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Exported PNGs or JPEGs RGB Colors Slightly Different Versus Illustrator Export For Screens

So here is the situation and setup.

Illustrator File with Pantone Colors (Book LAB colors)
Color Settings are synced via Bridge (NA General Purpose)
Illustrator file is in CMYK Mode

In Illustrator File is exported to PNG (via Exported for Screens)

In InDesign the same Illustrator file is placed in InDesign and then Exported as PNG file.

When looking at the attached image the RGB values are slightly different most noticeably in the red. When looked at with the eyedropper in PS the CMYK values read as the same on both but the RGB is slightly different.

For example:

InDesign PNG File Red = R255 G68 B56
Illustrator PNG File Red = R239 G72 B62

I tried saving the Illustrator file with and without an embedded color profile and no difference.

So the question is, am I missing a setting or option somewhere or does InDesign just convert the Pantone/Lab/Values differently and if so should they not be the same across apps?

Note: I did do a test where I converted the Pantone Colors in the FIle to CMYK Process Colors and that made the colors equal but for workflow reasons I like to keep one file and not have to create separate Non Pantone versions of the file if it can be helped.

So here is the situation and setup.

Illustrator File with Pantone Colors (Book LAB colors)
Color Settings are synced via Bridge (NA General Purpose)
Illustrator file is in CMYK Mode

In Illustrator File is exported to PNG (via Exported for Screens)

In InDesign the same Illustrator file is placed in InDesign and then Exported as PNG file.

When looking at the attached image the RGB values are slightly different most noticeably in the red. When looked at with the eyedropper in PS the CMYK values read as the same on both but the RGB is slightly different.

For example:

InDesign…
- ColorCompare-AiLeft-INDRight.png 24 KB
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RE: Index / Table of Contents

When creating an Index, you are limited to populate ONLY one Index style format. MS Word, it is greatly inferior program, and yet you can create a General Index, a Index of Cases and Index of Figures. Indesign is the leading industry program for designers and writers, NOT MS word.

What happens if have lots of illustrations, data tables graphs and flowcharts all numbered accordingly. For example, an illustration (Figure 20 or Table 7), maybe on page 40, but there are 40 mentions throughout the document. Thus, in Indesign, you can not create a proper index list every page number of Figure 20, or a table etc. If you to want create more Indexes like the Index format, you CANNOT, you are forced to use the Table of Contents style.

We are in a climate where there is a strong demand for indexes that best help our customers to locate information in the books and magazines we produce.

We need to improve the Index function with the ability to create multiple Indexes, that follow the actual Index format (not the Table of Contents Format). If you use Peter Kahrel’s script or IndexMatic they are very limited what you can do. IndexMatic creates a concordance and Peter's Script uses the Topic area of the Index panel, mixing in or amalgamating all the indexes. It ends up being messy.

W should be able to create SEPARATE indexes using the Index feature: (1) INDEX OF FIGURES (2) INDEX OF STATUTES, (3) INDEX OF TABLES (4) INDEX OF FLOWCHARTS and (5) INDEX OF GRAPHS. All populate every page number of every mentioned item (tables, figure, statute, flowchart etc).

Let's do this — update the program

David

RE: Index / Table of Contents

When creating an Index, you are limited to populate ONLY one Index style format. MS Word, it is greatly inferior program, and yet you can create a General Index, a Index of Cases and Index of Figures. Indesign is the leading industry program for designers and writers, NOT MS word.

What happens if have lots of illustrations, data tables graphs and flowcharts all numbered accordingly. For example, an illustration (Figure 20 or Table 7), maybe on page 40, but there are 40 mentions throughout the document. Thus, in Indesign, you can not create a…

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InDesign 17.0 on iMac 5k monitor OS Catalina Color Separations unable to read color value. Workaround is to run InDesign in low resolution.

