- InDesign User Guide
- Get to know InDesign
- Introduction to InDesign
- Workspace
- Generative AI (Not available in mainland China)
- Introduction to InDesign
- Create and layout documents
- Documents and pages
- Create documents
- Work with parent pages
- Work with document pages
- Set page size, margins, and bleed
- Work with files and templates
- Convert PDFs to InDesign files in InDesign (Beta)
- Create book files
- Add basic page numbering
- Number pages, chapters, and sections
- Convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
- Share content
- Understand a basic managed-file workflow
- Save documents
- Grids
- Layout aids
- Documents and pages
- Add content
- Text
- Add text to frames
- Threading text
- South-East Asian Scripts
- Arabic and Hebrew features in InDesign
- Create type on a path
- Bullets and numbering
- Insert MathML to create math expressions
- Glyphs and special characters
- Text composition
- Text variables
- Generate QR codes
- Edit text
- Align text
- Wrap text around objects
- Anchored objects
- Linked content
- Format paragraphs
- Format characters
- Typography
- Format text
- Review text
- Spell check and language dictionaries
- Add references
- Styles
- Tables
- Interactivity
- Graphics
- Color and transparency
- Text
- Find and replace
- Share
- Export, import, and publish
- Place, export, and publish
- Publish online
- Publish online dashboard
- Copy, insert graphics
- Export to Adobe Express
- Export content for EPUB
- Adobe PDF options
- Export to HTML5
- Export content to HTML (Legacy)
- Export to Adobe PDF
- Export to JPEG format
- Import SVG files
- DPS and AEM Mobile overview
- Supported File Formats
- Export and import User Settings
- Printing
- Place, export, and publish
- Extend InDesign
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
We heard you! We've been working hard at fixing the issues you reported to us. Here's the list of issues we fixed in the latest release of InDesign.
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InDesign 2025 (version 20.0)
Core features and workflow
- Variable Font widget disappears when you change the value of axes.
Stability and Performance
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes while saving an edited Creative Cloud (CC) library.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.5)
Core features and workflow
- [Windows only] On touch-enabled devices, the previously selected workspace isn't automatically activated from the second launch onwards.
- Text indentation doesn't work on bulleted text when combined with text wrap.
- Ragged lines appear when using optical margin alignment and World-Ready Paragraph Composer.
- Align to Decimal tab feature doesn’t work when ligatures are present within the text, and World-Ready Composer is applied to it.
- Unable to use InDesign while opening some files due to continuous error dialogs.
- [macOS only] Data merge is not working for absolute paths.
Note: To work with data merge functionality smoothly, you need to update the data source file with the POSIX style path.
Stability and Performance
- Missing XMP data when placing file with Custom Data Link.
- InDesign crashes while exporting PDF.
- InDesign crashes when working on documents that use certain Variable fonts.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes while opening a file.
- InDesign crashes when Autostyle is applied to multiple text frames.
User experience improvements
- Swatches synchronize when object, paragraph, or character styles are selected in the Synchronize Options dialog.
Accessibility enhancements
- Improved page title selection for EPUB documents.
UXP enhancements
- Added GUID support for UXP 3P plugins.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.4)
Core features and workflow
- [Windows] Shortcuts to view at 100%, 200%, 400%, and 50% are fixed.
Double-clicking the Zoom tool to change the View setting to 100% is fixed.
- Active menu set, workspace layout, and keyboard shortcuts are not saved while exporting User Settings.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes when clicking on a UI element with the blue dot onboarding.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.3)
Core features and workflow
- [macOS Sonoma Only] InDesign crashes while changing the font or font type from the Type menu.
User experience improvements
- [JP only]: Complete string for numbers isn't shown in the Info panel.
- Updated list of options is available in the Accessibility Feature dropdown.
- Few InDesign documents created or saved from InDesign 19.2 fail to open in InDesign 19.1
InDesign 2024 (version 19.2)
Core features and workflow
- For right-to-left(RTL) language text, the character direction changes to left-to-right(LTR) after applying Forced Line Break.
- [macOS Only] Application window and panels are resized and moved after waking up from sleep.
- Copying text from and Pasting text into the Review panel.
- Share for Review link is removed from the Review panel on deleting the link in Sharesheet.
- When numerals along with operators are used in the Right To Left text, it changes direction after updating InDesign from 2023 to 2024.
- InDesign 2024 crashes on launch for some users.
- Fixed the Screen Redraw issues in CPU and Overprint Preview modes in macOS 14.3.
- InDesign SavedData gets reset to default if PluginConfig.txt is present.
User experience improvements
- The Review panel opens automatically on copying the Review link or inviting people to the Review.
- [Win Only] Unable to scroll using two fingers on the Trackpad/Touchpad.
Production
- Garbled characters and blank pages occur on printing PDF files exported from InDesign versions 18.4 & 18.5.
Accessibility enhancements
- Added support for Schema.org in accessibility metadata.
- Added support for Evaluation Metadata.
- Added support for Language attributes for all the HTML files.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.1)
Core features and workflow
- Characters appear thinner upon changing the weight axis of the Variable font.
- [Win only] Some linked WMF files are not showing in the overprint preview and exported PDF.
- The overwritten text in the Text frame placed from CC Library is missing.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.0.1)
Note: Quit all the previous versions of InDesign and then go to Edit > Migrate Previous Local Settings to import missed preferences and presets when launching 19.0.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign freezes while quitting the application on some machines.
User experience improvements
Note: Upgrade to InDesign 18.5.1 after installing InDesign 19.0.1 to get the correct configuration.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.0)
Core features and workflow
- PlaceMultipagePDF VBScript now correctly places the PDF on the selected page of InDesign document.
