Adobe InDesign: Bugs
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1020 results found
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Glyphs "alternates for selection"
Glyphs panel: When I choose Show: Alternates for Selection, no alternates display even though there are several alternates for the selection the fonts I am using. I have tried with many fonts over the years and it still doesn't work.
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Right to Left paragraph tool
I've got a ME supporting CC but the 2017 versions of pretty much every Adobe program I've encountered is faulty when it comes to middle east features... even when it has support, it's very hard to find.
My InDesign supports world-ready single lines and I even somehow managed to get the right-to-left/left-to-right icons on my paragraph window, but after re-installing InDesign, I lost it and I can't get it back.
Please make this easier to use. It's very hard for middle eastern-character using people to work like this.
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Glyphs disappeared
While editing a document all my my Greek glyphs disappeared. I am able to find and use them in other programs, however I cannot find them in InDesign. I put hours of work into this and it's gone.
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Multiple Bugs in CC17
Display issue 1
Random lines appeared on my screen. Baseline grid and guides were hidden as I was in Preview Mode, no explanation for these lines.Display issue 2
Text doesn’t display correctly when I apply a different Paragraph Style Sheet. (It displays the text in both the original Paragraph Style and new paragraph style on top of one another, even though the new Paragraph Style is selected). I needed to deselect and reselect another paragraph of text to rectify the issue.Dialogue box issues
Both videos show how I’m unable to select from the drop down menu in InDesign.…2 votes -
Allsmall caps won't apply to text set to 'no language' in InDesign 20.4
Per the title, with the latest update to 20.4, if text is set to 'no language', allsmall caps won't apply.
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vertical alignment within a text box is ignoring the space taken up by a wrap object
I'm on Adobe InDesign 20.3.1 on an M1 Max MacBook Pro currently running Sequoia 15.5, but I always keep my system and apps up to date within a day or two of an update being released.
The text wrap isn't affecting the vertical centering of text box content in the way it should. The vertical alignment within the text box seems to be ignoring the space taken up by the wrapped object, leading to the content being centered within the entire text box rather than just the available space above the wrapped object.
In the screenshot, you can see that…1 vote -
MathML: Fehler der Bedienung sowie weitere Schrecklichkeiten
MathML hat das Problem, dass, wenn man die Grundformel eingefügt hat, beim nächsten Mal im Editor keine mehr zur Verfügung steht. Problematisch ist das, wenn man den ersten Eintrag im Dokument gelöscht hat. Man sollte immer an die Grundformel kommen, auch wenn man tausendmal klickt, um es im übertragenen Sinn zu sagen. Außerdem ist die verwendete Schriftart des MathML fürchterlich ausgeführt: verschobene Ankerpunkte, ungenaue Kurven etc. Dazu kommt noch, dass die Zeichen am Rand teilweise beschnitten werden. All das ist im typografischen Sinn – unangemessen.
Bezüglich der Kurvenführung sehen Sie sich als Beispielglyphe das y an! Ich habe einige fürchterliche…
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Interaction between Text Wrap, Optical Margin Alignment and Numbered List
When a text frame with activated Optical Margin Alignment containing numbered list wraps around another text frame the numbering is incorrectly aligned. The affected numbers noticeably stick outside of the text frame and thus create unpleasant left margin. Only numbering on wrapped lines is affected, numbering below the wrap behaves as expected.
Similarly, if the text frame is modified so as its border lays entirely outside of the area affected by wrapping offset, the optical alignment of the numbering behaves as expected. This at least provides some workaround.
I am attaching a screenshot of the behaviour as well as a…
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Title Case Is Not Actually Title Case
I'm editing book with over 1,000 pages. I am selecting copy, changing case to Title Case, but it just capitalizes first letter in all words. There needs to be another case option. Title case needs to be setup so it makes a "title" of a book so words like "of" are not capitalized. New option can be called First Letter Caps, and Title case can be fixed to address words that should not be capitalized in a title of a book or headline.
The Old Man and the Sea (Actual Title Case) The Old Man And The Sea(Not Title Case)
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Unable to type letter "g"
every time I type "g" in a textbox, the font automatically changes to a different paragraph style and the "g" does not type in the textbox
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Not able to set default font when it comes from Adobe Fonts library
Purista font family is installed but when I try tu pick it from menu as default font (in type panel or top app menu) it is visible in brackets with name changed - as a missing font.
When I create a document it is still missing (screenshot _31). Then I have to reactivate adobe fonts by turning off Adobe fonts for a while (screen _32) and after it it works like it should (screen _33).
