Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Resizing Text boxes causes text to disappear/flow oddly
>>>Narrowing the text box causes text to disappear and not have the correct leading. Never have had this happen. It almost seems like it's automatically adding it's own "Space After".
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Crash on HTML export when notes contain hyperlinks, and messed up HTML
>>Steps to reproduce
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> 1. Export the attached file starting with "B272" as HTML
> 2. BUG: ID crashes
> 3. EXPECTED: No crash
> 4. QUICK FIX: Remove all notes that contain hyperlinks
> 5. RESULT: No crash on export>Note: The reason for crashing is NOT that many of the URLs contain a colon in a non-standard place. You can enter any URL and it will still crash.
>>This problem happens with about 80% of files with links in endnotes. It will not happen when endnotes are converted to footnotes. 20% of
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Vertical Text Alignment not working correctly in InDesign 2020
>>>I recently upgraded to InDesign CC 2020 and find all the text in circles not aligned vertically center. Document was last opened in CC 2019 and these were fine. I haven’t modified these since. Rectangles are fine. See attached example - clearly not right and inconsistently so. I have tried every setting and I can’t get them to line up. Thanks!
>15 votesFix for this issue is now available in the latest update of InDesign 2020 – that is, InDesign 15.0.1
In the Creative Cloud Desktop application, click on the Updates section on the left. You should be able to see the Update available for InDesign. Please update your InDesign application to this version to try out the fix.
If you have created documents from ID15.0 where you see this issue, please do a Force Recomposition of the Text Frames (Cmd-Opt-/ on Mac, Ctrl-Alt-/ on Win) to make it work correctly.
Let us know in the comments section if you face any problem with the updation process.
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Adobe InDesign Team -
Drive File Stream causing InDesign to crash
>>InDesign v 14.0.2
>>We use Drive File Stream for all of our file storing - which has been working great until last week when opening certain files made InDesign crash repeatedly. I have tried to save as an IDML, download locally and still have the crashing problem.
>>When I go to open the file it will just freeze the application window, no panels visable and just the spinning Mac ball. Force quit and then reopen InDesign - then it freezes again each time upon reopening, before trying to open any files and I have to force
…1 voteTo identify the cause of this issue, we had started our investigation with the aim to resolve it. You might have also received 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 -
Selected text does not highlight
>>>Selected text does not highlight on some spreads only: when I double-click inside a text frame in InDesign, the usual highlight that indicates the selection does not appear on some spreads in the document, in other it does work.
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> This makes the work very challenging.1 vote -
Drop shadow is not updating after text is changed.
>>>After giving a text box saying "New Music" a drop shadow, I duplicated the field and changed the text to Limewire. The drop shadow behind it did not change.
>>I've set the distance to farther than it was before to demonstrate it more clearly, also showing that the problem is not fixed after attempting to refresh it by changing settings.
>>2019 iMac 27in running MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 with InDesign 15.1.1.
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[ID-4213625]Indesign performance issue : Bad performance when using span columns in InDesign/InCopy
>>VERSIONS
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> Windows 7, CC 2015.4 and CC 2017.0
> Windows 10, CC 2015.4 and CC 2017.0
> macOS 10.12, CC 2015.4
> even CS6 versions are affected...
>>STEPS TO REPRODUCE
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> 1. Create an InDesign document with several pages
> 2. Define the text frame options with two columns
> 3. Link all frames and fill with placeholder text
> 4. Create a new paragraph style with the option "span columns" (e.g. title)
> 5. Define several parts of the layout with the new paragraph style
> 6. Edit some text near the paragraph style
>29 votesHello All,
Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
We have been able to improve the performance with span columns but it is till work in progress.Please upgrade your InDesign application to the latest version to try out the incremental fix.
If you face any problems with the new update, do let us know in the comments.
You may also follow the below given link for the list of all fixed issues in Id 15.0
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html-InDesign Team
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Ongoing Overset Text Error
>>>No matter where I paste the over-set text in whatever sized text box, that text box will then carry the exact same over-set text error. I click once to paste the text on a page so that it will automatically adjust for space, but still it carries over the same error.
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Crash when generating Table of Contents
>>>Right what it says on the tin: When I try to generate a Table of Contents from a large Book file (about 14 chapters, maybe 180ish pages total) , InDesign abruptly crashes.
>4 votesTo identify the cause of this issue, we had started our investigation with the aim to resolve it. You might have also received 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 -
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.
