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  1. 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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  2. TOC Generation or Update Crashes InDesign 2025

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  3. Can't move multiple objects after 14.0.1 of Indesign. And it's sloooowww!

    > >Trying to move multiple objects, mostly boxes of type. One or several items does not move although selected. Upon undo and trying to move again, other objects doesn't move. And it has gotten so slow but that might be after Mojave 10.14.3 and not Adobe :)> >
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  4. InDesign highlighted text sometimes has blanks in attribute sizes, & increase/decrease doesn't respond to blanks.

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  5. Find text and replace doesn't work (When Finding Czech language word)

    > >Find text and replace doesn't work (When Finding Czech language word)> >
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  6. InD 19.1 export to IDML extends conditional text

    > > >InDesign 19.1> >Create a doc with several paragraphs of text. Apply a condition to, say, the 2nd paragraph. Export to IDML. Open the exported doc.> >The reopened file should look like the original.> >The condition is now applied to additional paragraph(s). However, if the condition is removed from the paragraph marker, the problem disappears. There was a similar problem about 10 years ago saving docs with conditional text. The conditions would exin the same way. This happened just with normal saving, not exporting.> > >
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  7. Mongolian

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  8. Bullet/number markers included in adjacent hyperlinked text when exported as HTML

    > >When exporting content containing bulleted/numbered lists to HTML (using the Bullets/Numbers: Convert to Text option in HTML Export Options), bulleted or numbered list item markers that are immediately followed by hyperlinked text get included with the text inside an <a /> tag. It would be more predictable (and easier to format with CSS) if the bullet/number markers remained outside of the <a /> tag.> >
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  9. will not find/change text in locked boxes. why is there an option to find/changed locked text if it does not work?

    > >My idea is if you have a feature in the find/change panel that ostensibly allows you to find and change text in locked layers or boxes....that it should work to change the text! Trying to change locked section heds, but the feature won't find and change them unless they are unlocked. Which. IS. Not. Helpful.> >
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  10. placing text at cursor jumps in rtl in InDesign 15.1.1.103

    > >When placing a story at cursor using a right-to-left story frame, the cursor is in the wrong place.> >This has also been filed as Bug ID-4219127> >
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    Under Review  ·  amaarora responded

    Thanks for reporting the issue. We are reviewing it

    -InDesign Team

  11. Importing Excel unformatted table text-based formulas import as "-1"

    > > >>Indesign 17.4>> >>steps to reproduce:> a) In Microsoft Excel (for Mac version 16.63.1), in cell A1 add "Some text"> b) in cell B1 add formula "=A1"> c) save excel document .xlsx> d) Import into indesign as Unformatted Table>> >>expected result: table cell A2 contents should be "Some text", same as A1>> >>Actual result: table cell A2 contents is "-1">> > >
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    Fix for this issue is available in the latest release of InDesign 18.2.1

    Please update InDesign to the latest from Creative Cloud Desktop app.


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    Adobe InDesign team

  12. Paragraph Keep Options to "Start on next Odd Page" confused by Text Wrap

    > >Noticed a strange behaviour with keep options. If Keep Options says to start on next odd page, and there is Text Wrap that makes the upcoming odd page unavailable the Paragraph may start will start on the next available text frame, even if this is on an even page. I would have assumed that the Paragraph would start on the next available odd page. > >(How do we post a test file if we cannot attatch indesign file ot zip ? )> >
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  13. Sélection multiple

    > >La possibilité de faire des sélections multiples dans un même bloc de texte serait une bonne idée. Comme le fait si bien VSCode avec le bouton alt+click gauche. Une autre chose la prise en compte de shift et du pavet numérique pour aller en début ou en fin de ligne Shift + 1 = fin de ligne et Shift + 7 pour le début de ligne.> >
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  14. Import SVG, crashing indesign

    > >I'm on MAC and I'm using the latest versin of Indesign 16.2.1 and when i import an svg (who come Adobe XD), indesign do not respond and crash.> >
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  15. Bug: Find/Change of conditional text partially bad

    > >Version: Indesign 17.x, Windows 10> Description: Find/Change dialog cannot find a text that has two or more conditions set when you select one of these to find.> Step to reproduce:> 1. Write some text and mark a word.> 2. Create two conditions, A and B, and assign them to that word. Exit edit mode.> 3. Open Find/Change and set the filter in "Conditions" to find condition A only.> Result: Indesign cannot find a match. Logical bug.> >P. S. I wanted to add an INDD to demonstrate, but software says it's not allowed> >
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  16. Copying a URL Hyperlink auto formats to a opening another indesign file

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  17. Indents not holding after page break

    > > >InDesign CC 2018, though I logged this bug for 2017 as well. It may also have existed as far back as CS6. I had hoped it would be fixed in this release.> >Create a paragraph style that has a left indent and set text in that paragraph style. Set enough text to flow onto a second page.> >The text should retain the left indent after the page break.> >Sometimes, the first line of text after the page break does not retain the indent.> > >
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    Hello All,

    The fix for this issue is now available in InDesign’s latest version, id 14.0.3.
    Please update your InDesign to try out the fix.

    Note:
    If you open a file which already has this issue, in the new version, you may continue to see the issue.
    To resolve such cases, you may SAVE AS the file or do a force text re-composition as the workaround

    However, all the new files created in the new version will not have this issue anymore.

    You may also follow the below given link for the list of all fixed issues in Id 14.0.3
    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html

    -InDesign Team

  18. Constantly crashes

    > >InDesign (20.1) is laggy and constantly crashes at the slightest thing.> Move a box - crashes> Edit some text - crashes> Open two documents - crashes> >It's absolutely shocking!> >
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    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 the document(s)/asset(s) to us? Please package the entire document (To package the document, choose File → Package…)

    Adobe InDesign Team

  19. Text options greyed out when I select more than one box that are linked.

    > >Text options greyed out when I select more than one box that are linked using selection tool. For example I want to select 3 linked text boxes and change the text colour. The [T] button in the colours panel is greyed out. So is font, etc. Means that I have go into each box and select the text requires extra click. Did not use to be this way in CC2019. Please fix.> >
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  20. BUG - Frame Fitting Option not saving Fitting:None

    > >InDesign 16.4> >When using frame fitting options > Fitting: is not retaining the option 'None' but defaulting back to 'Fill Frame Proportionally' when checking the frame fitting options.> >Select a frame.> >Choose Object > Fitting > Frame Fitting Options.> >Select Auto-Fit> Fitting:None > Align From: Centre and then click OK:> >Then Choose the same Object > Fitting > Frame Fitting Options. and the Fitting: has not saved 'None' but reverted back to 'Fill Frame Proportionally'. > >I have to do this multiple times before it saves the correct Fitting:> >
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