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Viewing page with linked image causes file to be marked as dirty (needs saving)

InDesign version: 15.1.1
Additional versions tried: 15.0.3, 15.0, 14.0.3
MacOS Mojave (10.14.6) on two different computers

To reproduce:
1. Create a new empty document.
2. Add a second page to the document.
3. Place Image, onto the page you're viewing (I did a PNG)
4. Save and close the document.
5. Open the document.
6. Wait 2-20 seconds, doing nothing to change the document.

Expected result: document opens to page with placed image, nothing else happens / changes.

Actual result: document opens to page with placed image, and after a delay the document is marked as changed (asterisk appears in tab before the filename, InDesign prompts to save document when you close it)

Additional detail: It seems to key off of viewing the page with the linked image, not just opening the file. If you save the document while viewing the page without the image, then when you re-open it (and see the imageless page) the file is not marked be as dirty even if you wait. However, if you then go to the page with the linked image (by clicking, scrolling, or command-J), shortly after you get there the file will be marked as dirty. (If you scroll, the key event seems to be hitting the boundary to the new page; the linked image does not need to actually be displayed.)

Attempted fixes which did not resolve the problem:
• Deleting my InDesign preferences (by holding down CTL-CMD-OPT-SHIFT during program startup)
• Deleting my Cache

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  • wolf commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same in ID 19.5 x64
    Saved file as *.idml -> opened idml -> saved as *.indd -> opened new indd -> still get asterisk
    Please fix!
    Ravi Kiran: "We’re reviewing this shortly."
    Bug is from 2020 !!!

  • Stephen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Same problem here.

    Testing with different images… problem seems to happen exclusively to files with PNGs.

    This bug has been significantly slowing down my workflow for months.

    Is there a fix coming soon?

  • Szasz-Fabian Jozsef commented  ·   ·  Report

    This issue is slowing down the workflow significantly - it needs unnecessary and repeated confirmation as the document isn't saved. For several tens of documents, jut opened for exporting it is really annoying.
    This bug is present alread for several years, enough time passed already to fix it!

  • Eric R commented  ·   ·  Report

    More detail on pixels/inch:

    1. From the linked community thread, from someone else who reproduced:

    "In my tests, I started with a transparent .psd (which is what I would normally use), then this morning used Photoshop's File > Export > Quick Export as PNG (72 ppi/225 ppi) and finally used File > Export > Export as and exported 2x the original size (72 ppi/450 ppi)—that's what did it."

    2. If I use Photoshop to create two single-pixel documents, one with Resolution of 72 px/inch (set in the New Document dialog) and the other of 73, then save each as PNG, the first doesn't trigger the behavior while the 2nd does.

  • Eric R commented  ·   ·  Report

    Did more testing - confirmed that I'm only seeing it with PNG files, and only where pixels/inch is set to higher than 72. (More details on factors that didn't prove relevant in the thread Uwe Laubender linked to.)

  • Uwe Laubender commented  ·   ·  Report

    Well, it does happen with a placed PNG with transparency.
    It will not happen with a placed TIFF 1-Bit without any transparency.
    Seems the cause is the kind of image or transparency. Or both.

    Will test on with other image types.

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender
    ( ACP )

  • Uwe Laubender commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Eric,
    I can see this as well. Voted for fixing the issue.
    My placed image was a PNG file with transparency (if that matters).

    I'm on Windows 10 and tested with the German versions of InDesign 2020 and 2019.

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender
    ( ACP )

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