Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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dropbox links
Indesign use to be smart enough to know that links are from dropbox and looks for the my dropbox folder and not the link path that goes all the way to the drive name.
But lately every time I open a file from a team member, I have to relink ever file manually.
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[INDD 2020 and 2021] Missing font in placed SVG is not detected by Preflight or Type > Find Fonts…
[ 2020 ][ 2021 ] A missing font in a placed SVG does not show
If you open a document with a placed SVG where a font is not embedded the missing font does not show with:
[1] Type > Find Fonts…
[2] PreflightIf you export that InDesign document to IDML and open the IDML file with InDesign the missing font is showing as missing in Preflight and Type > Find Fonts… .
As soon as you save the IDML as InDesign document, close and open it again, the missing font is not detected again. Neither with Preflight nore with Type > Find Fonts…FWIW: The only reliable way to make that missing font available is to install it for All Users in Windows 10.
What does NOT work at all:
Provide the font in a Document fonts folder
What does NOT work reliably:
Provide the font in the Application > Fonts folder.
Install the font for a particular user only.IMPORTANT NOTE:
Download my test documents packed as zip file from my Dropbox account:
SVG-from-AI-Placed-16.4.0.51.zip
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hhblynzb4qb6czs/SVG-from-AI-Placed-16.4.0.51.zip?dl=1( I could not upload zip and png files here. The file types are not allowed. )
The bug is visible with InDesign 2020 and 2021 as well.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )[ 2020 ][ 2021 ] A missing font in a placed SVG does not show
If you open a document with a placed SVG where a font is not embedded the missing font does not show with:
[1] Type > Find Fonts…
[2] PreflightIf you export that InDesign document to IDML and open the IDML file with InDesign the missing font is showing as missing in Preflight and Type > Find Fonts… .
As soon as you save the IDML as InDesign document, close and open it again, the missing font is not detected again. Neither with Preflight nore…4 votes -
Style Mapping to [Basic Paragraph] doesn’t work with remembered settings or presets
When you place (import) a Word document into InDesign, you can choose to use Style Mapping to map the paragraph and character styles in Word to their equivalents in your InDesign document. When you use this feature for the first time in a document, the mappings get stored somewhere and are remembered for any subsequent imports you perform in the same document; you can also choose to save your import settings, including Style Mappings, as a preset to use freely in any document.
If you map any Word styles to the default [Basic Paragraph] style in InDesign, it works as expected the first time (when you actively select [Basic Paragraph] from the dropdown menu). But if you do another import where InDesign reads the Style Mappings from a file – either by using the cached Style Mappings that InDesign has remembered from last time, or by using a saved preset – any style that is mapped to [Basic Paragraph] will not work properly. Instead of mapping the Word style to the existing, built-in [Basic Paragraph], what happens is that a second paragraph style is created with the name [Basic Paragraph], and with properties (font, size, etc.) matching the formatting of the Word style, rather than the built-in [Basic Paragraph] style. This should not even be possible, since you end up with two styles that have the exact same name, but it happens nonetheless (see screenshot).
In order to avoid this, you have to go into Style Mappings and re-select all instances of [Basic Paragraph] manually. Notably, when you open the Style Mappings window, the mappings all look correct, but when you click on [Basic Paragraph], the dropdown menu doesn’t open like it does normally – the text “[Basic Paragraph]” just disappears and the selection field becomes empty. You then have to click a second time for the dropdown menu to open.
