Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Scripting Windows: Add page item after add swatch will delete added swatch
In ExtendScript on Windows only, adding any InDesign page item after adding a color will delete the color:
var doc = app.documents.add();
// adds black CMYK color
sw = doc.colors.add();
// this line will delete the color that was just added on Windows only
var rect = doc.rectangles.add();
alert(sw.isValid);
This actually manifested for me as a crash bug. This script crashes InDesign 2024 Windows:
var doc = app.documents.add(); var sw = doc.colors.add(); doc.rectangles.add({fillColor: sw});This crashes because the last line deletes the swatch when it adds the rectangle, then tries to use the swatch.
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align panel
My Align panel is just blank. Some of the Align options are showing up in my top dock area, but I need the Distribute options and those are nowhere to be found. All of my software is up to date (I'm on an iMac), I've tried restarting... still nothing. This was working find just last week and a couple days ago I noticed the panel was blank.
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Modifier l'original
Je cherche à modifier dans Indesign, l'application qui s'ouvre par défaut lorsque je veux modifier une photo.
Je veux que Photoshop s’ouvre et non Aperçu quand je clique sur « Modifier l’original »…
Et éviter de passer par "Modifier avec…" qui est beaucoup trop long pour 500 photos ! Avez-vous une solution ? Merci d'avance.1 vote -
Align to decimal tab stop behavior changes to left justified if ligatures present
Indesign 19.5
Create something like a manual numbered list with the first tab set as a decimal tab stop and any word in the first line that contains a ligature.. It can be as simple as "[tab]2. fi".
Expected result is the period would align where the decimal tab stop is set. This will happen up until a ligature is introduced.
Once a ligature is present on the first line, the decimal tab stop behaves like a left-justified tab stop instead.
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GDI Handles
Indesign 19.5 x64 does not cleanup GDI Handles on Windows 10 build 19045.4529, version 22H2.
This only occurs when the feature 'Turn on Overprint Preview' is enabled, and you start scrolling. When you disable that feature, you can scroll again without the GDI Handles being hogged by Indesign. The handles rae, after the feature is disabled, not released.
A 28 page project, and a scroll up and down trough the project, costed me almost 600 GDI handles, and when I'm at 10.000, Windows just stops serving new ones and Indesign will crash.
Expected outcome: GDI Handles do either not increase upon scrolling within the 'Overprint preview' function, or they are released once I disable the feature.
Currect outcome: GDI handles are held by the Indesign.exe process, up and until the 10.000 counter, with as a result that InDesign becomes unresponsive to the Operating System, debuggers cannot be attached anymore and the only option is to just kill it.
I've recorded my steps and included screenshots of the GDI Handles counter being aggressively moving up when I'm scrolling. However, it is in a ZIP file as how Windows serves them. This is the public link to the file in my Google Drive. It will be there for a few months, then I'll remove it, so please get it before then.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Odb4mlwmdcltkWK0omnpsmPRRm3bkOSe/view?usp=sharingIf there are any questions of if you do ned more information, please reach out. And let me know when this is fixed.
Indesign 19.5 x64 does not cleanup GDI Handles on Windows 10 build 19045.4529, version 22H2.
This only occurs when the feature 'Turn on Overprint Preview' is enabled, and you start scrolling. When you disable that feature, you can scroll again without the GDI Handles being hogged by Indesign. The handles rae, after the feature is disabled, not released.
A 28 page project, and a scroll up and down trough the project, costed me almost 600 GDI handles, and when I'm at 10.000, Windows just stops serving new ones and Indesign will crash.
Expected outcome: GDI Handles do either not increase…
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responsive
InDesign is not responsive, when I open it on my Macbook pro, it gets "stuck" and does not adapt to the screen size. Plus when I click on the full screen enlargement icon it doesn't work.
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Acrobat extension for Chrome renders sheared rectangles incorrectly in PDF exported from InDesign CC 2022 / 24
Filled sheared rectangles in PDF documents exported from InDesign are rendered incorrectly in the Adobe Acrobat extension for Chrome, but displays as expected in other PDF readers [ Preview, Safari, Quickview, etc. ]. The sheared rectangles are displayed as a box of the fill colour with the outer bounds of the sheared shape. Adding a stroke suggests the sheared rectangle is preserved, but is not honoured by the fill.
Work around: Adding an additional anchor point, or rounding the corners, appears to correct this issue.
Apple Macbook Pro [ M1 Pro, 32Gb, macOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79) ]
Adobe InDesign CC 2022 [ 17.2.0.20 ] and Adobe InDesign CC 2024 [ 19.2.0.46 ]
Google Chrome [ v 126.0.6478.127 Official arm64 ]
Adobe Acrobat Extension [ v 24.6.1.2 ]Filled sheared rectangles in PDF documents exported from InDesign are rendered incorrectly in the Adobe Acrobat extension for Chrome, but displays as expected in other PDF readers [ Preview, Safari, Quickview, etc. ]. The sheared rectangles are displayed as a box of the fill colour with the outer bounds of the sheared shape. Adding a stroke suggests the sheared rectangle is preserved, but is not honoured by the fill.
