Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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- Version of Adobe InDesign, InCopy or InDesign Server
- Steps to reproduce the issues
- Expected result
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Text box disappears when text converted to outlines
Many sign printers require that all text is converted to outlines. When I do, any text box that has a colour defined disappears. I need to duplicate the box first and delete the text in the underlying box, then convert the above text to outlines. A bit of an arduous process.
This shouldn't happen – it's been an issue for years.
Can you please change it so that converting text to outlines doesn't alter the graphics – that is, the coloured and/or stroked text box remains?
Thanks!
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In InDesign 2020, we were able to disable this default setting successfully — the checkbox remained unchecked even after relaunching the app
In InDesign 2020, we were able to disable this default setting successfully — the checkbox remained unchecked even after relaunching the application.
However, in InDesign 2024, the checkbox automatically re-enables itself after each relaunch, even if we manually uncheck it.
We would like this checkbox to remain unchecked by default, even after restarting the software
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Unter „Datei – Zuletzt verwendete Dateien öffnen“ fehlt die Funktion, dass man geöffnet gewesene Dateien aus der Vorschau löschen kann.
Unter „Datei – Zuletzt verwendete Dateien öffnen“ fehlt die Funktion, dass man
geöffnet gewesene Dateien aus der Vorschau löschen kann: und das
seit gefühlten einhundert Jahren. Im Ps kann man das unter dem Befehl namens
„Liste der letzten Dateien löschen“ tun, in Ai dann wieder nicht.Am besten wäre es, wenn man diese Vorschauen auch einzeln löschen könnte
und nicht immer nur alle gleichzeitig: Weil man manchmal etwas weg
haben will und anderes zum erneuten Öffnen in der Vorschau behalten möchte.1 vote -
Adobe crash processor doesn't close
Adobe Crash Processor prevents files from being moved or deleted even after InDesign or Photoshop applications are closed. User is force to manually "end process" to effect release.
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Bug: Size of pages in INDD changes when placing the INDD in another INDD
Indesign 20.2, Windows 11
Not sure if this can be reproduced, but here is what I did:
1. Created an INDD with two pages with size 180x264, no margins
2. At the bottom of the second page placed a text frame with some text, so its bottom-left corner is at X=0 and Y=264
3. Saved the INDD and placed it another INDD
4. When applying "Fit frame to content" on the placed object, the displayed size changed to 180 mm x 260.2 mmIt turns out that the text frame at the bottom of the second page has a different…
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Share for Review: Invitation links are no longer file name
Updated to InDesign V 20.2
Share for Review invitation emails used to include the file name, but now show in the subject and body text as a string of characters. I have multiple files being shared to review daily, and its become difficult and time consuming to find previously shared projects since my email inbox is no longer displaying the names of the files being shared.
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Bug: UXP plugin panels become unusable when pressing Alt+F4 on Windows
InDesign 20.2 x64 on Windows 11
Steps to reproduce:
- Open any UXP based plugin panel on Windows OS (does not occur on Mac)
- Click inside the panel to "focus" it
- Press Alt+F4Expected result:
- InDesign window/app is closed (Alt+F4 is the default Windows shortcut for closing a window)Actual result:
- Plugin panel contents becomes blank.
- Situation is unrecoverable in InDesign. Closing the panel and reopening it has no effect. InDesign restart is required."Ironically" this issue also occurs for the built-in "Plugins" panel (likely also UXP based?)
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variable weight font issues - STILL with 20.1
Re-posting this issue with more screen shots. Variable weight fonts will work 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, they do not and give you incorrect output or unusable output, with no error warnings. This example had the first PDF output substitute the blocky serif font Bitter with another font, without any warnings or errors. The second PDF output has the correct font, but the letter forms have issues at the vertices, which make them untrappable. Converting them to outlines and then merging the path objects is the only way to get correct outlines of the charcters.
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Giant Space in Table of Contents
Gap problem. Having 'fixed' the Chapter header to be run on, and made sure there weren't spaces in the text box related to end of Marketing chapter/start Marketing & Optimisation, i once again made the TOC. It didnt fix the gap. (THIS GAP IS NOT LINE RETURNS) Tried everything I know how to try, give up. ID 2025
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Lists ignore alignment when story is subject to object wrapping
InDesign v20.1.
Steps to reproduce:
1. In a blank document, create a new story. Add a few blank lines, then a new paragraph with list settings (either bullets or numbers). Align it to center or right.
2. Create an ellipsis and set its wrapping options to contour wrapping.
3. Move the ellipsis so that it intersects the story above the actual list (the list doesn't have to be in range of the wrapping countour).Expected result:
Nothing should happen to the list, since it's far from the wrapping area.Actual result:
The numbers/bullets get aligned the left, no matter what…1 vote -
pasteboard color will not change at all
pasteboard color will not change -- it stays dark gray. I want it light gray but it will not change to any color, much less light gray.
