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  1. Can't override the keyboard shortcut (shift-e) for the new PC GPU preview

    Go to Keyboard Shortcuts, to View > GPU Preview toggle and delete the Default context shift-e shortcut (as it's already used in my set for Reveal in Bridge). Save, works fine for that session, forgets next restart.

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  2. Feature request: Link text in body and footnote Please add a function to link a word or phrase in the main text to a word or phrase in a fo

    Dear Adobe InDesign team, I would like to request a new feature for Adobe InDesign: the ability to link a word or phrase in the main (body) text with a corresponding word or phrase in a footnote (or another text frame), so that if the main text moves to another page, the linked text in the footnote will also automatically move together. This feature is very important for professional publishing workflows, especially for complex academic, multilingual, and religious books. For example, in Islamic or scholarly works, it is critical that a term in the main text and its explanation in…

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  4. InDesign 2025 (v20.3.1) freezes when interacting with modal dialog panels on macOS 15.5 (Sequoia)

    Hi Adobe team,

    I’m experiencing repeated, non-reproducible hangs in InDesign 2025 (v20.3.1) when interacting with certain modal dialog panels — such as Panel Options, Color Panel settings, and similar. This occurs on macOS 15.5 (Sequoia). After clicking inside one of these dialogs, InDesign sporadically becomes unresponsive (beachball), requiring a force quit via “Force Quit Applications.”

    The issue existed before a complete clean install of macOS and continues to occur even after the fresh system setup with no migration or prior settings carried over.

    Here are the key system details:
    • macOS version: 15.5 (24F74) – Developer Beta (Sequoia)
    • Mac…

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  5. vertical alignment within a text box is ignoring the space taken up by a wrap object

    I'm on Adobe InDesign 20.3.1 on an M1 Max MacBook Pro currently running Sequoia 15.5, but I always keep my system and apps up to date within a day or two of an update being released.

    The text wrap isn't affecting the vertical centering of text box content in the way it should. The vertical alignment within the text box seems to be ignoring the space taken up by the wrapped object, leading to the content being centered within the entire text box rather than just the available space above the wrapped object.
    In the screenshot, you can see that…

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  6. Converting pdf to an indesign doc removes all the hyphens

    Imported a PDF as an InDesign doc and it has removed all the hyphens. for example the word 'multi-disciplinary', has become 'multidisciplinary' - I'm having to do a find on the PDF doc and manually add them back in but wanted to let you @Adobe

    v 20.3.1 InDesign

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  7. I'm not able to sect pages for export

    Hello.
    When I try to export a pdf I'm not able to select the pages, I've only the option 'All pages'.

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  8. MathML: Fehler der Bedienung sowie weitere Schrecklichkeiten

    MathML hat das Problem, dass, wenn man die Grundformel eingefügt hat, beim nächsten Mal im Editor keine mehr zur Verfügung steht. Problematisch ist das, wenn man den ersten Eintrag im Dokument gelöscht hat. Man sollte immer an die Grundformel kommen, auch wenn man tausendmal klickt, um es im übertragenen Sinn zu sagen. Außerdem ist die verwendete Schriftart des MathML fürchterlich ausgeführt: verschobene Ankerpunkte, ungenaue Kurven etc. Dazu kommt noch, dass die Zeichen am Rand teilweise beschnitten werden. All das ist im typografischen Sinn – unangemessen.

    Bezüglich der Kurvenführung sehen Sie sich als Beispielglyphe das y an! Ich habe einige fürchterliche…

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  9. Typing letter in Paragraph/Character style Shortcut field results in invisible shortcut being assigned

    How to reproduce this serious bug:

    -Double-click a Paragraph or Character Style to edit
    -Type a letter in the Shortcut field
    -Witness the field remanining blank
    -Click OK.

    Typing this letter in the document will now assign this style, while the letter remains invisible in the Shortcut field.

    A solution (provided the user will ever figure out what's going on) is to select all (Cmd-A) in the shortcut field and press delete (or maybe just delete is enough).

