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Fixed issues in InDesign

  1. InDesign User Guide
  2. Get to know InDesign
    1. Introduction to InDesign
      1. What's New in InDesign
      2. System requirements
      3. Common questions
      4. Use Creative Cloud libraries
    2. Workspace
      1. Workspace basics
      2. Customize your workspace in InDesign
      3. Toolbox
      4. Set preferences
      5. Touch workspace
      6. Default keyboard shortcuts
      7. Document recovery and undo
  3. Create and layout documents
    1. Documents and pages
      1. Create documents
      2. Work with parent pages
      3. Work with document pages
      4. Set page size, margins, and bleed
      5. Work with files and templates
      6. Create book files
      7. Add basic page numbering
      8. Number pages, chapters, and sections
      9. Convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
      10. Share content
      11. Understand a basic managed-file workflow
      12. Save documents
    2. Grids
      1. Grids
      2. Format grids
    3. Layout aids
      1. Rulers
      2. Align and distribute objects using rulers
      3. Measure objects using the Measure tool
  4. Add content
    1. Text
      1. Add text to frames
      2. Threading text
      3. South-East Asian Scripts
      4. Arabic and Hebrew features in InDesign
      5. Create type on a path
      6. Bullets and numbering
      7. Glyphs and special characters
      8. Text composition
      9. Text variables
      10. Generate QR codes
      11. Edit text
      12. Align text
      13. Wrap text around objects
      14. Anchored objects
      15. Linked content
      16. Format paragraphs
      17. Format characters
    2. Typography
      1. Using fonts in InDesign
      2. Kerning and tracking
    3. Format text
      1. Format text
      2. Auto Style text
      3. Work with Style Packs
      4. Tabs and indents
    4. Review text
      1. Track and review changes
      2. Add editorial notes in InDesign
      3. Import PDF comments
    5. Spell check and language dictionaries
      1. Check spelling, autocorrect, and dynamic spelling
      2. Create, add, and manage dictionaries and words
      3. Change dictionary preferences
      4. Duden dictionary
    6. Add references
      1. Create a table of contents
      2. Footnotes
      3. Create an index
      4. Endnotes
      5. Captions
    7. Styles
      1. Paragraph and character styles
      2. Map, export, and manage styles
      3. Object styles
      4. Drop caps and nested styles
      5. Work with styles
      6. Leading
    8. Tables
      1. Format tables
      2. Create tables
      3. Table and Cell styles
      4. Select and edit tables
      5. Table strokes and fills
    9. Interactivity
      1. Hyperlinks
      2. Dynamic PDF documents
      3. Bookmarks
      4. Buttons
      5. Forms
      6. Animation
      7. Cross-references
      8. Structure PDFs
      9. Page transitions
      10. Movies and sounds
    10. Graphics
      1. Understand paths and shapes
      2. Draw with the Pencil tool
      3. Draw with the Pen tool
      4. Apply line (stroke) settings 
      5. Compound paths and shapes
      6. Edit paths
      7. Clipping paths
      8. Change corner appearance
      9. Frames and objects
      10. Align and distribute objects
      11. Linked and embedded graphics
      12. Integrate AEM assets
    11. Color and transparency
      1. Apply color
      2. Use colors from imported graphics
      3. Work with swatches
      4. Mix inks
      5. Tints
      6. Understand spot and process colors
      7. Blend colors
      8. Gradients
      9. Flatten transparent artwork
      10. Add transparency effects
  5. Find and replace
    1. Find and replace text
    2. Find and replace fonts
    3. Find and replace glyphs
    4. Find and replace using GREP expressions and queries
    5. Find and replace objects
    6. Find and replace colors
    7. Search options to find and replace
  6. Share
    1. Work with InDesign cloud documents (Beta)
    2. Common questions about InDesign cloud documents (Beta)
    3. Share and collaborate        
    4. Share for Review
    5. Review a shared InDesign document
    6. Manage feedback 
  7. Publish
    1. Place, export, and publish
      1. Publish online
      2. Publish online dashboard
      3. Copy, insert graphics
      4. Export content for EPUB
      5. Adobe PDF options
      6. Export content to HTML
      7. Export to Adobe PDF
      8. Export to JPEG format
      9. Export HTML
      10. DPS and AEM Mobile overview
      11. Supported File Formats
    2. Printing
      1. Print booklets
      2. Printer's marks and bleeds
      3. Print documents
      4. Inks, separation, and screen frequency
      5. Overprinting
      6. Create PostScript and EPS files
      7. Preflight files before handoff
      8. Print thumbnails and oversized documents
      9. Prepare PDFs for service providers
      10. Prepare to print separations
  8. Extend InDesign
    1. Automation
      1. Data merge
      2. Plug-ins
      3. Capture extension in InDesign
      4. Scripting
  9. Troubleshooting
    1. Fixed issues
    2. Crash on launch
    3. Preference folder read-only issue
    4. Troubleshoot file issues
    5. Unable to export PDF
    6. InDesign document recovery

