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rodrigoe55625431
rodrigoe55625431
Inspiring
November 11, 2025
Question

Snapping not accurate

  • November 11, 2025
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Hi, I’m using version 21.0 on Mac.

 

When I move (for example) a rectangle next to another rectangle, they appear to snap into contact. However, when I zoom in, I can see they aren’t perfectly adjacent, there’s a small gap between them, the width of which seems to depend on how zoomed in I was when I aligned the elements.

 

A quick online search shows this is a known, ongoing issue that still hasn’t been fixed. Please look into it, it’s quite frustrating to work with.

 

NOTE: My InDesign environment has Snap to Guides and Smart Guides active, and Snap to Document Grid not active.

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Abhishek Rao
Community Manager
Abhishek RaoCommunity Manager
Community Manager
November 11, 2025

Hi @rodrigoe55625431,

 

Thanks for sharing the details. Could you please confirm the version of macOS you're using? I tried reproducing the behavior you described, but everything seemed to align correctly on my end. It would really help if you could share a short screen recording showing how the snapping behaves for you, so I can understand the issue more accurately and check it further.

 

Looking forward to your update.

Abhishek

rodrigoe55625431
rodrigoe55625431Author
Inspiring
November 20, 2025

Tahoe 26.1 and InDesign 21.0.1.

 

This happens constantly on my end. Today I was designing a calendar and had two text boxes, each 7 mm in height. I moved one upwards until they snapped into contact (according to InDesign) but when I selected both (I’ve learned not to trust the app), the total height measured 14 mm plus some additional decimals.

 

The issue is intermittent, so I can’t reliably record my screen for long periods, and in any case I cannot share personal client work with Adobe. Any professional designer working many hours, daily, monthly, and yearly with InDesign will notice issues like this all the time. Smart snapping, or whatever the feature is called, simply does not work as reliably as it does in Illustrator.

 

You may need to check with the Illustrator team on how they handle this, because as I mentioned in the original post, this issue has been reported online for years, and the InDesign team doesn’t seem to have any idea on how to fix it.

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