Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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Crash on Launch
>>>When launching InDesign and Illustrator 2018, I get the attached alert. Illustrator will always show this alert but does function. InDesign will always show this alert and it opens once. Thereafter it will crash on launch every time until I reinstall it and then I get one launch again and repeated crashes on launch until I reistall. This is on two separate Macs running HIgh Sierra
>2 votesTo identify the cause of this issue, we had started our investigation with the aim to resolve it. You might have also received 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 2020.0.1 (if you’re not already on it). It contains a lot of stability fixes.
If you still face this issue even after updating to the latest version of InDesign, please submit the crash report to us. (The guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html)
We seek your support in our continual effort to improve InDesign.
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Text margins don't change when master pages are applied
>>Version: InDesign CC2019
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> Steps to reproduce: Apply a new Master page, with different margins, to a document page with text frame
> Expected result: Text frame should resize to fit the new margins of the master page (as before with Layout Adjustment enabled)
> Actual result: Page margins change but text frame stays the same. Useless! I have to manually adjust the text block to fit the new margins.>I work in book publishing. When laying out a book, it's often necessary to make changes to the margins of certain pages, either to accommodate the dropped opening
…91 votesHello All,
Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 14.0.3Please upgrade your InDesign application to the latest version to try out the fix.
If you are unable to see the update yet, go to Creative Cloud desktop application, open the menu (three dots) from the top-right corner and click on ‘Check For App Updates’.
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 14.0.3
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Unable to place text in frame over an existing text frame
>>>When making a new frame on top of an existing text frame. It is not possible to make the new frame a text frame. It clicks right through it.
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> This has been a bug for many years now, and i have to explain almost every week to my students.>Also in the 2022 version of InDesign.
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> I hoped it to be solved. but no..>A little video explain >https://vimeo.com/641165029/2b8106b016>
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Trying to copy any item or group of items crashes InDesign
>>>Attempting to copy any item or group of items to the pasteboard in InDesign crashes the application.
>4 votesTo identify the cause of this issue, we had started our investigation with the aim to resolve it. You might have also received 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 2020 (if you’re not already on it). It contains a lot of stability fixes.
If you still face this issue even after updating to the latest version of InDesign, please submit the crash report to us. (The guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html)
We seek your support in our continual effort to improve InDesign.—
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Indesign cc 2018 crash mounted volume on "Save As..."
>>Environment:
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> - Adobe InDesign CC 2018 13.1 (13.1.0.76),
> - MacOS v 10.12.6.
> - Mounted SMB share (Windows Server 2012 R2 full share permissions).>When editing a document on the mounted SMB share, then doing a "Save As...", there's a delay, then pinwheels, then crashes.
>>Attached are the screen shots of the dialog boxes that occurs as it crashes, plus the Apple crash report.
>>It does NOT crash on "Save".
>>It does NOT crash on "Save A Copy..." UNLESS - sometimes you try to save over a pre-existing document. It
…1 voteTo identify the cause of this issue, we had started our investigation with the aim to resolve it. You might have also received 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 2020.0.1 (if you’re not already on it). It contains a lot of stability fixes.
If you still face this issue even after updating to the latest version of InDesign, please submit the crash report to us. (The guidelines to submit crash are available at (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/submit-crash-reports.html)
We seek your support in our continual effort to improve InDesign.
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Adobe InDesign Team -
Copy
>>>The tool "copy" is crashing the Indesign. Inside the software and between softwares. This issue turns the workflow so slow...
>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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Error on Inset Spacing on Text Frame
>>>The Inset spacing on a Text Frame can be set to keep text from the edge of a box as in previous versions. However I am finding that when I request the frame be resized to fit the text exactly the bottom inset is not being recognised. Is this an recognised issue?
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InDesign 2024 (Mac) crash on quit
>>>Almost every time I quit InDesign 2024 (19.5.1), I get a crash report. I ve tried re-installing and deleted the preference files. No dice.
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> I have no files open when I quit the application.>Submitting the crash report.
>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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importing multiple illustrator artboards into empty frames no longer works
>>>With the 2021 version of indesign I could 'load' my cursor with an illustrator file and select 'all' artboards, then i could 'drop' each artboard into an empty indesign frame - this no longer works in the 2022 version (17.2). Instead it just drops the first image in and the loaded cursor 'cancels'.
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text shadow
>>I have a text box with Drop Shadow Effect on the text itself. When I edit the text, the shadow does not change. I discovered quite accidentally that Undo (CTRL+Z) then Redo (CTRL+SHIFT+Z) fixes the issue.
