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Hebrew Text Bugs in InDesign 2025

  1. Incorrect cursor movement with arrow keys in Visual movement mode: When working with Hebrew text in Visual movement mode, the arrow keys do not move the cursor in the expected or desired direction. This issue disrupts editing and text arrangement in Hebrew.
    Tracked via https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/48967859-cursor-movement-wrong

  2. Disappearance of punctuation marks and letters in exported PDFs: In various situations when working with Hebrew text, certain punctuation marks (e.g., periods, commas, etc.) and individual letters disappear in the final exported PDF file.
    Tracked via https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/49051367--id-4245219-disappearing-punctuation-marks-in-hebr

  3. Second letter disappears after an opening letter: Under certain conditions, the second letter after the opening letter in a word vanishes. This issue affects the appearance and natural flow of the text.

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Need More Info  ·  Adminansjain (Admin, Adobe InDesign) responded  · 

With 19.0 release we had added the support of Harfbuzz shaper as a default for World-Ready Composer in InDesign. Post that few issues were reported related Hebrew Text.

Over the period of ID19.x releases we have fixed various issues related to Harfbuzz shaper that are listed below:

1. Incorrect text direction when mixed languages are used.

2. Punctuation marks are getting lost when exporting it to PDFs.

3. When we apply forced line breaks, the right-to-left text changes to left-lo-right.

4. Overlapping of right-to-left text we place any .psd file in the textframe.

5. Selection and cursor navigation issues when we try to edit tables in story editor.

6. Text overlapping upon creating outlines when it contains footnote reference.

From ID19.4 version onwards, we have also provided a preference within the application to allow users to switch to legacy shaping engine for World-Ready Composer in case users are facing issues specific to Harfbuzz shaper, so that the behaviour becomes similar to what happens for ID18.x versions.

The new option is present in InDesign's preferences under:

Preferences > Advanced Type > 'Enable Legacy Text Shaping for Adobe World-Ready Composer'

If you still continue to face any issue with ID20.0 version - even after trying the preference to switch to legacy shaper, we request you to create a separate Uservoice thread for each issue so that they can be tracked and prioritised appropriately.

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  • Gil Halevi commented  ·   ·  Report

    Since version 19.0 thru 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5 and now Version 20
    Indesign is unusable at all in Hebrew or RTL languages.

    when saving PDF, Letters disappear, dots and other symbols move to the beginning of the word causing harm and money losses that you should be sued on

    it has been a year!!!!, those who used v19 (any of them) had their work thrown to the trash after print production worth thousands of $$$$

    it is about time you start caring, or eventually we the users will go public with this discrase

    Shame on you Adobe!!!

  • gil commented  ·   ·  Report

    Since version 19.0 thru 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5 and now Version 20
    Indesign is unusable at all in Hebrew or RTL languages.

    when saving PDF, Letters disappear, dots and other symbols move to the beginning of the word causing harm and money losses that you should be sued on

    it has been a year!!!!, those who used v19 (any of them) had their work thrown to the trash after print production worth thousands of $$$$

    it is about time you start caring, or eventually we the users will go public with this discrase

    Shame on you Adobe!!!

  • Doron Briner commented  ·   ·  Report

    Cant belive im missing QuarkExpress 90's hebrew plugins!
    Next version we will just jump OutDesign...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    this bug makes us still be stuck at version 18.5. but we're paying for version 20

  • eli lev commented  ·   ·  Report

    brass!!! Fix it urgently! You can't work like that!

  • שרה טייב commented  ·   ·  Report

    Those bugs are a serious obstacle to a food workflow
    As an Adobe customer , I expect Adobe to fix them as soon as possible, pl

  • עוז שלום ערק commented  ·   ·  Report

    הבאגים הללו מעיקים ומכבידים את העבודה, במיוחד כשרוצים לסגור קובץ פתאום נעלמות אותיות וכל העסק הלך לפח...

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