Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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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.
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TEXT EDIT
>>>When I try to edit text I now always have to double click on text box twice as the first time doesn't work. This is incredibly frustrating and time consuming. I have tried all of the suggestions on the adobe forums including re-installing and turning off type contextual controls but nothing works. A separate issue that has come up is my InDesign keeps crashing when i try to add rows to a table.
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Source Sans Pro latest version's properties have changed
>>The latest version of Source Sans pro (version 3.006) appears to start lower down text frames than the previous version did which messes up months worth of existing projects. When I go to edit the copy, it all shifts down the text box by a few millimetres.
>>In the attached image you can see two of the same text boxes - one is correct, and one has shifted down due to the font updating.
>>I've spoken with InDesign support who said to log the issue here.
>>As a temporary fix I have downloaded version 2.040
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crash
>>InDesign version info attached (Mac OS 10.15.7).
>>I've been dealing with persistent crashing while trying to open ID files. For certain files, the beach ball of death appears for an extended (and sometimes endless) period, at which point I force-quit and open the file again. On the second attempt, the file always opens properly. This happens with most, not all, ID files — so I literally have to restart ID 30+ times a day. No fun.
>>I've reset preferences and even reinstalled ID from scratch, but no luck. One thing I noticed is that if I
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Issue Not Resolved: Cannot Implement and/or Copy Any Review Comments
>>This was previously mentioned with multiple votes and then marked as resolved by admin. However, multiple comments show that this bug is CRITICAL and NOT FIXED with the latest update.
>>Share for Review is essentially useless at the moment since there's no way to either A) download the PDF with edits, B) implement a change from the comment, or C) copy and paste the comment from the review panel.
>>Please fix, these features all work when sharing an exported PDF for review and then importing comments. Absolutely zero excuse that this expensive of a software cannot solve
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Ghost text
>>>When I select all the text, the text that appears on the screen is not the one that really exists on that page. I place the cursor in a random place, press a letter and the vision of the true text appears. Then I delete the letter that I have previously put.
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Text edits forcing blank
>>I keep encountering the same glitch in multiple documents where an edit to the text on one page forces a blank page (although running head and page number remain) on the following page, with the text re-flowing as expected on the page after that. For example, deleting an unwanted space is a frequent cause of this glitch. So far I've found 2 ways of making the text return to it's correct position and removing the blank:
>>1) place my cursor at the very end of the page before the unwanted blank and enter a space - this brings
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Text box disappears when text converted to outlines
>>>Many sign printers require that all text is converted to outlines. When I do, any text box that has a colour defined disappears. I need to duplicate the box first and delete the text in the underlying box, then convert the above text to outlines. A bit of an arduous process.
>>This shouldn't happen – it's been an issue for years.
>>Can you please change it so that converting text to outlines doesn't alter the graphics – that is, the coloured and/or stroked text box remains?
>>Thanks!
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copy object effects by drag drop not working consistently
>>>copy object effects by drag drop (fx panel) not working consistently
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> comes & goes intermittently / unreliable. both individual and grouped objects
> yes, preview is on>indesign cc 2019 Mac
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> Mojave (a p.o.s. in and of itself)4 votes -
Text disappearing while editing
>>>On my MacBook Air when I use InDesign and I am editing text it frequently disappears then when I zoom in again it will reappear. It only ever disappears from view, it is never lost but still very annoying. It will do this about every 4 words I type.
>5 votes -
Incorrect cursor movement when selecting text
>>There is an annoying bug when selecting the text: extending the selection is working incorrectly.
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> To reproduce:
> 1. Select a word with the mouse. Make sure the word is in the middle of the text. Select the characters from left to right
> 2. Now Shift+Left Arrow modifies the BEGINNING of the text, instead of the END.
> Why is this a bug?
> Open any other text editing software and see the difference: when selecting text with the mouse, the cursor is placed where the mouse button is released. If selecting from left to right, then3 votes -
idml shifts images in bounding boxes
>>>PLEASE FIX THIS.
