Thanks so much for the research. You are correct - when I created a new paragraph style for the drop cap (still basing it on my Article Text style, which I knew didn't have a problem), it exported successfully from ID 2025. I do hope that soon the sluggishness issue in ID 2025 (and PS 2025) will be solved, as of course I noticed it again doing this test. But it's good to know that this particular problem was just a glitch and easily solvable. I know there are a lot of people on these forums whining that Adobe no longer cares about their users, but I hope they see this thread, because you guys definitely earned your pay. You didn't use the sledgehammer approach, telling me to reconstruct everything or reinstall the software without my settings or some other drastic thing - you used a scalpel to hone in on the particular style that needed replacing. Kudos! ... View more

In the paragraph style "Feature 1st para w/ drop cap", could you let us know if you've applied any special styling, so that CSS is not generated for this paragraph style.   The only "special styling" is merely what the style name indicates: a drop cap (for use as the first paragraph in "feature" articles). Here are two screenshots of the relevant parts of the style definition (General and Export Tagging): I don't want any dropcaps or similar fancy stuff in the online version of articles, so I'm glad that (in ID 2024) the only thing added to the HTML for the dropcap is a <span> tag with no styling. I don't use the HTML file directly as a static webpage - I copy/paste each article's title, content, byline, bio, etc. into the appropriate places in Wordpress. And I always tell the export dialog to not include CSS classes.   Additionally, could you try creating a new paragraph style with the same style ("Feature 1st para w/ drop cap") without duplicating the existing one, and let us know if the issue persists?   Yes, the issue persists - here is a screenshot of what I did and the crash notification: So apparently there is something about dropcaps that ID 2025 doesn't like. I know that the new HTML5 export type is very fancy, trying to recreate the layout, but I assumed the HTML(Legacy) type was the old code untouched. Apparently that's not the case. Thanks for researching this - I look forward to hearing about any progress.   For now I'll go back to using ID 2024 - I only need to export HTML for one quarterly magazine, but the bigger reason is that ID 2025 is weirdly and painfully slow - every action (even as simple as changing the current tool or clicking on a different pane) takes several seconds. The same problem exists in Photoshop 2025 (and perhaps other apps - I haven't tried them yet). But I assume that problem has already been reported to the developers - many users are screaming about it on this forum and elsewhere.   For opening ID 2025 files given to me, I tried the "Convert File" option offered in ID 2024, but on some of the files I tried, it doesn't work; after clicking the Convert File button, it grays out as if it's doing something, but nothing ever happens - it just stays like the screenshot below until I click Cancel, and the file is never opened. So I will still need to use ID 2025 to save some files as IDML. This is not a concern long term, as I normally use the newest versions of Adobe apps, but for now it's a small annoyance.   ... View more

A round-trip through IDML was one of the first things I tried, thinking that my document had been corrupted somehow (I mentioned this in the first post, but apparently you missed it). Did you try the file I attached? I'm interested to hear if it works for you or not. That file is after not only saving as IDML and reopening to save as a new INDD file, but also creating a fresh document and copying a few pages of text frames from my document into it. It crashes my copy of ID 2025 - how about yours? ... View more

If many users are reporting such problems, why did I not find anything in UserVoice or even just googling keywords? I'd like to know that the developers know about it and have it on their to-do list to fix. ... View more

Fonts shouldn't have anything to do with this HTML export - I ask for no CSS classes, and there are no style definitions. ... View more

I have no such section in Preferences - there is nothing in the list between Forms and Identity. And that's the case for the OP also - he shared a screenshot of his Preferences earlier in this thread. What version of Acrobat do you have? I am currently on 2025.001.20531. ... View more

Yours is not quite the same issue, since you say you disabled the Generative AI feature. The OP and I can't find that setting - can you share a screenshot of where you found that setting? Maybe it won't help me either, but I'd like to try. ... View more

Your reply sounds like boilerplate or an AI response based only on keywords. I have the AI assistant feature - the problem is that I don't want it and can't turn it off. ... View more

In Keyboard Shortcuts I did find "Redraw" with a keyboard shortcut of Shift-F5. But when I pressed it, nothing visibly happened (not even a flicker of the page or text frame, which I would have expected). I tried it with nothing selected, with the text frame selected (with the object selection tool), and with the text selected.   As for the missing fonts, that's almost certainly from all the paragraph styles I didn't think to remove when I made the MWE. The only font actually used is Adobe Garamond Pro, which I assume you have. Attached is your document after I removed all the parent pages and styles that are not relevant. If it still complaints of missing fonts, something is going on behind the scenes that I can't see.   We're almost ready to publish (should be done by the end of this week), and if necessary I can tweak the anchor points to get it to move slightly downward (though it never completely touches the line), so for this specific instance it's mostly just a curiosity at this point. But of course I (or someone else reading this later) might run into the same issue, so if it's a bug, it should be diagnosed. And as I said earlier, I'm also curious whether this is related to the frames set to Justify that won't touch the bottom in the newsletters I do (I don't currently have an example of that, as I don't remember which previous newsletters had that problem). ... View more

I simply downloaded and opened your file (no changes - I didn't touch it), and this is what it looks like on my computer. I guess it likes you better! 🤔     ... View more

Ah, I turned text wrap off and then on again, and I could then see the line. But adding anchor points to that didn't fix the problem either.     ... View more

I tried adding anchor points (with no effect - see below), but just now I realized that you were adding them to the wrap boundary, not the object shape. But I don't see how to do that - how do you get the wrap boundary line to display for an ellipse? I only see those lines when the shape is a rectagle, as far as I can figure out.   ... View more

