Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Allow InDesign to retain local formatting when updating linked text files.
>>>When using linked text files in InDesign, any local formatting changes made directly in InDesign (such as font size, color, bold/italic, etc.) are lost when the external text file is updated. This is a significant limitation for designers who need to maintain complex formatting in layouts. Please add an option to retain local formatting when linked text files are updated.
>>Suggestion:
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> “Preserve Local Formatting” in the Links panel or File Handling preferences.1 vote -
eyedropper tool doesn't work any more and scrollbar disappears in color panel
>>Since i update MacOS Sierra (10.12.6 version), when i try to copy a text style with the eyedropper tool, it doesn't work. Instead to copy the right style, the text becomes always white.
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> Other problem: in the color palette, there is no more the scroll bar: haw can i see the colours continue below the end of the window??
> And also the indicator of the color type (rgb, cmyk, pantone...) doesn't appear next to the single color.
> Other problem: sometimes when i open in design, it doesn't show the palettes. I have to restart several times.4 votes -
overlapping text on paragraph break in INDD
>>When formatting text using a parent page element that's been activated (by using Shift + CMD + Click) on a page, and forcing a paragraph break so that the text goes from two lines to three, the first of the now three lines "hides" behind the second line. The current fix to this issue is to make an edit to the first line so it "pays attention" to the change and goes where it's supposed to.
>>Font used: Los Feliz OT, Bold, 27
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> Justification: Bottom>Screenshots included of before the edit, during the edit, and fixed,
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Quadclick to edit text in grouped textframes doesn't work anymore
>>(14.0.1 x64, Windows):
>>Switching from CS6 to CC.
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> The Task: you have a group of items. The groupd also contains a textframe with some text. You want to edit this text. There is a change in the way you can "click-into" the group and into the text edit mode.>In CS6
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> - you doubleclicked on the textframe in the group (that selected the textframe in the group), and you doubleclicked again onto the text to get to edit the text (textcursor). It was fast. Basicly a quad-click.>In CC:
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> - That quad-click doesn't1 vote -
Major performance issues in 15.0.2 with multiple large documents open
>>I'm on a Windows laptop with a Core i7, 16 gb of ram and a dedicated GPU. Up until the 15.0.2 update there was some hitching and slowdown with these large files (and I noticed a weird bug where hitting T to use the Type tool doesn't actually change the tool) but now editing text can take up to 10 minutes with more than one file open. I can't make a screencast at the moment since I had to reinstall 15.0.1 to complete the project on time but the filesize we're talking about is 50-75mb, ~60 pages or so
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When moving object or multiple objects with arrow keys odd results, sometimes scale, sometimes alignment, sometimes jumps pages
>>Mac OS - Updated version of InDesign CC
>>Too many to list but here are a few.
>>Nudge object with arrow keys, the height but not the width changes
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> Nudge multiple objects, one changes alignment
> Click and drag to select object, jumps pages down in the doc
> Moving object with mouse, jumps around the page
> Placing image by drag and drop screen jumps around
> Selecting Text , jumps around screen>I have videos of all these but keep getting errors when trying to submit, must be too big?
>>These are
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Link text box with an existing box don't work anymore
>>>When I try to link a text box with an other existing text box, it doesn't work anymore. It's creating me a new box. In other version of indesign it was not a problem.
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> I can't find anything about new features in indesign 2018, can you help me?1 vote -
IND 15.0.3 - Will not load text on first opening
>>>Ever since last upgrade to 15.0.3, on the first opening of a file it will either not load the text, or load corrupted text. This is happening to two workers on two different MACs at two different locations within our team. Driving us crazy, having to close and open a file twice in order for it to open properly.
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The first letter of the Arabic text should appear correctly in the exported PDF, even when it has diacritics
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- >Version of Adobe InDesign: >
>All versions of Adobe InDesign 2024 and 2025, from version 19.0 to version 20.0.
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> 2. Steps to Reproduce the Issue:>Open Adobe InDesign (versions 19.0 to 20.0).
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> Create a new document.
> Insert Arabic text that includes diacritics (tashkeel) on the first letter.
> Apply full justification to the text.
> Use variable text features with the Arabic text.
> Export the document to PDF for printing.
> 3. Expected Result:>The first letter of the Arabic text should appear correctly in the exported PDF, even when it
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Hyperlink window causing crash/lockup
>>Hello,
>>I'm working on a file from February 2020 that contains hyperlinks. Every time I click to use the Hyperlink window to edit/update urls my InDesign locks up. However, when I try this in a new file I created in December, I'm not having any issues with the hyperlinks window/tool.