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no correct hyphenation of German words with dashes

In German we have many terms consisting of two or more words with dashes in between. Everybody would hyphenate these naturally behind the dashes. InDesign is unable to do so, but suggests multiple wrong or ugly hyphenations and leaves the dashes as if they were non-breaking hyphens, which they are not! I know this problem since several years. I had it in CS5 and 6 as well as in every later version and today in InDesign 2020.
For example: In cookbooks there are often intermediate products consisting of two or more ingredients. Some (artificial) examples:
Das Mehl mit dem Kakaopulver, dem Backpulver und 1/4 TL Salz mischen und unter das Ei-Butter-Gemisch rühren. Die Mehl-Aprikosen-Flüssigkeit unterrühren. Die Eigelbe wie im Grundrezept beschrieben unter die Butter-Zucker-Mischung rühren. Ein Drittel Eischnee mit dem Mehl-Backpulver-Ansatz unterrühren, dann die restliche Ei-Bananen-Milch mit einem Holzkochlöffel vorsichtig unterheben.
„Butter-Zucker-Mischung“ everybody would preferably and correctly hyphenate (\) like this: Butter-\Zucker-\Mischung, but InDesign produces only something ugly and devious like But\ter-Zu\cker-Mi\schung and so to speak considers both dashes as non-breaking hyphen. My only solution each time is manual hyphenation or an own entry in the user dictionary. The effort is too much because it happens too often.
In German you can combine nouns arbitrarily and optionally separate them with dashes, so that the text is more clear and comprehensible. As the given combinations of nouns vary all the time it is an unnacceptable effort to define a hyphenation exception for every one of them in the user dictionary. InDesign just has to acknowledge that hyphenating directly behind the dash(es) is the first choice instead of simply wrong!
I cannot imagine that a general rule like this would create a problem in other languages and different contexts. Hyphenation directly behind the dash(es) is always by far the most aesthetic solution.
The problem does not only affect cookbooks. There are millions of possible cases, such as: Stephen-King-Filme, Agatha-Christie-Romane, Freund-Feind-Erkennung, Ein-Aus-Schalter, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Tag-Nacht-Schaltung, Willy-Brandt-Allee (along with thousands of other street names), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität …

In German we have many terms consisting of two or more words with dashes in between. Everybody would hyphenate these naturally behind the dashes. InDesign is unable to do so, but suggests multiple wrong or ugly hyphenations and leaves the dashes as if they were non-breaking hyphens, which they are not! I know this problem since several years. I had it in CS5 and 6 as well as in every later version and today in InDesign 2020.
For example: In cookbooks there are often intermediate products consisting of two or more ingredients. Some (artificial) examples:
Das Mehl mit dem Kakaopulver,…

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InDesign 2021: Application Frame

Set the application to not separate and hide document window from the Application Frame.

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InDesign Server taking long time to initialize

SUMMARY
Recently it's been taking longer than 5 minutes for InDesign Server to spin up a new instance when executed by Windows system. This issue appears to be user specific.

SYSTEM
Operating system version: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
Processors: Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz x 4
Adobe InDesign CC Server 2017 12.0.0.81

ISSUE:
InDesign server seems to be taking a long time (> 5 minutes) during initialization.

COMMAND:
./InDesignServer.exe -configuration [name] -port [number]

OUTPUT:
Initializing InDesignServer for port 57106: ================================================================================
InDesign CC Server Version 12.0 x64 .
Copyright 1999-2016 Adobe Systems Incorporated and its licensors.
All rights reserved. See the other legal notices in the ReadMe. ================================================================================
Fri Apr 16 12:54:43 2021 INFO [server] Initializing
Fri Apr 16 12:54:43 2021 INFO [server] Loading the application
Fri Apr 16 12:54:43 2021 INFO [server] Scanning for plug-ins
Fri Apr 16 12:54:43 2021 INFO [server] Registering 114 plug-ins
Fri Apr 16 12:54:43 2021 INFO [server] Completing Object Model
Fri Apr 16 12:54:43 2021 INFO [server] Saving Object Model
Fri Apr 16 12:54:43 2021 INFO [server] Initializing plug-ins
Fri Apr 16 12:54:43 2021 INFO [server] Calling Early Initializers
Fri Apr 16 12:54:43 2021 INFO [server] Starting up Service Registry
Fri Apr 16 12:54:44 2021 INFO [server] Executing startup services
Fri Apr 16 12:54:44 2021 INFO [server] Using configuration indesign-manager-ws-configuration-slot-22 Fri Apr 16 12:54:44 2021 INFO [server] Initializing Application
Fri Apr 16 12:54:44 2021 INFO [server] Completing Initialization
Fri Apr 16 12:54:44 2021 INFO [server] Calling Late Initializers
Fri Apr 16 12:54:45 2021 INFO [server] Image previews are off
Fri Apr 16 12:54:45 2021 INFO [server] Server Running
Fri Apr 16 12:54:45 2021 INFO [javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server 2017\Scripts\startup scripts\ConnectInstancesToESTK.js
Fri Apr 16 12:54:45 2021 INFO [javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server 2017\Scripts\converturltohyperlink\startup scripts\ConvertURLToHyperlinkMenuItemLoader.jsx
Fri Apr 16 12:54:45 2021 INFO [javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server 2017\Scripts\converturltohyperlink\ConvertURLToHyperlinkMenuItem.jsxbin

