Text becomes invisible when I edit it

[gunnarlinn]

Since some time back, I have a growing problem with text going invisible when I start editing it. The text most often stays invisible until I jump to another page and back, or if I change my display setting (Display performance or Preview on CPU), then the text appears again.

The issue started a few versions back and the frequence is accelerating.

The issue is perfectly decsribed elsewhere, but I couldn't find anything about it in this forum.

I'm currently on InDesign 16.1 on a 2019 MacBook Pro with MacOS 10.15.7.

[Lama287607682bpf]

my indesign text is invisible. can you explain?

[Robert Tkaczyk]

???

[Steve Werner]

I think this is what you mean (see illustration below on the left):

When you select the type to edit it, you can't read it because the color of the type is inversed. 

A workaround: You can click the circled button at the lower right corner of the screen (the tool tip shows "Click to Split the Layotu View"). When you do this a duplicate version of the screen appears on the right. There you can edit on the left and see the result on the right. When finished, click the Split Screen button again to see the finished view of the page.

[Steve Werner]

Another way of editing inverted text is to use the Story Editor:

https://creativepro.com/use-story-editor-when-designing-with-text/

[Steve Werner]

If you're referring to the problem reported in User Voice, you should upgrade to at least InDesign 17.2 as is shown in the link you sent. Your version of InDesign is too old.

[gunnarlinn]

Hi Steve, thanks. My original post is almost two years old and the problem was eventually solved in an app update. I had forgotten all about it. My original problem was that all the text in a textbox became invisible as soon as I clicked with the text tool anywhere inside the box. It was not a question of marked text being inversed. I had the latest app version, as always. Nobody else seemed to have this problem, to judge by the response I got (zero until yesterday). It was never explained, though. One of these silent – but extremely annoying – mysteries with modern technology.

[Robert Tkaczyk]

Someone else resurrected your thread 😉 with an extremely vague "question"... 

[gunnarlinn]

I noticed. The trolls keep us busy.

[gunnarlinn]

But since Steve took his time to answer, I thought I should just add my angle.

[Robert Tkaczyk]

Yeah, of course 🙂 

You can edit your previous reply without posting new one - and I don't think there is a time limit.