Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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2911 results found
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find/change text missing search: selection
>>>after making a selection, the Find/Change text dialog sometimes does not offer Selection in the Search dropdown. It will be present under GREP and Object, but not Text and Glyph. Closing/reopening Find/Change does not fix it. Restarting InDesign usually fixes it...until it goes missing again.
>5 votes -
Text Wrap function not available!
>>>Can anyone help?! The Text Wrap function in InDesign is just not available. All I can see is a blank panel. Done the usual restarts etc. but still no joy and getting incredibly frustrating now.
>>Running latest update of InDesign on MacBook Pro High Sierra 10.13.4
>8 votes -
text
>>>text contorn doesn't work, the box is empty. Any idea?
>1 vote -
Character Style is cleared from copied Hyperlink
>>June 26, 2020
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> Windows 10 Home 1909
> InDesign 15.1 x64>When copying text, the Character Style of Hyperlink text is not copied.
>>Attached is a video showing the problem:
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> ITC Officina OTF [book, bold] are used.
> A Paragraph Style is applied to all text.
> A Character Style is applied to the "portfolio" and "imdb.com"
> "imdb.com" is an active Hyperlink, as per the Hyperlinks panel
> Once copied, the Character Style is removed from "imdb.com".>Bug happens if the Text Frame is copied, and/or if text is copied and pasted
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Share for text editing (beta) doesn't work on Microsoft Edge
>>>When using Adobe InDesign and clicking the link to open InCopy on the Web beta, the link opens in Microsoft Edge. Instead of loading the document, an “Incompatible Browser” message appears. I was testing it on my end, so my editor can start making text edits.
>>Steps to Reproduce:
>>Open Adobe InDesign.
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> Click Share for text editing.
> Copy the link in your browser
> Copy the link into Microsoft Edge.
> Receive this message when trying to review the document the “Incompatible Browser” message instead of the document loading.1 vote -
Changing default language causes InDesign to crash and language remains unchanged
>>InDesign v 16.4 & InDesign v 17.0 on macOS Catalina
>>InDesign keeps crashing when you’re trying to change the default language. Received a large file with French as default and we need to localize it for US market.
>>Paragraph Styles > [Basic Paragraph] > Advanced Character Formats > Language: French (Change to English: USA) > OK
>>CRASH
>>Edit > Find/Change > Find Format > Advanced Character Formats > Language: French > Change Format > Advanced Character Formats > Language: English: USA > Change All
>>CRASH
>>The language is suppose to
…1 votePlease 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 the document(s)/asset(s) to us? Please package the entire document (To package the document, choose File → Package…)—
Adobe InDesign Team -
BUG: Small Caps not applied correctly to Variable Text with World-ready Composer
>>Using Adobe Indesign 19.3 on MacOS 14.4, Apple M1.
>>Steps to reproduce:
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> 1. Make new document.
> 2. Define a text variable "Test" with custom text "Handgloves".
> 3. Insert variable in text frame.
> 4. Set the composer for that paragraph to "World-ready..."
> 5. Set the paragraph in Small Caps
> 6. Try different fonts.>Expected result: small caps.
>>Actual Result: only first two characters are changed to small caps. Typing characters after the variable placeholder changes how many characters are changed to small caps. See attached video.
>>Workaround is to change
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missing text and images
>>>I have a multiple facing page doc that is missing text boxes and images. seems like a rendering issue but I cant fix the bug. any ideas? things I have tried are: preference reset, exporting the doc as an IDML file, moving pages to a new doc. nothing is fixing the bug.
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Attempting to link two different text boxes causes InDesign to crash.
>>>I have version 15.0.1.
>2 votesClosed: Not Reproducible ·
AdminSanyam Talwar
(Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign)
responded
To identify the cause of this issue, we had started our investigation with the aim to resolve it. You might have also received an email from us seeking more details to help in our investigation.
We’ve concluded our investigation and came up with the finding: Either the issue is fixed in the latest release of InDesign or the issue was intermittent in nature at the time of its reporting and is not reproducible now.
We recommend you to upgrade to the latest version of InDesign 2020 (if you’re not already on it). It contains a lot of stability fixes.