- CreateCharacterStyle script does not honor the attributes set for text.
- Text Annotations appear displaced in the browser when it is shared for review.
- Footnote numbering becomes incorrect while exporting a Thai document to PDF with World-Ready Composer.
- Incorrect Footnote text in an Arabic document.
- Numbering restarts from 1 after an unnumbered style in exported HTML.
- [SDK] Idle task not called when the InDesign isn't the active window or no document is opened.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes on launch due to Adobe Crash Processor.
User experience improvements
- [CJK only] Change the default quotes from 'straight-lined quotes' to 'typographer's quotes'.
Previous releases
Core features and workflow
- [KR only] "Shinsho" Print Document Preset is of the correct size now.
Production
- Partial rendering of images in exported PDF using ‘All Printer’s Marks’ and ‘Use Document Bleed’ export settings.
- PDF Export using ZIP compression for images shows an “Insufficient data for an image” error on opening in Acrobat.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes while quitting the application from the menu.
Core features and workflow
- [macOS only] Share for Review comments submitted in the browser may not appear in InDesign unless forceful refresh is done for the document.
- Defined tags not exported for paragraph styles named with large character count.
- Network files open as read-only, when Quicklook Preview is enabled.
- [Win only] Template previews are missing in the New Document dialog.
- InDesign sometimes opens documents from the network in read-only mode when there is a delay in generating document previews.
- REBA pop-up does not display when you click Update now.
User experience improvements
- [Windows only] Icons scaling issue at higher UI Scaling factors.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes on launch due to the exclusion of Adobe-provided plug-ins in PluginConfig.txt.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes on launch in ObjectModelLib.dylib
User experience improvements
Stability and Performance
- Updates to an internal component to the latest version to ensure improved application stability.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes on launch on some machines.
- Crash or PDF export failure for documents with placed .indd files containing Adobe Fonts.
As announced in January 2021, support for all Type 1 fonts in Adobe products, including InDesign, has ended. For more information, please refer to Type 1 end of support.
Core feature and workflow
- Issue with the Drop Cap with Negative First Line Indent.
- Kanji meta-character "~K" and "^K" have matching problems in Find/Change.
- While importing excel as an unformatted table, formula-based cells are imported incorrectly.
- Pantone Libraries that have been removed from InDesign will show imported PSD files containing Spot Channels as Gray/Black.
- Color differences between GPU and CPU on macOS Ventura.
- Issues with some keyboard shortcuts.
- Preview functionality keeps crashing for German and Ukrainian locales.
Improvements to new features
- Text with HSB color is shown as black on copy-pasting from ID to AI.
- While copy-pasting a Frame grid from AI to ID, text font size isn't honored.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign sometimes crashes on opening multiple documents together.
- InDesign stops responding while working on any file due to high CPU usage.
Core feature and workflow
- EPUB Validation Check fails because of erroneous "lang" identifiers in the underlying HTML of EPUB.
- EPUB validation check fails for Reflowable EPUBs for documents containing Endnotes.
- Issue while importing specific TIFF files in ID2023.
- When exporting EPUB using the Books panel, which has multiple documents, Endnotes Backlinks are not working from the second document onwards.
- [macOS only] ID crashes while working with styles.
- Missing Learn Panel icon on AppBar.
- [macOS only] UI issues with App Frame OFF and higher UI Scaling factors are addressed.
- Zooming in/out via Cmd+/- does not work when the cursor is above the page element in CPU mode.
- InDesign crashes while opening the IDML.
- The paragraph goes overset when the 1st word is longer than a certain number of characters.
- ID crashes while placing JPEG2000 files.
- [macOS only] ID crashes while placing specific HEIC files.
Stability and Performance
- ID crashes while relinking a file from the Properties panel when the Links Panel isn't open.
User experience improvements
- Default EPUB version changed to 3.0 while exporting to Reflowable EPUB.
Improvements to new features
- [InCopy only] When the Clipboard Handling preference is set to All information, the copy and paste action doesn't paste anything.
- The text overlaps in some cases when the ID document is copied and pasted to AI.
- The Prefer PDF When Pasting option in Clipboard Handling preferences doesn't display appropriate results when copying from AI to ID.
- Kinsoku Set isn't preserved on copying from AI to ID.
- UI scaling in InCopy 2022 affects window tiling Applescripts.
- Copy-pasting text content from a threaded text frame in AI does not bring text formatting in ID.
- While applying a font via parastyle in ID and pasting it to AI, the fonts are not mapped appropriately in case a text style with the same name already exists.
- Justification values are not applied on copy-paste from ID to AI.
- Tate-chu-Yoko horizontal and vertical attribute values get swapped when copied from AI and pasted to ID.
- Unrestricted files and folder support, Modules Support available for UXP Scripting.
- XMLRule support available in UXP.
User experience
- Unable to show '&' in the file name inside the saveAs progress bar.
- Incorrect placement of language in accessible HTML.
- Switching to Presentation Mode and back to Normal changes the document to an unsaved state.
- While importing an item as an inline object, an invisible layer is incorrectly displayed.
- [macOS Only] When the SaveAs operation fails, the document changes to an unsaved state.
- Panels are sliding from right to left in macOS Ventura beta.
Stability and Performance
- [Windows] InDesign intermittently crashes while working in Offline mode.
- CEPHTMLEngine utilizes a high amount of network data while launching the apps.
- [macOS] InDesign Server crashes on quit.
Core feature and workflow
- After restart, the Update Link of a Review does not work.
- Text indentation does not work on the bulleted list while using text wrap.