Hebrew Text Bugs in InDesign 2025
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-wrongDisappearance 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-hebrSecond 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.
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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Adobe InDesign team
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rotem ben david zilberman commented
Please fix it 🙏🏻🫶🏼
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Eliyahu Lerner commented
Please fix it Adobe 🙏
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Sharon Yovel commented
Please fix the bug!
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Elisheva Sultan commented
It is impossible to work like this!
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Moshe cohen commented
Please fix it 🙏
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Anonymous commented
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אהרן שטמר commented
Please fix it 🙏
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נעמה מדר commented
Please fix it 🙏
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Gil Halevi commented
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 $$$$
it is about time you start caring, or eventually we the users will go public with this discrase
Shame on you Adobe!!!
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gil commented
Since version 19.0 thru 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5 and now Version 20
Indesign is unusable at all in Hebrew or RTL languages.when saving PDF, Letters disappear, dots and other symbols move to the beginning of the word causing harm and money losses that you should be sued on
it has been a year!!!!, those who used v19 (any of them) had their work thrown to the trash after print production worth thousands of $$$$
it is about time you start caring, or eventually we the users will go public with this discrase
Shame on you Adobe!!!
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Doron Briner commented
Cant belive im missing QuarkExpress 90's hebrew plugins!
Next version we will just jump OutDesign... -
Noa Rosenstein commented
I use other apps because of this
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Anonymous commented
👍 🙏
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ניצן לוי commented
דחוף ביותר
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Anonymous commented
this bug makes us still be stuck at version 18.5. but we're paying for version 20
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שרית גונן commented
You can't work like that!
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eli lev commented
brass!!! Fix it urgently! You can't work like that!
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ערן אוזלבו commented
עדיין יש בגים בעברית מבקש לתקן בדחיפות
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סטודיו BenHAim commented
Very important!!!
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שרה טייב commented
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