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InDesign Text Glitch

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
October 25, 2022
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Why is it changing all my text to a weird alien language? I'm trying to fix my rag and I can't even see what I'm doing now. Please help!

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Matthew5C62

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My text does this every few pages when I am scrolling or updating text. Annoying, I have to go back a page to refresh it. Got latest version of InDesign. Any ideas?

BobLevine

Community Expert

If it's a Mac, disable GPU performance. If not, start a new discussion with full system details. I'm locking this one to avoid future confusion.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

Damaged INDD file?

Try to export as IDML then import back and save with new name.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

What OS?

What version of InDesign?

What font type did you use?

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Looks as if the font is damaged.

Try using a different font and see if the issue goes away.

If it does.

Try reinstall the font in question.

chrisg11235813

Participating Frequently

I agree, it looks like a damaged font, or maybe an alternate version of the same font is activated at the same time.

Remove the fonts, and only add the good one.

Alternativly, if the font is in the local "Document Fonts" folder, inDesign should activate that font (if the font is not activated by the OS already)

Susan Culligan

Inspiring

So weird, looks like all the letters are alternate glyphs. Did you just upgrade? What were you doing right before this happened? What font is the paragraph style set to? If you can send a sample of the text in English, that might help troubleshoot. We could see what letters were being misread, maybe there's a pattern.

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Try zooming in or out, or changing the page. Is the content normal again?

If not, please tell us what version of InDesign and what operating system.

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

Is your screenshot showing the way that this looks in the InDesign file or is this a scan of a printout? If you're showing a printout then what does it look like in InDesign? Please be specific and provide details.

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