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  1. Verifying "Adobe InDesign 2021"

    Since updating to 2021 versions of Creative Cloud applications, there's a persistent 'Verifying "Adobe _____ 2021" message that pops up frequently.

    Once you see these, you can't get rid of them. A restart is required.

    The version is the latest version (16.0.2)

    Steps to reproduce: Update and then open InDesign

    Expected result: InDesign opens normally, verifies and the verification message disappears

    Actual result: The verification message never goes away. The cross icon doesn't work.

    2 votes

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  2. Guides/Grids not showing

    InDesign16.02 & 16.01

    For some reason today, when I opened an InDesign file from a packaged InDesign folder in the latest version of InDesign, I could not view the page margins, document grid, baseline grid or ruler guides. I tried toggling them with the shortcuts and by directly selecting them from the InDesign menu. I uninstalled the latest version and tried the previous to make sure it wasn't a version issue. I had the same result. No grids or guides would show no matter what I tried. I checked the threshold and made sure I was within it which I…

    2 votes

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  3. Tracker laden beim Start

    Das Laden von InDesign (aktuell Abo) dauert zu lange. Tracking... werden geladen - ca. 70 Sekunden lang!
    Was tun? Neuinstallation macht es nicht besser.

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  4. Share for Review -Disappearing tools

    I have Indesign 16.0.
    On my first test of share for review, all the tools appeared.
    after saving it they disappeared. Then I saw that save as function disrupts the process.
    Then I signed out of my account and rebooted.
    When I signed back in the tools were there again.
    I opened another document (made in InDesign 16.0) and the tools were gone.

    THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING!
    How do I get the tools to stay consistently?

    2 votes

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  5. Exporting Fixed Layout ePub files from InDesign has errors

    A document exported from InDesign with a fixed layout selected has errors included in the file. Actually, the fixed layout epub is not able to be opened even in Adobe Editions PC version. Can this error be addressed and fixed?

    2 votes

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  6. Text anchors in alternate layouts break

    If I create a document with text anchors and then make an alternate layout, InDesign gets confused as to where the links should go. I would love to be able to create the alternate layout and have InDesign understand that those links go to the locations in the newly created layout.

    Apparently, the broken text anchors in alternate layouts have been an issue for a while. Here's a thread on Creative Pro (https://creativepro.com/topic/text-anchors-in-alternate-layouts-broken/) from 2013 about it.

    2 votes

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  7. Document Fonts slows everything down

    There is a huge speed / usability problem with text boxes that happens when there is a Document Fonts folder contiguous to the InDesign file. I think it doesn't even have to be a text box with a font from Document Fonts.

    Clicking into or escaping out of text boxes impossible or freezes InDesign. Whole app is super slow, and unusable.

    Id v 16.0.1

    2 votes

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  8. Wiew - Grids & Guides - Hide Guides TAB Ctrl+; - it does not work on my keyboard

    Wiew - Grids & Guides - Hide Guides TAB Ctrl+; - it does not work on my keyboard

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  9. spacebar used as toggle for hand tool from another tool

    When using any tool—after using the spacebar to access the hand tool temporarily, the hand tool then remains. It does not toggle back to the tool used previously.

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  10. 2 votes

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  11. Rendering intent not being respected switching color spaces inside Swatch-Panel

    Hi there,

    so apparently the rendering intent set in the document OR the application isn't being respected when the color space of a swatch is being changed e.g. from RGB to CMYK.

    Tested in InDesign 15.1.3 and 16.0.1

    Steps to reproduce:
    1 create a new document, with working spaces sRGB and "PSO coated v3" (profile available on eci.org)
    2 create a swatch, e.g. RGB 0 / 98 / 227
    3 change to CMYK, results in the correct 90,64 / 63,6 / 0 / 0

    Now
    - go back to step 2
    - change the "Solid Color" rendering intent of the…

    2 votes

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  12. Organize styles per book, not per file.

    Having to synch the styles manually instead of just having the styles available throughout the book is a pain. Also I cannot synch single styles. There is an object style I use for chapter headings, the objects get displaced everytime I synch.

    2 votes

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  13. There is no save all button

    I have to save all chapters individually

    2 votes

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  14. key commands randomly stop working

    This is in InDesign version 16.0.1.
    Key commands randomly stop working for zoom (command + spacebar), proportional sizing (command + shift and command + option + shift), and even just using shift to move on a vertical or horizontal line.
    I use these constantly and the only way I have found to fix them is to restart my machine. restarting the program does not work and I can't find any conflict that may be causing this.

    2 votes

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  15. Indesign 16.0.1 sometimes crashes when saving

    Indesign 16.0.1 on my month-old iMac, crashes daily usually when I'm saving my 80 page catalog, I don't know when it will happen. The book contains links from Drive, Dropbox and another computer.

    Yesterday's crash damaged the file but luckily I could use a recently saved version.

    2 votes

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  16. Big Sur + Indesign

    Beim Exportieren bzw. PDF Schreiben ist das Fenster JEDES MAL "klein" und zusammengeschoben. Soll man jedes Mal das Fenster maximieren?

    2 votes

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  17. 2 votes

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  18. InDesign 16.0.1 can't recover file from crash

    Running InDesign 16.0.1 on Catalina. Mac workstation connected SMB to Windows server.

    InDesign crashes shortly after working in a different program and returning to InDesign. Report the crash then try to reopen InDesign from doc icon (or CC). It crashes again. Report, reopen from doc icon (or CC, or in applications folder). Get error message that InDesign crashed trying to load the recovery file, can't locate the recovery file. In order to open InDesign I must click "no" to not try to recover the file.

    I have reset preferences, created a new workspace (instead of using previous version's saved workspace),…

    2 votes

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  19. JPG/PNG export zero byte files

    I can't export JPGs oder PNGs anymore.

    Indesign version 16.0.1
    MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H114)

    I always get 0 byte files when I try to export on a shared network drive. Exporting to the local hard disk works fine.

    2 votes

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  20. JPG/PNG export zero byte files

    I can't export JPGs oder PNGs anymore. I always get 0 byte files when I try to export on a shared network drive. Exporting to the local hard disk works fine.

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