ANALYSIS:
The application appears to be getting stuck either during or after executing C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server 2017\Scripts\converturltohyperlink\ConvertURLToHyperlinkMenuItem.jsxbin
This issue is user specific. In this case, the user is the Windows system. When we launch the application as a different user we do not have this problem.

ATTEMPTED SOLUTIONS:
- Restarting the application
- Restarting the server
- Deleted user specific temp files in C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Indesign Server<version><locale>

OTHER
It's worth noting that is problem seems to be very similar to this issue:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/indesign-server-startup-memory-issues/td-p/11500657

However, we removed the user specific temp files and the application continued to take a long time to initialize.

SUMMARY
Recently it's been taking longer than 5 minutes for InDesign Server to spin up a new instance when executed by Windows system. This issue appears to be user specific.

SYSTEM
Operating system version: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
Processors: Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz x 4
Adobe InDesign CC Server 2017 12.0.0.81

ISSUE:
InDesign server seems to be taking a long time (> 5 minutes) during initialization.

COMMAND:
./InDesignServer.exe -configuration [name] -port [number]

OUTPUT:
Initializing InDesignServer for port 57106: ================================================================================
InDesign CC Server Version 12.0 x64 .
Copyright 1999-2016 Adobe Systems Incorporated and its licensors.
All rights…

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I am using InDesign for the first time in a few months.
I am having issues with previewing my document.
I am on a MacBook Pro 16 inch 2019, Version 11.3.1, using the most updated InDesign 16.2.1.
Please fix!
- Screen Shot 2021-05-20 at 8.52.50 AM.png 341 KB
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Printing scale issues when printing with different color output options for composites

Hello everyone,
spotted nasty printing bug.
When printing using "scale to fit", OUTPUT->Color: Composite and OUTPUT->Color: InRip or just Separations then the prints do not match (crop marks, image etc.) between "Composite" and "Separations".
Paper size and printer model doesn't matter.
Versions tested: InDesign CS6, CC17, CC18 all on OS X 10.10, 10.13
Test file attached.
- test.zip 2180 KB
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I'm using Windows with InDesign cc 2018, but I can't seem to export a single page from a multipage document.

I know I can export separate pdf files, but I don't want 90 separate pages, I should be able to simply select one page and export it, with the printer's marks. I also tried to print to pdf using the print settings, but was unable to create a pdf file with the printer's marks and bleed, even though these were selected in the dialogue box.
- pdf from printer setting.jpg 61 KB
- export from Windows InDesign.jpg 86 KB
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variable data

If you have 2 text fields in variable data, the variable data previews fine in InDesign but on Export to PDF it doesn't work correctly, the 2nd variable data field is missing.

We use this every week so it's something on this new version. Imac 27" InDesign v16.0 OS 10.15.7

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Indesign Choose Page Size

Make immediate tabbing between Width and Height without going thru Units.
Right now goes 1-Width 2-Units 3-Height
Should tab 1-Width 2-Height --- Units should be separate
- Screenshot 2020-11-05 133946.jpg 130 KB
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widows and orphans at split footnotes

With split footnotes, despite the paragraph option "Do not separate lines" - "At the beginning/end of the paragraph" (2 lines), there are widows and orphans!
Indesign 18.0 x64

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Indic script rendering issue

It seems that Indic Scripts should be supported by default in InDesign, without having to separately check boxes in preferences or select "World Ready Paragraph Composer" in the paragraph window's menu.