I have the exact same problem as the OP, and I just checked - I'm on 25.001.20474 on Windows 11 and there are no newer updates available in the CC app. Here is a screenshot of my Preferences. Lacking a Generative AI tab, I looked around in other tabs like General, Page Display, Accessibility, and a few others, but I don't see anything about AI. ... View more

I wonder if this bug (if it's indeed a bug) is related to another quirk I've fought in a different periodical I lay out (a newsletter for a different organization). In that case I don't use a grid, so I set the text columns to Align=Justify to keep things tidy, but occasionally one of the columns will mysteriously refuse to align at the bottom. I do place photos with text wrap in various places on the newsletter pages, so I'm now thinking that it might be related to this current problem somehow. ... View more

I thought maybe it would align if the words were shorter (therefore easier for InDesign to wrap at will), but the behavior is the same - if the text is less than four lines it seems to work, but once it becomes long enough to need a fourth line, it starts getting wacky (although the amount of unwanted space at the bottom isn't consistent - if the real bio text were as close as this example, I would have declared it good enough, as our readers don't put rulers on the pages to check my design details).   ... View more

I don't know how to share privately, but I'm not worried about it - see attached. I did need to remove the article text, because it was the last page of an article and trying to break the thread between frames didn't work right. But the problem is not dependent on the article text as long as you remember that the column on the left side of the image stops at the gridline where the bottom of the bio frame is currently, so I'm trying to align with that.   I'm aware that I might have to change the text wrapping shape of the image to get InDesign to do what I want (as Laubender suggested). I'm not sure yet how to do that with an ellipse, since the wrap path doesn't start out with handles, but I can figure that out (if necessary, turn off wrapping on the real image and add multiple invisible shapes with their own wrap - I've done that many times working with complex shapes). It's already clear from all the responses that there isn't a setting somewhere to prioritize layout over text wrap asthetics, which is what I was initially wondering - if there was such a setting, one of you wonderful people would have already mentioned it. ... View more

Yes, if I move it to the pasteboard or anywhere else where there is no image with text wrap, it aligns to bottom as it should. That's why I said it seems to be InDesign prioritizing appearance of the text line lengths (which would change if moved up or down along the steeply angled edge of the image) over accuracy of following my "rules", and I was wondering if there is a way to force it to more strictly obey the alignment setting. ... View more

I don't know that detail - as I said, I don't remember if that Missing Fonts warning offered an Activate button, and I didn't take a screenshot of that popup. I did take a screenshot of the Find/Replace Font dialog, if that tells you anything - see the second image in my initial post. But I'd rather not re-install the MS font just to experiment - my problem is solved, so I'm ready to move on. ... View more

I got that dialog whenever I opened my real document before I removed the MS version of the font. (I would click Skip, and it would not substitute but just display the text in pink.) I don't remember if there was an Activate choice, but since the Adobe font was already activated, that would presumably wouldn't have made any difference. ... View more

What seems the most strange (besides the fact that Regular worked but Bold didn't) is that I couldn't have simply decided the TT font is good enough and removed the Adobe version - if the Adobe font was not present, InDesign would not offer me any AgencyFB Bold. But when both were installed, it would offer a Bold choice, then complain that it was missing, then use the TT one anyway. In theory I could have just ignored the errors and pink text, but that's not good practice. Anyway, you and Robert have somewhat reassured me that it's okay to remove the TT font, so I will now press on. Thanks for all your help and info! ... View more

Okay, I did that (and removed and re-added the Adobe font for good measure) and now it appears to be behaving. If I need the Windows font later, I'll probably never remember where I saved it, but oh well - sometimes we have to live with workarounds instead of real fixes. It's bizarre that Regular didn't have any problem at all, but only Bold. ... View more

Sure - see attached. But since it's an issue specific to my system, you might not be able to reproduce it. In the process of creating this document, I re-added Regular and fully expected it to behave like Bold, but it didn't! The two flavors of Regular are content to coexist, for some mysterious reason. (I don't need Regular for my current project, but it's useful for troubleshooting this.) And as you can see in the attached PDF, the OpenType version of Regular is used. ... View more

I just noticed you wrote "...deactivate the TT version that Windows supplies." Can I deactivate it without uninstalling/deleting it completely? ... View more

Aha! This is probably related, but it's not solved yet. Yes, you are correct - Bold and Regular are in C:\Windows\Fonts. Although the CC app claims the Adobe versions are installed (for Adobe apps only), apparently there is interference between them or something.   Interestingly, Windows claims the designer/foundry is The Font Bureau, whereas Adobe Fonts says it's David Berlow/Monotype. It seems unlikely to be a name coincidence, but anyway, onward we go trying to solve it.   I removed the Adobe versions of Bold and Regular using the CC app, and then looked again at InDesign, hoping I could just use the Windows font. InDesign then indicated it as "[Bold]" instead of just "Bold". Then I changed the paragraph style to something else, saved, and closed/re-opened InDesign. At that point, Bold (and Regular) were no longer choices at all. Then with InDesign closed, I added Adobe's Bold again, and opened InDesign. I'm back where I started - Bold is a choice (not in brackets) and I can select it, but the text becomes pink and Find/Replace Font reports it as missing.   It's possible that it would clear up if I uninstalled the two Windows fonts, and presumably OpenType CFF is a better font format than TrueType (at least it's newer), but I hesitate to uninstall fonts that came with Windows - I don't know what other effects that might have. ... View more

I had already confirmed both those things. I even took screenshots of them, but I didn't bother including them in my initial post because it was already really long. ... View more

Windows 11. InDesign 20.3, but I'm pretty sure I was already on that version before I added the fonts at all. ... View more