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.

fixed issues

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Interested in knowing about new features, visit New features summary.

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.

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

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'.

InDesign 2023 (version 18.5)

Core features and workflow

  • [KR only] "Shinsho" Print Document Preset is of the correct size now.

Production

  • Partial rendering of images in exported PDF using ‘All Printer’s Marks’ and ‘Use Document Bleed’ export settings.
  • PDF Export using ZIP compression for images shows an “Insufficient data for an image” error on opening in Acrobat.

Stability and Performance

  •  InDesign crashes while quitting the application from the menu.

InDesign 2023 (version 18.4)

Core features and workflow

 

User experience improvements

  • [Windows only] Icons scaling issue at higher UI Scaling factors.

Stability and Performance

InDesign 2023 (version 18.3)

Stability and Performance

  • Updates to an internal component to the latest version to ensure improved application stability.

InDesign 2023 (version 18.2.1)

Stability and Performance

InDesign 2023 (version 18.2)

Note:

As announced in January 2021, support for all Type 1 fonts in Adobe products, including InDesign, has ended. For more information, please refer to Type 1 end of support.

Core feature and workflow

Improvements to new features

  • Text with HSB color is shown as black on copy-pasting from ID to AI.
  • While copy-pasting a Frame grid from AI to ID, text font size isn't honored.

Stability and Performance

  • InDesign sometimes crashes on opening multiple documents together.
  • InDesign stops responding while working on any file due to high CPU usage.

InDesign 2023 (version 18.1)

Core feature and workflow

Stability and Performance

  • ID crashes while relinking a file from the Properties panel when the Links Panel isn't open.

User experience improvements

  • Default EPUB version changed to 3.0 while exporting to Reflowable EPUB.

Improvements to new features

  • [InCopy only] When the Clipboard Handling preference is set to All information, the copy and paste action doesn't paste anything.
  • The text overlaps in some cases when the ID document is copied and pasted to AI.
  • The Prefer PDF When Pasting option in Clipboard Handling preferences doesn't display appropriate results when copying from AI to ID.
  • Kinsoku Set isn't preserved on copying from AI to ID.
  • UI scaling in InCopy 2022 affects window tiling Applescripts.
  • Copy-pasting text content from a threaded text frame in AI does not bring text formatting in ID.
  • While applying a font via parastyle in ID and pasting it to AI, the fonts are not mapped appropriately in case a text style with the same name already exists.
  • Justification values are not applied on copy-paste from ID to AI.
  • Tate-chu-Yoko horizontal and vertical attribute values get swapped when copied from AI and pasted to ID.
  • Unrestricted files and folder support, Modules Support available for UXP Scripting.
  • XMLRule support available in UXP.

InDesign 2023 (version 18.0)

User experience

  • Unable to show '&' in the file name inside the saveAs progress bar.
  • Incorrect placement of language in accessible HTML.
  • Switching to Presentation Mode and back to Normal changes the document to an unsaved state.
  • While importing an item as an inline object, an invisible layer is incorrectly displayed.
  • [macOS Only] When the SaveAs operation fails, the document changes to an unsaved state.
  • Panels are sliding from right to left in macOS Ventura beta.