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Verctorisation

La vectorisation du texte ne fonctionne plus, impossible de dissocier les lettres d'un même mot comme avant !
Exemple : Le mot "Good" ne peut plus être séparé en "G "o" "o" "d".
Merci.

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The most unhelpful error mistake ever made - 1 problem (1 failute) was found with background task:
What I should do with this error? When I save each page separately the pdf export works fine)

Please give more specific error warnings! Thanks
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1 problem (1 failute) was found with background task:
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- Untitled-1-Recovered.png 6 KB
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Relink to folder and filenames with accents doesn't work

Relink to folder doesn't work for filenames with accents, it just doesn't find such files, but relinking every single file separately (very annoying) works.

Adobe InDesign 14.0.2. x64, Win 10 Pro

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Videos and buttons get cut in half when placed over a 2 page spread in Publish online and Fixed layout EPUB

When a video or button is placed across two pages on a spread, both gets cut in half, working separately on different pages. So, if video is played in Publish Online document or Fixed Layout EPUB, only half part is played.
Similarly with buttons, only half button gets clicked.

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Space sign in footnote after the tab

When I import Text with Footnotes from Word, in the Footnote after the Number there ist a Tab as separator. After the Tab there ist a Space singn before the Footnote text in every single footnote. This was in all recent Indesign Versions up to 2024

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Font names display inconsistently

This is a strange one: we use this font https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/lus (you have to put a 't' on the end of that url, Uservoice thinks it's rude, apparently) it's Regular and Display weights. On two computers this shows up as (syntax here is [Font Family] / [Font Style]) Lus(t) / Regular and Lus(t) Display / Regular, respectively. On three others they show up as Lus(t) / Regular and Lus(t) / Display and there seems to be no way to align them.

I've attached a screenshot of how the taskbar shows font on the machines that separate them out.

The first two computers are a Windows 10 desktop and a Mac OS Big Sur Intel laptop; the other three are two Mac OS Catalina iMacs and a Mac OS Big Sur Intel laptop. All running InDesign 2022.

On layouts where the fonts are separated out into different families; the ones which don't separate them out have the fonts in square braces; throw up the Find/Replace fonts dialogue (and fail to find them), and highlight offending instances in pink. But, crucially, they actually display the font correctly on the layout - and will happily export to PDF correctly, without substituting a default font.

Any ideas?

Thanks

This is a strange one: we use this font https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/lus (you have to put a 't' on the end of that url, Uservoice thinks it's rude, apparently) it's Regular and Display weights. On two computers this shows up as (syntax here is [Font Family] / [Font Style]) Lus(t) / Regular and Lus(t) Display / Regular, respectively. On three others they show up as Lus(t) / Regular and Lus(t) / Display and there seems to be no way to align them.

I've attached a screenshot of how the taskbar shows font on the machines that separate them out.

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Home Screen Displays Incorrect Last-Opened Dates
1. v20.0
2. During the beginning of a new month, navigate to the Home Screen where it will display thumbnail previews of recent projects with approximated last-opened dates.
3. The approximated last-opened dates should match when the file was last accessed, regardless of the calendar date.
4. That number is incorrectly showing all of my projects opened just days ago as showing "1 month ago," likely owing to it being a new month.
This issue is also present in Photoshop and I suspect all other Adobe apps.
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On waking Mac from sleep, open documents are grayed out on external monitor.

If I put my MacBook Pro to sleep with work on an external monitor, when I turn it on at another place with an external monitor, all open documents are grayed out and do not display any object. The objects are selectable, but I can't see what's in them. Switching display modes, minimizing or dragging between displays doesn't help either.
Apple M1 Max, Sonoma 14.0, InDesign 19.0
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Under Review · AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Hi,
We have been able to reproduce the issue and it is currently under investigation.

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InDesign crashes/freezes when closing the application

InDesign freezes when you try to Quit the application. InDesign cannot be quit, it has to Forced Kill.

