Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Indesign 20.0.1: Imported ai files suddenly have a white background
I want to put a logo on a photo and Indesign automatically fills the background of the object frame with white. The imported logo (in .ai format) is not isolated and you cannot change the background color of the box. The error only occurs in Indesign 20.0.1. I reinstalled version 20.0 and the problem is gone.
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images move
I have a large InDesign file for a product catalogue, and when opening it yesterday, for the first time ever since I started working on it many years ago, I realized that some images have shifted position. It almost seems like the kind of problems we get in Microsoft Word when moving images.
My images are anchored objects in text. They should not be moving position randomly. They should stay at the place I have assigned to them, even with text reflowing following text changes.
Why does it do this?
Windows, InDesign 20.0.1 x64.
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Links Not Auto Updating when Modified in InDesign 2025
My workflow typically involves opening links from the InDesign document to edit by selecting the link from the Links panel and choosing Edit Original. In InDesign 2025, however, I've noticed that links are no longer updating whether it's a PSD or AI file and I assume other file types. This has never been the case before.
I tried a test with a new file and placed two assets to the file. One was a PSD and the other was an AI. I then opened the links from InDesign, made an edit to each (one at a time), saved, closed, and…
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.ai background not transparant
Illustrators imports in InDesign are always transparent, ever since i started with it back in the last century. I have tried making it .eps and Tiff without result. What's going on? Can anybody help me?
Illustrator 28.7.2
Mac OS Big Sur 11.7.10
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)1 vote -
Scaling image and frame using cmd/shift (mac) not working when signed in to Microsoft word
I teach in a mac classroom. Scaling image and frame using cmd/shift (mac) is not working in InDesign 20.0 for any students who are signed in to Microsoft word. It works fine once they log out of word.
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Data Merge window "white box" covering data
InDesign 20. Just upgraded and now all my data merge documents are not showing the data in the window. There is a white box over that pallette window. I tried dragging the window out but it still persists. I opened all my merge documents and they are all showing the same white box over the data fields. I contacted support via chat and they advised me to install an older version of InDesign. That solves the problem but I cannot upgrade to the new InDesign.
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Keyboard shortcuts to resize assets suddenly stop working
InDesign V19.5 on MacOS Sequoia 15.0.1.
Keyboard shortcuts to resize assets on a spread stop working once a document has been open for a while. Shortcuts such as CMD+ALT+Click to resize container box and the asset within, while maintaining proportions, CMD+click to resize container, while maintaining proportions, don't work.
The only fix I've found is to restart my Mac. Closing and reopening InDesign doesn't fix the issue.
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"Failed to place PDF" with a PDF file created in Canva
Trying to import a client supplied PDF, created in the paid version of Canva and saved as a CMYK print quality PDF (not flattened). Will not place into InDesign. I've tried various and no import options and it does not work. I have placed this PDF into Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Publisher 2 without issue.
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cc library
CC library graphics aren't updating in InDesign document after having being edited and saved in Illustrator.
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PROBLEM NEEDS FIXING: InDesign Puts little faces in photos of my ORIGINAL ART
Version 19.5 x64
Indesign puts numerous little faces in my original artwork!
Steps to reproduce:
1: Hand draw some artwork
2: Photograph the artwork and save to hard drive
3: Use the "place" feature in InDesign to place the artwork into an INDD file
4: Adjust size via Fit commands
5. Find numerous tiny faces, both apparently drawn and photos e.g. black and white photos of faces, have suddenly appeared in the artwork.
Screenshot is attached with only the most obvious faces circled in green. There are many more.1 vote -
Image selection triggers frozen Adobe Help video pop up , makes me lose any shortcut
Whenever I click an image; what seems to be a still from a video ( looks like a help video from Adobe ) comes into the left corner, disabling any other shortcut. Can't seem to disable these videos anywhere and it just pops up.
Especially the undo is utmost anoying.1 vote -
Basic question re the difference between indesign and illustrator
I subscribed to indesign to view and be able to manipulate work done by a designer. He sent me his .ai - .psd files done with illustrator.
Everything, including .jpg are un openable.
Is it normal I can't open his drawings?1 vote -
Modifier l'original
Je cherche à modifier dans Indesign, l'application qui s'ouvre par défaut lorsque je veux modifier une photo.
Je veux que Photoshop s’ouvre et non Aperçu quand je clique sur « Modifier l’original »…
Et éviter de passer par "Modifier avec…" qui est beaucoup trop long pour 500 photos ! Avez-vous une solution ? Merci d'avance.1 vote -
Images or graphics disappear (Mac M1; Sonoma 14.5) (ID V19.4)
Hi, It
This Problem happen >> InDesign performance issue: Text disappears while editing <<
I'm unable to copy images or certain objects.
Images or graphics disappear, and I can't click or select them, even though they're still visible in the layer panel.
I've tried using the "Alternate" function, but the image still disappeared.1 vote -
InDesign - OneDrive- Sync problems
I have synchronized a OneDrive image folder without downloading the image files. When I drag an image directly into an InDesign page, the file usually was downloaded automatically. But now I get an error message that the file might be in use and can only be opened after another user has closed it. If I use Ctrl. + D to import the same image, it works. Is InDesign maybe too fast for OneDrive to give access to the file? My collegue doesn't experience this problem but works with the same InDesign version and file directory.
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Linked .Ai path info doesn't match Bridge link info
Since Uservoice for Bridge was shut down, I'm posting here. My InDesign document (latest update installed) correctly shows the path to a linked Illustrator file. In Bridge (latest update installed), the link references the same file through a OneDrive path that does not exist.
I would like to report this to the Bridge team, but I'm not sure how. Or perhaps the InDesign team will know what's going wrong. Getting correct link info from Bridge seemed (at first) like vital capability for complex books with nested links to external files.
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Bad bug when previewing image area beyond the picture box crop
There’s a terribly bad bug when previewing image cropping. If you click on an image and hold the cursor down, to preview the image area beyond the picture box window, InDesign literally moves the image inside by a few pixels, so, a) it doesn’t accurately show where you HAD the image placed, and b) you always have to Undo Move Item to restore where you had it placed, which makes picture cropping preview completely useless.
A simple fix would be to show a ghost of what is being cropped when you select the image so that it shows the move…
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Photoshop Layers Not Displaying or Exporting Correctly from InDesign 2024
Using InDesign 19.3 and placing (via link) a layered PSD into layout, preferred layer visibility (as spec'd in import options) is failing.
Layer is part of a Group in Photoshop; part of the group is visible, part isn't (when viewed in InDesign).
It isn't just a preview issue, because if I export a PDF from ID, the layers aren't visible in the PDF either.
For now, my workaround is to use an earlier (2023) version of InDesign. The layers in my linked PSD preview and export correctly using the earlier version.
I've tried recreating the missing elements (rules) in Photoshop…
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Indesign dont open pictures from ekstern SSD disk (Ctr D) not funktion (Indesign 9.3) Samsung SSD T7
Bildene ligger på SSD disk, men får ikke åpnet de når jeg jobber i Indesign og trykker på CTR D, eller Ctr O. Timeglasset bare går.
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19.3
holding Shift while scaling is not working! New macbook and indesign 19.3 - VERY FRUSTRATING!
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