Stability and Performance

  • [Windows] InDesign intermittently crashes while working in Offline mode.
  • CEPHTMLEngine utilizes a high amount of network data while launching the apps.
  • [macOS] InDesign Server crashes on quit.

Core feature and workflow

InDesign 2022 (version 17.4)

Core feature and workflow

Improvement to new features

  • [macOS Only] At higher UI scaling, the status bar disappears while switching from Presentation Mode to Normal Mode.
  • [macOS Only] Unable to move the InDesign window at higher UI scaling.

InDesign 2022 (version 17.3)

Core feature and workflow

Stability and Performance

  • Smart Objects from CCLib place at low resolution in ID.
  • [macOS only] InDesign 2022 crashes on launch in some cases.
  • InDesign 2022 crashes while switching between panels.

InDesign 2022 (version 17.2.1)

InDesign 2022 (version 17.2)

Stability and Performance

  • Crash on creating floating documents at higher UI Scaling settings.
  • [Win only] Crash on launch in "PlugPlugOwl.dll".
  • [Win only] Crash on opening a document with Pages panel open in the workspace.
  • [macOS only] Random crash while rendering document in GPU mode.
  • Improvement in rendition time of Share for Review links on web.

Production

  • Unable to place multiple pages of a PDF via custom datalink.
  • Black lines are visible around the .psd images in the exported pdf when transparency is flattened.

User experience

Core feature and workflow

Improvement to new features

  • Improved Spot Color and Mixed Ink swatch icons.
  • Improved Preview image in UI Scaling section of Preferences dialog.
  • Improved Background Tasks panel icon in Dark and Medium Dark themes.
  • Last saved style preference is retained in Type tab in Capture Extension.
  • Close button is available in Type Tab in Capture Extension.

InDesign 2022 (version 17.1)

Stability and Performance

  • InDesign crashes on loading CEP plugins.
  • InDesign 2022 crashes on launch or while quitting in some cases.
  • InDesign takes a long time to open some documents with extra file metadata.
  • [macOS Only] Table performance slows down when the Application Frame is enabled.

Production

User experience

  • Few icons in the Links panel are of low contrast.
  • InDesign 2022 is not selecting the correct PNG for Display Resolution.
  • [mac OS only] Resizing/Truncation issues with Object Layer Options dialog.
  • [macOS only] Fill & Stroke panels are truncated at Large UI Scaling.
  • Removal of Ai and Ps icons from Keyboard Shortcuts dialog in InCopy.
  • Improved appearance of icons, adornments, and readouts.
  • Rollover icons are not shown when the rollover icon is different from the base icon.
  • [macOS only] Text in Story Editor overlaps while scrolling down using the scroll bar.

SDK and Scripting Support

  • InDesign hangs due to an issue with SDK resulting in a loop condition.
  • Compilation errors after updating to MS Visual Studio 2019 to 16.10.2
  • Changes to SVG Icon documentation in the SDK.

Core feature and workflow

  • [macOS only] Unable to rename Object states in the Object States panel.
  • [macOS only] Text sometimes disappears while typing or editing.
  • Text flow is inappropriate and pages are skipped randomly.
  • In-App Message shows incorrect count for Type 1 Fonts.
  • Delay in applying the "rvrn" OpenType feature for Variable fonts.
  • Incorrect text selection for J variable font Tazugane.
  • InDesign shows duplicate color profiles after placing CMYK images.
  • [masOS Only] Redrawing issues in InDesign while placing the PDF or RTF file in CPU Mode.
  • Share for Review links are not accessible for some users.
  • Tools and commands stop responding to user inputs after interacting with messages shown in the application.
  • Update Link in Share for Review does not work the first time it is used.
  • Creating Share for Review link shows error for some documents.

