Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Wondering why indesign Character & Paragraph side panels don't work anymore and are blank.
Why indesign Character & Paragraph side panels don't work anymore and are blank. This is very annoying and sometimes is fixed when you close out the program and reboot but that only works when the stars are aligned correctly.
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Safari stops rendering while InDesign is open
macOS Sonoma 14.2.1, M1 Mac mini 16Gb
InDesign 19.1 AppleSilicon
Safari 17.2.1When InDesign opens, Safari stops rendering pages. Each tab in the web browser window becomes black.
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Tracking uppercase bug
Using some fonts (ie. MacOs system font PT SANS), when I change from lowercase to uppercase using the "Tt" function in the character panel, words appears with a wider tracking. When I change it with the menu "change to uppercase" it appears OK. I tried this also in Illustrator and it works well, so I think this is not about the font.
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Share for review annotations not showing up in InDesign
In using the new Share for Review this morning from today's update to v15.1 we did a test document that included some drawing annotations. The comments showed up as expected in InDesign but not the drawing annotations. I have tried toggling on and off the eye in the review panel and nothing happens like it does in the web browser.
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Type functions do not work on Text frames in CC2019
In all previous versions, it was possible to select a TEXT FRAME (one or more) and apply any text formatting to the text in it.
This has been removed in CC2019. With a text frame selected, the text functions in the control panel and in text related palettes -- Character, Paragraph -- are disabled. The functions in the Character and Paragraph Styles panels are NOT disabled but they don't "work".
Expected result: how it worked in the 13 versions that preceded this one.
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Pages/spread overlapping after changing page size
InDesign 2018 CC 13.0.1
Pages and spreads are doing weird things when I resize my document. It creates some odd margin after resize of pages. I start out with 2 pages, document shuffling allowed, facing pages turned off.
Pagespread01112617 - shows the page spread I was working with; each page is 10”x12.25”.
Pagespread02112617 - after I changed the size to 10.68”x11.239” for another ad spread, a weird margin showed up. The content boxes show how there is an odd overlap; each box is 10.68" wide.
Pagespread03_112617 - If I move page 2…2 votesHi,
We have been able to reproduce the issue and it is currently under investigation.Regards
InDesign Team -
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 this and…
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prompt message
a prompt appears on the bottom of my indesign screen after opening an old file I need to work on (my portfolio):
"Type 1 fonts will no longer be supported after 2023
A blue message box regarding Type 1 not being support starting 2023. Your document contains 0 Type 1 fonts...... more info....."
That box is not leaving my workspace even after I click for more information; It obstructs my workspace.
The chat technician says:
"The message must only be popping up while working on the document. It will not appear once you export it to other file format.…
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Ligatures cause ADA compliance issues! Let's have a preference option to turn them all off, globally.
Please, please add a global Preference in the Advanced Type window to TURN OFF ALL LIGATURES. These are problematic to ADA requirements. This would be just an additional global preference that we could set when we have no InDesign documents open, so that any new documents (after we turn off the ligatures in the preference area) would not have ligatures.
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Unable to apply multiple character styles after last update
I used to be able to select a piece of text, then open the Character Styles panel and select multiple character styles using the control key. I can successfully click. However, the styles selected are not retained. Only the first style I had selected is still applied. This is a huge bug affecting my impending book publishing.
I even cross confirmed it with two simple character styles - one [embolden] and one [italica] (aka bold and italic) expecting to be able to select both.
This DID work around October 2017 - we just did not notice that it had stopped…
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Garbled type on "Welcome to Indesign" page
InDesign 16.0.2
Not every time, but often the "Welcome to InDesign" page has garbled/overlapping labels under the thumbnails of all the recent documents as shown in the attached screenshot.
Changing the size of the application frame window moves the overlapping elements around, but they are still largely illegible. See second screenshot.
Switching to the list view and then back to thumbnails clears the problem.
--Jim Gibson
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Problem copying font from Acrobat Pro DC PDF (to Word and Indesign)
[Adobe Indesign 2021 - 16.3 / Suitcase Fusion 21.3.0]
Since the last update, I am unable to copy/paste from a PDF in Acrobat the accented characters of the French dictionary (ô, é, è, ç, à) to Word or Indesign, whatever the font is (Adobe font or personal font).
The glyph disappear when pasted.
The glyphs exists in the dictionary when looking at the panel in Indesign.
1 vote -
pages shuffle
Indesign 16.2.1
When trying to move spreads around in the pages panel when small thumbnails are used and "allow document pages to shuffle" turned on, I'm unable to move them in between spreads because there's not enough room for the cursor – I'm only able to attach them to either side of an existing spread.
Turning the thumbnails to medium or larger alleviates this problem.
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Linked PDF Drawings in Indesign Document not showing in Exported Document
Linked PDF causing exported PDF File to not show embedded information, with pop-up showing "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the PDF document to correct the problem
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ID can't import multiple PDF (with multiple pages) into frames placed in master
InDesign 14.0.2 french
Windows 10 x64 Pro 1903 - 18362.239I need to import 148 PDF with 5 pages into each files.
I prepare 5 frames into the A-master.
CTRL+D from the 1st page to select my files.
For the demo, I use 3 files.Only the second PDF is imported.
All other PDF are visible in Links panel, but with no pages imported.If I do an the same import without frames on the A-master, I am able to place 5 pages per ID page. But it's longer, without the same scale, etc.
Please check my video…
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Export Shortcut Windows 10 not working
The export shortcut (Control E) doesn't work after the new update (Windows 10). I've restarted the app and computer to test.
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Rendering bug on second monitor
Just updated to Illustrator 16.2.1 and discovered a bug I didn't have last week. This is reproducible even over a restart. What I'm doing: opening two documents and moving one to a second monitor to compare the layouts. MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Core i9 Radeon Pro 560X 4GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536MB. When I move a window to the second monitor (the Intel card), the display first is very large (one page, as opposed to spread view). Then as soon as I scroll, the content rendering gets corrupted. It might be totally upside down; or it might smear during scroll.…
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Indesign crashes on duplicate spread action if document contains table with images
Steps to reproduce
1. Create a text frame in the document.
2. Insert a table with 4x4 layout.
3. Place 3 images in 2nd, 3rd and 4th column in the first row.
4. Now perform "Duplicate spread" action in the pages panel twice.Expected result
- Spread should get duplicated.Actual result
- Indesign crashes when duplicate spread action is performed two times consecutively.1 votePlease update InDesign to the latest version, InDesign CC 2018 (13.0) for the fix of the issue.
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Windows #@$!*&%^((@@)):[[
Hello to the Adobe InDesign Geniuses! I write this with a heavy heart, I have been a mac holdout/Windows Defender when it comes to Adobe products (Photoshop) since the Mid 1990's If I had to guess, 1995 or 1996. I LOVE Adobe Products and have a huge distaste for Mac. I am reaching a breaking point with Windows, they are trying to make an OS SOOO much more and constantly causing problems, I just had to re install windows on 5 computers due to the latest update that I have yet to have one Windows…
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Drawing a line with a 0 pt stroke and changing its length triggers the error "Cannot set stroke box."
Version of Adobe InDesign, InCopy or InDesign Server
Windows 10; Japanese-language Adobe InDesign, from a version of InDesign CC 2025 (20.3.2–20.5.1?) up to CC 2026 (21.3, latest).Steps to reproduce the issues
Draw a path with the Line Tool or Pen Tool using a stroke weight of 0 pt, then change the path length by entering a numeric value.Expected result
The length should change.Actual result
An error appears: "Cannot set stroke box."
10 votes
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