- InDesign User Guide
- Get to know InDesign
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Text
- Find and replace
- Share
- Publish
- Place, export, and publish
- Printing
- Extend InDesign
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
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 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'.
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
- [macOS only] Share for Review comments submitted in the browser may not appear in InDesign unless forceful refresh is done for the document.
- Defined tags not exported for paragraph styles named with large character count.
- Network files open as read-only, when Quicklook Preview is enabled.
- [Win only] Template previews are missing in the New Document dialog.
- InDesign sometimes opens documents from the network in read-only mode when there is a delay in generating document previews.
- REBA pop-up does not display when you click Update now.
User experience improvements
- [Windows only] Icons scaling issue at higher UI Scaling factors.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes on launch due to the exclusion of Adobe-provided plug-ins in PluginConfig.txt.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes on launch in ObjectModelLib.dylib
InDesign 2023 (version 18.3)
User experience improvements
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 crashes on launch on some machines.
- Crash or PDF export failure for documents with placed .indd files containing Adobe Fonts.
InDesign 2023 (version 18.2)
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
- Issue with the Drop Cap with Negative First Line Indent.
- Kanji meta-character "~K" and "^K" have matching problems in Find/Change.
- While importing excel as an unformatted table, formula-based cells are imported incorrectly.
- Pantone Libraries that have been removed from InDesign will show imported PSD files containing Spot Channels as Gray/Black.
- Color differences between GPU and CPU on macOS Ventura.
- Issues with some keyboard shortcuts.
- Preview functionality keeps crashing for German and Ukrainian locales.
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
- EPUB Validation Check fails because of erroneous "lang" identifiers in the underlying HTML of EPUB.
- EPUB validation check fails for Reflowable EPUBs for documents containing Endnotes.
- Issue while importing specific TIFF files in ID2023.
- When exporting EPUB using the Books panel, which has multiple documents, Endnotes Backlinks are not working from the second document onwards.
- [macOS only] ID crashes while working with styles.
- Missing Learn Panel icon on AppBar.
- [macOS only] UI issues with App Frame OFF and higher UI Scaling factors are addressed.
- Zooming in/out via Cmd+/- does not work when the cursor is above the page element in CPU mode.
- InDesign crashes while opening the IDML.
- The paragraph goes overset when the 1st word is longer than a certain number of characters.
- ID crashes while placing JPEG2000 files.
- [macOS only] ID crashes while placing specific HEIC files.
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
- After restart, the Update Link of a Review does not work.
- Text indentation does not work on the bulleted list while using text wrap.
InDesign 2022 (version 17.4)
Core feature and workflow
- Continuous flickering while scrolling a review in a browser with varying page sizes.
- Review comments disappear after updating the Share for Review link.
- Issue printing variable fonts.
- Turning on Preview in Data merge applies incorrect Paragraph styles if the Remove Blank Lines option is also checked.
- [macOS Only] Negative numeric value stripped off while importing an excel.
- [macOS Only] Issue recognizing document fonts when the parent folder's name contains #.
- Issue with Type on a path when converted to outline.
- [InDesign Server] Locked layers are unlocked on save.
- [InDesign Server] Doesn't recognize certain fonts on PDF export.
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
- Endnotes do not work in Reflowable Epub with split document option.
- Inconsistent behavior in the Place Holder icon while using Vertical typesetting.
- Remove Blank Lines for Empty Fields in Data Merge applies incorrect paragraph styles to existing content.
- Issue with Osaka font for PDF Page information.
- [macOS Only] Moving App Window between monitors shows huge screen artifacts/splotches of Magenta color.
- [Win Only] AdobeXMPScript library fails to load.
- Accessibility checker is failing for elements in a group even if they have Alt text.
- Alt Text added to group of nested groups will not tag them as Figure in exported tagged PDF.
- Nested Alt Text accessibility check error for hyphens in text.
- Figures alternate text now passes in Accessibility Checker panel for a group containing image and text with Alt text defined.
- Error in ShareSheet if Review was created more than a certain time period ago & the document had remained open.
- InDesign hangs due to issues with long footnotes.
- [macOS Only] InDesign hangs when working with documents with Proximity dictionaries.
- Duplicating an object in the same spread using Alt/Opt key does not work if the key is pressed after initiating the drag operation.
