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  1. InDesign freezing when pressing backspace in a text box of more than 500 or 600 words

    This only seems to be a problem when using long text boxes more than a few hundred words. InDesign starts to slow down while I'm typing, but if I then select text or press backspace (mostly the latter) then InDesign freezes for 10 to 15 seconds.

    I've searched the problem, but the only solution I have found is to try closing the info panel, but this seems to be a CS3 fix and doesn't work.

    3 votes

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  2. CC Files in InDesign not showing up

    I shared files using CC Files for teams using my work account, and the sync with my account on my home computer in the user folder/creative cloud files, however they don't show up in the START workspace when I launch InDesign. How do I get these files to show up in the application?

    3 votes

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  3. The order of Arabic digits is reversed when changing their character direction

    1. Adobe InDesign CC 2017.1
    2. Create a textbox, type Arabic characters including some digits. Change character direction from 'Default' to 'Right to Left'.
    3. Arabic letters are RTL, but Arabic digits are written LTR; So when you change character direction to RTL, they should be in their right direction.
    4. Letters are RTL, but digits are reversed. The problem is that Arabic script is written RTL, but its digits' direction is LTR. Just like when you move caret and logically it moves in correct direction.
    3 votes

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  5. Hyperlinks

    I use a lot of hyperlinks in a document which link to the individual products on our website for online ordering and stock levels.

    The Hyperlink panel frequently corrupts - I lose the ‘traffic light’ link status indicator and location of the link (page No.) - meaning I have to remove InDesign and execute a clean install to get the feature back.

    3 votes

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  6. Adobe inDesign is shutting down

    Adobe in Design is shutting dow. A serious error was detected. Please restart InDesign to recover work in any unsaved InDesign documents. This happened when importing an image cmd D.

    3 votes

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  7. When duplicating page(s) the layout breaks

    I'm on windows 11.
    Since updating to 19.4 i noticed that everytime i duplicate a page it moves my whole layout around. It happens not only if i alt drag the page, also if i right click duplicate and when i made an alternate layout in the page panel. It also doesn't matter if i lock a layer. Everything gets moved a little bit to the right or the left, to the top or bottom. Sometimes it also slightly scales an image i believe. The only thing i can do against it, is copy the whole spread and paste it…

    2 votes

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  8. UI settings greyed out

    No one EVER solves this. Those of us who work on TV monitors (for the large size) can never get the panels text (among other things) to scale up so they are legible. This causes great eyestrain and is just terrible, over all. Usually, it is suggested that I change my resolution, but I can't do that, because it would ***** up everything else on my computer, including ID. This problem has been around for about 20 years, and the folks at InDesign don't care. They have never fixed it.

    2 votes

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  9. Password protect bug

    The new password protect feature worked fine on the 25th April.
    However I've noticed a bug on a document I was testing today 27 April.

    The same document was showing a 'access denied' page though would allow me to see page past page 1.
    Page 1 would not load.
    The same thing happened on a newly uploaded version of that document.
    The document has 16 pages with animation to the first page.
    This error happened across safari and chrome browsers.
    The document works fine when re-uploaded without password protection.

    2 votes

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  10. Version 19.4 Persistent error dialog "RM: error creating temporary record definition sheet"

    On iOS 13.6.6. Problem began after updating to 19.4.

    As soon as I create a new document or open an existing doc, the error dialog above appears, and reappears immediately when dismissed, preventing any further work.

    Version 18.5.2 on same machine still functions as normal, but is not not an acceptable long term workaround due to lack of current plugins.

    I've already tried deleting /Users/{me}/Library/Caches/Adobe InDesign/Version 19.0 folder. Folder was recreated at application launch, as expected, but did not resolve the error.

    2 votes

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  11. Text selecting freeses program

    Today I updated InDesing to 19.4 It is no longer possible to work - every time you mark the text block, the clock starts spinning and everything hangs. ****, why publish an update without testing it well and thus hinder our work. I was forced to install version 19.3 back.

    2 votes

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  12. On the start page, the recent items are showing up with multiple file names displaying over the top of one another

    When I open InDesign and the Start page appears, the first line of recent items show the image of the file but the description underneath shows several layers of file names on top of each other.

    2 votes

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  13. Apple M2 max GPU not detected

    I have a mac studio with M2 Max and indesign doesn't recognize the graphics card. The zoom gets in the way when I need to make the pages bigger or smaller.

    2 votes

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  14. Can't set spacing between paragraphs using the same style to ignore

    When trying to set spacing between paragraphs to ignore I get an error. See attached file. Can you fix?

    2 votes

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  15. Indesign 2024: 2024 version files open as Read Only - but only sometimes.

    When opening files, created in earlier versions but already opened and saved as newer version, often, but not always, open as READ ONLY. Of course I'm not checking every time I open a file to see if it's read only because I've already updated the file to version 2024 and only realize when I try to save. PLEASE FIX THIS

    2 votes

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  16. undo() does work, but spawns pointless error

    // ----
    function inner() {
    
        var doc = app.activeDocument;
        var i = doc.layers.length;
            while (i-->1) {
            doc.layers[i].remove();
        }
    }
    
    function outher() {
    
        app.doScript(inner,ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,[],UndoModes.SCRIPT_REQUEST,'outher');
        alert("pause");
        app.activeDocument.undo(); //<- wrong error, it actually works
    }
    
    app.doScript(outher,ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,[],UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT,'inner');
    
    // ----
    

    Also, this error is not ingnorable: if you put undo() in a try-clause, it doesnt work.

    Alsoalso, the different undo-modes (https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/dom/api/u/UndoModes/) are NOT sufficient explained. At least write some whole sentences on how they actually differ.

    2 votes

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  17. Damaged capitals

    In Design 19.3 x64
    After pouring in an editable file (MS Word 2010), where the capitals were in the footnotes in the names of the author(s) and editor(s) the capitals did not include the last letter of the last name or the last two letters.
    Earlier versions (3-4 updates) worked fine.
    Selecting the author's name and including capitals does not help. Further the last letter (or two) are not capitals. You have to mark the name and a comma (sometimes even a space) to make the full name capitals.
    It takes more time, more attention to correct all the footnotes.…

    2 votes

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  18. Application frame not re-aligning after screen change.

    Waking my MacBook after disconnecting from a secondary (and larger) screen, often leaves my Application frame in the previous size. And due to the fact that this formerly connected screen is much larger than my MacBook, it leaves the frame in a size and postion which makes it impossible to fetch, resize, or drag it to a hot area to force it to re-arrange properly.

    Resetting the workspace, or switching application frame off/on, doesn't help. I have to Quit/Restart InDesign to let it realign its frame to the new screen size.

    InDesign version 19.3, MacOS 12.6.2.

    2 votes

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  19. Documents not showing when changing screens.

    When disconnecting my MacBook Pro from my Apple Studio Display open documents are not showing on the laptop screen - only blank grey screen. I can mark its content but nothing but bounding boxes are visible. Have to shut down all documents and start all over.

    2 votes

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  20. critical display problems! please fix it!

    New version from 19.0–19.3 causes terrible display/view problems! See the attached screenshot (actions: opened an indd file, zoom in, zoom out...).
    Fix it please, it's unusable in this state!
    Older version 18.5.2 works normally on the same machine!

    Indesign (19.0—)19.3
    Apple Mac Mini M1 16GB
    OSX Sonoma 14.4

    2 votes

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