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  10. Bracket issues

    When copying a table from one indesign brochure to another new indesign document. The open and close brackets that were on the original table appears corrupted. The close bracket appears at the front of the word instead. Tried retyping it at the end of the word but keeps jumping to the front.

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  11. Add pins from Indesign to be shared for review

    While editing a file in InDesign, I have many ideas or questions to submit to the reviewers audience.
    However, I need to wait for all my edition work to be completed and shared for review online before being able to add pins and other comments. This is cognitively quite expensive, and it's not efficient overall.
    I wish I could add pins and comments right from InDesign (= new items in the Verify panel), to be published with the next "Share for Review" push.
    That way, I would comment at the exact time a question pops up in my mind, without…

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  12. Bug: Indesign completely hangs when it cannot save file to network drive

    Windows 11, Indesign 20.2
    Problem summary: when saving a file to a network to which the connection is lost during that save action, ID completely hangs and might also block the entire system.
    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Open any bigger INDD from a network drive, so the saving action takes some seconds.
    2. Change something and click save, then simulate a broken network connection by pulling the LAN cable
    Reaction: there might or might not be that "Save document" overlay with progress bar being at 0%. At this point, ID has two problems:
    a) There is no timeout. It would…

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  13. Restore Command + Resize and Command + Space Zoom Behavior in InDesign

    In recent versions of InDesign, two essential shortcuts have been broken or changed:

    Command + Drag on a frame no longer resizes the content inside the frame as it used to — or it behaves inconsistently.
    Command + Space no longer reliably brings up the zoom tool that allows click-dragging to zoom into a selected area.
    These shortcuts were core to efficient, professional workflows for years. Removing or altering them without an option to restore the original behavior is disruptive. Designers rely on muscle memory and speed — this feels like a step backward.

    Please restore the legacy behaviors or…

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  14. Interaction between Text Wrap, Optical Margin Alignment and Numbered List

    When a text frame with activated Optical Margin Alignment containing numbered list wraps around another text frame the numbering is incorrectly aligned. The affected numbers noticeably stick outside of the text frame and thus create unpleasant left margin. Only numbering on wrapped lines is affected, numbering below the wrap behaves as expected.

    Similarly, if the text frame is modified so as its border lays entirely outside of the area affected by wrapping offset, the optical alignment of the numbering behaves as expected. This at least provides some workaround.

    I am attaching a screenshot of the behaviour as well as a…

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  15. "Feedback Menu" is Blocking

    The Feedback Menu appears to be programmed to be thread blocking - while it is active, users are unable to drag and drop images into their canvas. On closing the feedback menu "how likely are you to recommend indesign...", the images that the user has attempted to drag and drop into the canvas are populated. This can be confusing if the feedback menu is minimized or not apparently open to the user.

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  18. Title Case Is Not Actually Title Case

    I'm editing book with over 1,000 pages. I am selecting copy, changing case to Title Case, but it just capitalizes first letter in all words. There needs to be another case option. Title case needs to be setup so it makes a "title" of a book so words like "of" are not capitalized. New option can be called First Letter Caps, and Title case can be fixed to address words that should not be capitalized in a title of a book or headline.

    The Old Man and the Sea (Actual Title Case) The Old Man And The Sea(Not Title Case)

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  19. page layout panel not scolling

    Pages Panel does not scroll to all pages in document, whether in horizontal or layout view. If panel is enlarged and the pages all fit, you can see them. If you shrink the pages to a smaller size (from jumbo to extra large) and they fit in the view panel, you can see them. But if it is a large document (more than 25 or so pages) you cannot scroll far enough to view pages past about 25 in extra large view.
    Fully updated version InDesign 20.3.1. on Mac.
    Every file I open is like this. Most files were created…

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  20. text won't appear over a pdf or imported image

    when i import an image or a pdf, any text that i try to have over it (such as putting a page number in the corner of the page) disappears. it's not that the text doesn't appear when the imported file isn't there, just that it is disappearing as it goes "beneath" the image or pdf. sending the imported file to back or the text to front does nothing.

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