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  1. Color Settings change to Emulate InDesign 2.0

    Color Mode changes from whatever is set in InDesign when switching app from Adobe Photoshop to InDesign (latest versions) ... I am getting the same problem when switching from Photoshop to the latest Illustrator as well.

    Problem Occurs even when InDesign (and Illustrator) are both shut down. After launching Photoshop and then shutting Photoshop down, Color Settings in InDesign and Illustrator are both changed to "Emulate".

    PLEASE FIX IMMEDIATELY!!!! THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM and impacts my workflow horribly as I am back-and-forth between these applications regularly.

    I have checked Bridge as well... and default is set to North American…

    13 votes

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  2. test file

    it is not possible to upload .indd or .idml files.
    very good idea....

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  3. windows long paths not supported

    InDesign fails to open or place files with long paths in Windows. The "Long Paths Enabled" registry setting is enabled (i.e. it is set to 1). The problem affects several functions:

    1. From Bridge, Place > In Indesign causes "Script Alert: Error: Expected a reference to an existing File/Folder"

    2. DataMerge in InDesign: images with long paths are skipped, i.e. aren't merged. There is no error message.

    3. From InDesign. I cannot manually place a file with a long path through the “Place” dialog box. The dialog box will display the folder and thumbnails, but when I click the image to place it,…

    7 votes

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  4. Shared CC Library

    The WHOLE purpose of a "SHARED CC LIBRARY" is to be able to keep a single and universal source of truth for EVERY element within the library across all uses of the element – on all files.

    There is an issue achieving this.

    When I add an illustrator file to the CC Shared Library from within Indesign, and I go to edit that element, it:

    Opens a new InDesign file, where you can make the change,
    save the change, and the change is displayed on the thumbnail of the shared element, and does in fact update the shared element.

    HOWEVER....

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  5. graphic screen glitch

    Indesign 16.3.2 Big sur

    Another update, another graphical glitches.
    Your updates are only for new errors and glitches?
    For 60 euros a month?

    See screenshot!

    4 votes

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  6. Uservoice page bug

    The uservoice page, when posting or updating an idea/bug report would not accept attachments where the extension is in capital letters, such as the Windows Snipping tool would save them when creating screenshots. Means, a file with appendix *.PNG is not accepted, but one with *.png is.

    That's stupid programming!

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  7. Quickbooks update error 15106

    Quickbooks update error 15106 occurs when the update program cannot be opened or when the update program is damaged when updating QuickBooks Desktop.
    https://takeactionnyc.com/quickbooks-error-15106/

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  8. imported excel number spaces are replaced with an 'Ê' on Mac

    I'm on a Macbook pro M1, working on an InDesign file. I get some XLSX files with tables containing numbers in them, and when I place them into my document, all spaces between numbers are replaced with an 'Ê'.

    e.g. 123 456 789 will be placed as 123Ê456Ê789.

    I've asked someone to test it out on windows and it does not happen. I belive it is a IOS issue only....?

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  9. Style Mapping to [Basic Paragraph] doesn’t work with remembered settings or presets

    When you place (import) a Word document into InDesign, you can choose to use Style Mapping to map the paragraph and character styles in Word to their equivalents in your InDesign document. When you use this feature for the first time in a document, the mappings get stored somewhere and are remembered for any subsequent imports you perform in the same document; you can also choose to save your import settings, including Style Mappings, as a preset to use freely in any document.

    If you map any Word styles to the default [Basic Paragraph] style in InDesign, it works as…

    4 votes

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  10. chromeos/chromebook

    Hi,

    No option to use InDesign in ChromeOS/ChromeBook, what next ?

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  11. Type 1 error when opening InDesign file not reflected in Find/Replace Fonts window

    I now regularly get a pop-up blue box error message regarding Type 1 fonts in the files I'm working in. Example: "Your document contains 6 Type 1 fonts." However, if I open Find/Replace Font dialoge, the summary at top of window says "Type 1 fonts : 0". That error message is annoying AND incorrect -- unless the Find/Replace Fonts window is incorrect. Can these be updated to align their messages?
    I'm using InDesign v.17.0.1. on Windows 10 Enterprise

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  13. Display bug – garbled font randomly show up

    Font display bug – garbled font weirdness

    InDesign 16.4 on macOS Big Sur 11.5.1

    When flipping through pages I get this strange font display issue. See screenshots.
    It happens randomly. Not on every page but at least once every 10 pages.

    I can simply turn preview on and off or go to the next page and back to make the page behove normally again but this should not be necessary.

    This happens with all fonts.
    This happens every day.
    This happens on my colleagues computers as well. They are running various versions of indesign of various version of MacOS.
    This…

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  14. Indesign 16.2.1

    Indesign 16.2.1 half screen cut red. when adjust windows side by side and then return back, screen cut in half and turn red. After restart it happens again. Whats that? Thanks

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  15. Good morning, I was updated to Indesign 2022 (version 17 X64) and tried to install the Blurb plug in for indesign. This did not work a

    Good morning, I was updated to Indesign 2022 (version 17 X64) and tried to install the Blurb plug in for indesign. This did not work as expected. Indesign does not see the plug in under data. Any solutions?

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  16. Drop Cap not working in version 17.0.1

    Drop cap isn't working for me. The first letter doesn't capitalise ate all

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  17. Error when exporting to Rich Text Format (*.rtf)

    Adobe InDesign 17.0.1 x64

    When exporting a Story's text to Rich Text Format (*.rtf), if there are Endnotes in this Story, the notes will not be exported.
    To export notes you need to convert Endnotes to Footnotes, however there is also an error when converting Endnotes to Footnotes.
    When converting Endnotes to Footnotes all text attributes (bold, italic, etc) that exist in the notes will be lost.
    If the attribute is placed in the note via a character style, for example a character style that only puts italics, the italic will be preserved but as text exported to .rtf will…

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  18. selection

    I cannot use the selection button to change the size of an image or a text. Before I used to take that tool and by clicking on alt and maj i could change the size of image and text
    Now, I can only change the size of my image or text with the manual transformation tool.

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  19. Workspace reverts to Essential every time a document opens

    Hi there, I'm having an issue where every document that I open reverts the workspace to Essential. Is there a way to set this to my desired setting and make it stick. I've scoured the forums and tried everything mentioned from clearing caches and preferences to uninstalling and reinstalling. I've set the workspace with no documents open and closed and reopened the app but it just reverts back to Essential when I open a new/existing document. 
    Please help! This is driving me crazy as I have to do it every time I open a document. 
    I'm on an iMac (2020)…

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  20. Data merge Unicode not working

    Hi everyone,

    I'm experimenting some issue with data merge.
    When I try to import a CSV file using Unicode UTF-8 (I'm using Apple Number to do that) inDesign simply ignored encodage and brought many undesirable characters to my import.
    I tried to fix that enabling option when importing CSV file, but if I change from ASCII to Unicode nothing happens.

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