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  1. language quote typographer

    I create epubs which contain different languages so need the language correctly attributed on xhtml files after exporting –

    selecting different languages in different paragraph styles affects typographer's (curly) quotes/straight quotes – I'd expect the to follow the app preferences setting –

    Advanced Character Formats > Language > [No Language] = gives straight quotes

    Advanced Character Formats > Language > English: UK = gives typographer's quotes (curly)

    Advanced Character Formats > Language > cy_GB = Welsh = gives straight quotes

    InDesign 17.1 – Mac OS 12.1 – iMac (Retina 4k, 2019)

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  2. InDesign 17.1 generating enormous PDF

    I am a book designer and have been using InDesign for years. Just upgraded to 17.1 and finding its exporting massive PDF of a simple text file (60 page novel - no images, no colour, no charts, no graphics...just black text on a white page). I cant get it below 18mb using 'Smallest File Size' which is ridiculous. Previously this would have been 1 to 2 mb. Can you fix this please?

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  3. Review: Previous feedback is no longer displayed in previous file version

    Previous feedback is no longer displayed in previous file version! This is extremely tedious when checking the files, because even if you make a copy of the file and assign a new review link to it, your colleagues cannot compare the corrections with their comments. Likewise, I cannot check whether I have received the feedback with the subsequently marked errors and thus adopted them.

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  4. 인디자인 밑줄 기능에서, 밑줄 색깔을 정할 때

    현재 인디자인 기능이서

    밑줄 의 색깔을 넣어주는 기능에,

    메뉴의 아이콘을 클력해서 들어가는 간단한 경로로도

    밑줄 색갈을 정할 수 있도록 ,

    기능을 추가해 주시면 좋겠습니다.

    일일이 복잡한 경로로 들어가는 방법도 한가지 방법이고,

    아주 직관적으로 들어갈 수 있는 방법도

    있으면,

    사용자가 사용하기 편한 방법대로,

    찾아서 사용할 수 있도록 만들어 주시면 좋겠습니다.

    고맙습니다.

    Republic of Korea [South Korea]

    from Kimpo

    박철현

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  5. links buttons causes crash

    Adobe InDesign 2022 ver 17.1
    Trying to fix a link but when I hit the links button, the whole program crashes. Sent a report every time.
    Have rebooted computer, restarted computer, uninstalled/reinstalled InDesign with no luck.
    It just shuts down and wants to send a report. I have tried to recover, not recover, and cancel. Still no resolution.

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  6. Crashes when I try to export

    InDesign 17.1 - Today something happend with my InDesign and I can't export anything anymore as it gives me this problem like in the two images. And it doesn't matter if I click on the ok or not, it simply closes. And when I try to open InDesign again, the loading screen appears and then crashes and closes. The second time I try to open and move to recover my file, it crashes. It also crashed even if I hit No. Only when I hit the Close button, then it moves on but I still can't export anything. And I…

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  7. Printing to PDF: transparent images on a black background create two different blacks.

    Export function doesn't tend to create this problem, but I have to use the Print Booklet function to get page layout and everything else correct.

    I understand the difference between Rich Black and Accurate Black, but changing the settings for what InDesign will export seems to have no effect. have tried about 6 different solutions but none of them seem to work, short of me jumping through obscene hoops to cheat it. FIX YOUR CRAP ADOBE.

    Attaching two images:
    First is Screencap from InDesign viewport.
    Second is PDF after print.

    UPDATE: The website doesn't allow me to upload jpegs, so…

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  8. page disappearing

    Page has disappeared from behind objects. As if the artboard has disappeared, the page is gone but the objects remain. This has affected 20 pages or so of my document. It even exports in PDF as a blank page. I have attached images of what it looks like. This is a disaster and needs to be rectified.

