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  1. Bug ao exportar PDF Interativo

    Quando exporto pdf interativo, automaticamente ele insere links em urls, porém, quando a url ocupa duas ou mais linhas, ele insere apenas na primeira linha, tornando o link quebrado e sem funcionalidade. A única forma de resolver isso é colocando manualmente via ferramenta link. Tem com ajustar de forma que o Indesign consiga fazer a varredura do link, verificando se ele realmente funciona e criar automaticamente de forma correta? Obrigado.

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  2. Autoplay Embedded Videos Glitching

    I embedded a number of youtube videos into my indesign file and published online. They are all on different pages and are set to autoplay. They also have "start" and "end" times on them. Everything is working perfectly, except that when I go to view the published document online, the videos randomly start to play when I'm not viewing the pages they are on. I can hear them and not see them, unless I find the page the video is playing from. I've tested this in Chrome and Safari and am running into the issue on both. I would be…

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  3. Data Merge, CSV file containing column header named 'table'

    A CSV file with a column header named 'table' will fail to import with 'Data Merge > Select Data Source.' No errors are given. The 'Data Merge' panel remains unpopulated.

    Changing the header to something else, e.g. 'Table', will work.

    Adobe InDesign 18.5 on Windows 10 and macOS Monterey. 18.4 behaves the same way.

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  4. I want to see the page number !!

    Page view window
    The last line does not show the page number.
    it is been a long time but it until hasn't
    plz....

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  5. New cross reference dialog: search bug

    May be this isn't a bug per se, but it's nasty. When having the "New cross reference" dialog open and with no particular paragraph being selected, you see lots of garbage in the list on the right side. If you search for a specific headline, you'll find it, but not being listed in its actual format, but with the page number attached. You might then think this is just for display, but no, if you add it that way, it adds the text of the cross-ref as shown in the list, with page number. Even if you selected a cross-ref…

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  6. frame background showing behind polygon that's been pasted into it

    Indesign v18.4

    Steps:
    - make a rectangular frame, give it a background color
    - make a polygon the same color as the page background, that intersects the edge of the frame
    - cut and paste-into the polygon into the frame

    Expected
    the combination perfectly simulates the appearance of subtracting the polygon from the rectangular frame, but in a way that preserves editability.

    Actual
    works imperfectly: a tiny sliver of the background is visible on the edge of the rectangular frame. this very thin line gets thickened by the "enhance thin lines" function on adobe reader (but is still visible without…

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  7. Auto fit Frame Fitting Options Bugged

    As you can see in the example below the container selected is only 6 mm high if I crop it by -x amount, to have a white border around it, it does not do that consistently through all selected containers.

    With this container it crops a fraction of the actual number.

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  8. Structure does not update when content is deleted

    When you delete content from a document, the deletions are not reflected in the Structure panel.

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  9. ID window stutters when minimizing on MacBook Air M2 running StageManager

    I know you're working on making ID run natively on the M2 chip. One glitch...when minimizing the app on my new MacBook Air M2 /Ventura, the ID window stutters as it shrinks to the desktop -- instead of smoothly moving as other apps. This happens with all my Adobe apps, but it's most noticeable with InDesign. It's a minor glitch but visually annoying.

    2 votes

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  10. page variant

    I have a page variant (I'm not sure of the word in english, in french it's "Variante de page") and weird things happen when trying to re-arrange the pages order.

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  11. Word Import | BUG | Diacritic characters change language and formatting

    Hi together,
    if a Word docx or doc document contains text in italics that are not formatted using a character style diacritic characters will import to InDesign with:

    [1] Wrong language property. Instead of e.g. English (US) it will be Arabic
    [2] Formatting is in "Regular" and not in "Italic"

    For more details see this thread at the Adobe InDesign Forum:

    italics dropped for diacritic characters when importing Word docs
    davescottpeattie, Jan 26, 2023
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/italics-dropped-for-diacritic-characters-when-importing-word-docs/td-p/13531639

    Also see my reply in the same thread for some sample screenshots and attached documents:

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/italics-dropped-for-diacritic-characters-when-importing-word-docs/m-p/13532786#M512947

    Also note that the Word Import allows the creation…

    6 votes

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  12. After Update to Indesign 18.4.: Bad Performance with anchored TextFrames and vertical jusitification

    I have a document with a text frame which is vertically justified and contains some anchored objects. Editing text in this text frame works but it is very slow in 18.4
    In version 18.3 it runs quicker.

