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  1. CC2017

    When I command+W and try to scroll up and down with the arrow keyes it takes forever and its inconstant. Basically its not working at all.
    I just bought the new MacBook Pro 2017 with macOS Sierra 10.12.5.

    I restarted laptop and it continued to make the same.
    In my other Macbook air, it works just as fine.

    2 votes

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  2. pipette does not work in cells of tables

    pipette does not work in cells of tables

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  3. Copying from Illustrator pastes with strange colors

    I used to be able to do this with no problem: copy a vector from Illustrator into InDesign and it look the same. Now, when I paste a logo, say, a teal and yellow one, into InDesign, the teal turns red! I have color swatches created in the Illustrator file, but even when I haven't done that, I've never seen this happen before. I now have to import many vector images instead, which is a huge inconvenience.

    2 votes

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  4. Surface Pro 4 And Gestures

    I have a new Surface Pro 4. When using Adobe applications, gestures on the touch pad (for example pinching or scrolling) either don't work or are really bugy with little control. I was told by Adobe that this is due to the detachable keyboard on the Surface Pro.

    2 votes

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  5. ID very slow in scrolling with many tables

    When a document has many tables, even if small ones, scrolling is abysmally slow. You can't work on it, since you can't even stop scrolling when expected, since ID continue scrolling to previous or following pages as it likes.

    I had this same document in CS6 on a Mac mini Quad-Core 2012. It was faster than with the latest ID on a Mac mini M4 Pro.

    1 vote

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  6. InDesign window opening between two monitors

    In InDesign 2026 (v 21.51), I'm having troubles opening files by right-clicking on them in my Microsoft File Explorer. I'll have InDesign running, but with the program window collapsed. Then when I try to right click an INDD file and select to open it with InDesign 2026, the program window pops up and opens the file, but the window is split between my two external monitors and the aspect ration is off. Then I end up having to shut InDesign down entirely to get it to revert back. This only happens so far when the program window is collapsed to…

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  7. Cursor flickering throughout InDesign 21.5.1 on macOS Tahoe

    Since updating InDesign from 21.5 to 21.5.1, the cursor flickers and repeatedly switches between different pointer shapes/icons while working in InDesign. This occurs throughout the application, including over text, tables, frames and the pasteboard.

    System:

    MacBook Pro (2021), Apple M1
    macOS Tahoe 26.5.2
    InDesign 21.5.1
    Apple Magic Mouse
    Normally using two external monitors (one HDMI, one USB-C)

    Troubleshooting performed:

    Restarted InDesign and macOS multiple times
    Reset InDesign preferences
    Disconnected both external monitors and tested using only the MacBook display — the flickering continued
    Tested Photoshop — no cursor flickering
    Tested InDesign 20.5.4 — no cursor flickering
    Reverted InDesign from 21.5.1…

    1 vote

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  8. Pre-composed Hebrew characters do not track

    InDesign 21.1 ME
    Pre-composed Hebrew characters in many Hebrew fonts do not track through the Character panel, though precomposed Latin characters do (see image, line 5 versus line 9). I would expect that they track like any other discrete character.
    Many thanks for your help.

    1 vote

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  9. Slow even with RTX 4070.

    I've used Adobe products for about 20 years, with all sorts of computers, good and bad, but it has always been a pleasant experience. But since 2-3 years ago, everything changed. I now really struggle on any app really even on top specs computers, in, photoshop, indesign, lightroom but especially Indesign. I have a Dell XPS with RTX 3070 desktop AND XPS RTX 4070 laptop. Both really amazing and new computers. Any other non-adobe software works flawlessly. Tried all the recommendation from Adobe, talked to technicians, still really laggy and worse with each updates...Unsubscribed after many thousand of dollars worth…

    1 vote

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  10. Indesign freezes and Crashes when attempting to delete a row

    I am having an issue where InDesign is freezing and crashing after I try to delete a table row.

    I am unable to attach a DMP file even though your documentation asks for it.

    Only thing that seems to mitigate it is copying the INDD file, but the issue comes back after I work for a while.

    Using 21.4.1 x64 on Windows 11

    1 vote

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  11. Save As not working again

    InDesign Classic 2026 21.4.1 x64 / Win11 Home 24 H2. Good grief. It's happening again!!! ---> To successsfully use "Save As" I must save with slight file name change to get it to save with correct date/time stamp. And yes -- we just had an MS OS update. Why is this still occasionally happening!? When does this problem finally get corrected so that saving a file --- a most critical thing to do --- works properly?

    1 vote

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  12. Bug Report: High Quality Display shows no improvement over Typical for large images (~45MP+)

    Placed raster images above roughly 45-48 megapixels show zero visible difference between Typical and High Quality Display Performance; both render a blocky, low-resolution proxy instead of the full-resolution source. The same content under ~38MP renders correctly with the expected difference.

    Steps to reproduce: place an RGB 8-bit image with total pixel count at or above ~45MP (e.g. 6000x8000px) at a large placed size (Effective PPI 700+). Switch between Typical and High Quality Display: no visible change. Reduce the same source to ~36-38MP (e.g. 6000px long side): renders correctly.

    Size pattern observed on the same source content: 8000px long side (~48MP),…

    1 vote

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  13. Pasteboard color

    Since the last update 2026, all documents with custom preview pasteboard colour (I prefer a dark gray) revert to the standard light gray pasteboard colour.

    Also: when changing the custom pasteboard colour I get a long list of standard colors with the custom colour on the bottom of the list, why such a long list and why not put custom on top in pop-up menu?

    1 vote

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  14. HEIC file usability

    I just embedded twenty HEIC files in an INDD file and the file rapidly became extremely sluggish. The color wheel of death spun regularly for almost every 5th action step. Even simple adjustments into the file, caused the color wheel to spin. Its time to get this bug fixed from Indesign.

    1 vote

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  15. The assignments panel is not showing in the editorial menu.

    I've already tried to reset the preferences, but no luck with that. It's just not there.

    1 vote

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  16. Cursor Disappearing when placing images or resizing bounding box

    Cursor is disappearing when placing images and resizing bounding box. It's extremely annoying.

    InDesgin 21.3

    OS Tahoe 26.4.1

    1 vote

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  17. Overprint Preview does not work until cursor is moved

    When switching between Normal Mode and Overprint Preview, Overprint Preview does not immediately switch/preview until I move my cursor. My Display Performance is set to Typical Display.

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  18. Split Screen and Multi Window Screen Redraw Issues (diagonal slash)

    I have the same error occurring on two machines (different Adobe accounts) - both fresh (a month old) installations of InDesign 2026 (V21.3)

    Whenever viewing in Multi-Window (two documents side by side) or Split Screen (same document with two viewports side by side). Making minor edits often causes the top portion of one window or the other to go blank diagonally across the screen(see images). It gets filled in either white or the pasteboard color.

    Scrolling up/down will correctly redraw content that comes into view, but whatever was already in the frame buffer stays and the blank area just scrolls…

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  19. make guides

    I want to make angled guides but I can't find a solution? The only thing I could find online isn't available for some reason even though I have the most updated version of Indesign. The solution people posted was to right click and there should be an option to 'make guides' out of a shape but that option does not exist. super frustrating and this always seems to happen where there is this made up easy fix that I apparently don't have access to.

    1 vote

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