Work around: Adding an additional anchor point, or rounding the corners, appears to correct this issue.
Apple Macbook Pro [ M1 Pro, 32Gb, macOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79) ]
Adobe InDesign CC…1 vote -
Hide Frame Edges
I'm working on Windows 11. I'm not sure what the InDesign version is but I just bought it two days ago.
Everything has been smooth so far but when I needed to hide the Frame Edges I met this issue. From what I found out there are two options: View > Extras > Hide Frame Edges or simply Ctrl + H
Neither case worked.
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Adobe Fonts messes with installed/added fonts
Indesign 2022 and 2024, Windows 10.
Steps to reproduce:
1. With "Adobe Fonts" not activated in the Cloud client, add fonts to Indesign's \Fonts folder and start. Good example font: Roboto. The is a truetype font from Google.
2. Use any of the added fonts in a document and save. Close the document
3. Activate Adobe Fonts in the cloud client and restart Indesign. In case any of the added fonts is also available on Adobe Fonts, they're overridden by the cloud font, as the symbol in the font list (Type menu), next to the font, changes once you open Indesign the next time. In my case it was Roboto which then had a cloud symbol next to it.
4. Open the document again to find text now marked in red because of a missing font. I had to find out that the added Roboto font from Google and the Roboto font from Adobe are not the same. ID would now marked the added font as missing, because it changes its name to "Roboto (TT)".The only solution would then be to deactivate Adobe Fonts again.
Indesign 2022 and 2024, Windows 10.
Steps to reproduce:
1. With "Adobe Fonts" not activated in the Cloud client, add fonts to Indesign's \Fonts folder and start. Good example font: Roboto. The is a truetype font from Google.
2. Use any of the added fonts in a document and save. Close the document
3. Activate Adobe Fonts in the cloud client and restart Indesign. In case any of the added fonts is also available on Adobe Fonts, they're overridden by the cloud font, as the symbol in the font list (Type menu), next to the font, changes once you open…1 vote -
style from word not recognised
When I, in a word document linked to Indesign add a style which begins with the name of anther style, followed by a comma (no space) and more text, InDesign does not recognise that this is a new style but instead treats it (and calls it) by the other (shorter) style name. Workaround is to e.g. use an underscore instead, but it took me quite a while that is was this issue that caused the strange indesign behaviour.
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Bug texto oculto
Ao inserir o texto para edição, mesmo que haja espaço na página, o texto fica oculto. Mesmo adicionando uma nova página em branco para seguir com a edição, o quadro de texto aparece em branco e o texto continua oculto. Esse bug ocorreu duas vezes durante a diagramação de um e-book em momentos aleatórios.
Em um primeiro momento pensei que fosse um bug com a quebra e página mas conferindo no "Editor de matérias" percebi que o problema não estava relacionado com a quebra da página.
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A Tabulação não aceita imagem Wrap
Quando faço uma tabulação na largura da coluna e coloco uma imagem com text warp do lado esquerdo da imagem eu tenho que tabular linha por linha (ver Arquivo), do lado direito da imagem que é o início da coluna de texto funciona perfeitamente.
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Page navigation information built incorrectly in epubs exported from books (.indb files)
In InDesign 19.4 x64, when an epub export is created for a book (.indb file), page navigation links restart at page 1 for every document (.indd file). The toc.xhtml file looks okay despite this, but in the document xhtml files, the software is treating duplicates as non-unique and appending a sequence number to them. As a result, many of the links in the toc.xhtml file are broken. I've attached a text file showing portions of the relevant xhtml files illustrating this problem.
This is a major issue, because some epub distributors catch the error in validation and prevent the book from being uploaded. Amazon KDP doesn't care (for now), but IngramSpark does. I have to unzip the epub, manually remove the page navigation from the toc.xhtml file, and repackage it in order to distribute the epub through them.
Notes:
There is another request mentioning that the page numbers should reflect the page numbers in the book. If that were implemented, this problem would probably go away. However, that request indicates that the links work. Clearly, in my case, they do not work.
There is another request reporting that the Page Navigation checkbox does nothing. I've verified this. I tried to resolve the issue by unchecking Page Navigation, but the page navigation code was inserted into the files anyway.
In InDesign 19.4 x64, when an epub export is created for a book (.indb file), page navigation links restart at page 1 for every document (.indd file). The toc.xhtml file looks okay despite this, but in the document xhtml files, the software is treating duplicates as non-unique and appending a sequence number to them. As a result, many of the links in the toc.xhtml file are broken. I've attached a text file showing portions of the relevant xhtml files illustrating this problem.
This is a major issue, because some epub distributors catch the error in validation and prevent the book…
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Is this a text wrap problem or something else??
I use InDesign 2022. My Text wrap is set to 'none'.
