Last updated on
Jul 28, 2026
Find out about the latest updates, new features, and bug fixes in recent Adobe InDesign releases.
July 2026 (version 21.5)
Feature updates
- Table accessibility improvements in PDF and EPUB exports
- Specify header rows, header columns, and captions in your table setup to include accessible table structure information in exported documents.
- Keyboard shortcut search
- Search by command name or keyboard shortcut to quickly locate a specific menu item directly in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box.
- Data Merge enhancements
- Added support for multiline records and UTF-8 encoded data files.
- HTML Preview plugin no longer required
- Starting with InDesign 21.5, HTML previews generate without the HTML Preview plugin, and InDesign no longer displays an error if the plugin isn't installed.
- Manage your files faster from the home screen
- Add local files as cloud documents, or download cloud documents to your device, directly from the home screen.
- Speed up accessibility work with bulk Alt Text operations
- Generate or remove AI-generated Alt Text for multiple images at once, without affecting text you've written or edited manually.
- Missing font management in InCopy on the web (beta)
- Add or request custom fonts directly from the Missing Fonts dialog box without leaving your workflow.
- Access Learn from the homescreen
- For a cleaner, more focused workspace, the Learn option has been removed from the Window menu, and the Learn icon has been removed from the workspace. You can continue to access Learn from the homescreen, as always.
Fixed issues
- The primaryTextFrame property could not be set on a MasterSpread via InDesign scripting.
- Incorrect handling of Ampersands (&) in font family names and OpenType Stylistic Sets names.
- The Learn option isn't available in the Window menu.
- Data Merge did not support UTF-8 encoding.
- [Windows only] Users in Chinese Simplified are unable to use InDesign due to a subscription error.
- Content that isn't visible in the PDF appears when it's opened.
- Opening some PDFs duplicates images onto the pasteboard, degrading performance, and inflating the asset folder size.
- [Windows only] InDesign intermittently crashes during document recovery.
- [Windows only] InDesign intermittently crashes on quit.
- InDesign hangs with customer CEP Plugin.
Fixed issues
- Alt text message is truncated from right side.
- [Windows only] InDesign fails to locate the Times New Roman and Calibri fonts.
- [macOS only] Math Expression size gets larger and truncated on EPUB Interactive Preview Panel.
- [macOS only] InDesign requests permission to access data from other applications at launch.
- [Windows only] Indesign freezes and unexpectedly closes while opening IDML file containing double-hyphenated texts.
- [Windows only] When placing or updating linked files, InDesign hangs and shows a spinning cursor.
- Media files, groups, and interactive items are dropped off when None CSS Option is selected.
- The Blue border (focus) for the Flex icon is cut off on the right side in the Properties panel.
- Clicking on a footnote or endnote reference on EPUB preview, the page isn't redirecting to the footnote or endnote location.
- Fixed an issue where Share for Review 'Update Content' fails with 'Artifact error' for large InDesign documents.
- Keyboard shortcuts don’t work on transformed frames.
- Weird behaviour when the Add to flex frame action is done on a transformed interactive button or object states.
- Expose FlexObject to anchoredObjectSettings.
- Positioning of Flex Children isn't maintained correctly within Flex Container on Transforming Flex Layouts.
- URLs containing %27 were navigating to a 404 page in the published document.
- Issue with text appearance of placed WMF images.
- IDML export/import adds objects on master pages and dependent pages.
- Generate Alt Text feature is disabled and showing error, You do not have access to the Generate Alt Text feature.
- Fit Text feature is disabled for Type on a Path text objects in InDesign.
- Manually added alt text should not get removed when relinked from a missing link.
- [macOS only] InDesign intermittently crashes on Quit.
- Auto Alt Text causing crashes, freezing, and workflow disruptions in InDesign 21.2.
- CC Libraries panel freezes and becomes unresponsive in InDesign.
- InDesign crashes while saving to cloud-synced locations after a corrupt Windows update, resulting in document corruption.
- [Windows only] Users in Chinese Simplified are unable to use InDesign due to a subscription error.
Feature updates
- You can show or hide the Alt Text badge icon (View > Extras > Hide Alt Text Badge or Show Alt Text Badge). Hiding the badge does not remove alt text and does not affect accessible exports.
Fixed issues
- [macOS only] InDesign file becomes uneditable after using Share for InCopy on the web and then saving it back locally on macOS.
- [macOS only] Paper swatch applied to text has incorrect overprint settings.
- [macOS only] InDesign hangs at launch if the PDF preset folder lacks read permissions.
- [macOS only] Locate Object button is now available in the Layers panel.