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CLOSED · AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Many internal as well as external factors can cause the InDesign application to crash/freeze/hang. A few workarounds are listed at Fix crash issues with InDesign.
We completed the investigation and came up with the following: Either the issue has been resolved in the most recent release of InDesign (Refer to InDesign Release notes), the issue was intermittent at the time of reporting and is no longer reproducible, or the InDesign version mentioned in the report is no longer covered by Creative Cloud Support Policy.
We would recommend you upgrade to the latest version as it is more robust. If you are still facing this issue even after updating it, either submit the crash report(Refer to Submitting crash reports) to us or Contact Adobe support.
GPU Performance makes colours dull/desaturated

With GPU Performance enabled, all colours appear desaturated. In fact, it looks like colour management is simply turned off. Please note, this is not a Transparency Blend Space issue. It affects Spot, RGB and CMYK colours.

With GPU Performance disabled, colours appear vibrant and correct. It would be great to have this issue resolved, as I certainly want to take advantage of the GPU when using InDesign.

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InDesign 2023 v18.0
MacOS Ventura 13.0
MacBook Pro M1 Max 32GB RAM

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FIXED · AdminRavi Kiran (Admin, Adobe InDesign) responded

This was an issue with the initial Apple's Ventura release.

It has been addressed in Apple's latest Ventura OS updates (13.1 or later).

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Font not working after InDesign 17.2 upgrade

The font "AlteHaasGroteskBold" worked with the previous version of InDesign. It is open in FontExplorer X Pro (7.3.0) and works in Illustrator and Photoshop (current versions).
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Color Settings change to Emulate InDesign 2.0

Color Mode changes from whatever is set in InDesign when switching app from Adobe Photoshop to InDesign (latest versions) ... I am getting the same problem when switching from Photoshop to the latest Illustrator as well.

Problem Occurs even when InDesign (and Illustrator) are both shut down. After launching Photoshop and then shutting Photoshop down, Color Settings in InDesign and Illustrator are both changed to "Emulate".

PLEASE FIX IMMEDIATELY!!!! THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM and impacts my workflow horribly as I am back-and-forth between these applications regularly.

I have checked Bridge as well... and default is set to North American Prepress 2.

Running:
InDesign 16.1
Photoshop 22.3.0
Mac OS 10.15.7

Color Mode changes from whatever is set in InDesign when switching app from Adobe Photoshop to InDesign (latest versions) ... I am getting the same problem when switching from Photoshop to the latest Illustrator as well.

Problem Occurs even when InDesign (and Illustrator) are both shut down. After launching Photoshop and then shutting Photoshop down, Color Settings in InDesign and Illustrator are both changed to "Emulate".

PLEASE FIX IMMEDIATELY!!!! THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM and impacts my workflow horribly as I am back-and-forth between these applications regularly.

I have checked Bridge as well... and default is set to North American…

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Closed: Not Reproducible · AdminRavi Kiran (Admin, Adobe InDesign) responded

This issue is no longer happening with the latest updates of Ps, Ai, and Id.
Closing it.

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[ID-4261011] In Find/Change, search for font style (eg "Book") incorrectly selects "Regular" style text, even if "Book" style isn't present

In InDesign 2021 (the latest version both on Mac and Windows), I add a text frame and fill it with placeholder text which is set, by default, to Minion Pro - Regular.
Then I go to the find-change dialog box and set 'find format > basic character format > font style' to Book.
And guess what happens when I hit the ‘find next’ button? It selects all the ‘regular text. (The document has no text with the 'book' font style applied!)
Selecting another style — e.g. Bold, Italic, etc. — results, as expected, in the 'cannot find match' alert.
Looks like a bug to me!
The same problem occurs with GREP search as well.
Also, other users reported me that it happens in CS6, CC 2017, 2019 and 2020.