Improvement to new features

  • Tracking values in the "Extract from" Image dialog are now expressed as "Thousandths of an em" instead of decimals.
  • Screen glitches appear on doing certain operations on hi-res monitors.
  • Screen glitches appear while using the Gap tool.
  • Pixelated/Blurry appearance of text in some menu entries.
  • Resizing issues with the Media panel.

InDesign 2022 (version 17.0.1)

Stability and performance

  • Crash on saving a document with some linked assets.
  • [macOS only] Crash on launch after a third party extension is uninstalled or disabled.

Core feature and workflow

  • [macOS only] Separations preview panel does not show correct CMYK values.

InDesign 2022 (version 17.0)

Stability and performance

  • [macOS only] Intermittent crashes on quitting InDesign.
  • [macOS only] Intermittent crashes while adding or replacing fonts.
  • [macOS only] Crash while opening some specific documents.
  • Intermittent crashes while opening documents containing placed PDF.
  • Crash while loading few external plugins.
  • Crash on launch on some machines.
  • [macOS only] Intermittent crashes while rendering document.
  • Crash when opening a document in high quality display mode.
  • Crash when working with documents having Type1 fonts.
  • InDesign becomes non-responsive while moving text frames with tables and other objects on the pasteboard.
  • Lag in performance with a full CJK variable font.

 Improvement to new features

  • Browser shows an incorrect display of strikethrough applied to vertical text when sharing document for review.
  • Design axes of Variable fonts flagged as hidden are visible in the UI.

User Experience

Production

  • In some cases, text with Variable font applied generates incorrect output in the exported PDF.
  • SVG Fonts appear as improper output (CMYK) in the exported PDF from InDesign.

 

Core feature and workflow

Scripting

  • "Script Editor" application does not open when user tries to edit the AppleScript with 'scpt' extension from Scripts Panel.

Previous releases

Stability and performance

  • InDesign crashes on launch in some cases.
  • InDesign crashes when the machine is on sleep mode.
  • [macOS only] InDesign crashes randomly while rendering documents.
  • GDI count increases and reaches up to a few thousand leading InDesign to crash.
  • InDesign crashes when signed in with creative cloud teams license on some machines.
  • [macOS only] InDesign crashes after PDF is exported with a specific font.

Core feature and workflow

  • [macOS only] Content Aware Wrap doesn't work for some images in InDesign.
  • [Windows only] Wrong rendition of wmf files with text for InDesign.

Stability and Performance

  • [macOS only] InDesign crashes sometimes on copy and paste of text in CPU mode.
  • [macOS only] InDesign crashes sometimes on scrolling through the styles drop-down on the properties panel.
  • [macOS only] InDesign crashes on launch when the GPU is not detected on some devices.

Stability and performance

User experience improvements

Scripting

  • AdobeXMPScript library fails to load.

Production

  • Some glyphs do not appear in the exported PDF from an InDesign document with placed pdf file containing Type0 font glyphs.

 

Core feature and workflow

  • Cannot create new document using Cmd-N dialog for some cases.
  • Variable fonts appear incorrect when Roman rotation in vertical text is applied.
  • URL information is missing in the Hyperlinks panel in InCopy.
  • Incorrect order of footnotes appears in scripting when numbering is set to restart every page or section.
  • In InDesign, the highlight color of overlapping highlight comments is incorrect.
  • Variable Font added to CC Libraries in Illustrator loses its attributes on placing in InDesign.
  • Mark attachments don't appear at the correct positions for Variable Font.
  • Every alternate character of the composite font appears incorrectly in InDesign.

Stability and performance

  • InDesign crashes in some cases when you quit after creating a new document.

Stability and performance

Improvement to new features

Production

Core feature and workflow

Scripting

Stability and performance

  • InDesign crashes on clicking the Applying Text Wrap option Select Subject in a few cases.
  • InDesign crashes on saving after deleting an underlying file.
  • InDesign hangs on spell check when the cursor is placed between fullstop (.) and pipe (|) symbol in the document.
  • [Win only] InDesign crashes in CRClient.dll module.
  • InDesign crashes on launch in some cases.
  • InDesign 2021 crashes while converting older .indd files which were shared for review and had review comments.
  • InDesign crashes on launch on some Windows machines.
  • Performance improvements in Scrolling / Zooming / Redraw.
  • InDesign crashes on launching and quitting multiple times.