- Provide an option to show/hide Alt Text adornment icon.
- Alt text added in the Accessibility section of Hyperlinks panel disappears when the file is saved as IDML.
- Incorrect Alt Text generation for some images.
- The UXP WebView Support component should not be packaged or installed with InDesign Server.
- InDesign Server crashes when using the Adobe World-Ready Single-line Composer while interacting with multi-column text frames.
- InDesign intermittently crashes when opening or closing documents from a network location under low-memory conditions.
- InDesign intermittently crashes while opening the document.
- InDesign intermittently crashes while adding pages to the document.
- InDesign intermittently crashes while performing copy/paste of text containing hyperlinks.
- InDesign intermittently crashes during image placement.
- Documentation missing from InDesign Server installation directory.
- [Flex Layout] Elements added to the Article panel appear in incorrect sequence.
- [Flex Layout] Buttons and Object States cannot be applied directly to Flex child elements.
- IDML files with long indexes take excessive time to open.
- Page size changes in Alternate Layout after reopening the IDML file.
- Master page names are changed after IDML conversion.
Fixed issues
- [Windows only] Text becomes invisible during editing.
- [Windows only] InDesign is frequently clearing the Undo stack.
- Object Styles now support Size and Position values greater than 1440 pt.
- Plug-ins created with InDesign 21.0 SDK crashes InDesign 21.1 during hyperlink creation.
- The plug‑in’s document observer update function is no longer called when users switch between open InDesign documents.
- InDesign crashes on opening an IDML file with custom bullet character.
- Support for Size and Position values greater than 1440 pt in Object Styles has been extended to IDML round-tripping and Snippets/CC Libraries.
- Negative X/Y Position values in Object Styles are now preserved across Snippets/CC Libraries and IDML round-tripping.
- Conditional text setting is changing during IDML Export/Import.
- Showing text threads within IDML as in the original InDesign document.
- Custom page numbering is lost when saving as IDML if Automatic Page Numbering is selected and a number is entered in the Start At field.
- When converting an INDD file to IDML, Inner Glow, Size values over 12p6 incorrectly change to 0p7 in the exported file.
- [Windows only] Unexpected color changes occur on certain cell borders after exporting the document to IDML.
- When saving an InDesign file to IDML, the page size changes if margins are set to zero and the width/height is less than 6p0.
- [Windows only] PDFExportProvider object is being destroyed and recreated in the middle of an export, leading to an error.
- Crash on opening IDML when default object style has the same name as its style group.
Fixed issues
- Negative X, Y values can be set for Object Style Position option.
- [macOS only] Panels move from Extended Display to Main Display after waking Mac from sleep.
- Align to Bleed misaligns objects in facing-page documents when inner bleed is set to 0 or differs from outer bleed.
- Upload dialog does not appear when publishing documents created in earlier versions.
- GREP style sub-menu is missing the word aus.
- For converted documents, InDesign adds extra space at the top during PNG or JPEG export.
- Page View icon in browser looks grayed out on opening Share for Review link.
- Share for Review page is not shown centered when the link is opened in browser.
- When a Primary Text Frame uses an Object Style with the Position option enabled, its X and Y coordinates shift unexpectedly as text flows into the frame.
- It is now possible to remove Flex Layout from multiple selected Flex Layout Frames by choosing Object > Flex Layout > Remove Flex Layout.
- InDesign crashes intermittently while working with the Layers panel.
- InDesign crashes intermittently while working with the Pages Panel.
- [Windows] [JP] Document units didn’t match units set in the Preferences dialog box.
- Pin & Draw comments made in the browser for Review may not appear in the InDesign document.
- Closing a PDF after opening it in InDesign without saving it deletes the file's Assets folder from:
Windows - C:\Users\<username>\Documents\InDesign PDF Assets
macOS - /Users/<username>/Documents/InDesign PDF Assets - Paragraph style names are truncated in tagged PDF.
- FRL offline is consuming high CPU resources when InDesign app is in idle state.
Fixed issues
- Grouped objects don't return to their original layers when ungrouped, if Ungroup Remembers Layers option is enabled.
- Tab indents are removed when you drag the indent marker.
- [macOS only] With Application Frame off, the behavior of Green button in Document Window is changed back to Zoom to Fit (instead of Full Screen).
- Ungrouping objects deselects the currently selected objects.
- InDesign crashes when a specific variable font is used in the document.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes when it can't access the Preferences or Caches folders due to permission issues.
- [Windows only] InDesign cannot open PDF files if user account name contains non-English characters.
- PDF file size optimization when exporting specific page/spread ranges with Preserve InDesign Editing Capabilities option.
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