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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  8. Spell check

    When I select my language, spell check does not work for that language. It uses US :(

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  9. "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

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  10. 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…

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  11. Defined Names in .xlsx files Do Not Work When not specified in A1:Z9 format

    To Reproduce:
    - Create an excel spreadsheet
    - Create a table (example table below)
    - Name a range:
    - Insert^Name^Define Name

    - Use the default "Refers to:" (=Table1[#All])
    - Do this a second time
    - Use a specific range that is the same area (=Sheet1!$A$1:$C$11)
    - Save the file

    Attempt to Place in Adobe. Note that the second range is available for placement, the first is not. It seems that any named ranges that don't specify cells, and instead specify other placeholders (i.e. =Table1[[#All],[Description]:[Amount]]) do not work.

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  12. 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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  13. Unable to Open More than one file at a time

    Steps to reproduce:
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    Result: ...
    Expected: Updated to the Beta Yesterday EOD and noticed that I can no longer open any files from the Explorer while InDesign is running.
     
    System info
        Application: InDesign v18.9.0.35
        OS: Windows v10.0.22621, RAM: 63.79 GB, CPUs (logical): 24

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  14. Error on Save : "Indesign is unable to save this file. We tried, but appears to be damaged."

    While using In Design 18.2.1 on macOS 13.5.2 I am getting the above error (See attached screenshot) whenever I try to save a new file or save as an existing file on an NFS share. The server is not at fault here, as I'm able to Save new files from Adobe Illustrator for instance.

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  15. Grep Style at end of Frame Does NOT Map to XML or Show the Style is Applied

    Have text lines in a contents like this, where the space is a tab:
    DENTITION 287
    INDEX 299

    The paragraph style uses these two GREP style lines to apply a character style that changes the point size of the number to 8.5 pt.
    \t[ivxclm0123456789]+[\r\n]+
    \t[ivxclm0123456789]+\z

    When the text line is at the end of a frame the number is formatted correctly per the character style at 8.5pt, but when the number is selected InDesign shows the wrong size in the menus, unlike the other numbers NOT at the end of the frame, which shows the point size the number actually…

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  16. Border style bottom is being applied twice to the same text.

    This is a message for all the adobe indesign programmers, before adding new features can you at least fix all the bugs in this program!

    I use the border feature a lot but lately it's been bugger than usual. I have a piece of text that has a border right and bottom. Under it I have another piece of text with the same settings and both have merge borders turned on. Please look at screenshot and tell him what the **** is going on! There is only 2 blocks of text but it's giving me 4 borders!

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  17. Cannot create a new file using Ctrl N or File, new document - no dialogue box comes up and gives an error

    Cannot create a new file using Ctrl N or File, new document - no dialogue box comes up and gives an error. Have attached file have done everything uninstall reinstall, etc.

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  18. Online Copy Editing for Cloud based InDesign file

    The feature to export for InCopy isn't available in InDesign Beta. Will InCopy be available via cloud based InDesign files in future, or could there a new online copy editor? A more simple and paired back version of InCopy online just to adjust text within Cloud based InDesign file?

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  19. Override to Character Style Gets Removed

    File from a client had a character style on a phrase making the phrase Italic. They then overrode part of the phrase with the character style back to Regular.

    When a different paragraph style is applied (WITHOUT telling InDesign to remove overrides) the override within the character style goes away, reverting the overridden text back to the character style.

    The problem seems to only occur when the font style of the new paragraph style being applied MATCHES the override that's applied.

    I.e., overriding to Bold, then applying the a new paragraph style that is Bold, removes the override. BUT overriding…

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  20. Fonts Issues with InDesign Files (18.5), file sync in OneDrive laptop keep show missing fonts.

    The same file was saved and synchronised in OneDrive. Laptop A can open it with no problem/no missing fonts, but laptop B have this missing font issue every single time it opens. Noted that 2 laptops are the same model, same spec and same version. Both has the same fonts installed as well.

    Please help.

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