>>I'm using the latest version of InDesign CC (16.1).
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> I open the file, click the Hyperlinks window and the program locks up to where I have to force quit.>(Not sure if it matters - I'm adding this comment from my Mac, but I'm trying
…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 -
Crash on object state rename
>>>This happens to me regularly. With an object selected, I use the button for Convert selection to multi-state object from the Object States panel. If I then try to rename the states, InDesign immediately quits. Reopening InDesign takes me back to just before I created the MSO.
>>I've learned to save immediately after creating MSOs and then rename states. That's my workaround. I thought it would be good to mention though, as it seems related to the old inability to rename states bug that was fixed.
>>I'm using ID 19.4 on MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1
>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 on it) as it is more robust.
If you still face this issue even after updating, please 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 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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Find Glyph uses character style set in the Text tab
>>It's not possible to set a character style in the Glyph tab of the Find/Change window. But if you set a character style in the Text tab, the Glyph tab uses that style to limit the search scope.
>>Steps to reproduce:
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- >Start a new document, add a character style. (Doesn't matter what formatting you add to the character style.) >
- >Place a text frame and enter 'xx'. >
- >Apply the character style you added in step 1 to the first x. >
- >Set the character style in the Find Format field of the Text tab of
1 voteHi,
In step 4, are you setting the find format field to be the character style you have created in step step 1?
If yes, then InDesign will only find those “x” which have the character style same as in the find format field (=character style created in step 1 and applied to only first x)
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/find-change.htmlPlease can you elaborate a little more on the steps.
-Aman
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Text wrap select subject or user-modified path causes hang ID 16.1
>>Using ID v 16.1 on an iMac running Catalina.
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> To reproduce: I just have to touch any image that has select subject or user-modified path text wrap applied and attempt to move it or modify it in any way. One image just caused the hang by existing, I couldn't work on the file until I deleted it.
> Expected result: For the text to wrap around the image without causing program to hang.
> Actual result: endless beach ball spinning until I force quit and try again.>I just spent the entire day trying to work on
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PDF Comment Loading in the Master Page
>>>We have recently updated to 2020 version. In the previous version when I load PDF comments in InDesign they appear in the pages where they are suppose to appear. Now, in the 2020 version, they appear in the Master Page. Why is it like this?
>>Also may I suggest when copying text in the PDF Comments panel that the "Command+C" be activated as this is more instinctively than clicking the "Copy" button from the panel.
>8 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.
Let us know in the comments section if you face any problem with the updation process.
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Adobe InDesign Team -
Preflight bug (?) non-proportional type scaling
>>>Hi, I am working with InDesign version 16.4 and am currently experiencing a new strange 'problem': I am making a calender with on each second page a text frame with some text. Now I get 12 'non-proportional type scaling' warnings in the preflight panel for these frames, but when I look at the texts, no non-proportional scaling shows up in the character panel. I have never experienced this before. Can this be a bug?
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InDesign crashes sporadically while scaling/rotating objects
>>>I've noticed numerous times that InDesign will crash while scaling/rotating objects. Can you please fix this bug?
>1 voteTo 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 2021(v16.0.0.77) 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 -
World-Ready Composer Breaks Text Variables on Export to Fixed Layout ePub Format
>>>If one inserts a current page number marker or a text variable on a master page and the paragraph style of that text specifies Adobe World-Ready Composer in Justification, when exported to fixed layout ePub, the page number or text variable will not print. This bug is present in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 and possibly earlier versions (haven't checked).
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Adding stroke on text box, set to outside, descenders of type are cut off
>>>Create a text box. Add stroke. Set stroke to outside. Descenders of font in box are cut off.
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> OS Ventura 13.6
> Indesign 20232 votes -
InDesign 2022 crash when packaging
>>>I just updated to InDesgin CC 17.0. I have a MacBook Pro 2020, with OS 10.15.7. Trying to package InDesign document with fonts included causes the application to hang up and I have to force quit it. When I tried to package without fonts included, it worked, and saved the links.
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Character style based running header text variable does not pick up character styles applied by GREP
>>>Problem described in more detail here:
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> >https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/text-variable-running-header-pulled-from-grep-d-style/td-p/12820794>
> Fixing that bug would make the feature actually useful.3 votes
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