Overprint preview is OFF.
this bug exists in both indesign 2022 and indesign 2025 on Mac OS Sonoma 14.7.5 / dark mode
5K intel iMac 24GB RAM.I don't use ID2025 because it is totally unusable on sonoma on intel iMac -- but tested it to see if the pasteboard color bug is there too and it is.
definitely exists since recent sonoma and ID updates late 2024/2025.
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Multiple Issues
I've noticed three glitches very recently in Adobe InDesign 2025. #1 - Seems like every other time I open the print dialog box to select the printer I want to use, the printers are in a different order in the list. #2 - Often times, when I open a document, my keyboard shortcuts won't work. I have to close the document and then re-open it to get them to work. #3 - Most frustrating is, I start to create a new document. I enter the document size into the New Document window and when I hit the Create button and…
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Library text frame auto-size error
Product: Adobe InDesign
Version: 20.2
Platform: macOS
Issue type: Bug
Severity: Moderate
Reproducible: AlwaysSteps to reproduce:
1. Create a text frame with a single character (e.g. “X”).
2. Enable Auto-Size (Height only).
3. Save the text frame to the Library.
4. Place the frame into a layout from the Library.Expected result:
Text frame should retain Auto-Size setting and adjust to the content’s height.Actual result:
Auto-Size is disabled, and the frame stretches from the insertion point to the bottom of the text frame area / margin, even though there’s only one character inside.Workaround:
If the text frame…1 vote -
Modifications on PDF export profile are incoherent
Windows 11, Indesign 20.1
Steps to reproduce:
1. With at least one PDF export profile present, export an INDD to PDF
2. In the export dialog, change something on the settings, like checkmarking "Create Acrobat layers", given it's not marked already. The export profile would then become marked as "(modified)".
3. Select the unmodified profile again, to remove the previously set checkmark.
4. Now change the settings "Pages" from "All" to "Range". The export profile is now NOT marked as modified.Conclusion: if you want to reset the export from Range to All, you cannot do that by simply selecting…
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indesign crashed
I am currently using Zoho's virtual space.
For the past two weeks, I have been experiencing a problem where Adobe InDesign crashes whenever I attempt to use the "Save As" function. This issue did not occur previously, but it has become a persistent problem. I kindly request assistance in resolving this matter.1 vote -
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Schneidpfad aus InDesign als Pfad exportieren.
Eine Kontur in Volltonfarbe angelegt, soll als Schneidpfad verwendet werden. Bei der PDF Generierung wird diese Linie als Kontur interpretiert ( 2 Linien beidseitig der Kontur) und in Folge doppelt geschnitten. Wie läßt sich das ändern?
InDesign 20.2.x641 vote -
Adding pages before 1st page move placed images
Versions 20.1 and 20.2 if you try to insert pages before 1st page, it moves already placed images to another page.
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Table controls are missing from Properties pane, and selection control lacks ToolTip
I had mysterious, unselectable text in my document with multiple columns. It turned out to be a table, but this was not indicated anywhere in the UI. Not in the layer list or the Properties pane when the text frame was selected. Table properties are missing from the Properties pane even when you have the text-insertion point sitting in a table cell.
A major contributor to the problem is that the tiny table-selection icon that appears on the left side of a table has no ToolTip, and does nothing when clicked or dragged. Only by guessing that you have to…
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PNG export affected by "Display Performance" Settings
Affected InDesign versions:
I could reproduce it with InDesign 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and Prerelease 2025. From what I've found here so far, however, the problem has existed since at least 2020.
Reproduce:
- "Display Performance" set to "Typical"
- place a PNG or PSD with semi-transparent areas in InDesign (image for testing: semitransparent.png)
- export to PNG
This also happens if the PNG export is triggered before the document has been fully rendered and the "Display Performance" settings are set to ‘High Quality’. This therefore also affects automated processes, e.g. on InDesign Server.
Expected result:
- high quality output with correctly rendered transparencies…
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Converting a text URL to a hyperlink removes the instances of the text variables!!!
- All InDesign versions
- Create a URL that includes Text Variable instance
- URL looks and prints correctly,
- but hyperlink is wrong: there are no text variables values in it.
It is obvious that URLs are convenient to generate from text variables. Especially if there are thousands of them!
This would be a phenomenal solution not only to our problem, but...Instead of substituting the values of text variable instances, nothing is replaced (empty strings instead of text variable instances), and the hyperlink (which looks and prints correctly in the text) is generated as invalid!
We need to create and maintain a…1 vote
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