Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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navigation
The navigation bar at the bottom of the screen is visible as soon as we hit a key.
It is a bit annoying when you use this tool to make a presentation..
Can we add an option to hide it ?1 vote -
Caption: File Extension Bug
Added live captions to images – it sometimes create strange file extensions for PNG Images, which I cannot control or delete.
(It also would be nice, if there was an option to remove the file extension)Expected Result for live caption: "Image-Name.png"
Actual Results: "Image-Name.pnl" or "Image-Name.p03"Version: InDesign 18.2.1
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Exported PDF closes automatically
Since updating to InDesign 16.2 the Export PDF function with "View PDF after exporting" option checked does open the pdf in Preview (macOS Big Sur 11.2.3) but it closes it automatically before the user can interact with it.
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Roboto protected
If you use a Preflight profile that enables the option for protected fonts, recent versions of Indesign report the version of Roboto loaded through CC fonts as being protected, which is surely incorrect. PDFs do seem to have the fonts embedded correctly though.
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widows and orphans at split footnotes
With split footnotes, despite the paragraph option "Do not separate lines" - "At the beginning/end of the paragraph" (2 lines), there are widows and orphans!
Indesign 18.0 x641 vote -
Holding Alt to zoom causes menu issues
I'm surprised this hasn't been fixed since it's been an issue for an incredibly long time on Windows machines. Please add an option to zoom when scrolling without the need to hold the alt key. It causes navigation issues with the InDesign menu making navigation extremely clunky.
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reverse layout crash
InDesign CC14.0.1 ME always crashes when using the Reverse Layout option if you click on "yes" when the message "The publication contains frame linked between pages. Would you like to break the link?"
If you click "no" it works OK, but "Yes" crashes. Even happens if there is only one page in the document.
1 voteClosed: 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 upgrade to the latest version of InDesign 2023(v18.2.1.455) as it is more robust and contains a lot of bug fixes.
We seek your support in our continual effort to improve InDesign.
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Adobe InDesign Team
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Table of Contents running heads
The Table of Contents should have an option to include just the running head portion of a paragraph, often in a bold style in my documents. Otherwise one has to manually strip out all the text that follows after a running head in the Table of Contents.
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scrubby zoom will not turn off
Scrubby/Animated zoom suddenly appeared when I opened Indesign today and I cannot not turn off. The option is no longer in the Preferences (I searched all categories). I have installed no updates recently.
version 14.0.1
Mac OS 10.13.61 vote -
InDesign cannot package a book
When trying to package a book of multiple files. 2021 InDesign gives this error message:
" InDesign could not package the book "XXXX". Failed to crate PDF. Try exporting the file using Export Book to PDF menu option in book panel's flyout menu to view errors. "
I have tried what it suggest and other ways to package... Same Message! HELP!!1 vote -
Page Size Changes- Sometimes don't work, sometimes bug, InDesign is as confused as I am.
I'm using InDesign 2021. I have been using the option at the bottom the Pages window ("edit page size") to change the size of my document from US Letter to A4 as I offer both sizes of printables in my shop. I noticed tonight that this sizing is being buggy. I went to change my Letter size doc to an A4 size, but A4 was already checked. The rulers confirmed my doc was in Letter. I then tried to change it, but no selections held from that menu. Finally, I just went to the "adjust layout" menu option and changed…
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Link to email replace%space%between%word%and%@%by%sign%
InDesign 14.0.2
When clicking (in a PDF make with the exportation option in indesign) to a link that point in the creation of a new email (link created in Indesign), the @ is replace by %, ans all the spaces in the mail title are also replace by %1 vote -
pdf exports to new indd file
When exporting (interactif or print) to pdf and selecting the option "view pdf after exporting", a new Indd file is created with an editable pdf in it. We can delete the file, but not the pdf (because in use by INDD??) On win 10 and in indesign 2026
1 votePlease send the following information to sharewithID@adobe.com :
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- 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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Bug: Print Thumbnails adds unwanted pagenumbers and numbers overlap pages
Hi! When choosing Print & printer Adobe PDF & Thumbnails, the output file has page numbers which I do not want. There is no option to disable those.
Also the page numbers are mislocated: they overlap the pages instead of being tidely above/under each page.
Latest Windows 11
Latest Indesign 18.4.
Latest Acrobat Pro1 vote -
Shortcut for High Quality Display does something else
Up until Indesign CC 2020, when pressing "ctrl option command h" my document would switch to high res view. Since 16.0 it hides all other Programs of macOS (10.15.7) instead. When using the mouse it still works. Why is that, and how can I get the functionality back?
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change/find resets
When using change/find option, the behavior is typically that the search will cycle to the next instance of the found text, however, in 19.3 on a MAC running Ventura 13.7.2 (22H313), the search will find one instance, then grey out the change/find button and not continue to the next instance -- even though other instances of the text exist.
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Annoying tooltips in PDF comments panel
This tooltip is completely useless and usually appears right on the top of the comment's text, so the user can't even decide that applying it will be a good thing or not (see screenshot).
Please get rid of this absolute nonsense, or at least provide an option to disable it!1 vote -
Cannot make swatches permanent in InDesign now
We have a very efficient brand template with swatch libraries created as .ai and .ase files. In InDesign and Illustrator we right-click on the swatch library and click on "Persistent". Today (April 29, w2026) my swatches libraries are missing. I've rebuilt my preferences. I've re-loaded the swatches and the option to make them persistent isn't there any more.
I read that now swatch libraries are document specific, or to make them in a template, or to use Adobe CC libraries to make our swatches. We don't choose to use CC libraries.
None of these are efficient workflows for us. Please…
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Logical error: searching words in selected text with Find/Change unselects text
When using the Find/Change dialog to find text, there is an option to only search in a "Selection" of text. When the word is found, Indesign will mark that word, which would also unselect the text and no further search in the selection could be done. This is a logical bug.
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Restore Command + Resize and Command + Space Zoom Behavior in InDesign
In recent versions of InDesign, two essential shortcuts have been broken or changed:
Command + Drag on a frame no longer resizes the content inside the frame as it used to — or it behaves inconsistently.
Command + Space no longer reliably brings up the zoom tool that allows click-dragging to zoom into a selected area.
These shortcuts were core to efficient, professional workflows for years. Removing or altering them without an option to restore the original behavior is disruptive. Designers rely on muscle memory and speed — this feels like a step backward.Please restore the legacy behaviors or…
1 vote
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