Fixed issues in InDesign

Core features and workflow

• Page navigation using Text Anchor and Page Destination hyperlinks does not work in EPUB Interactive Preview or exported EPUB (Fixed Layout).
• InDesign 20.3 adds the “target=_blank” attribute to all links exported through EPUB.

Stability and Performance

• InDesign crashes intermittently during launch and quit.

User experience improvements

• [macOS only ]InDesign hangs on Dunamis Feedback Dialog.

Core features and workflow

• InDesign experiences a delay in glyph replacement when Type Contextual Controls is enabled.
• Unable to drag and drop SVGs from CC libraries to InDesign.

User experience improvements

• Alternates for Selection are truncated on clicking the arrow next to Glyph in the Glyphs panel at UI Scaling other than Small.
• Unable to manage text styles with the keyboard inputs or assistive technology.
• Localized Variable font axis names are incorrectly displayed.

Stability and Performance

• InDesign intermittently crashes while:
  • relinking assets.
  • switching between the workspaces.
  • checking for missing fonts in the indd document.
• [Scripting] InDesign crashes in ScCore::FileOSSpecific::makeDir().
• Punctuation marks disappear in justified Hebrew (RTL) text when exported to PDF.
• InDesign is going in Protective Shutdown on document close with a few external plugins.
• InDesign hangs on placing a text file with the Noto Serif Bengali font.

Core features and workflow

• Corrected excessive Indent to Here spacing in paragraphs with a Text Wrap object at the beginning of the line.
• Corrected panel title separation in the menu dropdown by removing hierarchical ":" separation.
• Exiting Presentation Mode changes the Application's Window size at higher UI Scaling when connected to an external monitor.
• Fixed incorrect cursor movement in RTL text when Harfbuzz shaper is used.
• InDesign can now open a few impacted indd documents that previously failed to open.
• [macOS only] InDesign can now create folders via Folder.create().

User experience improvements

• The Eyedropper Tool has been moved to the top, above the Color Theme Tool.
• Dark Mode is now supported on macOS.

Stability and Performance

• Fixed intermittent InDesign crashes:
  • While working with the Layers Panel.
  • While working with the Overprint Preview.
  • While using workflows with missing fonts.
  • While performing drawing actions.
  • While performing relink operations.
  • While opening/navigating the Links panel,
• [macOS only] Performance improvements in selection, switching from other apps, etc.
• InDesign doesn't crash while using a Touch device with a detachable keyboard and waking from sleep.
• [Scripting] InDesign no longer crashes in ScCore::FileOSSpecific::makeDir().
• InDesign no longer hangs during ePUB Reflowable export in a few documents.

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.

User experience improvements

• The Pages in Spreads string does not display correctly in the Pages Panel.
• Constrain Proportions icon for Width and Height reverts to an unlinked state.

Core features and workflow

• [macOS Only] All PDF preset filenames containing double-byte and accented characters disappear when InDesign 2025 is launched.
• [macOS Only] Drag and Drop from homescreen is not opening the INDD file.

Stability and Performance

• InDesign crashes when exporting a book as PDF Interactive.
• InDesign crashes while searching any font/word, etc., which is in overset text.
• InDesign crashes while navigating through Parent Pages in the Pages Panel.

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.

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.

Production

• Some PDFs exported from InDesign 18.4 onwards are corrupted, and a few workflows show syntax errors when pre-flighted with the external software.
  
• Exported PDF crashes the PAC checker due to font issues.

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.

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.

Production

• While checking the PDF with PDF Accessibility Checker 2021, an Unexpected error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object" is shown.
  

Stability and Performance

• InDesign crashes when clicking on a UI element with the blue dot onboarding.
  

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
  

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.
  

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.

Core features and workflow

• InDesign is unable to import preferences from the previous version and displays an error message during launch.

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.

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'.