This bug has been present for several years (unsure how long). It is present in both Windows and Mac versions of InDesign.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Word document and type some text in any paragraph style (the default “Normal” will do)
2. Create an InDesign document and place the Word file; make sure “Show Import Options” is selected
3. In the Microsoft Word Import Options window, select “Customise Style Import” and click on “Style Mapping”, then map the style used in the Word document to [Basic Paragraph]; click OK twice and click somewhere in the document to import the text
4. Place the Word file again in the same way, using the cached Style Mappings which InDesign automatically remembers without changing anything (you can even deselect “Show Import Options” and skip that part entirely)Actual Result:
After the second import, your document has two paragraph styles, both named “[Basic Paragraph]”, see screenshot. One is the built-in default style; the other is an erroneously created doublet and has the little ‘arrow-into-a-box’ icon to show that it is an imported/auto-created style. The text imported the first time is styled with the built-in [Basic Paragraph] style; the text imported the second time is styled with the imported ‘parasitic’ [Basic Paragraph] style.Expected Result:
After the second import, there is only one paragraph style in the document, the built-in [Basic Paragraph] style. All the text in the document, both that imported in the first import and that imported in the second import, is styled with this built-in [Basic Paragraph].Any Workarounds:
Every time you place a Word file, always enter the Style Mapping window and manually reselect [Basic Paragraph] from the dropdown menu for all styles that map to this style. Alternatively, after importing the file, delete the ‘fake’ [Basic Paragraph] style and when asked what to do with the text, select the real [Basic Paragraph] style to replace it.When you place (import) a Word document into InDesign, you can choose to use Style Mapping to map the paragraph and character styles in Word to their equivalents in your InDesign document. When you use this feature for the first time in a document, the mappings get stored somewhere and are remembered for any subsequent imports you perform in the same document; you can also choose to save your import settings, including Style Mappings, as a preset to use freely in any document.
If you map any Word styles to the default [Basic Paragraph] style in InDesign, it works as…
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graphic screen glitch
Indesign 16.3.2 Big sur
Another update, another graphical glitches.
Your updates are only for new errors and glitches?
For 60 euros a month?See screenshot!
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not rendering photos and text boxes on the page
Indesign is not rendering imported photos and created text boxes on the page, even though they are there.
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Hyperlink shifts when replacing preceding characters
If I replace a character in front of a hyperlink with multiple characters using Find/Change, the hyperlink shifts.
(See screeshot: before and after)
If only one character is replaced, no shift occurs. Tested with InDesign CS6, 2020 and 2021, MacOS.
Here you can find a test document:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/hyperlink-shifts-when-replacing-preceding-characters/td-p/121436794 votes -
Variable Fonts: Align Stroke to Center shows overlaps
When using variable fonts, the Align Stroke to Center shows the overlaps in letters with live text (not good). If I use Align Stroke to Outside the overlaps arenʻt shown with live text (good) but once I use Type > Create Outlines the overlaps are shown (not good).
This happens in many variable fonts, for example Source Code VF Concept (see screenshot attached), but also true with my own variable fonts and those from other type foundries.
With the non-variable font version, the Stroke looks good in all settings mentioned here. The variable font version should look the same. Thank you!
When using variable fonts, the Align Stroke to Center shows the overlaps in letters with live text (not good). If I use Align Stroke to Outside the overlaps arenʻt shown with live text (good) but once I use Type > Create Outlines the overlaps are shown (not good).
This happens in many variable fonts, for example Source Code VF Concept (see screenshot attached), but also true with my own variable fonts and those from other type foundries.
With the non-variable font version, the Stroke looks good in all settings mentioned here. The variable font version should look the same. Thank…
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auto page numbering does not work with auto-size text box
The auto-sizing text box should resize depending on number and not the 'marker character'
I'm pretty sure it used to work that way.4 votes -
Adobe InDesign Server 2021 has stopped working
With some documents to be (automatically) processed by Indesign Server, InDesign Server stops working - and we get the Windows message "Adobe InDesign Server 2021 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program".
As after a while our automatic system is picking up the same (possibly questionable) document again, we end up with a system where all InDesign Server instances are hanging, and no further processing happens (until a human being goes to the server and clicks the messages away).
The issue here is not that the possibly questionable document cannot be processed properly - the issue is that a server process is showing a dialog, as opposed to just aborting execution or even crashing fully (which we could then handle programmatically).
Long story short: why is InDesign Server, launched from the command line, ever showing a dialog?
With some documents to be (automatically) processed by Indesign Server, InDesign Server stops working - and we get the Windows message "Adobe InDesign Server 2021 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program".
As after a while our automatic system is picking up the same (possibly questionable) document again, we end up with a system where all InDesign Server instances are hanging, and no further processing happens (until a human being goes to the server and clicks the messages away).