In InDesign 2021 (the latest version both on Mac and Windows), I add a text frame and fill it with placeholder text which is set, by default, to Minion Pro - Regular.
Then I go to the find-change dialog box and set 'find format > basic character format > font style' to Book.
And guess what happens when I hit the ‘find next’ button? It selects all the ‘regular text. (The document has no text with the 'book' font style applied!)
Selecting another style — e.g. Bold, Italic, etc. — results, as expected, in the 'cannot find match' alert.
Looks…
- find_book_font_style_bug.png 465 KB
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Text formatting can break backlinking endnote texts to endnote refs when exported to PDF (Print)

Hi together,
to explain the issue:

Sometimes backling from endnote text to endnote reference number will not work.

To make it work at all I found the following minimum requirements for PDF export:

PDF Export (Print)

Compatibility: Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)

[x] Create Tagged PDF

[x] Hyperlinks enabled

Even with that sometimes only linking from the endnote reference number to the endnote text will work, but not backlinking from the endnote number in the endnote text to the reference in the main text.

What I found:

If you want linking back from the endnote number at the start of the endnote text you have to be careful with formatting of that endnote number which in fact is a special character.

WHAT WORKED:

The endnote is using a paragraph style without any specialities. No overrides, no character styles applied:

RESULT: No issue with linking back and forth between endnote reference number and number in the endnote text.

Now I had the idea to format that special character, the number that starts the endnote text with a character style.

RESULT: Linking from the endnote reference number to the endnote text worked. BACKLINKING DID NOT WORK.

MORE DETAILS IN THIS THREAD:

Endnotes not exporting with links to PDF
Mr_Wonderstuff, Nov 18, 2020

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/endnotes-not-exporting-with-links-to-pdf/m-p/11628582#M40545...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/endnotes-not-exporting-with-links-to-pdf/m-p/11628643#M40546...

WHAT BROKE THE BACKLINKING:

[1] Character style applied through a GREP Style

[2] Character style applied directly as formatting

[3] Properties directly applied as overrides without a character style

WHAT FINALLY WORKED:

[4] Character style applied as nested style through the applied paragraph style:

Character style to 1 tabulator character

I did not test on to eliminate other factors.

Maybe one of the used properties are the real culprit?

What I defined in that character style and also tried to apply as character override was:

Character width and height: 70%

Baseline Offset: 2 Pt

Fill Color: "C=100 M=0 Y=0 K=0"

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

All InDesign 2021 test documents and the exported PDFs. Also the used joboptions-file can be downloaded from my Dropbox account:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k2bwr5ljvhde4vx/201127-1-Backlinking-Endnote-Refs-and%20Endnote-Texts.zip?dl=1

Hi together,
to explain the issue:

Sometimes backling from endnote text to endnote reference number will not work.

To make it work at all I found the following minimum requirements for PDF export:

PDF Export (Print)

Compatibility: Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)

[x] Create Tagged PDF

[x] Hyperlinks enabled

Even with that sometimes only linking from the endnote reference number to the endnote text will work, but not backlinking from the endnote number in the endnote text to the reference in the main text.

What I found:

If you want linking back from the endnote number at the start of the…

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Thanks for reporting the issue of backlinking not working for Endnotes with WR Composers.
We’re going to review this shortly.

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[ID-4260994]The filter in the review panel is automatically changing to "resolved"

This happens very frequently.

I will be going through user comments given online in the Indesign Review tab. As I do them I resolve them. This works fine.

But then suddenly and randomly it will just decide to change my filter to show all resolved! Then all the old issues magically appear in the tab again until I go back to filter and unselect the Resolved button.

Then it happens again. And again. It happens only when I go to change something in the document but it doesn't seem to matter what type of issue i'm doing. Replacing text. Deleting, etc.

I'm also finding that comments are taking a few minutes to get from the web into indesign as i keep seeing the little wheel turning a lot.

This happens very frequently.

I will be going through user comments given online in the Indesign Review tab. As I do them I resolve them. This works fine.

But then suddenly and randomly it will just decide to change my filter to show all resolved! Then all the old issues magically appear in the tab again until I go back to filter and unselect the Resolved button.

Then it happens again. And again. It happens only when I go to change something in the document but it doesn't seem to matter what type of issue i'm doing. Replacing text. Deleting,…

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Print doc from the "share for review" page

To review a document, some people like to print it to have a better look at it.