User experience improvement

  • [Win only] The horizontal mouse scroll over the input elements in the Create New Document dialog won't change the values incrementally.
  • An extra white box appears in the Media panel slider when the name of navigation point is too long.
  • Video poster appears trimmed in the Media panel.
  • Panel Widget has misplaced icon image after porting plugins from InDesign 2020 to InDesign 2021.
  • Right-to-Left binding direction icon is displayed incorrectly in the Middle Eastern version.
  • Enabling Preview of a document causes Create New Document dialog to lose focus.
  • Trouble in typing comments in Korean when the Review panel is accessed using the Window menu but works fine when accessed through the Share for Review icon in the application bar.
  • Translation typo in Swedish version: Wrong translation of Endnotes.

Core feature and workflow

Production

  • Some Composite Japanese font characters with stroke applied are missing when exported to PDF.

Improvement to new features

  • The Background Tasks panel and the spinning wheel continue to show as Activating Font even after the font is activated and displayed correctly in the document.
  • Text copied from the document and pasted in the Share for Review panel gets pasted twice.

User experience improvement

  • [macOS only] InDesign application icon appears bigger in size in macOS BigSur. 

Stability

Improvement to new features

  • Workspace resets on creating a new document from Templates in Cmd-N dialog.
  • Click on search suggestions not working in InDesign.
  • Slider in the Media panel is enabled and can be dragged even though there is no media file.
  • Place a video or audio file button in the Media panel is enabled when you launch InDesign and no document is open.
  • Total time duration of a media file appears disabled in the Media panel.

Core feature and workflow

Scripting

  • AppleScript with scpt extension won't open in the Script editor for editing. Instead, the program opens the script in Vscode.

Stability

  • CEPHtmlEngine causing CPU to max out at 100%.
  • InDesign crashes when spell check is run.
  • InDesign crashes while adjusting the font axes in TT Octosquares Variable Font.
  • CEPHtmlEngine Helper can prompt frequent crashes in InDesign.
  • plugplugowl.dll file error causes InDesign to crash.
  • [Windows Only] Crash on launching/opening a document, when InDesign iterates over System Fonts.
  • Fixed random crashes for document rendering.
  • Clicking on a linked image to display the Link info area can result in a crash, if there are multiple instances of the same asset.
  • InDesign freezes in the Start workspace during startup.
  • Fixed random crashes in color related workflow.
  • [macOS only] InDesign crashes when scrolling through a large document.
  • InDesign crashes randomly while exporting document to PDF.
  • InDesign crashes when importing a Microsoft Word file. 
  • Scripting issue: InDesign crashes while rendering images on GPU for few assets.
  • Memory allocation issue: InDesign crashes randomly while rendering large documents.
  • InDesign crashes randomly while quitting the application. 
  • Indesign crashes while attempting to open an IDML document.
  • InDesign crashes while resizing a text frame.
  • [macOS only] InDesign crashes randomly while rendering large documents due to memory allocation issues.
  • InDesign crashes on selecting the Text tool from the toolbar on a clean install macOS Mojave.
  • [macOS only] ID crashes on saving to a read-only location.

User experience improvements

Scripting

Production

Core feature and workflow

Improvement to new features

  • Last Updated in the Share for Review dialog shows this week even though it was updated moments ago.
  • Error message doesn't display after a wrong URL is entered in Place video from URL.
  • [macOS only] In the Media panel: 
    • playhead moves on its own even without clicking.
    • Poster Frame drop-down list appears truncated.
  • InDesign does not support Variable Font BASE table 1.1 variation.
  • In the Media panel: 
    • audio is still audible even after being muted.
    • mismatch in the Play button state when relinking media.

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