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CRASH
>>>I downloaded the last version of adobe indesign. I also updated my Mac software. when I open indesign it opens normally, I can see the home page and even try opening a new file, choosing sizes and stuff. Once I click on create a little bar appears (its a floating bar that's always there when a file is open) but the rest of the page looks like the menu still. Im 100 sure its only indesign because illustrator works well
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Adjust Layout: add an option to ignore objects anchored in text or bring back legacy (2018) layout adjustment
>>I always made extensive use of the old layout adjustment feature in 'margins and columns', yet the new 'adjust layout' gives inconsistent and confusing results, resizing objects that never used to get changed.
>>It's gone from being very useful to a liability.
>>For me it was great for resizing the main text frame on multi-page (100s+ pages) books, but leaving the objects pasted into the text frame alone (figures, etc). Also moving page numbers aligned with margins, but not changing the sizes.
>>The new feature stretches and distorts carefully measured objects/figures, changes anchored object settings (at
…13 votesThanks for reporting the issue. We will review it shortly.
-InDesign Team
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disappearing text paragraph style
>>I am using InDesign 17.4 under macOS 12.6 on an iMac Retina 5K, 27", 2017 with a 3.4 GHz i5, 32GB RAM, and a Radeon Pro 570.
>>When I attempt to create a new paragraph style with an active text selection and check 'Apply Style to Selection', any change I make to the new paragraph style, including simply naming the style, renders the text invisible.
>>The expected result, of course, would be to have visible text.
>>The actual result is invisible text.
>>Relaunching ID, restarting the computer, and rebuilding the preferences file all had no
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GREP styles make UI drastically unresponsive in CC (while still fine in CS6)
>>Indesign 14.0.1, german, win7
>>For comparison in Indesign CS6 create a fresh single-page standard document, DinA4. Create a large textframe with 2 columns on page, fill frame with blind text. Have some styles with GREP styles looking for charactercombinations... (I know GREP styles are computationally intense, that's not the point.)
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> Click and drag the the textframe with the mouse. The text gets greeked/switched off, the frame border is refreshed/re-drawn like 80 frames per second silky smooth WITH the grep styles. Save the document. Open that document in Indesign CC. Click and drag the frame - it's slow,5 votes -
Text Alignment Issues on PDF
>>>Mac OS (Mojave version 10.14.6) 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, Radeon Pro Vega 16 4 GB Intell UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB
>>InDesing CC totally up to date, uninstalled and cleaned multiple times.
>>When I export a PDF, both with my own settings and the default High Quality Print the text will randomly not be aligned, for example I exported the attached page 5 times with the exact same setting and sometimes it was fine but a few it was messed up. No noticeable pattern, happens when exporting Print PDF and Interactive.
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Some text appearing bold where other text in same text box appears as it should
>>>Identically formatted text showing up differently both in document and after pdf export. Likely connected to the neglected bug regarding transparent .png files causing bolding in text elsewhere in document.
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Screen flickers when I move an item
>>>When I want to move something , for example a text frame, my screen flickers. This is very annoying and i'm afraid if i move items too much, Indesign will crash. What can I do to fix this?
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AI Generated Alt Text Overriding Manual Alt Text
>>I have Generative AI disabled on my Mac and had manually entered alt-text on 2 images. Another user in my organisation, who had not disabled it, made some minor text amends on my file and my atl-text was overwritten.
>>I feel that any image that already has alt-text manually added should not be altered by this feature.
>>Also it would be good that when the feature is turned on it could have an option to only affect images added to the Articles Panel as that is the most common way of setting the tag order.
>>Mac
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import pdf comments
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- >ID 14 Mac >
- >Copy text out of a comment to paste into layout >
- >Would expect that the cursor could be used to select all or part of an imported PDF comment >
- >In fact it is EXTREMELY difficult to get the palette to recognize that text is selected in the palette interface. The "Copy" popup does not appear a large proportion of the time, or you can't select the range of characters you need. Even though Acrobat is terrible at the same process, it is significantly faster to copy the needed range of
16 votesThe issue has been fixed in the latest release of InDesign – InDesign 2021.
Please update to this new version of InDesign to get the fix.—
Adobe InDesign team -
text underlined outlined
>>>When an underlined text is outlined, the underline disapear.
>1 voteHi,
This is an expected behavior for convert to outline workflow. Please log a feature modification request if you feel otherwise.-Aman
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