- Introduction to InDesign
- Workspace
- Generative AI (Not available in mainland China)
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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
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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
- Place, export, and publish
- Printing
- Automation
- InDesign User Guide
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Get to know InDesign
- Introduction to InDesign
- Workspace
- Generative AI (Not available in mainland China)
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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
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Text
- Find and replace
- Share
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Export, import, and publish
- Place, export, and publish
- Printing
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Extend InDesign
- Automation
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 20.1)
Core features and workflow
- QR Code vCard are not unicode.
- Workspace doesn't retain the customized layout.
- [macOS only] At higher UI Scale Factors, icon panels don't open when the Application Frame is off.
- The second letter disappears after applying the drop cap in PDF export using the InDesign English Hebrew version.
- Document Fonts specific to a document become available in other documents as well.
- InDesign crashes when hiding pages and adding multiple new pages in Touch Workspace.
- Issue when setting an even/random number as the start page number in a new document.
- [Windows only] INDD file icon shows blank/white/no thumbnail after update.
- Text Variable Modification Date is missing or disappearing when Paragraph Style is applied and saved to the Cloud.
- Packaging Books to an SMB share hosted on Linux generates multiple image links in the package.
InDesign 2025 (version 20.0.1)
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'.