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
- Improved Selection Tool and Direct Selection Tool icons in Dark and Medium Dark themes.
- [macOS only] Improved Articles panel icon.
- [macOS only] Correction of tooltip in Preferences dialog.
- Improved CC icon in Character panel in Light color theme.
Core feature and workflow
- Endnotes content can leak into the main story.
- Forced Line Break causes an extra space in Text Variables.
- [macOS only] Rendering issues on moving document window across monitors.
- [mac M1 only] Text sometimes disappears while typing or editing when free RAM is low.
- Incorrect rendition of Character Alternates at higher UI Scaling stops.
- [macOS only] Document Rendering issues in CPU mode at higher UI Scaling settings.
- Text anchors are lost during ICML export.
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
- Incorrect rendering of glyphs of variable fonts when exported to PDF.
- Colors in the printed document are slightly different than in Acrobat when PDF exported from InDesign had DeviceN color settings set to Lab.
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
- Incorrect translation of "Use typographic quotation marks" in Czech locale.
- Opening the new document dialog a second time in Touch workspace switches active workspace to Essentials.
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
- PNG files with transparent background show a black background.
- Pressing shortcut key T switches to the text tool briefly and then switches back to the previous tool.
- Export to PDF destination folder changes after using Share for Review.
- Same font is listed more than once in the Find Font menu.
- InDesign permits access of the same file simultaneously by different users.
- Characters do not render properly for some Japanese Variable fonts.
- [macOS only] Shortcuts do not work when Home screen is off.
- [macOS only] Unicode characters do not display properly in CC Libraries panel.
- [Mac ARM only] "Browse in Bridge" launches Creative Cloud Desktop Application instead of Bridge.
- Documents created in Touch workspace with iPad Landscape and Portrait presets have incorrect orientation.
- The widget to change Variable Fonts design axes gets disabled on opening the Font menu dropdown from Control panel.
- Text of EPS files disappears in high quality display mode.
- Tag markers overlay the tagged Thai text making it difficult to read in the story editor.
- Pasting URL containing diacritics results in an unreachable URL.
Note: Refresh the hyperlink if found in legacy documents.
- Error while saving InCopy assignment files on the network.
- Some pages go blank for documents having multiple footnotes.
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
- InDesign freezes when auto-size or frame fitting is applied to anchored frames.
- [macOS only] Asset Link Panel and Creative Cloud Libraries panel freezes in InDesign 2021.
- InDesign crashes when you click the number of type 1 fonts in the info bar after closing the affected document.
- Recomposition of text freezes InDesign for some instances.
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.
Core feature and workflow
Stability and performance
- [macOS only] InDesign/InCopy crashes when German language is applied to certain character sequences.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes in PlugPlugOwl.
- [macOS only] Creative Cloud Libraries panel freezes in InDesign 2021.
Improvement to new features
- In the Share for Review workflow, some review comments do not appear in the InDesign document but appear fine in the browser version and in the Comments panel.
- Share for Review panel is blank on trying to initiate a new Share for Review.
- [macOS only] Strange fill in characters of some Variable Fonts.
- Fonts are activated unintentionally from Adobe Fonts when same fonts are available in the Fonts folder.
- Password-protected public link of Share for Review won't open in browser.
Production
Core feature and workflow
- The Extendscript support for Navigation Points inside a movie causes some error in InDesign 2021 (16.0).
- HSB colors in Swatches and Color panels work incorrectly when the Color Settings is set to "Emulate Adobe InDesign 2.0 CMS Off".
- ALT text for hyperlinks is incorrectly placed in Tagged PDF.
- GREP Find/Change: “Beginning of Paragraph” search does not find all the results.
- [Japanese only] Find Format and Change Format sections missing from the Find/Change dialog.
- Artifact Tag that is set for Paragraph Styles gets ignored in exported PDF on some locales.
- The Length slider on Japanese Variable Fonts is moving incorrectly on vertical typesetting.
- Adding a single swatch to the library is also creating a duplicate.
- Exporting jpgs (while overwriting an existing jpg) results in no file when attempting to save to a network drive.
- InCopy ignores the empty paragraph at the beginning of a story.
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
- Descender of characters in italic font style of variable fonts appears incorrect when document is exported to PDF.
- Attempting to edit an asset created in InDesign from the CC Libraries panel in Photoshop or Illustrator displays some error. InDesign won't open the object for editing.