Currently there is no option to print from the new "share for review" page, but having it would be very useful for some.
Otherwise we still need to make and send a separate pdfs for review.

So, it would be appreciated if you can somehow add it.

Sincerely
JP

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Khmer Script Punctuation Line Breaking Is Broken

Regression Bug (used to work in InDesign CS 5.5)

Adobe InDesign CC 15.03 currently will break lines between Khmer script and its punctuation even though no space is present (Khmer Unicode Punctuation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_script#Spacing_and_punctuation ) as pictured in the attachment.

Desired Result: Khmer punctuation should stay with the Khmer script preceding it (just like an English period, comma, question mark, etc. does). The whole word should line break with the punctuation (currently Khmer uses zero-width spaces [U+200B] to indicate a word-boundary).
- khmer-punctuation-indesign.png 75 KB
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FIXED · AdminRavi Kiran (Admin, Adobe InDesign) responded

The issue has been fixed in the latest release of InDesign – InDesign 2021.
Please update to this new version of InDesign to get the fix.

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Column Rules fail if a Table is the first item in a Text Frame

(Hmm ... tried to attach an INDD file and I'm told they're not allowed. Really? OK ... will try a ZIP file with the INDD inside. Nope ... ZIP won't work either. Uploading a PNG screenshot)

Column Rules fail if a Table is the first item in a Text Frame

Please see the attached sample file.

On page 1 and 2 you will find a variety of 2-column frames with column rule applied.

In each case, the column rule will fail BECAUSE the first item in the frame is a Table. But, on page 2 I've added one extra example where a leading paragraph does exist, and because of this the column rule is ok.

I suspect the problem stems from the basic idea that a Column Rule will not appear in a text frame if there is NO text in the frame. Actually ... I'm not 100% sure I agree with that operation. If the column rule would appear with our without text, then this would solve the problem. But ... that might cause other problems.

Either way ... the Table is not being recognised as a valid trigger for the column rule to be invoked.

Thanks :)

Allan

(Hmm ... tried to attach an INDD file and I'm told they're not allowed. Really? OK ... will try a ZIP file with the INDD inside. Nope ... ZIP won't work either. Uploading a PNG screenshot)

Column Rules fail if a Table is the first item in a Text Frame

Please see the attached sample file.

On page 1 and 2 you will find a variety of 2-column frames with column rule applied.

In each case, the column rule will fail BECAUSE the first item in the frame is a Table. But, on page 2 I've added one extra example…
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CLOSED · AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

Hi,
The feature is working as expected. As soon as you add some text below the table, the Column Rules work fine.

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Adobe 2020 Crashes with copy & paste

Whenever I try to copy/paste small elements from adobe illustrator onto Adobe InDesign, indesign will automatically quit. If I try to recover the file after it has crashed, it crashes again...

What is happening here? This is an ongoing issue since the update.

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We have been able to reproduce the issue and it is currently under investigation.
Customers facing similar issue, Please share the document with sharewithid@adobe.com

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Artifact Tagging

InDesign now ignores it half the time when I designate an object as an artifact in the object export options panel. I run an accessibility check on the PDF and those objects come up as errors in the alternate text check, and I have to manually desginate them all as artifacts within Acrobat. I know this is a new issue, because I've been working with the same template for several years and locked down all the objects that were supposed to remain the same month to month. Never has a problem until the 2020 update.

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Multiple text line links tab out of order

Not sure if InDesign or Acrobat issue: Using 13.1. InDesign - Recently noticed that if I have text that flows to 2 lines and that has a hyperlink behind it, in Acrobat, the tags show the link as having two Link-OBJR, but they are the reverse of reading order. So if you tab the page, you go from 2nd line of text to first. So,

'Go to
the store'

tabs as if it is 'the store' 'go to'. The underlying link is fine--no issue there--it's the tab order and tag order (tag order perhaps then impacting screen readers/accessibility???).

This is in a single paragraph block, so not an issue of Article content out of order--the system is doing this. I think this is a recent bug (last 4-6 months?) --but whether in how InDesign feeds this to Acrobat or how Acrobat interprets, I don't know. I can manually fix in Acrobat but re-ordering the Link-OBJR tags, but it makes no sense that I should have to do so. Any idea what is going on?

