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  1. Cross reference forces line break

    1. Indesign 17 and 16
    2. Write text in textbox. Insert cross reference close to the text box right boundary.
    3. I expect the cross reference to fit that line
    4. It is forced to line break.
    5. See attached files (red arrow).
    6. The problem does not occur when using Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer but when using (the normal) Adobe Paragraph Composer.
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  2. can't find vertical type option on tool box,

    been using InDeign v 17.0 but can't find a vertical type option in the toolbox.

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  3. new frames automatically placed below pasteboard

    I am using InDesign 17.2 x64.

    Occasionally when pressing the little red box of a text frame to continue the story and then placing it on the next page, the text frame will be placed not on the page but far below the pasteboard. (It will have an X value of anywhere from 68 to 400 inches.) It also increases the size of the pasteboard. This happens regardless if the text frame has an object style applied with a position value, or if it has no object style applied.

    It also happens if the the shift key is held down…

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  4. Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right text boxes and style sheets are confusing

    Dear Adobe InDesign Team,

    Please simplify how users specify left-to-right Western language text boxes and documents versus right-to-left Middle Eastern language text boxes and documents in the multi language version of InDesign.

    There are no fewer that four places where paragraph direction and language specification appear in various places in the InDesign workspace.

    Users would benefit from simplification of language-switching tools, because InDesign's interface does not readily expose what language text direction it is using and sometimes switches paragraph direction without users knowing what these international language settings are defaulting to.

    My issue had to do with US English text…

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  5. paragraph window not working properly

    No numbers are showing in the paragraph window. I can manually adjust (sometimes) with the arrows but I have no idea what the numbers are. The numbers which are showing are poking out of their boxes. The justification buttons also sometimes don't work.

    I've shut down, restarted, reinstalled etc. I used an older version of InDesign for a while because it's almost impossible to work with. Woke up today and the old version has gone and the new version had installed itself but still has these bugs.

    I'm using Indesign 17.3 on MacOS Monterey 12.4.

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  6. Indesign 17.2 does not support Tibetan fonts "Microsoft Himalaya"

    The fonts work normally before updating. After updated to the latest version, the fonts cannot be opened in Indesign.

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  7. Optical kerning too wide between apostrophe and lowercase d

    I'm using InDesign 17.1 but I believe this is a longstanding bug. When using optical kerning, the visual distance between an apostrophe and a lowercase d is too wide. I'm attaching a screenshot with examples using I'd, She'd, and Who'd. The upper version of each one uses optical kerning, while the lower version is where I have manually adjusted the kerning to something more like it should be. I also include examples of the pleasing optical kerning shown by other apostrophe-letter pairs.

    Most relevant is the apostrophe s combination. The lowercase s has an upper left curve similar to the…

    2 votes

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  8. Incorrect index alphabetical order - Hungarian, Czech, Slovak..

    Indexes for several languages do not sort correctly even if sort setting is changed to correct language.

    This impacs on letters with accents, umlauts etc.

    Please can you fix?

    2 votes

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  9. shift-enter - tabs palette inconsistent with other palettes

    In previous versions of Indesign (I have just now tested in CS4) you could press shift-enter in the tabs palette and focus would remain on the tab setting. This would allow you to easily enter a precise value and move the tab stop. Pressing Ctrl-Shift-Enter would do the same but add a new tab stop. This meant you could easily add tabs at precise stops right from the keyboard without having to double click in the box every time. This would also make the behaviour consistent with the other palettes where shift-enter applies the value but keeps focus.

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  10. 3 votes

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  11. Fonts with a certain suffix in the family name not showing up in the font menu

    InDesign 17.2.1 macOS 12.3.1
    When installing four different regional packages each of them following this family name structure: name + region, being the family names:
    MyFont APAC
    MyFont CYR
    MyFont EMEA
    MyFont NALA
    Fonts with CYR in the family name don't show up in the font menu, while the rest of the fonts do.
    The fonts are somewhere though as InDesign does not complain about the fonts not being installed when opening a document set in that font.

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  12. Copying a URL Hyperlink auto formats to a opening another indesign file

    I've been having URL hyperlinks that are copied Document A into Document B are auto format as a shared location that is Document A. But all I want is Document B to have the same hyperlinks, and nothing I've tried will prevent "shared destination" as being the default. All I wanted is the an image with a hyperlink to copy into Document B as a URL. Instead I have random InDesign documents opening without warning and then indesign crashes. I've ended up needing to delete all hyperlinks (attached to both text and images) and entirely reformat each one. Without accidently…

    2 votes

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  13. Running headers do not support superscript, subscript, ...

    Running headers do not support the usage of superscript, subscript, ... Using only Indesign, there is no solution. Could you please fix this?

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  14. Bug: Table/cell styles don't define cell height and character format

    Indesign CC 2020, v17.1

    The dialog to create a new cell style doesn't have a definition for the cell height (value "At least" / "Exactly") like we find it in the table properties panel. Table styles also don't define cell height and that is all we can use. If you adjust the cell height manually and redefine the cell style, it's also not submitted. So there is no chance to format an entire table just by selecting a table style.

    Next is characters. If there is supposed to be text in a table, that text gotta have a style. Since…

    2 votes

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  15. hyphenation across columns persisting after deselecting option in style

    Issue happens to text that is assigned a paragraph style and located above footnotes.

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  16. Preflight bug for non-proportional scaling glyphs text

    Still, I think it's either a bug with preflight or at least an unexpected behavior of the preflight function.
    Preflight had an error with the first insertion point after the auto bullet; not with a specific character.
    At least it says that the error is related to the bullet, but it is showing an insertion point only when I click to select the error on the page.

    FWIW: At least the individual information on the shown error is highly misleading.

    Problem is described here and ID sample with the problem available at this address: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/new-problem-with-non-proportional-scaling/m-p/12903503#M474837

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  17. InDesign 2022 mising table strokes after opening the idml file

    After opening idml files in InDesign 2022 (v. 17.2) some table strokes are set to 0 pt while they should be stroked at 1 pt. There's no such issue with InDesign 2021 which opens the idml correct. Any ideas are welcomed.

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  18. 2 votes

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  19. 2021 variable font repeatedly unavailable causing InDesign to freeze

    In InDesign (version 17.0.1), I am using Acumin Variable, which initially shows up with no issues. However, InDesign begins freezing and minutes later, a pop up notification says the variable font is unavailable. This has been on-going and other designers I collaborate with are experiencing the same problem with this font.

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  20. inDesign creates an invalid href for an Archive.org link

    When InDesign creates the href for a link from Archive.org it does not href to archive.org, but to the dead link.

    example:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20220320173121/https://freewheelingeasy.com/
    creates the href for "https://freewheelingeasy.com/"
    rather than the correct href of "https://web.archive.org/web/20220320173121/https://freewheelingeasy.com/"

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