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  1. Use data merge field to export filename

    8 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Other  ·  Admin →
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    Colin Flashman commented  · 

    Until the InDesign engineers address this issue, I have a free script that will to this to INDD & PDF, and a paid script that will also export to images such as jpg, png, etc. It can be found at https://colecandoo.com/scripts/

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  2. InDesign False Ligatures Bug

    31 votes

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    15 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Bugs » Text/Story/Table  ·  Admin →
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    Closed: Not Reproducible  ·  amaarora responded

    Hi,
    We are unable to reproduce the issue in-house.

    In case you have some consistent steps to reproduce the issue from scratch, please feel free to send a mail at amaarora@adobe.com or start a new thread on this portal

    Thanks

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  3. Import PDF Comments - New Bugs identified

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    4 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Bugs » PDF Comments  ·  Admin →
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    FIXED  ·  Abhinav Kaushik responded

    Hello All,

    Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
    We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 14.0.3

    Please 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
    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html

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  4. InDesign won't import Microsoft Word Equations, even as graphics

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    1 comment  ·  Adobe InDesign: Bugs » Graphics/Images/Assets  ·  Admin →
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  5. Data Merge won't include emoji unicode characters

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    Colin Flashman commented  · 

    I've created a test file with links and images and test text to try and replicate the fault. Follow the steps in the InDesign file attached.

    Put simply, text – whether it is UTF-8 or UTF-16 can import unicode characters that are meant to represent emojis etc, and this is demonstrated in the test file. While not in the minion character set, I've created a GREP style that looks for unicode characters and changes them to apple color emoji. That bit works.
    What does NOT work is when importing the text as part of a data merge... instead the unicode characters are completely skipped.

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    Colin Flashman commented  · 

    I've created a test file with links and images and test text to try and replicate the fault. Follow the steps in the InDesign file attached.

    Put simply, text – whether it is UTF-8 or UTF-16 can import unicode characters that are meant to represent emojis etc, and this is demonstrated in the test file. While not in the minion character set, I've created a GREP style that looks for unicode characters and changes them to apple color emoji. That bit works.
    What does NOT work is when importing the text as part of a data merge... instead the unicode characters are completely skipped.

  6. Data Merge ignores files when a header field is called 'table'

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    Under Review  ·  amaarora responded

    Hi,
    Thanks for reporting the issue. We are able to reproduce the bug.

    -Aman

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  7. Rounded corners aren't perfectly rounded

    46 votes

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    8 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Bugs » Graphics/Images/Assets  ·  Admin →
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    FIXED  ·  Abhinav Kaushik responded

    Hello All,
    Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
    We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 15.0

    Please 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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  8. ScriptUI: Opening Dialog while dialog is open breaks InDesign

    109 votes

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    Closed: Fixed  ·  Abhinav Kaushik responded

    Hello All,

    Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
    We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 14.0.3

    Please 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
    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html

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  9. For long documents containing more than 50K characters, GREP search fails to find all matching instances

    83 votes

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    31 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Bugs » Performance/Usability  ·  Admin →
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    FIXED  ·  Abhinav Kaushik responded

    Hello All,

    Thank you for reporting the issue to us.
    We have fixed the issue in the latest version of InDesign, Id 14.0.3

    Please 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
    https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/fixed-issues.html

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  10. Script Manager

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  11. Dynamic Color Swatches with Data-Merge

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    Colin Flashman commented  · 

    @robinochsner - yes it can. Re-read my link and you will see screenshots of this happening.

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    Colin Flashman commented  · 

    This is already possible from InDesign, but it does require some setup. See my article at InDesignsecrets: https://indesignsecrets.com/applying-any-cmyk-color-during-a-data-merge.php

  12. InDesign Preview For Finder

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    Colin Flashman commented  · 

    Markzware has a mac app that can do this: https://markzware.com/products/id-util-macos/

  13. Make it obvious in the Page palette when a page dimension has been changed with the Page tool

    35 votes

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    Colin Flashman commented  · 

    This! 100x this!

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  14. InDesign Accessibility Checker feature

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  15. Hey Adobe, stop changing interfaces and ENOUGH WITH THE STUPID QUIPS. "When in doubt make a layout", "Let's design great graphics ...Really?

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    Colin Flashman commented  · 

    If you want to hide the start menu for good, uncheck the 'show "start" Workspace when no documents are open' checkbox in the preferences/general.
    If having no luck with this, make a new blank text file in notepad or textedit and add the following line:
    app.generalPreferences.showWhatsNewOnStartup = false;
    save the file as "goawaystartupscreen.jsx" and save it to the following location:
    /Applications/Adobe InDesign CC 2019/Scripts/startup scripts/goawaystartupscreen.jsx

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  16. Would like the Links panel to show status, resolution, color information for linked AI and PDF

    62 votes

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  17. Update the QR Code dialog box

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  18. Add unicode categories to the list of available GREP choices

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  19. Grep style formatting for variables

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    Colin Flashman commented  · 

    THIS! It also ties into giving variables the ability to go over one line.
    I had a technique on indesignsecrets.com to make a side-tab with one master page that uses chartwell to 'push' the tab down the page based on the number in the section variable, BUT if I could use a GREP style to do this, I could use a GREPGraph.
    IDS tab master page article: https://indesignsecrets.com/moving-side-tabs-using-only-one-master-page-and-chartwell-bars.php
    IDS GREPgraph article: https://indesignsecrets.com/a-script-for-making-bar-graphs-with-grep.php

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  20. GREP code table

    68 votes

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    6 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Tables  ·  Admin →
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    Need More Info  ·  Anonymous responded

    Hi All,

    Can you explain how this would be used, is the end goal to find a some stuff restricting the search to Tables, or is it something else. It would really help if you can share how you plan to use this new GREP code for tables.

    Thanks
    Javed

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