>>However, when I change the angle of the object (text box), the text moves but the shadow remains in place. I cannot fix it even by adjusting the Effect angle options.
>>I have another issue where I have two separate text boxes on the same page with the exact same font and supposed font size, but the text is quite obviously
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formatted text
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- >14.0.2 >
- >importing pdf comments that have bold and italic text in the replacement text >
- >that it would show as bold or italic in the pdf comment dialog box >
- >shows all text as none formatted >
>I can understanding it would be difficult to get that text to change to bold/italic when i click accept, but if i at least saw that it was bold/italic in the preview box i'd know to make that edit manually.
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Crash when placing DOCX with paragraphStyles
>>>Version: InDesign 14.0.1, macOS 10.14.3
>>Steps:
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> 1. Open attached InDesign document (please rename .jpg in .indd, there was a bug while uploading the file)
> 2. Place "ThisDocumentHasParagraphStyles.docx" in the document
> 3. InDesign crashes :-(>It seems it has something to do with the ParagraphStyles that are in the Word document. If I try to place the DOCX file named "ThisDocumentDOESNTHaveParagraphStyles.docx", then InDesign doesn't crash.
>>Attached is a screen video capture of the process (rename .jpg in .mp4 please)
>>Please help!
>3 votesThanks for reporting. We will look into the issue
-Aman
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Maintaining Text Formatting When Copying
>>>Maintaining Text Formatting When Copying
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Fit frame to content not working for text
>>>I recently updated to the newest version of InDesign (v 16.0) and "fit frame to content" is not working properly for any of my text boxes. It is leaving about 0.13in at the top of all of my text, and is making aligning in my layout extremely difficult. I double checked to make sure my baselines are set to 0 and my text boxes are set to Align to top, but nothing seems to be fixing it.
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Text frame options: Individual inset spacing when rounded corners are enabled
>>>Currently the text frame options do not allow different inset spacing on each side if a rounded corner is applied to the text frame.
>>We are trying to create a template that has a text box with a gradient background and a rounded corner that bleeds off the page. We need to set the inset to push the inset spacing on one side further than the rest to fit within the page margins, but with the rounded corner this is not possible.
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Text Frame Options, Baseline Options, First baseline, Offset setting not respected
>>>InDesign is changing the Text Frame Options / First Baseline / Offset to the default on existing documents.
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> I open a document where nearly all my text boxes were set to "Cap Height" and they have all been turned to "Ascent" and now no longer fit in their text boxes. I have to open a Text Frame Options, click Baseline Options tab, and pull down the First Baseline, Offset to Cap height FOR EVERY PAGE, (after selecting all and changing to the direct selection tool)!5 votes -
Bizarre issue: footnote appearing in middle of text frame
>>>Never seen this one before! Changing some text to a style that uses split columns caused one of the footnotes in the text frame to jump to ABOVE the styled text. I can't even understand how this is possible given the logic of the software. See screenshot. I would like my footnotes to stay at the foot of the frame, please.
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Cannot copy/paste elements from 2019 to 2020 without the element becoming an image
>>InDesign 2019 14.0.3 copy/paste issue into InDesign 2020 15.0.01 (and vice-versa).
>>Steps to reproduce:
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> 1. In a 2019 InD doc, copy a text box with text inside it.
> 2. Open a new document in InD 2020.
> 3. Paste the text box with text inside it into 2020 InD.
> 4. The text becomes an image instead of live text. Though, no links show up in the links panel.
> 5. This can be reproduced if copying from 2020 into 2019. But it does not happen if copying/pasting from a 2020 doc into4 votes -
InDesign performance issue: Text disappears while editing
>>>When editing a text box, the text disappears.
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> I have to switch the display mode (Overview > Normal or Normal > Overview) to make the text appear again.>This bug occurs frequently (10~20 times a day) but I did not identify what is the trigger.
>>Version 2017.1
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> Build 12.1.0.56 x64
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149 votesWe're happy to announce that the fix for this issue is now available in the latest update of InDesign - version 17.2 that is available to download from Creative Cloud Desktop application.
Please update to this latest InDesign version to get the fix.
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Updating Excel file causes crash
>>>InDesign 2021 on Mac 10.14.6
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> Clicking link to update file causes immediate crash.
> A quick internet search finds that his been a long ongoing issue. (Maybe fixed at times? I'm not seeing posts for 2021 version.)2 votes
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