    2 votes

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  13. Metadata, text variables in Indesign

    Indesign don't insert Metadata (XMP) from the orioginal images downloaded from stock.adobe.com (as text variable); the downloaded image has to open in Photoshop and to »Save as«. Then the XMP-Metadata could be read by Indesign (as text variable).
    Indesign 18.5, Mac OS 12.6.6

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  15. Alt text is lost when content is edited in InCopy

    When a file containing content which includes anchored objects (images or groups) which have alt text applied is edited in InCopy, alt text is destroyed.

    InDesign/Incopy 2023 & 2022

    Steps to reproduce:
    1) Create a new INDD file
    2) Place an image
    3) Add alt text to the image
    4) Create a text frame with some placeholder text
    5) Anchor the image into the text frame
    6) Export the story for editing in InCopy
    7) Open the file in InCopy
    8) Edit the content (Don't touch the image)
    9) Check in the file
    10) Reopen the file in InDesign and…

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  16. Workspace Disappears on open - InDesign 18.0

    Workspace Disappears on open - InDesign 18.0. Only shows when I go to Window>Workspace>Reset [workspace name]

    iMac OS Ventura 13.0

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  17. "Suppress Text Wrap When Layer Is Hidden" not working

    InDesign CC most current version 18.5
    1. Add text frame
    2. Add overlapping object
    3. Add text wrap to object
    4. Set layer option to "Suppress Text Wrap When Layer Is Hidden"
    - Expect that text wrap will be suppressed when I hide the object layer that has text wrap applied
    - Text wrap is still applied when the object layer is hidden, whether applying the layer option first or last, creating a new document and starting over, or trying each text wrap option

    1 vote

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  18. export to EPUB Fixed Layout drawing shapes incorrectly and font spacing is all wrong

    I have a children's picture book that I am trying to turn into an ebook to go with the printed version. If I follow the menu path: File -> Export and choose EPUB (Fixed Layout), the entire book has the following issues:
    1) Shapes are all square - ignoring corner or being a circle or a freeform shape
    2) Fonts are set to some generic fonts and the spacing between lines and characters is all random and wrong.

    See three attached files to see how the pages are displayed with Indesign (source Indd file), and within the Kindle and Epudor…

    1 vote

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  19. Pdf comments - Sticky notes freeze file

    INDD 18.0 PDF comments has something chronically slow going on with the sticky notes. We have done some testing here and also confirmed by other in the forums https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/pdf-comments-sticky-notes-makes-document-extremly-slow/m-p/13368359#M503963

    If you delete the sticky notes the file will work as expected. But if you have 1 sticky note on a page, any editing on that page is painfully slow!

    WORKAROUND - action sticky notes outside of INDD then delete them and import the file. Not ideal but manageable until Adobe can fix this one.

    9 votes

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  20. Dialogbox "Fileinformation" nor correctly displayed

    When opening the "Fileinformation" dialogbox , the box is displayed, but too big and can not be resized. When trying to moved it, it can suddenly disappear and Indesign can only be closed via Taskmanager.

    This seems to be a bug existing since many years (since 2016 !!!) affecting HighDPI monitors and also being present in other Adobe CC apps:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/de/illustrator/using/file-info-dialog.html

    In my case it happened with latest Indesign (18.5...?), latest Win11 on a Lenovo notebook with a 15" HighDPI screen.

    this makes it also imposible to read the "About Indesign

    Wondering why Adobe is not able to solve this…

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