When exporting a Thai document to PDF, footnote numbering goes wrong after the ninth footnote.
When exporting a Thai document to PDF, footnote numbering goes wrong after the ninth footnote.
InDesign 17.4 (on Apple M1)
To reproduce,
- Create nine footnotes however.
- Create a new paragraph wholly in Thai (which you can do by copying something over from the Thai Wikipedia, or just the following text: ย่อหน้า.)
- Place a cursor behind some distinctly Thai character (i.e., a consonant or vowel, not a punctuation mark).
- Insert the tenth footnote.
- Write the tenth footnote wholly in Thai.
- Export the document to PDF
The footnote number (as a superscript) in the body should be 10, and the corresponding footnote number in the footer should be 10.
But you'll find that the footnote number (as a superscript) in the body is just 1, and the footnote number in the footer is just 1 as well, as shown in the leftmost column of the PDF file attached.
Some more information:
- The footnote number in the body is correct when the paragraph is in English.
- The footnote number in the footnote is correct when the footnote is in English.
- This bug is serious. Its existence means that InDesign simply doesn't support the creation of Thai documents with more than nine footnotes.
Sam Zwischenjahn
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Sam Zwischenjahn
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Let me add that the one remaining bug involves the use of Adobe World-Ready Composer (any of the two types). When that is off in the footnotes, everything's fine.
Adobe World-Ready Composer is necessary for typesetting anything in Thai though.
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Sam Zwischenjahn
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Let me add that, after the latest major update to InDesign 18.0, almost all issues above have been fixed, except that
- in the footnote area, the second digit of the footnote number for the 10th footnote onwards disappears (i.e. for example, instead of 10, 11, 12, etc, only the digit 1 appears)
as shown in the file attached.