Text disappears when typing in text box

A post earlier in this discussion had a helpful tip - not a fix - but a way to refresh (redraw) the text without zooming or scrolling. The quick keys to refresh the text are Option - Command - /. I've found this to be more conventient usually, and that as time goes by working within a document, that my text issues decline.

Adobe, fix this problem. I'm already moving on to Affinity Designer. As soon as I'm comfortable moving my clients, I'll be cancelling my Adobe pay-through-the-nose subscriptions for our tiny agency.

Happy holidays everyone!

It's now December and still no fix?   Everything suggested so far is a temporary fix and the problem comes back.  Not just sometimes - all the time.  Every single time I type in a text box, it goes invisible until you nudge it left or right.  Then returns until next time you type.  Cost per month of this program in a professional setting is killing my business!  

I wasn't getting it before, but now I am after I just updated InDesign.  It only happens on my M1 iMac, not my M1Max. 

M1 iMac running 12.1  16GB Ram, 2TB drive. 

InDesign version 17.0.1

Works fine on my M1 Max Macbook Pro (24 Core GPU, 32GB Ram, 2TB Drive) running 12.1

I spent an afternoon going over every setting possible. I just had to find a solution. Or start working ourselves towards a fix 🙂 

I found that activating 'Overprint View' removes the issue completely for me. No more disappearing text. If I play around with the 'Flattener preview' options the bug also seems to  disappear. So at Adobe, please have a look at how text is drawn on the screen? Or the transparancy. I don't know. It's probably not the font. I tested it in all kind of documents and everytime I turn on 'Overprint View' it's 'solved'. I still have to see it in action working on long documents for an extensive amount of time, but at the moment it seems to work. Does have an impact on performance. And colours are 'weird' when working on RGB documents of course. And I don't like to work where I don't see the bounding boxes etc... But for making hundreds of text corrections, without loosing my mind, it seems a good fix for now? Let's hope.... to be continued

Could be that old fonts such as PostScript Type 1 fonts cause problems. Adobe already planned to stop support for these. I don't have the issue on a Macmini 16Gb RAM - 512 ssd. I only installed quality, and relatively recent OTF font. No TTF and no s.h.i.t.t.y free fonts. So far so good.

So solutions here but this could be the cause. Try removing dodgy fonts and emptying font cache.

I'm having this problem, even tho I followed instructions with font book validation and updating to 17.0.

I'm running:

• Mac 12.0.1
• iMac M1 2021
• InDesign 17.0

Is anyone else still experiencing this? It's making it very difficult to do any work.

I also have this problem on my new 14" MBP. It seems to help if I close other applications, including Photoshop. Pretty pathetic to see this issue has been around for 6 months. Adobe seems to be going down the same sewer pipe as Apple.

From the Adobe website:

Minimum 4 GB of RAM (16 GB recommended)

Hi Adobe Support, I have the same issue here:

MacBook Pro 13" M1, 8GB RAM

macOS 12.0.1 (21A559)

InDesign 17.0.1

The issue happens with and without GPU acceleration. However I only noticed this error while I'm navigating with the text cursor using the arrow keys or cmd+arrow keys and while selecting text using the mouse. Rarely while typing. When I start typing again, the text re-appears, but then vanishes again without me touching an arrow key.

After using InDesign for a while it crashed completely. After this crash the error happened only two or three times before it  "magically" disappeared.

@Ashutosh_Mishra i beleive i speak to everyone on this forum when i say we want to speak to someone senior about this issue. The problem is getting worse, your solutions don't work and from a personal point of view we're a paying business customer with multiple accounts all of which are having problems. It is unacceptable that everyone on this forum has had radio silence for weeks now.