Release notes

Feature updates

• Review documents with updated rendering technology

InDesign now uses updated rendering technology to display documents and graphics, delivering a more consistent viewing experience. This update modernizes how InDesign renders page content across display modes and graphics workflows, helping improve visual consistency when viewing, zooming, scrolling, and working with complex documents. Most workflows remain unchanged, but some documents or graphics may display slightly differently as InDesign uses the updated rendering engine.

• Helper Text in Keyboard Shortcuts Search

Helper Text is now available in the Search field of the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.

Fixed issues

• InDesign no longer crashes when dismissing the objects would leave the pasteboard alert dialog in Flex Layout workflow.
• [Windows only] InDesign no longer crashes when file paths contain multi-byte characters.
• [macOS only] Fixed an issue where documents appear blank in GPU Preview after switching displays or waking macOS from sleep.
• [macOS only]: InDesign no longer crashes after performing a task in the Multi-Find/Change panel.
• Shortcuts like Shift+F5/Shift+F6/Shift+F7/Shift+F8/Shift+F9/Shift+F11 now work in the Search field in Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.
• Esc/Shift+Esc now works in the Search field of Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.
• Keyboard navigation in a transformed Flex Layout now stops correctly at locked child elements and displays an Object Locked message.
• [Flex Layout] Dragging an element out of a flex container while hovering on that element now works correctly.
• Effects like Drop Shadow no longer get displaced when objects are transformed.
• [macOS only] Links panel columns no longer collapse (shrink) when resizing or reordering columns.
• Exports for InCopy, snippets, ICML, and IDML no longer lose the width of the first column in a table (requires InCopy 21.6.0 or later).

Fixed issues

• (Windows only) InDesign 21.5.0 crashes when using customer plug-ins that rely on table APIs built against older SDK versions.

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

• Unable to move multi-select objects when cursor is over a placed image or frame content.

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.
• Selecting 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.

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 macOS 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.

Feature updates

• Create responsive frames with Flex Layout to adapt content dynamically across different layouts.
• Co-edit text in InDesign documents in real time across desktop and InCopy on the web.
• Format and style math expressions directly in your document.
• Convert PDFs to editable InDesign files with layout fidelity.
• Access relevant next-step actions with the enhanced Context Bar for faster workflows.
• Add context breaks in EPUB export using <hr> tags to improve accessibility for screen readers.
• Enhanced user experience for Media panel, HTML Preview panel, and Tools Hints panel.
• Use Templates to easily browse the full template collection from Adobe Express and then edit in Express.
• Projects in Adobe InDesign provide a collaborative workspace to organize work, manage permissions, and share assets in bulk.
• Added support for ARIA roles (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) for EPUB digital publishing. ARIA roles improve accessibility by helping screen readers correctly identify and announce the purpose of different content elements (e.g., math, note, chapter, credits).
• The new 7-Day Sync caches files for offline access up to seven days, ensuring seamless work without the internet and auto-updates when reconnected.

System updates

• Added support for Windows 11 versions 24H2.
• Added support for macOS version 15.x (Sequoia). The minimum macOS version is 13.x (Ventura).

Additional updates

• Performance Optimization: Refinements have been made to boost the responsiveness and efficiency of internal processes.
• Scalability Improvements: Architectural adjustments now better support future growth and increased user demand.
• Maintainability Upgrades: Codebase simplifications facilitate easier future updates and maintenance.

Fixed issues

• WebView postMessage does not work.
• The Change Case option doesn’t get cleared when opening a built-in or saved query.
• Can't override the keyboard shortcut Shift + E for GPU.
• Reading order issue when a footnote is split over to the next page or column.
• While creating a new hyperlink, the ‘Shared Hyperlink Destination’ checkbox will remain unchecked by default.
• InDesign has to be "Force quit" if the background task(Export to PDF/IDML) hangs.
• InDesign freezes when connected with the Enterprise VPN.
• Hyperlinks set for objects and images (so no hyperlink is applied to selected text) result in broken tags for PDF/UA.
• [macOS only] InDesign crashes while opening a few specific InDesign native Library files(.indl).
• Buttons and checkboxes disappear after updating content through Assignments in the InDesign-InCopy workflow.
• [macOS only] The cursor is not visible in the Notes window.
• Adobe Crash Processor locks the folder containing InDesign document.
• [macOS only]Quick Look previews for InDesign files stop working on macOS.
• Vector objects dropped, and tables not converted accurately during PDF to INDD conversion.
• InCopy crashes while working with Assignments | Fixed with macOS 15.6.
• InDesign intermittently crashes in the progress bar while opening large files.
• InDesign crashes intermittently while working with images.
• InDesign intermittently freezes on launch.
• InCopy crashes when pasting text with variable parameters.
• InDesign intermittently crashes while closing the document.
• ScriptUI crashes on shutdown.
• InCopy crashes while working with Assignments.
• UXP Plugin panel and dialog are showing incorrect behavior of the HTML SELECT tag.
• InDesign sometimes opens a file in Read-only mode for network files.
• The Font.name value extracted from scripting contains a repeated fontStyleName.
• By default, the Case Sensitive option in the User Dictionary dialog and Check Spelling dialog remains enabled.
• [Document Specific] InDesign hangs in the background process while exporting IDML or creating a Package.