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  1. nekudos

    the nekudos for hebrew letters is all massed up
    see below

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  2. gradient color fill of many highlighted individual table cells can not performed

    There must be more controls of the filling methods of table cells:
    1. We must be able to select multiple many cells at once
    2. We must able to apply gradients to selected cells individually
    3. The whole table style including type of filling of individual cells, vertical and horizontal strokes, border, etc. must be saved in table styles and be applied totally to other tables
    4. each table cell must have individual path and 4 corner controls
    5. you must provide some elegant shapes of the table header

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  3. line spacing / leading glitches

    I often change line spacing of a single line by selecting the first character of a line and changing the line spacing. Normally, this will adjust line spacing for the one line, but I'm encountering a baffling glitch that changes the line spacing for the line under the affected bit of text where I changed the line spacing. Note that I'm changing the leading of the first character of a new paragraph line. Please see my screen record to see this in action. I have tried this with multiple fonts. I am using the most up to date version.

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  4. Unknown Script 33 (InDesign 19.5)

    Hello, I'm a Type-Design and I'm currently developing a typeface and encountering an issue during the export process. When attempting to use the font in Adobe InDesign, I receive an error code "Unknown Script 33" upon selecting the font. The typeface includes two styles: plain and italic. The issue seems to be linked to the PostScript name, which varies based on how I rename it in FontLab.

    Notably, the font functions correctly in InDesign when only the plain or italic file is activated individually. The problem might be related to certain TrueType metadata, as indicated by the "(OTF)" label in…

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  5. Align to decimal tab stop behavior changes to left justified if ligatures present

    Indesign 19.5

    Create something like a manual numbered list with the first tab set as a decimal tab stop and any word in the first line that contains a ligature.. It can be as simple as "[tab]2. fi".

    Expected result is the period would align where the decimal tab stop is set. This will happen up until a ligature is introduced.

    Once a ligature is present on the first line, the decimal tab stop behaves like a left-justified tab stop instead.

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  6. Is this a text wrap problem or something else??

    I use InDesign 2022. My Text wrap is set to 'none'.

    When I open a new text box it’s automatically applying a 1" a white space top and bottom that is the width of the text box. Also a 1/4" white space to each side of the box, that is the height of the text box. These 'white panels' (I hesitate to call them text wraps) blank out other text boxes and photos, but sometimes the text from the underlying text box shows through. Bringing the photo to the front can help where a photo is concerned.

    This is especially…

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  7. Ligatures do not appear

    I need to use a barcodes font that contains ligatures of pairs of digits. this ligatures are not recognized by InDesign. it works in Illustrator and eg. MS Office so its not an issue of that font but may be a bug in InDesign. Name of the font ist 2of5.ttf

    InDesign 19.4 x64, Window10

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  8. Running Header issue with anchored textframes (for alternative titles)

    If I use an anchored textframe to have abbreviated versions of the headlines as running head, they override every following trigger until the end of the story.

    I use character styles as trigger set to 'last on page'.

    Please fix this. (Or configure a better way for customizable running headers. Preferable in combination with the table of content)

    See also the following post:
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-randomly-skipping-text-variable-triggers-for-running-headers/m-p/11700448#M408635

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  9. undesired text reflow

    When anchoring an object to which text wrap has been applied, the text in the paragraph receiving the anchor reflows in an undesired manner, affecting layout in minute but important ways. Trying to fit book copy around an image without creating spaciness within the shortened lines is hard enough without having all one's adjustments made null when the text shifts due to an anchor that has nowhere else it can be placed.

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  10. Table window does not show measurements when table is selected

    Adobe InDesign
    19.4
    Happens from time to time when the cahracters disappear completely or partially and gains functionality after quiting ID several times or restarting Mac.