If you still face this issue even after updating to the latest version of InDesign, please submit the crash report to us. (The guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html)
We seek your support in our continual effort to improve InDesign.—
Adobe InDesign Team -
Text Wrap on image container is applied to image bounds
>>When applying text wrap to an image container, indesign (v14.0.1 macOS) now applies the text wrap to the image inside the container - rather frustrating if you are cropping in on part of an image with the image from.
>>Steps to Reproduce - Place image inside container frame making sure that the image is scaled larger than the frame (cropped by frame). Place image container over text and apply text wrap.
>>Expected Result - text wrap applied to container should be based on container dimensions.
>>Actual result - text wrap applied to image inside the container
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anchored, free positioned object inside text frame is wrongly wrapped
>>>And this is old bug.
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> 1. place a graphic inline at the start of paragraph,
> 2. switch on "wrap around" in "text wrap" options
> 3. make place for graphic making apriopriate left indent for paragraph.
> Whole text in paragraph is indented reflecting the shape of wrapped object>This bug was once repaired few years ago, but now it returned.
>2 votes -
Text becoming conditional
>>>If I have conditional text in which the condition include the paragraph mark, when I re-open the document, the following paragraph sometimes has the condition applied to it, even though it was unconditional before. This is a repeatable problem.
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Text box (&photoBox) LAG & MOVE after clicking / editing
>>When clicking on TXT box indesign freezes for about 1s then it's moving text box ON ITS OWN by few pixels (please take a look at video: 1-2s, 12-14s, 22-24s) like how is this happening??? It doesn't matter if the document is big or small, new or old - I've tried all options it's doing it every single time!!! I can't work since it;s driving me crazy FIX IT ASAP:
>>INFO: Adobe InDesign v19.2, MacOS: 14.3 (23D56), MacBook Pro 16" m1 PRO, 32Gb RAM
>>Additional info:
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> 1. tried on multiple documents all have the same poblem3 votes -
Outlined text
>>I'm using InDesign v 16.1 for a Mac. I just encountered an issue with outlining text. As you can see in the "Display in Preview" png, all of the text is visible and matches what I actually see in InDesign. All of this text is outlined by pressing command + O. When you look at the "Display in Acrobat" png, the yellow outlined text appears to be transparent. Again, all of the text in the png files are outlined. This issue is also visible at our print shop. The workaround I found is just to keep the text live,
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Outlining text - Bulleted List is not working and text gets heavier
>>>InDesign 17.3.
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> Outlining text is not working:
> Bulleted List is not working when outlined. The bullets disappears and the text seems slightly heavier.2 votes -
CC 2019 Repeated Crashing when switching to the text tool from the move tool
>>>Experiencing repeated crashes when selecting the Text tool. Does not happen every time, but has happened at least 5 times in the last 10 minutes. Windows 10, newest version of CC2019.
>3 votesHello All,
We have fixed a number of crashes with InDesign’s latest Nov’18 update.
Please download the latest InDesign version (InDesign CC 14.0.1) for the fix.List of crashes and other issues that have been fixed with the update can be found at the below provided link:
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.htmlIf you are unable to see the update yet, go to Creative Cloud application, click on the context menu on the top right and click on Check for App Updates.
Regards,
InDesign Team -
Editing Text Causes First Line to Move Down
>>>If you edit text, the top line drops down (a little bit? not sure how much), as if the text frame has inset spacing from the top.
>2 votes -
Text frame options (Ctrl B) doesnt open since 3 days
>>>Text frame options (Ctrl B) doesnt open since 3 days. Indesign freeze. And the Windows desktop background dissapears somtimes. I use this funtion for every project. So I don't know what to do now?
>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 using it) as it is more robust.
If you are still facing this issue even after updating it, please send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com :
- Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when InDesign froze?
- Video recording of the issue
- 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 16.0 crash when I publish for review a specific document
>>>Indesign 16.0 crash when I publish for review an indesign document contain 36 pages with some AI imports.
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> I can publish other simply indesign documents.
> I can't understand why.
> Please help me.1 vote -
crash split layout view
>>>InDesign (randomly) crashes when copying/pasting from one view to the other in split layout view.
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> At this time I'm working on a Windows 10 machine with InDesign 17.3 installed, but I've had this isue already for years, going back to InDesign 14. The problem occured also on Mac machines with Sierra and Catalina installed.>I can't timely reproduce the issue, it happens randomly, but always with split layout view in use. Only today InDesign crashed already 7 times while I was working in split layout view.
>2 votes
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