Release notes

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.

Fixed issues

• [Windows only] Text becomes invisible during editing.
• [Windows only] InDesign is frequently clearing the Undo stack.

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.