>>We send both indd and idml file formats to asian print suppliers. depending on the adobe version the supplier is using we are finding images can shift within bounding boxes - cutting them off at the crop. Or text frames reduce – cutting off copy. This is an incredibly expensive discovery if it not caught in pre-press.
>>My team is sending hundreds of files a year to Asian printer suppliers. this bug occurs in about 1 out of a hundred files.
>>PLEASE FIX THIS.
>6 votes -
Text disappears when creating buttons if text wrap is on
>>>I am using the lastest version of Adobe InDesign 18.5
>>Try to create a button including a more than one text box. Nothing overlaps. The text boxes have text wrapping applied. Group the elements and create button.
>>Create a "rollover" appearance state.
>>The text will disappear as if something is causing it to wrap and there is not room for the text even though there is nothing for the text to wrap around.
>>The text should not disappear when creating buttons using text boxes that include a text wrap.
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Unable to drag & drop images within text frame through custom plugin on Indesign CC2020
>>We have a custom plugin, we are using this plugin since Indesign CS4. We have an option to drag & drop images from this plugin pallet into Indesign Layout. With the latest CC2020 SDK, we have upgraded our plugin from CC18 to CC2020 & it works fine on all other functionality except "Drag & drop" within text frame.
>>We didn't made any update to the code, the same option works fine till CC2019. Is there any known issue with CC2020 sdk for drag & drop?
>>Note: Drag & drop Images from custom plugin into Text Frame. Center
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Cannot see text
>>When using the Text tool, text is only visible when typing and disappears afterwards. I only know text is present through highlighting the text, however still the text is not visible (and I can only highlight text when it is off of the page). I checked layers and updated the application. All fonts are updated. I tried to change the font size, colour and checked through the effects.
>>Error states: Overset text (1), although I already tried to adjust the size of the box and text as well as create a new text box.
>>Edit: I can't
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[ID-4263586] Adobe InDesign 2025 text justify buttons issue
>>In the latest update of InDesign 2025 (as of writing this), there is a problem with the text justification buttons in the toolbar.
>>Previously, you could click these buttons and then just keep typing into your currently active text frame, which is what one would expect from previous versions of InDesign.
>>With the latest update, keyboard focus instead shifts over to these buttons, taking focus away from the text frame and your current text cursor position.
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> This is completely useless, and makes it more difficult than it should be to, say, change the justification at a2 votesWe're reviewing this issue.
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Text Wrap bug
>>>text wrap does not work with anchored object
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> does not work on the same and previous rows4 votes -
Eyedropper tool should not copy content fill by default.
>>I don't think I have ever needed to copy the content fill settings from one image frame to another, but by default the eyedropper tool copies how the photo fills the frame, which is pretty annoying.
>>Requested Feature: Please add a checkbox specifically for content fill. Please have it unchecked by default.
>>Right now you can only disable content fill from being apply by unchecking "color and tint," which doesn't make sense and is not intuitive.
>>Expectation 1: eyedrop a frame to copy it's color/stoke/ other attributes, but not content fill which changes the size/position of
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text wrap violates indented text next to it
>>[InDesign 16.2.1 x63/Windows 10 Enterprise ]
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> When text with bullets sits next to a (separate) text frame that has a wrap applied, the text after the bullet doesn't align correctly.
> I tried to upload a file (both by dragging or clicking) and neither option allows me to attach the file. "The following file type [filename.indd] is not supported."
> An earlier bug report for the same problem had a response indicating that the issue has been fixed. It has >not> been fixed.
> Fortunately, you can move the tab marker on the affected lines to override1 vote -
Can't accept "highlighted" text (with replacement text) using Import PDF Comments
>>>For years I have taught my clients to not use insert or strike through, simply because they are hard to see and click on, especially on a laptop. I much prefer the old school way, highlighted text, with an attached replacement text. Now with Import PDF comments, I see them but can't accept them. Can you make that work?
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> INDD 14.0.2, MacOS 10.14.5, iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)3 votes
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