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Fixed issues in InDesign

  1. InDesign User Guide
  2. Get to know InDesign
    1. Introduction to InDesign
      1. What's New in InDesign
      2. System requirements
      3. Common questions
      4. Use Creative Cloud libraries
    2. Workspace
      1. Workspace basics
      2. Contextual task bar
      3. Customize your workspace in InDesign
      4. Toolbox
      5. Set preferences
      6. Properties panel
      7. Touch workspace
      8. Default keyboard shortcuts
      9. Undo edits and manage History panel
      10. Document recovery and undo
    3. Generative AI (Not available in mainland China)
      1. Text to Image
      2. Generative Expand
      3. Generate Effect in InDesign (Beta)
      4. Generative AI FAQ
  3. Create and layout documents
    1. Documents and pages
      1. Create documents
      2. Work with parent pages
      3. Work with document pages
      4. Set page size, margins, and bleed
      5. Work with files and templates
      6. Convert PDFs to InDesign files in InDesign (Beta)
      7. Create book files
      8. Add basic page numbering
      9. Number pages, chapters, and sections
      10. Convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
      11. Share content
      12. Understand a basic managed-file workflow
      13. Save documents
    2. Grids
      1. Grids
      2. Format grids
    3. Layout aids
      1. Rulers
      2. Align and distribute objects using rulers
      3. Measure objects using the Measure tool
  4. Add content
    1. Text
      1. Add text to frames
      2. Threading text
      3. South-East Asian Scripts
      4. Arabic and Hebrew features in InDesign
      5. Create type on a path
      6. Bullets and numbering
      7. Insert MathML to create math expressions
      8. Glyphs and special characters
      9. Text composition
      10. Text variables
      11. Generate QR codes
      12. Edit text
      13. Align text
      14. Wrap text around objects
      15. Anchored objects
      16. Linked content
      17. Format paragraphs
      18. Format characters
    2. Typography
      1. Using fonts in InDesign
      2. Kerning and tracking
      3. Scale and skew type
      4. Apply color effects to type
    3. Format text
      1. Format text
      2. Auto Style text
      3. Work with Style Packs
      4. Tabs and indents
    4. Review text
      1. Track and review changes
      2. Add editorial notes in InDesign
      3. Import PDF comments
    5. Spell check and language dictionaries
      1. Check spelling, autocorrect, and dynamic spelling
      2. Create, add, and manage dictionaries and words
      3. Change dictionary preferences
      4. Duden dictionary
    6. Add references
      1. Create a table of contents
      2. Footnotes
      3. Create an index
      4. Endnotes
      5. Captions
    7. Styles
      1. Paragraph and character styles
      2. Map, export, and manage styles
      3. Object styles
      4. Drop caps and nested styles
      5. Work with styles
      6. Leading
    8. Tables
      1. Format tables
      2. Create tables
      3. Table and Cell styles
      4. Select and edit tables
      5. Table strokes and fills
    9. Interactivity
      1. Hyperlinks
      2. Dynamic PDF documents
      3. Bookmarks
      4. Buttons
      5. Forms
      6. Animation
      7. Cross-references
      8. Structure PDFs
      9. Page transitions
      10. Movies and sounds
    10. Graphics
      1. Understand paths and shapes
      2. Draw with the Pencil tool
      3. Draw with the Pen tool
      4. Apply line (stroke) settings 
      5. Compound paths and shapes
      6. Edit paths
      7. Clipping paths
      8. Change corner appearance
      9. Frames and objects
      10. Align and distribute objects
      11. Linked and embedded graphics
      12. Integrate AEM assets
    11. Color and transparency
      1. Apply color
      2. Use colors from imported graphics
      3. Work with swatches
      4. Mix inks
      5. Tints
      6. Understand spot and process colors
      7. Blend colors
      8. Gradients
      9. Flatten transparent artwork
      10. Add transparency effects
  5. Find and replace
    1. Find and replace text
    2. Find and replace fonts
    3. Find and replace glyphs
    4. Find and replace using GREP expressions and queries
    5. Find and replace objects
    6. Find and replace colors
    7. Search options to find and replace
  6. Share
    1. Save and access cloud documents
    2. Organize, manage, and share cloud documents
    3. View and manage versions in cloud documents
    4. Common questions about InDesign cloud documents
    5. InCopy on the web (Beta)
    6. Share and collaborate        
    7. Share for Review
    8. Review a shared InDesign document
    9. Manage feedback
    10. Invite to edit
  7. Export, import, and publish
    1. Place, export, and publish
      1. Publish online
      2. Publish online dashboard
      3. Copy, insert graphics
      4. Export to Adobe Express
      5. Export content for EPUB
      6. Adobe PDF options
      7. Export to HTML5
      8. Export content to HTML (Legacy)
      9. Export to Adobe PDF
      10. Export to JPEG format
      11. Import SVG files
      12. DPS and AEM Mobile overview
      13. Supported File Formats
      14. Export and import User Settings
    2. Printing
      1. Print booklets
      2. Printer's marks and bleeds
      3. Print documents
      4. Inks, separation, and screen frequency
      5. Overprinting
      6. Create PostScript and EPS files
      7. Preflight files before handoff
      8. Print thumbnails and oversized documents
      9. Prepare PDFs for service providers
      10. Prepare to print separations
  8. Extend InDesign
    1. Automation
      1. Data merge
      2. Plug-ins
      3. Capture extension in InDesign
      4. Scripting
  9. Troubleshooting
    1. Fixed issues
    2. Known issues
    3. Crash on launch
    4. Preference folder read-only issue
    5. Troubleshoot file issues
    6. Unable to export InDesign file to PDF
    7. InDesign document recovery

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.

fixed issues

Got feedback? Visit our feedback portal.

Interested in knowing about new features, visit New features summary.

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

Note: To work with data merge functionality smoothly, you need to update the data source file with the POSIX style path.

Stability and Performance

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

InDesign 2024 (version 19.2)

Core features and workflow

User experience improvements

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

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.

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

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

 

User experience improvements

  • [Windows only] Icons scaling issue at higher UI Scaling factors.

Stability and Performance

Stability and Performance

  • Updates to an internal component to the latest version to ensure improved application stability.

Stability and Performance

Note:

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

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

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

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