Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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InDesign - OneDrive- Sync problems
I have synchronized a OneDrive image folder without downloading the image files. When I drag an image directly into an InDesign page, the file usually was downloaded automatically. But now I get an error message that the file might be in use and can only be opened after another user has closed it. If I use Ctrl. + D to import the same image, it works. Is InDesign maybe too fast for OneDrive to give access to the file? My collegue doesn't experience this problem but works with the same InDesign version and file directory.
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Problem with endnote formatting when converting to EPUB
I was converting a print book file to an EPUB using the 19.4 updated version of Indesign. The print file had footnotes on every page.. In the conversion options box, I selected the option to convert footnotes to endnotes, but the formatting of the numbers in the EPUB were not consistent. Each footnote number that was on a new page in the original Indesign files was bigger than the other numbers (see screenshots). To attempt to fix the problem, I converted the footnotes to endnotes in the actual Indesign file before exporting to EPUB. This fixed the numbering issue but…
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User Generated Templates that can be Accessed from the Home Screen
It would be very helpful to be able to access user generated templates from the home screen, similar to presets. This will allow teams to quickly access documents and keep layouts consistent, instead of taking time to search for templates on the network.
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Bleed marks export outside of bleed area
Document is set up as pages and with .125 bleed on all sides. When I export with bleed marks and select "use document bleed settings" or manually type in .125 on all sides, the bleed marks appear just OUTSIDE of the bleed.
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Object effects has stopped working
Trying to add a drop shadow to text and non of the Objects/Effects capability are available. Links non-responsive. WHY?
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Randomly occuring corruption in PDF export.
Two variations of this issue. Both occur when processed by a Fiery RIP. Screen Preview and PitStop show nothing wrong.
1) PDF starts to RIP, but partway through it fails.
2) PDF RIPs, but (some) sections of text containing ligatures are substituted for completely wrong glyphs.
In both cases, re-RIPing the same PDF gets the same error, but exporting a new PDF solves it. (It occasionally takes more than one attempt at re-exporting)
We also use Xmpie to generate personalized letters, and the glyph error text issue will start at some increment of 100 records and last exactly 100 records…
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pdf export failure background task
hello,
my indesign (19.4) doesn't want to export the pdf file for print, which is really annoying.
1) all photos are cmyk;
2) all colors are cmyk;
3) if i export the pdf in pages as separate files, it works.otherwise no can do. pic attached.
it is the second project this situation occurs and the first time the workaround was to save the file again, with another name, then work with this new copy.
also i mention that the indesign file seems very large (177 mega), although it has 42 pages only... may be some pics are big and…
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world composer opentype
InDesign 19.4.0.63, two different Mac Studio M2, MacOS 13 and 12.7.4
1 - Create new document
2 - Go to Parent, in either page of the default spread, create a text object
3 - Add TYPE -> ADD SPECIAL CHARACTER -> CURRENT PAGE NUMBER
4 - Select all, change font of this text object to Minion Pro
5 - Finally, change it to SMALL CAPS
6 - Add PAGES -> add over 100 pagesRESULT:
- IF the Composer is set to ADOBE PARAGRAPH for that text object,
- it will appear fine on page 100... the three digit number is properly…
1 vote - IF the Composer is set to ADOBE PARAGRAPH for that text object,
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'Text style' (Character/Paragraph) Drop Down Visual Bug
Adobe InDesign 19.4, Apple M3 Max, Sonoma 14.4 and 14.5 (at least).
'Text Style' drop downs for character and paragraph show persistent white box, without any of the styles showing. White box blocks UI actions below.
Occurs randomly, resolves randomly. Restart not guaranteed to fix the issue.
Expected result: The drop down displays the relevant text styles...
Actual result: Empty white box...1 vote -
Text justification algorithm is *really* sloppy.
When the justification is set to "justified," when I add or delete text, text moves down from previous lines, making those earlier lines look really stretched out with huge spaces. This happens constantly. It looks really bad, and there's no logical reason for it.
This happens whether "Hyphenate" is on or off.
Each line of text should always hold as many words as it can hold (without shrinking anything to fit). What happens on any later line should never cause any change in previous lines.