When I open a new text box it’s automatically applying a 1" a white space top and bottom that is the width of the text box. Also a 1/4" white space to each side of the box, that is the height of the text box. These 'white panels' (I hesitate to call them text wraps) blank out other text boxes and photos, but sometimes the text from the underlying text box shows through. Bringing the photo to the front can help where a photo is concerned.
This is especially annoying when I need a smaller photo within the text and the text disappears to the side of the caption box. Photos text wrap just fine. Also if I have to put two text boxes together - one's 'white panels' invariably blanks out the other box's text.
I have tried all sorts of on-line suggestions but none seemed to help, and after one I couldn't even drop a photo onto a page. Desperate, I used 'restore' on my computer to reset everything to June 27 (earliest date possible) and I can now place photos, but the white space problem persists.
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I use InDesign 2022. My Text wrap is set to 'none'.
When I open a new text box it’s automatically applying a 1" a white space top and bottom that is the width of the text box. Also a 1/4" white space to each side of the box, that is the height of the text box. These 'white panels' (I hesitate to call them text wraps) blank out other text boxes and photos, but sometimes the text from the underlying text box shows through. Bringing the photo to the front can help where a photo is concerned.
This is especially…
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Version 19.4 - InDesign mangles keywords so that they are not searchable
Placement of a valid keyword searchable PDF or EPS file into InDesign and subsequent export to PDF leads to mangling of original words with the addition of one letter from another word.
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Files won't open
Trying to open some files from File Explorer or within InDesign: Adobe Creative Cloud message states: "InDesign could not open "[file name]" because it has been created in a newer version - Adobe InDesign 19.4. You can convert and open this file but you may lose out on content created using the features specifgic to the latest versions. For the best experience, we recommend updating InDesign to the latest version." I am always updated since I use the auto-update feature for all products. If I attempt to use the "Update" link provided I get this message: "You're up to date!". If I use the "Convert File" link I get this Adobe Creative Cloud message: "Unable to convert "[file name]". You are not currently signed in to Creative Cloud. Please go to Help - Sign In and enter your Adobe ID. Restart InDesign, then try opening the codument again." I am already signed in so this is getting me nowhere to be able to open files I must access!
Trying to open some files from File Explorer or within InDesign: Adobe Creative Cloud message states: "InDesign could not open "[file name]" because it has been created in a newer version - Adobe InDesign 19.4. You can convert and open this file but you may lose out on content created using the features specifgic to the latest versions. For the best experience, we recommend updating InDesign to the latest version." I am always updated since I use the auto-update feature for all products. If I attempt to use the "Update" link provided I get this message: "You're up to date!".…
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Issues with Color Picker in InDesign: HSB and RGB Confusion Leading to Unexpected Colors
When I open the color picker to adjust a shade, I usually automatically do so in HSB, since I usually want a lighter or darker shade of what I'm working on. But if I don't actually click on the radial buttons for the HSB value I'm working on, InDesign will give me some wild colors! It seems to be confusing HSB and RGB somehow--but I don't know why or how, since I'm editing in the HSB boxes.
If I'm using an HSB Swatch and open the color picker to get a different shade, the "original" color box shows something completely unrelated to the color of the swatch, but will act as if it is the real color when I click on it.
I'm not sure where the discrepancy is, and I can still do what I need to, but this gets really annoying and diminishes the usefulness of the color picker overall.
When I open the color picker to adjust a shade, I usually automatically do so in HSB, since I usually want a lighter or darker shade of what I'm working on. But if I don't actually click on the radial buttons for the HSB value I'm working on, InDesign will give me some wild colors! It seems to be confusing HSB and RGB somehow--but I don't know why or how, since I'm editing in the HSB boxes.
If I'm using an HSB Swatch and open the color picker to get a different shade, the "original" color box shows something completely…
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TOC Paragraph Styles not Applying Properly
I'm using InDesign version 19.4. I am trying to generate a TOC for my document. I have ensured that all my paragraph and character styles are appropriately titled and applied throughout my document.
When I produce my TOC, the entire thing is capitalized, despite the paragraph style having "normal" case set. When I highlight the auto-generated TOC, it is indicating that the correct paragraph style is applied, however, it is not reflecting it.
If I click around to my different paragraph styles, it alters the font size, color, etc. but everything remains capitalized, despite none of the styles having that setting.
I'm using InDesign version 19.4. I am trying to generate a TOC for my document. I have ensured that all my paragraph and character styles are appropriately titled and applied throughout my document.
When I produce my TOC, the entire thing is capitalized, despite the paragraph style having "normal" case set. When I highlight the auto-generated TOC, it is indicating that the correct paragraph style is applied, however, it is not reflecting it.
If I click around to my different paragraph styles, it alters the font size, color, etc. but everything remains capitalized, despite none of the styles having that…
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Lower Case with Caps Lock and Shift
In my new install, InDesign24, pressing shift while using caps lock doesn't make the text lower case, despite this working in other programs. Is there a preference or setting in InDesign I'm not aware is clicked to make this function as before?
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