Not sure if InDesign or Acrobat issue: Using 13.1. InDesign - Recently noticed that if I have text that flows to 2 lines and that has a hyperlink behind it, in Acrobat, the tags show the link as having two Link-OBJR, but they are the reverse of reading order. So if you tab the page, you go from 2nd line of text to first. So,

'Go to
the store'

tabs as if it is 'the store' 'go to'. The underlying link is fine--no issue there--it's the tab order and tag order (tag order perhaps then impacting screen readers/accessibility???).

This is…

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PDF comment: need Insert Text at Cursor tool

People who are reviewing now only can add a sticky note, , highlight text, underline text (and add a comment), strikeout text and draw. Adding text. The regular Comment toolbar also contains the Insert Text at Cursor tool. This must be added to the review features when documents are sent for review via the new Send for Review feature.

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InDesign, latest version. GREP: find period (.) character followed by endnote reference number. Should be (\.)(~U) but doesn't seem to work.

GREP: find period (.) character followed by endnote reference number. Should be (.)(~U) but doesn't seem to work.

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Under Review · amaarora responded

Thanks for reporting the issue. As confirmed from you all, the crash issue is not happening with latest InDesign build. The only remaining issue is that of Grep not working when a period is followed by an endnote marker

We will look into the issue shortly.

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[ID-4199810]Cross reference takes more space than its text

A cross reference sometimes takes up more space than its actual text.

In the attached shows a frame with text with the right side of the text frame visible and the word "with" (above) extending well beyond the 2nd to last line in the frame. The "112" in the picture is a cross reference. When that cross reference is removed and "regular" text is typed in the 112 fits on the line.

Question first posted and confirmed by another here: https://forums.adobe.com/message/10908454#10908454.

This happens in CS6 and in CC2019, 14.0.1 x64.
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Adjust Layout: add an option to ignore objects anchored in text or bring back legacy (2018) layout adjustment

I always made extensive use of the old layout adjustment feature in 'margins and columns', yet the new 'adjust layout' gives inconsistent and confusing results, resizing objects that never used to get changed.

It's gone from being very useful to a liability.

For me it was great for resizing the main text frame on multi-page (100s+ pages) books, but leaving the objects pasted into the text frame alone (figures, etc). Also moving page numbers aligned with margins, but not changing the sizes.

The new feature stretches and distorts carefully measured objects/figures, changes anchored object settings (at least, things move about incorrectly without the numbers updating) and causes other weird behaviours.

I always made extensive use of the old layout adjustment feature in 'margins and columns', yet the new 'adjust layout' gives inconsistent and confusing results, resizing objects that never used to get changed.

It's gone from being very useful to a liability.

For me it was great for resizing the main text frame on multi-page (100s+ pages) books, but leaving the objects pasted into the text frame alone (figures, etc). Also moving page numbers aligned with margins, but not changing the sizes.

The new feature stretches and distorts carefully measured objects/figures, changes anchored object settings (at least, things move about…

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Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Right Arrow / Left Arrow in tables

InDesign version 14.0.

The keyboard shortcut "Ctrl+Right Arrow" to move one word to the right does not work when the text cursor is in a table. Same for "Ctrl+Left Arrow", to move one word to the left.

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FIXED · amaarora responded

Fix for this issue is now available in the latest update of InDesign 2020.

In the Creative Cloud Desktop application, click on the Updates section on the left. You should be able to see the Update available for InDesign. Please update your InDesign application to this version to try out the fix.

Let us know in the comments section if you face any problem with the updation process.

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inDesign CC 2018 not working in mojave beta
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Closed: Fixed · Abhinav Kaushik responded

Hello All,

Thank you for your support all this while. The issue is now fixed in the latest update of InDesign.
Please upgrade to the new InDesign 14.0 from your Creative Cloud Application.

If you are unable to see the update yet, click on the menu (three dots) on the top right corner of Creative cloud app and click on “Check for App Updates”.

Let us know if the issue is resolved for you in InDesign 14.0.

Thanks,
Abhinav Kaushik
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