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  11. world composer opentype

    InDesign 19.4.0.63, two different Mac Studio M2, MacOS 13 and 12.7.4

    1 - Create new document
    2 - Go to Parent, in either page of the default spread, create a text object
    3 - Add TYPE -> ADD SPECIAL CHARACTER -> CURRENT PAGE NUMBER
    4 - Select all, change font of this text object to Minion Pro
    5 - Finally, change it to SMALL CAPS
    6 - Add PAGES -> add over 100 pages

    RESULT:

    • IF the Composer is set to ADOBE PARAGRAPH for that text object,
      • it will appear fine on page 100... the three digit number is properly…
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  12. Text justification algorithm is *really* sloppy.

    When the justification is set to "justified," when I add or delete text, text moves down from previous lines, making those earlier lines look really stretched out with huge spaces. This happens constantly. It looks really bad, and there's no logical reason for it.

    This happens whether "Hyphenate" is on or off.

    Each line of text should always hold as many words as it can hold (without shrinking anything to fit). What happens on any later line should never cause any change in previous lines.

    I'm using InDesign v. 19.3 x64 in Windows.

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  13. When language is set to Polish, InDesign insert American ("") instead of Polish quotes („”)

    This is very annoying thing. Could you please fix it? (In InDesign CS6 it worked like a charm ;) ).

    I'm using the newest InDesign (19.4 x64) and Windows 11 (23H2)

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  14. Conflict - when I select "e" and I would like to change it to "ę" (Polish special character) with right alt+e, InDesign opens Export dialog.

    Please, remove the Export dialog in this particular situation, this is super annoying.

    I'm using the newest InDesign (19.4 x64), Polish version and Windows 11 (23H2)

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  15. eyedropper tool

    Since 19.4 the eyedropper tool doesn't work as it should for at least picking up a character style and 'paste' its character style onto one or more words. This is when no text is selected.
    When text IS selected, I can pick up a character style from some text that is styled like I want it to, and 'paste' it onto one or more other consecutive words, but not for a second time onto some other (string of) words. So only once useful. Which makes it unusable for this purpose.

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  16. typografische Anführungszeichen-Funktion funktioniert bei einer Datei plötzlich nicht mehr

    Problem: Plötzlicher Ausfall der korrekten typografischen Anführungszeichen

    Guten Tag,
    ich arbeite mit dem aktuellen InDesign unter Ventura.
    Bei einer Datei, an der ich seit Tagen arbeite, funktioniert plötzlich die voreingestellte Funktion der automatisch korrigierten typografischen Anführungszeichen. Es werden nur noch US-Zoll-Zeichen erstellt.
    Programm-Neustart sowie Rechner-Neustart helfen nicht.
    Auch speichern als idml und Wiederherstellung daraus brachte keinen Erfolg.
    Bei anderen, sehr ähnlichen erstellten Dateien sowie bei neuen Dokumenten funktioniert es einwandfrei.
    Schließlich habe ich einen Work-Around verwendet: Im Miniatur-Modus das gesamte Dokument in eine jüngere Datei kopiert: Alles geht wieder.
    Meine Frage: Was hätte ich noch (Einfacheres?) tun können? In welcher…

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  17. Why can't the "cell style" control the height of the line in the table?

    Why can't the "cell style" control the height of the line in the table?
    If the "cell style" can control the height of the line, it will definitely save a lot of unnecessary operations. I wonder why it should be set manually?

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  18. Adding words to Thai User Dictionary does not add whole word recognition

    In Thai, you can add a word with or without hyphenation to the Thai language User Dictionary and that word does not become recognized as a whole word. If you double click on the word, it will still only highlight parts of the word that it recognizes as forming a word (leaving the rest of the added word not selected).

    This leads to hyphenation problems because if InDesign still sees the word in three parts then it will break the word into those parts without recognizing the need to hyphenate the word.

    So there needs to be a way for…

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  19. Thai Launguage and Optical margins

    With Thai language and world-ready paragraph composer on InDesign 19.3, by default optical margins are enabled. but this does not produce desirable adjustments. It does hang the left margin outside just a little but it does not recalculate the line for Left Justification. So the right side become shorter by the same amount as it moved the line to the left.

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  20. Table language

    BUG

    When converting text to a table, in the most recent build of InDesign prerelease, text language is lost.

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