Plase help with this issue.InDesign 20.3.1 x64
Windows 11 Pro 24H2 26100.34761 vote -
Some Cyrillic RTF files exported from Indesign are broken if a non-breakable space was used
Indesign 20.3.1 x64 release.
Attached is the Indesign file. Both frames are identical, except for the topmost has one non-breaking space and the bottommost has a regular space instead. The export from the top frame produces the buggy RTF (a screenshot of the glitch location is attached), while the bottom one is ok. If we put any non-breaking space there - it will fail as well.
The bug was reported as font-dependent as well, i.e. the text set in Arial may have the bug while the text set in Minion Pro may not have it.1 vote -
Font Futura PT is not recognized by InDesign
Font Futura PT is not recognized by InDesign, I saved it in Adobe Fonts in a library and activated it, updated Indesign to the latest version 20.3.1 and restarted my MAC. It still doesn't work.
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Bolding missed/changed while importing Word doc
I'm using ID 20.2 on Mac 15.4.1.
I am producing a book with an index that has bolding to indicate photos, but the bolding was missed or changed in a random manner when imported. It was accurate until it reached E, then there were about 200 errors that had to be manually fixed. Here were my steps:
• Imported file word doc with Preserve Styles checked
• Search/repace for bold and italic with bold and italics Character Style
This should have caught all bold and italics and changed them to my style sheet – but, as mentioned, many were missed,…
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Text box disappears when text converted to outlines
Many sign printers require that all text is converted to outlines. When I do, any text box that has a colour defined disappears. I need to duplicate the box first and delete the text in the underlying box, then convert the above text to outlines. A bit of an arduous process.
This shouldn't happen – it's been an issue for years.
Can you please change it so that converting text to outlines doesn't alter the graphics – that is, the coloured and/or stroked text box remains?
Thanks!
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Lists ignore alignment when story is subject to object wrapping
InDesign v20.1.
Steps to reproduce:
1. In a blank document, create a new story. Add a few blank lines, then a new paragraph with list settings (either bullets or numbers). Align it to center or right.
2. Create an ellipsis and set its wrapping options to contour wrapping.
3. Move the ellipsis so that it intersects the story above the actual list (the list doesn't have to be in range of the wrapping countour).Expected result:
Nothing should happen to the list, since it's far from the wrapping area.Actual result:
The numbers/bullets get aligned the left, no matter what…1 vote -
Library text frame auto-size error
Product: Adobe InDesign
Version: 20.2
Platform: macOS
Issue type: Bug
Severity: Moderate
Reproducible: AlwaysSteps to reproduce:
1. Create a text frame with a single character (e.g. “X”).
2. Enable Auto-Size (Height only).
3. Save the text frame to the Library.
4. Place the frame into a layout from the Library.Expected result:
Text frame should retain Auto-Size setting and adjust to the content’s height.Actual result:
Auto-Size is disabled, and the frame stretches from the insertion point to the bottom of the text frame area / margin, even though there’s only one character inside.Workaround:
If the text frame…1 vote -
Converting a text URL to a hyperlink removes the instances of the text variables!!!
- All InDesign versions
- Create a URL that includes Text Variable instance
- URL looks and prints correctly,
- but hyperlink is wrong: there are no text variables values in it.
It is obvious that URLs are convenient to generate from text variables. Especially if there are thousands of them!
This would be a phenomenal solution not only to our problem, but...Instead of substituting the values of text variable instances, nothing is replaced (empty strings instead of text variable instances), and the hyperlink (which looks and prints correctly in the text) is generated as invalid!
We need to create and maintain a…1 vote -
Portuguese from Portugal
The Portuguese language originated in Portugal.
That being said, the Portuguese Dictionary from Portugal implemented in InDesign should align with the native language. In fact, there are numerous supposed errors detected by Dynamic Spelling.
InDesign insists on not accepting words like "Económico" or "prémios," as it considers them to be mistakes, given that in Brazilian Portuguese, which is a variant of the Portuguese language, they are not written this way. It's about time they fix this issue.
Thank you.1 vote -
Missing character in CentSchbook CE font in InDesign2025
Yesterday, while working in Indesign 2025, white spaces appeared in the imported text where the letter "r" should be - one character suddenly disappeared! Even in the font set there is a white space instead (see picture). I tried this set in Word and it continues to appear there. It also appears when I try it in the old version of Indesign CS4. Not here in ID2025. However, about two days ago I was already creating documents in ID2025 with this font set and there was no problem. This is a current problem that I need to resolve immediately. Thanks…
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