Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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colour rendition
The colors in the pages tab reflect those in the jpgs imported into indesign. But these colours are not shown in the main part of the main part of the screen. These latter colours are less saturated and the white balance seems to be off, as if pushed to a cooler palette. The screen shots included below show this effect. When the application is first opened, the colours are OK for about a minute or so, and then they are altered as described.
This happens with both 2025 & 20236 versions, ie 20.5.2x64 & 21.2x64
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Text outside of text frame (top of frame)
Version 21.2
I saw this error in earlier versions of InDesign, but it was later fixed. Now it appears to have returned. I copied text into a text frame and the intelligent text flow created additional pages and frames to fit the text. While scrolling through the document, I noticed that the text in some frames (fewer than 5%) is partially positioned above the top of the frame (see image). To fix this, I open the Text Frame Options, change the vertical justification, and then change it back to the original setting (Top). The frame then fits the text correctly.
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InD closes itself 50% of time when I close my last open doc; very annoying
I'm using InD 2026 recent release (today is 2/10/26). About 50 percent of the time, when I close my last open document, InD will close itself entirely. I have to go through the hassle of reopening it to get back to work. Then, upon reopen, it says that the last doc I closed may be damaged. This doesn't fly when you've just laid out and saved a 300-page text book. Can this be fixed soonest?
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Page Jumps When Deleting Items
When I delete an object, the page jumps. See examples...
This happens on my work PC and home PC; both separate accounts.
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Text disappears.
Entire page of text disappears randomly. InDesign provided a temporary fix and then a more permanent one in the most recent update. Worked for awhile. Has started happening again. Have to use revert key to get back text and start over.
Using version 21.2 in Windows 11 format on a PC
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Severe UI Latency and Rendering Delays After Updating to Version 21.0 and Later (Windows 11 – Build 26200.7923)
Description:
After updating to Version 21.0 and all subsequent releases, the application exhibits significant UI latency and rendering delays. The user interface becomes intermittently unresponsive, with interactions (panel updates, tool changes, UI redraws, etc.) taking 30–40 seconds to visually update. This behavior occurs consistently across sessions.
Environment:OS: Windows 11 Pro — Build 26200.7923
Storage Tested: OneDrive-based project files and fully local NVMe SSD storage (no performance difference)
Systems Tested: Issue reproduced on two separate PCs with different hardware configurations
Application Versions Tested: 21.0 and all newer versionsObserved Behavior:
UI redraws and component updates are extremely slow (~30–40 seconds).…
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AI alt text sould NOT be on by default
Gross decision to have this "feature" on by default. Good thing I didn't miss the popup on startup, I NEVER want any AI features at all ever, let alone to have to OPT OUT? Madness. Also ridiculous is the option to turn off the the "AI generated content" tag on this "feature" at all. Why would you allow that? I guess it's in line with all of the untagged AI on Adobe Stock lol.
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Poor error messaging when PDF fails t oexport
Hi. I frequently export massive PDFs for event walls, things like that. Indesign crashes all the time doing this, and the error messages I get are the opposite of verbose. They just crash and say try again, no indication of the object or page causing the crash, let alone actual solution advice. This drives me absolutely nuts, it basically reads as indesign not being able to do what I have used it for for years for no reason. I can't be alone in this, the lack of any detail in these crash messages is awful for my productivity.
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pdf error
trying to pdf a document and generates this error, have removed the images one by one and it still throws the same error
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PDF Not updating on export
Adobe InDesign 21.2
I've been noticing when I export a pdf and override my last version that the changes do not update the new pdf version. I have to change the file name completely. I even deleted the file, re-exported, with the same name and it pulls the old PDF up!
I've used this process for awhile and it's suddenly not working.1 vote -
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Any Indesign version after 20.5.1 will not export .pngs properly (grey boxes)
When I create a file which has images linked in it (such as a .png file) and then export the file as a .png file as I need, the placed image files export as grey boxes. This has been an ongoing issue every since the version 21 update. The only solution for me has been to go back to version 20.5.1. I keep hoping this will be fixed in the updates that have come out since, but it has not.
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I'm able to select objects and edit them even though they're on hidden layers
The latest InDesign is very glitchy and unreliable, this is one of the main visible problems
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Cloud Service - not finding files
New ID release is buggy as all getout. More things than I have time to catalog. However, #1 most critical... I've upload jpg files to the cloud server from Photoshop. I can see the file using my browser. Trying to find the image file and place it in an ID document it is nowhere to be found. Tried this dozens of times, same result. Other times try to fetch an ID document form the server and I just get he spinning wheel of death. Creating a new ID document and push it to the server and get the spinning wheel…
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Shadow in exported PNG
Shadow in Indesign are fine, but when I export as PNG it looks like the shadow has been moved. I've already tried to delete and re-create the object or copying everything into a new document but nothing works.
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Automatic page number chapters don't work
I have an issue that I believe is common, and looks like a bug in InDesign. But automatic page numbering over chapters in a book doesn't work. I've tried all tips and tricks, until I found out that it is already logged by more people as a bug in the program. I just wonder if Adobe can fix this problem on short notice, as it appears to be there already for quite a while.
What appears to be the problem is that the next document page numbering just looks at the page range of the previous one, and page ranges…1 vote -
Text whites out and becomes invisible while writing
I have 2 issues. 1. Since the newest update the program takes an extra long time to load when opening, and 2. the whole body of text turns invisible while writing, frequently and repeatedly. It's very disruptive and frustrating, as there is no sure way to get the text to become visible again. It does return to visibility after either typing, or using the space bar a number of times, but it just turns invisible nearly right away if not right away again. It's not unusable, but it is very unpleasant to use.
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Corrections only show when display is set to high quality
We have encountered this problem some times but were now able to do a screen-grab of that:
We have made some text corrections in a document. We usually work with the display set to "normal quality". But somehow those corrections were gone. Just by chance we changed the display setting to "high quality". Having changed that setting the corrections suddenly had shown right.
Before making the attached video we had corrected the word "Colours" into "Colors". In the video you can see that this is only shown right after changing the display setting. When we save that file, restart InDesign,…1 vote -
Applying Parent Pages
I would like to suggest a feature that allows parent pages to be applied to even/odd number pages or by multiples of a number, rather than manually typing which pages to apply the parents. It is time consuming to do this for PDFs with a lot of pages. For example, I proof spiral bound books and would like to show where the holes will punch, but if the book is 2-sided, I need the holes to alternate throughout the pages.
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Problem: user-specific overprinting
Hello,
since version 2026, user-defined overprinting no longer works.
The following error message appears when printing: Printing error: The Adobe print engine could not output its data due to an unknown problem.
It works perfectly fine from InDesign 2025 (on the same computer/operating system).
What can be done?
Thank you
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