I'm using InDesign v. 19.3 x64 in Windows.
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footnote end article in InDesign 19.4
InDesign 19.4 | Sonoma | Mac M2Pro
Incremential bug appears in article's note creation :
When created, the new line (n+1) is full of text of precedent note !
Line n become empty.1 vote -
Crash on object state rename
This happens to me regularly. With an object selected, I use the button for Convert selection to multi-state object from the Object States panel. If I then try to rename the states, InDesign immediately quits. Reopening InDesign takes me back to just before I created the MSO.
I've learned to save immediately after creating MSOs and then rename states. That's my workaround. I thought it would be good to mention though, as it seems related to the old inability to rename states bug that was fixed.
I'm using ID 19.4 on MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1
1 voteWe have released InDesign 2025(v20.2.0.036) with many stability fixes. We recommend you upgrade to the latest version (if you’re not already on it) as it is more robust.
If you still face this issue even after updating, please submit the crash report to us. (Guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html )
Also, please send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com :
- Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when InDesign crashed?
- Video recording of the crash
- Is(Are) the issue related to a specific document(s)/asset(s)? If yes, could you provide us with the document(s)/asset(s)? Please package the entire document (To package the document, choose File → Package…)
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Adobe InDesign Team
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Design flaw and bug: empty table cells can have a font assigned
Found in: ID 2022
If you have a table and put text into a cell, the text has at least one font assigned. When removing the text again, the cell becomes empty but seems to keep the font assignment, which is illogical. No text, no font. Later, if you open the document on another PC which doesn't have that font would cause a missing font issue for no reason.Even worse: going into the "Find/replace font" dialog you can find the empty cell with the missing font, but you cannot fix it, because Change or Change all have no effect.…
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Publish online - Play videos
I was trying to play a video in Publish Online there are 4 buttons to play each video but every time I click on one button, it all comes out in one click.
The links to each button seem all correct but when it comes to playing online it seems the button doesn't control the videos
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Glitching while working and problems while exporting in PDF
glitching while working and problems while exporting in PDF
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hyperlink removes style
This is ID 19.4.
Hello– I have a character style applied to some (but not all) of the text in a TOC (see Attachment 1). As a test, we'll consider the word BELFAST, which has this specific style applied to it: font Roboto Bold, size 10, leading 12, All Caps, PMS 5275 CMYK.
However, when I use the 'Add Hyperlink' function to the entire text block (from BELFAST to the page #), the previously described style I have applied onto BELFAST is removed (see second attachment).
The particular TOC I'm showing you is short so no biggie, but I have…
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Typo in Text to Image (Beta) Aspect Ratio selections
The word "Portrait" is misspelled in English V19.4.
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when importing documents from Word and mapping to paragraph styles
Everytime I start mapping styles on import InDesign crashes. This is taking up too much time, I have tried exporting/saving the doc as an rtf etc but to no avail. I am running Sonoma 14.4 on a brand new Macbook Pro 16"
1 voteWe have released InDesign 2025(v20.2.0.036) with many stability fixes. We recommend you upgrade to the latest version (if you’re not already on it) as it is more robust.
If you still face this issue even after updating, please submit the crash report to us. (Guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html )
Also, please send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com :
- Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when InDesign crashed?
- Video recording of the crash
- Is(Are) the issue related to a specific document(s)/asset(s)? If yes, could you provide us with the document(s)/asset(s)? Please package the entire document (To package the document, choose File → Package…)
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Adobe InDesign Team
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Indesign transparency effect doesnt work when published online
My Indesign is the newest version,19.4.
The text transparency effect (multiply) doesn't appear in the online published version. it goes back to the solid color, not the color + multiply effect
Preview is working fine and I had no problem when its exported to PDF1 vote -
CC Libraries palette vibrates nonstop
InDesign ver 19.4, when I click on the CC Libraries palette, the scroll bar and the bottom of the palette vibrates or jumps vertically up and down nonstop. I can't get it to stop. Closing and re-opening the palette didn't help. Restarting ID didn't help. Very distracting when using your libraries palette.
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