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  1. Persistent startup screen

    When opening old ID documents frequently the startup screen hangs on the main screen. This happens specially after missing images, plug-ins an fonts warnings. Have to quit and relaunch ID...

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  2. AGLFN: ZWJ, ZWNJ, ZWS in PDF

    Indesign is not written ZWJ (U+200D), ZWNJ (U+200C), ZWS (U+200B) with its glyph name uni200D, uni200C, uni200B respectively.

    This is not helping in copying the text with ZWJ (U+200D), ZWNJ (U+200C), ZWS (U+200B) from PDF.

    These non-printing characters are copied has "space" instead.

    These non-printing characters in Indic scripts are part of text. With and without these characters, text can changes its meaning.

    Please support these characters with AGLFN glyph names in fonts in Indesign, PDF export feature.

    More info

    https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/agl-aglfn/issues/1#issuecomment-323822117

    2 votes

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  3. Surface Pro 4 And Gestures

    I have a new Surface Pro 4. When using Adobe applications, gestures on the touch pad (for example pinching or scrolling) either don't work or are really bugy with little control. I was told by Adobe that this is due to the detachable keyboard on the Surface Pro.

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  4. 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

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  5. window

    Fuck You Adobe

    2 votes

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  6. The lists of entries for a cross reference is not ordered

    Some panels with items (e.g. links) can be ordered by clicking the column header. Others cannot. Among these are the lists of references to choose from when inserting a cross-reference. These seem to be totally unordered. As a result, it is a pain to look for the right one (e.g. choose from a few hundred in a large document). I consider this a bug because other panels do have this ordering

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  7. Colour picker turns everything to blank with strokes, applies stroke

    Colour picker is broken. Everything is checked, but when I use it, it turns the object picked from into blank with black stroke. When applied, it adds a black stroke. This is true of text, objects, and links. Deleting local settings changed nothing.

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  8. Profiles equal to the Output-Intend get lost on PDF-Export

    When exporting a PDF all profiles equal to the Output-Intend (which in my case is the Document-Colorspace PSO Coated V3) get lost when exporting.

    I have created a small test-file with an PSO Coated V3 Image and an ISO Coated V2 Image.

    When Exporting as PDF X4 with Output-Intend Set to PSO Coated V3 the Image that IS PSO Coated V3 looses its profile and the same for the ISO Coated V2 when the Output-Intend is set to that.

    This is horrible for Colormanagement. I've been in contact with "Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG" and they suggested to report this to Adobe…

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  9. Missing color in PDF from InDesign

    I have an InDesign file with a placed PSD file in it, which contains two spot colors. When I save the file as a PDF out of InDesign, only one of the two spot channels is visible.

    I'm running the latest versions of InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat. To reproduce, open the attached InDesign file and save as a PDF. The resulting PDF should show a yellow and blue spot, but only the blue is visible. (The PDF generated during packaging also exhibits the problem.)

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  10. PDF export freezing on 99%

    Continual problems with PDF exports freezing on 99% and not completing. InDesign is getting worse and worse. Unreliable, unstable, just garbage.

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  11. display glitch on zoom / scroll

    New glitchy display issues in all documents when zooming / scrolling. Switching off GPU Performance fixes the issue, but degrades overall performance. Have not had previous issues like this in prior releases.

    1. Indesign Version: 21.3 x64. (Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX A2000 Laptop GPU, current drivers)
    2. Steps to produce result: most scrolling/zooming (alt+scroll)
    3. Expected result: Smooth scrolling/display
    4. Actual result: display glitches and requires zoom/pan to reset or change display mode.
    5. Samples attached. Not dependent on specific files.
    1 vote

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  12. InDesign – open dialog – file types selection – INDD, PDF

    I am used to InDeign allowing me to open ONLY native files. I always keep InDesign files with pdf-s (named exactly the same) in one folder. Since InDesign is able to open / convert pdf files I often open pdf instead of indesign file, which makes my job much harder and more frustrating, than it needs to be.

    Problem is that in file types section of the dialog I cannot select only indd files (which should be default option). Please, fix it! Thanks!!!

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  13. Critical workflow break: period in filename makes Save As unusable after Tahoe upgrade — no workaround

    Area: macOS 26 Tahoe – Save / Export Dialog with Indesign

    Summary:
    In macOS 26 Tahoe, the Save As filename field does not pre-populate when opening a Save As or Export dialog in Adobe InDesign. When manually retyping the filename, if the name contains a period followed by a space, the entire field is cleared the moment the space is typed. This does not happen with filenames that contain no period. No known workaround resolves this.

    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Open a document in Adobe InDesign whose filename contains a period (e.g. "April 12.26Quarter Page HorSN.indd")
    2. Go…

    1 vote

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  14. Bloqueo congelamiento.

    Indesing es una porquería de app, se para colgando, no permite que se grabe y cuando se reinicia se han borrado todos los trabajos. Aprendan a hacer bien un programa ¡Inútiles!

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  15. **Title:** Grayscale TIFF colorization exports low-resolution unless transparency is forced (InDesign 21.3 / macOS 26.4) **Environment:*

    Grayscale TIFF colorization exports as low-resolution unless transparency is forced (InDesign 21.3 / macOS 26.4)

    Environment:

    • InDesign version: 21.3
    • macOS version: 26.4 (build 25E246)
    • Hardware: Mac (Apple Silicon, exact model available on request)
    • PDF export presets tested: High Quality Print, custom (no compression), PDF 1.3–1.8
    • GPU on/off tested

    Description of the issue:

    Grayscale TIFF images placed in InDesign and colorized using the InDesign color tools export as visibly pixelated (low-resolution) in PDF.

    • The source images are high-resolution and correctly linked
    • The display in InDesign (high quality preview) is perfectly sharp
    • The issue appears only after PDF export
    • RGB/JPEG images do…
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  16. In InDesign 2025 (version 20.5.2) and InDesign 2026 (version 21.3), when packaging a document, composite fonts and Japanese-language fonts a

    OS: macOS 15.7.4
    Version: InDesign 2025 (20.5.2) and InDesign 2026 (21.3)

    In all versions up to and including InDesign 2024, only Latin (Western) fonts were subject to collection during packaging. However, from InDesign 2025 onwards through the current version, Japanese-language fonts and composite fonts are also being collected during the packaging process. This requires us to manually remove the relevant files from the package folder each time, resulting in a significant and recurring burden on our workflow.
    Furthermore, because composite fonts are being collected as font files, an alert indicating that the fonts cannot be found is displayed every time…

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  17. CC Library window appears distorted and stretched

    I noticed that the CC Library window is sometimes stretched or distorted up to a point where it's not readable. Especially when combined with other tools or re-arranged in own workspace this happens.

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  18. paragraph shading where inline table is used #2

    As a way to attract focus to a bug-story that is almost 6 year old and unsolved but to me and a few other professionals very important bug.

    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/41942455-paragraph-shading-where-inline-table-is-used

    I added some screenshots there

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  19. outer glow moved

    Objects with outer glow or drop shadow display the effect in the wrong location.

    You can see the expected out come and then the glow effects in the completely wrong locations in the other image.

    Indesign 21.3 x64.

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  20. Linked Illustrator Files Not Displaying Correctly in InDesign

    We are experiencing an issue where Illustrator (.ai) files with linked assets are not displayed correctly when placed in InDesign.

    InDesign does not properly render or recognize the linked content inside the Illustrator file, which affects preview and output accuracy. Currently, the only workaround is to embed all links in Illustrator before placing the file, which increases file size and slows down the workflow.

    Please advise if there is a fix or recommended workflow for handling linked assets between Illustrator and InDesign.

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