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  1. excel import options failure

    Indesign 17.0.1: Using File>Place to locate an Excel File to place. Select to show Import Options. The import options dialog box will not let me select a Sheet, View, or Cell Ranges. Blank drop downs are not clickable nor can I type in them.

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  2. Font baseline grid

    The baseline grid start value for Open Sans is different if the font is used from Adobe than if it's used from Google.
    This results in changes in layout which is very annoying. Also, when telling indesign to fit the box to text, the box is unnecessary larger at the top.
    Before the 17.0 InDesign update that wasn't the case.

    Someone else complained about this in November - https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/text-boxes-need-to-be-enlarged-after-update/m-p/... - the issue there is marked as solved, but it wasn't solved actually.

    The issue started with 17.0, actually i was really hoping it would have been addresses in this…

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  4. text colour tint dropdown menu bug

    Changing the text colour tint from 70% black to 100% black in Paragraph Styles crashes my M1 Mac mini 100% of the time.

    Trying to manually change the text colour is not possible because when I click on the drop down menu for colour and tint in the control bar, the menu either doesn't appear at all, or appears for a few milliseconds and then disappears. I officially cannot work on my document now. What to do?!

    screen shot of text colour drop down menu bug.
    https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/03fd5jEqLrVSXxB-6eZgCtMLw#Screen_Recording_2022-01-28_at_12.21.16_pm

    I'm using th pre-release version 17.7 (beach the main release is unusable)

    I…

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  5. Variable fonts: default face location included in style list even if not included in fvar

    I sent a variable test font to Josh Hadley. It includes an fvar table that does not contain the location of the default instance. InDesign v17.0.1 on Windows will include the default location anyway in the list of styles for the font, with a made up name. Should it not restrict itself to what it finds in the fvar and STAT tables?

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  6. Notes anchor marks are rendered incorrectly

    When I place a note, it affects the text box as it's rendered as a normal character.
    That is - it affects the leading, the spacing, the alignment, etc.

    For instance, if I have a top-aligned text box with a paragraph with letter size 9pt, and I place a note somewhere in the paragraph - the entire paragraph will shift downward - as the alignment takes the top of the note anchor as the topmost "pixel" in the text box.

    There is no way this is desirable. Who would want notes to affect their document layout? So I have to…

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  7. text

    My text changes to alternating capital and lower case letters throughout all typed words. It does not change if I have caps lock on the keyboard but will be all caps if I select it on the menu bar. But it still shows red spelling errors with asking to add the work to the dictionary. It is shown in alternating caps/lower case letters there too.

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  8. search and replace clipboard contents

    I cannot do a document-wide search and replace with clipboard-contents (formatted), when using Change All. When I attempt to replace any text with the clipboard-contents (GREP: ~c), it goes through the document, seemingly highlighting and replacing the text, but doesn't in fact change anything. It works when I do the exact search and replace string, but only using Find-and-change, and not when using Change All. Going through each instance (500+) one-by-one would take ages. Please fix the document-wide, Change All search-and-replace with clipboard-contents (formatted).

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  9. Verctorisation

    La vectorisation du texte ne fonctionne plus, impossible de dissocier les lettres d'un même mot comme avant !
    Exemple : Le mot "Good" ne peut plus être séparé en "G "o" "o" "d".
    Merci.

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  10. Spell Checker

    Hello
    I have a problem with spell checking in Indesing. The issue is that it does not correct words that are wrongly accented, for example, in Spanish, the word "como" when it should have an accent or the word "mas" when it should have an accent.
    Let me explain:
    The sentence (always in Spanish): ¿como te va la vida? should be written like this: ¿cómo te va la vida? and when I run the spell checker it does not detect the word "como", since it should have an accent. However, if I write ¿como te va la bida? it does…

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  11. Gap tool

    Hi,
    I have problem with gap tool.
    I place multiple images and set gap tool . Between images i have invalid cursor . I didnt see gap indicator between images. Anyone have an idea how to solve the problem.
    Thx

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  12. In some Hebrew fonts, part of the letter punctuation is missing or appears in the wrong place

    Adobe version 17.0.1.
    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Copy text with punctation, (like the poem from here: https://benyehuda.org/read/30477).
    2. Create in InDesign an RTL text area, and paste the text.
    3. Change font to Alef Regular.
    Expected results: correct location of punctation marks inside letters and above.
    Actual results: missing or wrong location.
    See screenshot attached.

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  13. Random missing text which does not affect the PDF output

    Greetings,
    Please compare the two screenshots that I've posted. One is a shot from InDesign, and the other is a screenshot from the PDF output of the same text. As you can see there are some missing lines in when I look at the text in InDesign.
    Some notes:
    1) It always happens with list items (bullet lists, numbered lists)
    2) The random missing text parts changes as I change the magnification (zoom) level
    3) It happens on all my documents
    4) I haven’t changed anything recently. No InDesign updates, etc.
    5) The font used is Minion Pro and supplied…

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  14. 文字入力ウィンドウの位置が悪い

    こんにちは。
    文字を入力す時、出てくる候補のウィンドウが入力の位置にかかってしまい入力がしずらいです。もう少し離れた場所に出るほうがありがたいのですが。

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  15. Type vanishes once edited in text boxes

    Following update of OS to Monterey 12.0.1 and using InDesign 2022 17.0.1, opening files that had been previously created, when editing text within text boxes, as soon as I click elsewhere then the text within the box vanishes - as thought there's not enough room for it, when there is.
    Sometimes clicking back on it causes it to reappear, sometimes the box just won't return as a visible element.

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  16. Type vanishes once edited in text boxes

    Following update of OS to Monterey 12.0.1 and using InDesign 2022 17.0.1, opening files that had been previously created, when editing text within text boxes, as soon as I click elsewhere then the text within the box vanishes - as thought there's not enough room for it, when there is.
    Sometimes clicking back on it causes it to reappear, sometimes the box just won't return as a visible element.

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  17. Rechteck Rahmen

    Es ist sehr mühsam in InDesign den Rechteck-Werkzeugrahmen zu aktivieren. Es funktioniert nur noch, wenn man exakt auf den Rahmen klickt. Klick in Table funktioniert nicht mehr. Das erschwert den Arbeitsablauf und nimmt viel Zeit. Bitte um Korrektur. Danke

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  18. paste

    I found one bug.

    When I'm pasting something in any field in interface, using Windows 10 clipboard (after clicking Win+V) then copied text is pasting 2 times.

    Indesign 16.4
    The same is in Illustrator

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  19. Open Type Fractions are Broken

    The last several weeks I've not been able to create fractions via Open Type text alternates even though it's set to do that in advanced type preferences and it's not giving me a dropdown option when the fraction is selected as it used to. It also doesn't work via the character window route. I'm using the most up to date CC InDesign 2021.

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  20. Table formats don't work at all

    ID 2019 - 2021
    1. Create a table format with table frame 1 pt and apply to a table without stroke - no change.
    2. Create a cell format with 1 pt stroke, nest in the table format and apply - no change. See video.
    3. Apply the cell format to a cell - at first no change. You must manually use the button that removes deviations. See the other video.

    Conclusion: neither table formats nor cell formats correctly override the current formatting of a table.

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