- [Win only] In a document with facing pages, when you set the text direction from right-to-left, the numbers in Pages panel are jumbled or extra characters are added.
- Footnote text not visible on page layout in some cases.
- Switching from workspace to Home screen and back loses the set workspace.
- The width slider for some variable fonts freezes while sliding it.
- Creating a new review in the Share for Review panel is working incorrectly.
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
- InDesign crashes on bringing Text wrap panel in focus on few machines, either while launching or switching workspace or clicking on the panel icon.
- [macOS only] InDesign hangs while attempting to quit by pressing Cmd-Q.
- Crash on launching InDesign while fetching the license token on slow machines.
- InDesign crashes on launch due to corrupt font.
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
- File save location for old converted and OpenAsCopy documents should be the original file folder.
- If a word has a punctuation such as comma or bracket before/after it, and the spell-check flags that word, notice that the punctuation is also flagged along. Attempting to add that word to the dictionary causes an error.
- Shortcuts for New Document dialog and Open document do not work in some cases due to focus issues when InDesign is launched.
- Document is not created on pressing Enter with focus on the Create button in the Cmd-N dialog.
- Adobe Help search bar in the Control panel forwards scrambled text to the internet browser.
- Characters in a text composition go missing when a Zero-width joiner (U+200D) and a Discretionary Line break (U+200B) is inserted.
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
- Media panel appearing too big in high-resolution display making it unusable.
- [macOS only] Cursor is not visible in input fields in Light and Medium Light themes in InDesign 15.1.2.
- The search panel Find similar images in CC Libraries won't cancel after running a search on it.
- German translation error, Nächstes should be in lowercase.
- Unable to send wireframes from Adobe Comp on iPad to InDesign.
- Shortcuts and keyboard keys stop working.
- Media panel is removed from the Interactive For PDF workspace.
Scripting
- An error in the IXMLOutStream.h header file.
- Proper error message not returned for missing csv in dataMerge scripting.
Production
- Text with CFF Fonts applied in the PDF files goes missing when placed in InDesign and seen with Overprint Preview or exported.
- Color mismatch when the document is exported as PNG and Anti-alias is on.
- InDesign document with Open Type CFF2 Variable Fonts, when exported to PDF with the standard PDF/X-4 fails the compliance test in Acrobat.
- The multilingual setting for a link in a document or a paragraph is not honored by the screen reader in the generated PDF. The reader always reads out loud in English.
- PDF exported from InDesign displays the content under span tags in the contents panel of Acrobat.
- InDesign document which has a PDF file placed with converted colors to Dot Gain profile, when exported to PDF with the standard as PDF/X-4:2010, reports an error when opened in Acrobat.
Core feature and workflow
- Share for Review panel does not appear as expected. It appears as Black/White.
- Inserting HTML code on an object and previewing it reports an error in InDesign 15.1.2 on macOS.
- Navigation Points have been reintroduced in the Media panel InDesign 16.0.
- Copying text from the PDF Comments panel in InDesign is not intuitive.
- Applying an indent to Burmese text makes the text rendering incorrect.
- Font rendering issue with Burmese characters.
- InDesign does not recognize system fonts like Avenir and Futura on reopening a packaged document.
- InDesign lets creating table in a locked textframe.
- In InDesign 15.1 and above, the spell checker incorrectly flags the word before a full stop.
- The glyph shapes in Variable Fonts appear skewed with World Ready Paragraph Composer.
- Copying files to a network location causes the files to disappear.
- Symbols of Japanese fonts appear rotated when replaced with alternative fonts.
- Applying underline for digits in a Right-to-left paragraph direction is also applying the same to hidden characters at the end of the paragraph(¶ or #).
- Applying Balance Columns in the the Text Frame Options dialog randomly removes the second column from the frame.
- A vertical blue line appears while applying Underline to a text with a specific Variable Font.
- Remove the Publish Online section and its corresponding Disable Publish Online option in the Preferences dialog.
- Adobe InDesign 2020 version incorrectly handles duplicate fonts in a scenario.
- Punctuation layout issues in Lao language support.
- The min and max values of the Font Size Limit do not save when changed in margins and columns dialog. Also, no error is displayed when min is greater than the max value.
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.
- audio is still audible even after being muted.
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