Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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adobe color themes sign in
In Indesign, the Adobe Color Theme panel says that I need to sign in to access my swatches. I am already signed in, so what is the issue?
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Colour picker turns everything to blank with strokes, applies stroke
Colour picker is broken. Everything is checked, but when I use it, it turns the object picked from into blank with black stroke. When applied, it adds a black stroke. This is true of text, objects, and links. Deleting local settings changed nothing.
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When Drawing Rectangles I Cannot Recolor Them In Any Manner
InDesign 20.0.1 and 19.0, Mac OS Sequioa 15.1.1, M1 Mac
When drawing a rectangle, I am unable to recolor it, edit its color, stroke, in any manner, etc. I am greeted with the "negative mac boop" noise when selecting a color.
I have restarted my device, Fully un and re-installed the entire Creative Cloud Suite and all of its apps. Did a VRAM reset, all of the usual tricks.
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Can't select a swatch color for text or table fills
While in an InDesign document, I can't change the color of text or fills within a table. When I click to apply, it thinks for a second, then makes a beep (the sound you hear if you have an open dialog box and you click outside of it), and then reverts back to the previously assigned color. I've tried overriding the paragraph/table styles, but hasn't worked yet. Anyone else experiencing this? I'm on version 19.5.
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Working color profile vs Color settings
In new InDesign 2025 v20.0 (on Mac, Sonoma 14.7.1), i have Fogra39 set in Color settings, still new documents are created with US Web coated v2 profile... It should work as in previous version: use Fogra39 for new documents, as is set in color settings.
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Tint swatches are not working correctly for RGB swatches
When making a tint of an RGB swatch, the slider shows lighter colors (less saturated), but when applied, the colors are darker (less brigt) - black is added.
I work in RGB Blend space
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Issues with Color Picker in InDesign: HSB and RGB Confusion Leading to Unexpected Colors
When I open the color picker to adjust a shade, I usually automatically do so in HSB, since I usually want a lighter or darker shade of what I'm working on. But if I don't actually click on the radial buttons for the HSB value I'm working on, InDesign will give me some wild colors! It seems to be confusing HSB and RGB somehow--but I don't know why or how, since I'm editing in the HSB boxes.
If I'm using an HSB Swatch and open the color picker to get a different shade, the "original" color box shows something completely…
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Find Color not working
Find Color [in document] fails to find specific color swatches.
1- I deleted all unused swatches.
2- I tried to track down redundant or undesired swatches that remained (in example, it was a pantone red/orange)
3 -"Find color" could not locate where swatch was used
4- I deleted the pantone swatch and converted to magenta in order to visually locate magenta in my document since "find color" did not do so.
5- Found the color in a text field1 vote -
Colours not previewing when changing Paragraph rules and text colours
When changing the colour of text or paragraph rules in my document, the colours are not changing on the page - they are still showing as white, even though both rules and titles have been changed to orange.
If I drag the text block off the page to the bleed/slug area, the correct colour change can be seen. When I export the pages to PDF the colour is also showing up correctly, yet I can’t see them when working in the document. See screen shot below.
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swatch / colour display bug IND 19.2 - not all swatches used are appearing in swatch panel
New update Indesign 19.2 swatches / colours in document not all appearing in swatches panel - you've always been able to easily delete a swatch in indesign and it'll delete everywhere if, for example, you paste something from another document and it brings in a conflicting colour, without having to use "find swatch" (which is great for finding where it's used but not as fast if you don't care where it is).
Yesterday I noticed not all swatches used are appearing however. A text box I had used a colour background that definitely isn't in swatches. I also noticed one…
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Eyedropper tool doesn't work when InDesign is on 2nd monitor
I'm using a 2nd monitor attached to my laptop. When InDesign is on the 2nd monitor, the eyedropper tool cannot select any colors, but if all I do is move InDesign to my laptop's screen (the main screen), then the eyedropper works again. Version 19.0.1 on Windows 11.
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Spot colors flagged because their name includes the word "pantone"
InDesign 19
Steps: Opening any file with manually-built spot colors with the word "pantone" in their names brings up the "this document uses Pantone colors" blue nag
Expected: that spot colors built manually, not using any installed color books, will be left alone
Actual: apparently the software flags the word "pantone", regardless of its originSummary: Manually-created spot colors are being flagged in Indesign because they have Pantone in their names. I legally purchased Pantone books in prior years, and the colors I'm using were built by referring to the builds from those books. I am not using any installed…
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RGB colors not converted the same as in Photoshop when CMYK Transparency Blend space is set to CMYK
Imported RGB images do not convert the same as native RGB elements when document "Mode" is set to CMYK.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkD78CVR1NBqm91SWA13tUYbjpH6zA?e=8TLQJ61 vote -
Error when pasting hex color code with #
When pasting a hex code with a hash character prefix (#) in InDesign 18.3 (macOS 12.6.8) you get an error that it is a incorrect color format. Even if I try to "correct" the pasted text by removing the hash character, I can‘t get InDesign to accept the pasted color code.
This annoying "bug" applies to the color window/palette.
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Swatches panel missing options at the bottom
The swatches panel usually has buttons for "New swatch", "Delete Swatch" etc at the bottom. These are missing since the latest Indesign update.
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Spotcolor channel does not export (not enough data)
Spotcolor channel does not export (not enough data for one image) from InDesign 2023 - from an older Version (2022) it exports correctly, the files that don't work any longer are also from 2020 and 2021 when everything was exportable flawlessly - we need the Spotcolor to be functional.
Spotcolor is an Extra-Spotcolor-Channel, correctly named in an TIFF in PS.
Thank you for getting back to us within the next 5h.1 vote -
Move swatch folder to cc library
Be able to move swatch folders/groups to cc library and keep the swatches in order.
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Changing the transparency blend space between CMYK and RGB is not changing the Black swatch
Changing the transparency blend space between CMYK and RGB is not changing the Black swatch to RGB, and vice versa
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Table & mixed inks on InDesign 18.1
I created a group of mixed inks from 2 Pantones (432 and 2995) in 10% increments (121 shades in total).
I create a table with alternate backgrounds (FPGP2995 shades 1 and 12). Everything's good. But when I select the first line to change it to shade 121, it systematically puts it at 20%! And if I change the percentage, it selects PFGP2995, i.e. the ink group...and the line stays white! I am attaching screenshots.
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