Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Column Rules fail if a Table is the first item in a Text Frame
>>(Hmm ... tried to attach an INDD file and I'm told they're not allowed. Really? OK ... will try a ZIP file with the INDD inside. Nope ... ZIP won't work either. Uploading a PNG screenshot)
>>Column Rules fail if a Table is the first item in a Text Frame
>>Please see the attached sample file.
>>On page 1 and 2 you will find a variety of 2-column frames with column rule applied.
>>In each case, the column rule will fail BECAUSE the first item in the frame is a Table. But, on page 2
…13 votesHi,
The feature is working as expected. As soon as you add some text below the table, the Column Rules work fine.—
Adobe InDesign Team
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Opening Text Wrap panel crashes application
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- >Indesign 2021 >
- >Place image, open text wrap panel, does not open panel and crashes.
> Happens with any image and any document. Panel opens fine if pic box empty. >
>OsX Mojave.
>>Gone back to 2020.
>19 votesThe fix for this issue is now available in the latest update of InDesign – version 16.1
Please update to this version to get the fix.—
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Crash: Dynamic spelling with special word
>>>There is a crazy bug: when the dynamic spellcheck is active (German, Duden) and you are typing in a text frame hintereinanderherschlichen (it’s a German word) indesign crashed immediately.
>>We don’t know why, but then, after the crash, and when the dynamic spell check is still active, InDesign crashes again when it tries to recover the document.
>>Systems: Apple OS Montery, InDesign 2022 German
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Copy or duplicated text box not longer editable
>>>Any text box which is copied or duplicated becomes uneditable.
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Parent Text Frame Offset when Autoflowing Text
>>>When autoflowing text, the parent page text frame is being offset on every new page that's automatically added.
>>In the attached screenshot, the top page was manually added and text autoflowed into it from the previous page. The parent text frame is positioned as per the top page.
>>InDesign versions 17 to 19 (2022 to 2024).
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> Expect parent page text frame to be in the position it is in on the parent page.
> Actual result: text frame is offset and has to be repositioned on every page manually.1 vote -
copy
>>Holding down "option" on the keyboard and then dragging a graphic or text box to copy and paste where you'd like it to go no longer works. The cursor changes as if it's going to copy/paste, however, it will just drag the original graphic/text box without copying it. I have to physically hit cmd + c and cmd + v and then it will paste wherever it wants to go in the document to get something to copy and paste. This is really frustrating when trying to design documents with a lot of the same elements in
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scrolling text frame
>>When publishing my file online, a gap appears in the text within the scrolling text frame. (see attachment) The gap seems to be aligned to the place where the text hits the bottom of the container frame. There are no extra characters causing this gap in the text. I had the same issue with a document a year ago, but it looks like this bug is still there.
>>Version: Indesign 2025
>>Steps to reproduce issues:
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> •Paste longer text box into container box.
> •Align content to top left.
> •Use overlays panel, choose "Scrollable frame," Scroll1 vote -
BUG: spell-checker not automatically applied after pasting text
>>>When pasting text into a new frame, the correct language (german 2006 in my case) for spellchecker is selected, but not applied to the new text. I need to select the the text and choose a different language for spell-check and then change back to the correct language, then it works.
>>A pain in the a**, if you have to copy-n-paste many snippets from different documents to single frames.
>>INDD 15.0.3 x64 on Win 10 x64 (1909)
>1 voteThanks for reporting. We are reviewing it
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InDesign 13.1 Crash when show "Margins and Columns" Dialog and click "OK"
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>Version InDesign 13.1
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> Testing Windows 10(1709) and macos 10.13.4, same results >
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> 1 Execute InDesign 13.1
> 2 Show "Margins and Columns" Dialog (Application Default)
> 3 Click "OK" button >
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>Expected result
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> Crash InDesign >
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>Actual result
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> Don't crash >
15 votesHello All,
Thank you for your support. The issue is now fixed in the latest update of InDesign.
Please upgrade to the new InDesign 14.0 from your Creative Cloud Application.If you are unable to see the update yet, click on the menu (three dots) on the top right corner of Creative cloud app and click on “Check for App Updates”.
Let us know your feedback in the comment section.