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  9. Duplicating Document within Finder Causes Both to be linked to the same Review "Share For Review"

    I just encountered a very annoying bug. It seems that if you duplicate a file in the finder (Mac OS) with a document that already has a review, the copy seems to keep the link to the Shared for Review review. Also the original maintains the link. Even if you try creating a new review it seems both files are connected. The way to avoid it is to do a Save Copy from with InDesign. So I guess within the InDesign document when you just duplicate in the finder there is some information that somehow keeps it lined to the…

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  10. browser console errors caused by Adobe code

    Adobe code loaded via iframe causes errors in browser console. See screenshot attached. We also see this in the examples on Adobe website: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/publish-online.html

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  11. Uservoice page bug

    The uservoice page, when posting or updating an idea/bug report would not accept attachments where the extension is in capital letters, such as the Windows Snipping tool would save them when creating screenshots. Means, a file with appendix *.PNG is not accepted, but one with *.png is.

    That's stupid programming!

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  12. Bug: wrong row/paragraph counting in tables

    Version 17.1: if you have a table, for example 20 rows and 2 columns and you select 10 entire rows, i. e. 20 cells, ID would "Rows: 20" in the information window. If every cell has no more than one paragraph and two cells of the selected rows are empty, the paragraph count should be 18, but it's 21.

    When selecting 4 rows, it counts 8 rows and 8 paragraphs, which is correct because it counts cells. When selecting 10 rows, it would could

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  13. InDesign becomes unresponsive for one minute on closing document with missing link on disconnected drive

    1. Version of Adobe InDesign, InCopy or InDesign Server
      InDesign 2022 – version 17.1 x64 running on Windows 10.

    2. Steps to reproduce the issues
      2a Map a folder (mine is located at a VPN) to a letter in Windows Exporer.
      2b Create a new document.
      2c Place an image from the network drive letter located on the aforementioned VPN connection.
      2d Shut down your VPN connection.
      2e (Note that the link in the Links panel does not realize that it is broken - no indication)
      2f Close the document (Ctrl+w or Close in the File menu or just close the document…

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  14. Info Panel - Stroke and Fill info drawn in wrong place - covers up PPI/words info

    Windows 10 - ID 17.1

    Info Panel - Stroke and Fill info drawn in wrong place - covers up PPI info and also garbles coords when text selected.

    Not dissimilar to this issue from 2019.
    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/37019515-info-panel-illegible-text

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  15. TurboTax

    If you are having problem with e-filing tax, then you should installturbotax com
    https://takeactionnyc.com/install-turbotax/

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  16. Quickbooks update error 15106

    Quickbooks update error 15106 occurs when the update program cannot be opened or when the update program is damaged when updating QuickBooks Desktop.
    https://takeactionnyc.com/quickbooks-error-15106/

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  17. findGrep() causes Indesign to hang and consume all available resources, eventually crashing the entire computer

    This code will cause InDesign 17.1 to hang and consume all available resources until the computer eventually runs out of both real and virtual memory and then crashes.

    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.properties = { includeMasterPages: true, kanaSensitive: true, widthSensitive: true };
    app.findGrepPreferences = null;
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '^(.*)$';

    var found = app.documents[0].changeObject.findGrep();

    If the runaway app is terminated using Task Manager (Windows 10), a stack of message boxes appear with the following message:
    Unable to terminate process
    The operation could not be completed
    The operation is not valid for this process

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  18. V2022 - Museo Sans fonts not working after InDesign update

    I recently upgraded my InDesign on my PC, running Windows 10 Enterprise, from Version 2019 to Version 2022.

    After the update, my Museo Sans from Adobe fonts stopped working in Version 2022. I couldn't convert my InDesign file back to 2019, so I ended up pulling it into a Mac environment and re-saving successfully from V2021 to an IDML file and re-opening it in InDesign V2019 on my PC. The fonts are visible in the newly re-opened V2019 file.

    I've included screen shots of what I see in V2022 (most Museo Sans text missing) and V2019 (all Museo Sans text…

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  19. Opening documents not working

    Every time i try to open a new document or an already existing one, it doesn't work, nothing happens.

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  20. imported excel number spaces are replaced with an 'Ê' on Mac

    I'm on a Macbook pro M1, working on an InDesign file. I get some XLSX files with tables containing numbers in them, and when I place them into my document, all spaces between numbers are replaced with an 'Ê'.

    e.g. 123 456 789 will be placed as 123Ê456Ê789.

    I've asked someone to test it out on windows and it does not happen. I belive it is a IOS issue only....?

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