The issue here is not that the possibly questionable document cannot…
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Unable to create text box and select text
InDesign 2021 version: 16.2.1.102
Drag when using Type tool -> no text box create
Using Type tool, Double click the text inside a text box -> unable to select the word
Using Type tool, drag within the paragraph inside a text box -> unable to select the texts, instead will move the whole text box4 votes -
Indesign display refresh WORKAROUND
If you have an Indesgin 2021, Catalina, Big Sur display problem where 1) scrolling, zoomin and/or refreshing does red or other strange artifacts 2) opening 2 dokuments in tabs corrupts display and results option 1 type of refreshing problems you could try this:
Open every document into their own WINDOW not TAB.
It looks so far that the bug disappeaars.
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Remove file extension in Captions
I want to set up Captions to have the filename beneath the image, but I want an option to hide the extension.
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Unreliable color management with object layer options
(Indesign-Version 16.2)
Hello. I've already posted in the Community and we think, it's a bug in Indesign. This was the description of my post:
The problem is: When I use Object > Object Layer Options to show and hide layers in a .psd file, I have had the problem that the color management isn‘t working reliably.
Sometimes, the ICC profile „Document RGB“ is displayed in the InDesign document by mistake, even though the linked image is using the ICC profile „sRGB“.
If I do the same with placing (File -> Place -> Show Import Options -> Layers), it works.
So far, the problem has only occurred with images using the ICC profile „sRGB“.
Can someone explain this? Or is this a bug?
Here is a document that includes an example (open data file and a low PDF for viewing):
https://transfer.frontal.ch/public/d0dbf5
This is the link to my post in the community:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/unreliable-color-management-with-object-layer-options/td-p/12015638And it seems, another person has the same problem:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/bildfarbe-von-platzierten-psd-dateien-%C3%A4ndert-sich-bei-einblenden-anderer-ebenen/m-p/12018082#M425070I am looking forward to the answer.
Thank you very much!
Kind regards, Andrea(Indesign-Version 16.2)
Hello. I've already posted in the Community and we think, it's a bug in Indesign. This was the description of my post:
The problem is: When I use Object > Object Layer Options to show and hide layers in a .psd file, I have had the problem that the color management isn‘t working reliably.
Sometimes, the ICC profile „Document RGB“ is displayed in the InDesign document by mistake, even though the linked image is using the ICC profile „sRGB“.
If I do the same with placing (File -> Place -> Show Import Options -> Layers), it works.
So…
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Scrolling redraw errors
Scrolling quickly thru a document created for dummying a magazine, and the screen did not redraw parts of the document correctly. Happened twice before reporting. Tried uploading a screenshot, but would not post with it.
InDesign (Beta 16.3), OS 11.2.3
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Selection Tool cursor disappear issue
After few hours with no activity on Mac with Silicon disappear the Selection Tool cursor on the artboard. Quit the app and reopen it works as a solution for now.
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Overlapping type in "Recents" window
The "recents" window that shows after all Indesign documents are closed often displays overlapping text under the images making it unreadable.
Indesign 16.1
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Command + N doesn't work for New Document
For some unknown reason CMD + N has stopped working as a shortcut for a new document. In the File menu, it says it's programmed as a shortcut, but it doesn't work. I reset the shortcut and it temporarily works. If I open INDD and reset the shortcut, then it'll work when I use it. But if I close INDD and then try Cmd +N, it won't work. I've reset it numerous times. I've lost count of how many times INDD has updated. And nothing fixes this problem.
Currently working on the latest version of INDD (16.1). This problem has been persistent for many versions though.
For some unknown reason CMD + N has stopped working as a shortcut for a new document. In the File menu, it says it's programmed as a shortcut, but it doesn't work. I reset the shortcut and it temporarily works. If I open INDD and reset the shortcut, then it'll work when I use it. But if I close INDD and then try Cmd +N, it won't work. I've reset it numerous times. I've lost count of how many times INDD has updated. And nothing fixes this problem.
Currently working on the latest version of INDD (16.1). This problem has…
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indesign 16.1 color management
indesign keeps resetting the color management to emulate 2.0 cms
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CC Libraries
InDesign 16.1. CC Libraries gets stuck. I cannot select any pictures Editing is only possible again after a complete restart. After a while it gets stuck again.
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jpeg import
jpeg import error with some jpeg file
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