Thanks,
Abhinav Kaushik
InDesign Team - >
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object anchored in text frame disappears after editing the original text file
>>>object anchored in text frame disappears after editing the original text file
>3 votesWe have released InDesign 2025(v20.2.0.036) with many bug 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 send the following information to santalwa@adobe.com :
- Reproducible Steps – What were you doing when the issue occurred?
- Video recording of the issue?
- 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…)
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Adobe InDesign Team
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Deleting an odd number of pages causes the text frame derived from the primary text frame to double
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- >specify a primary text frame for both the left and right pages on the parent page. (figure1) >
- >Delete an odd number of pages. At this time, the parent page is reapplied. >
- >The text frame will be doubled. (figure2) >
>Deleting (or adding) an even number of pages will not result in this behavior.
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> Deletion/addition of an odd number of pages should not cause doubling.
> Specifically, we would like the text chain of the text frame for which the primary text frame is specified to be retained. (figure3)>Reference:
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Indesign crashes when i copy or cut (shortcut and menu). 'reopen' crashes immediately too.
>>>Indesign crashes when i copy or cut (shortcut and menu). 'reopen' crashes immediately too.
>7 votesTo 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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Paste without formatting crash !
>>>InDesign 15.1.3 crashes when using Paste Without Formatting.
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> I can reproduce the crash.
> Running macOS Catalina 10.15.7 in French language.2 votes -
Multiple text line links tab out of order
>>Not sure if InDesign or Acrobat issue: Using 13.1. InDesign - Recently noticed that if I have text that flows to 2 lines and that has a hyperlink behind it, in Acrobat, the tags show the link as having two Link-OBJR, but they are the reverse of reading order. So if you tab the page, you go from 2nd line of text to first. So,
>>'Go to
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> the store'>tabs as if it is 'the store' 'go to'. The underlying link is fine--no issue there--it's the tab order and tag order (tag order perhaps then impacting
…13 votesThanks for reporting this issue. We’ll review it shortly.
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Adobe InDesign team -
pasting crash
>>>Indesign 15.0.3
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> OS X 10.15.5>Indesign crashes when pasting text from a text file into any existing 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 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 -
Text frame indented
>>>When I move a text frame to the top left corner of a page, the first line of the text is automatically indented. How can I solve this problem? Thanks
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Flashing screen on selecting text
>>>Adobe InDesign 2024
>>When highlighting text with text tool or selecting multiple items with the selection tool and dragging with the mouse held down, the screen flashes rapidly between the document and plain white - this makes the ID document contents not visible on the screen so you can't actually see what you are doing - eg can't see what text is being highlighted
>>Please fix asap - it is making ID virtually unusable!
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Text formatting is lost when copy and paste a text box on the same page or to another page in the same document
>>>Copy an paste text box, the text formatting is lost in the pasted text box. Reverts to Forte font. Also, cannot change the font in the pasted text box. The font reader will say it is the new chosen font, but the visual of the text is not reflecting the actual font chosen. Have to redraw and rewrite text every time to have the font and formatting desired.
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Crash when smart reflowing a document with many anchored text boxes
>>>Indesign is freezing/crashing when smart text reflow is used to reflow the attached document. Other documents are fine. This document is unique in that it contains many anchored text boxes and decimal tabs.
>>I am using InDesign 15.0.2
>>To witness the bug, 1) open the attached document, 2) click the red text marked with a note, 3) apply the "bug illustration" paragraph style.
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crash on create merged document
>>Indesign 2018 cc on mac os 10.12.6, crash on "create merged document" in data merge menu if more than approx 100 records in data file . "export to pdf" works. We have some files that need editing after merge so need this to work. Worked before 2018 update on same files that are causing crashes now. Seems to crash at point its going from a temp file to creating the finished file after the merge has happened. Tries unsucessfully to "recover" a temp file on startup after crash. Is entirely repeatable. System and user usage together never
…3 votesHello All,
Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 15.0Please upgrade your InDesign application to the latest version to try out the fix.
If you face any problems with the new update, do let us know in the comments.
You may also follow the below given link for the list of all fixed issues in Id 15.0
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html-InDesign Team
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