (as done with vertical Chinese and Japanese).Expected result: Please see the attached Word document and screenshot.
Actual result: Notice that the vertical text direction is right-to-left and not left-to-right. Even if the text frame is skewed in the opposite direction (minus 90 degrees) the text is just mirrored and thus not readable.
Test files and screenshot: They are…
6 votes
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