- InDesign User Guide
- Get to know InDesign
- Create and lay out 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
- 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
- Find/Change
- Spell check and language dictionaries
- Typography
- Format text
- Review text
- Add references
- Styles
- Tables
- Interactivity
- Graphics
- Color and transparency
- Text
- 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 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 appears 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 do not appear at 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.
Stability
- [macOS only] InDesign 15.1.2 crashes upon opening a file in some scenarios.
- Adobe InDesign 2020 quits unexpectedly on launch in proxy environment.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes when you rename any folder within the User Library Fonts folder.
User experience improvements
Core feature and workflow
- [macOS only] Inserting HTML code on an object and previewing it reports an error in InDesign 15.1.2.
- Unable to place images from CC Libraries.
Stability
- [Windows] InDesign performs slowly while working simultaneously on two INDD documents having same fonts in their respective Document Fonts folder.
- InDesign document hangs while recovering the damaged document.
- [mac OS] InDesign crashes when you try to quit the application after auto-activation of a Font in some cases.
- InDesign crashes randomly while rendering a document.
- Intermittent crashes on loading the workspace.
- InDesign crashes on launch in proxy environment.
- InDesign crashes while working with EPS images.
- [Windows] Intermittent crash on PDF Export.
- InDesign crashes intermittently on switching context to/from text insertion.
- InDesign crashes intermittently while importing an image.
- InDesign crashes when you immediately quit the app after launching.
- While exporting InDesign document to HTML, Indesign can crash if you specify the export option as Copy image > link to server path and if the document has single character image file names.
- InDesign randomly crashes while quitting the application.
Usability
- When you export a document to PDF, the loading progress bar does not appear in background task panel.
- Some localization issues in the Italian UI version.
- Auto-activate Adobe Fonts option does not have an ALT key assigned in Preferences.
- [Windows] On high resolution displays, the right-to-left cursor does not work as expected.
- [Windows] On high-resolution displays, the Japanese vertical textframe cursor does not work correctly.
- [InCopy] In high-resolution Windows machines, options within panels shift to the right on subsequent launch.
Core feature and workflow
- [mac OS] Resizing the text by holding the keyboard shortcut while making long ascenders and descenders using Variable Fonts creates images of previous position.
- [mac OS] Variable Fonts do not work in InDesign and the sliders appear as disabled.
- HTTP links fail due to incorrect encoding of path elements by URI class.
- [macOS]Unable to check out InCopy files that are saved on a network location in Windows.
- Pasting a URL that contains diacritics results in a non-reachable URL.
Note: Refresh the hyperlink if found in legacy documents.
Improvement to new features
- Comments made on a shared Review document in the browser appear as Unmapped Comments.
- Error getting invited people message appears on initiating Share for Review.
- Font PSName might appear in Background Tasks panel when a font gets auto-activated.
- Font Specific: Variable font does not work properly in InDesign.
Production
- When exporting to PDF from InDesign, elements of some composite CJK glyphs disappear when they overlap.
- When you create an InDesign package, AdobeFnt.lst file does not contain any information on packaged fonts.
- Text on a path with stroke applied as aligned to center goes missing except for the first character when exported to PDF.
- Deformed glyphs appear in an exported PDF.
Scripting
- The Script Editor does not launch when you choose Edit Script option for Apple Script.
Stability
- InDesign crashes on PDF export in some cases when PNG files are placed in the document.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes when you try to quit the application in some cases.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes on launch in some cases.
Core feature and workflow
Improvement to new features
- Share for Review sometimes does not contain all document pages.
- Review panel name appears incorrectly as %extension.comments.panel.title.
- Share for Review dialog displays error after PDF export.
Stability
- InDesign hangs indefinitely while converting text to outline.
- InDesign crashes when you add text to one of the first three frames in chained anchored text frames.
- Unable to launch Adobe InDesign due to insufficient permissions for Preferences folder.
- InDesign crashes when you switch to the parent indd after modifying child indd links with missing fonts.
- InDesign crashes when you try to copy notes text from notes panel.
- InDesign crashes when you publish a document with a graphic which was found from CC libraries.
- Document gets corrupted when you try to save or save as the original document after updates.
Core feature and workflow
- Transparent background in PNG files renders into black when used in InDesign.
- The place video from URL option has to be enabled in InDesign.
- J characters disappear when you use the font Source Han Sans Medium.
- When you open a file with missing and modified links, the text in the dialog that appears, is not correctly justified.
- Spell checker suggests wrong text for replacement when german words are used like "bzw."
- When you use letters like ß in german language text and change paragraph style to capital letters, the text doesn't change as expected.
- Column rule gets removed in idml workflow while using object styles.
- Dynamic spell check does not flag uncapitalized sentences.
Stability
- InDesign crashes when you use long string in Text variables.
- InDesign crashes in the workflows involving progress bar.
- InDesign crashes while exporting the document as PDF.
- InDesign crashes on using Adjust Layout, if the document has an overset table.
- InDesign crashes due to clash in the dialogs displayed for PDF export and open file operations.
- InDesign crashes while re-linking the child assets of a placed indd, if the same asset is already available in the document.
- InDesign crashes when you try to select any text with the Type tool.
- InDesign crashes when you try to traverse back and forth between linked indd files through Hyperlinks Panel.
- InDesign crashes when you rename any folder within the User Library Fonts folder.
- InDesign crashes during the workflow involving selection of objects.
- InDesign randomly crashes on re-sizing a text frame with auto-size applied.
- InDesign crashes when you try to open an older version document with a double-click over a network.
- [Windows only] Unexpected crashes reported while working with InDesign 15.0.2.
- Corrupt documents are created in InDesign 15.0.1.
- If InCopy Bridge.InDesignPlugin is not loaded during launch, InDesign crashes on endnote's textframe deletion.
- InDesign randomly crashes when you use the printing workflow for the documents.
Improvement to new features
- Some text in InDesign source and exported PDF output do not match due to issue with Variable Fonts.
- Some glyphs collapse while using a variable font in InDesign with Type > Create Outlines.
- Color dropdown width for column rules is too small to read swatch name.
- InDesign does not work as expected when you use Y Opaque slider of Science Gothic variable font.
Core feature and workflow
- InDesign is recreating Document Fonts folder with only AdobeFnt21.lst, for deleted or moved packages.
- Spell check does not work when spelling dictionary in Preferences > Dictionary is set to Proximity.
- PDF Export fails for a specific indd file.
- Presentation mode does not work as expected on MacBook Pro.
- InDesign is unable to recognize system fonts like Avenir and Avenir Next.
- Selection of text does not work for SEA languages in InCopy Galley view.
- Fonts in folders which are named with a prefix # are not recognized.
Accessibility
- Accessibility checker fails for elements in a group even if they have Alt Text in InDesign.
- Hyperlink in a group: the group gets tagged as a Figure with missing Alt Text in Accessible PDF.
- Auto Captions are not Tagged and the text is lost in Accessible PDF.
Stability
- [macOS only] Undo operation reverts to the last saved document state instead of the last action.
- InDesign crashes in Paragraph/Character Style panel while selecting a text frame when properties panel is open.
- InDesign crashes intermittently on launch.
- InDesign 2020 freezes when you drag a library item, which has an inline text frame that needs to be recomposed, on to a document.
- InDesign crashes intermittently while performing Zoom In or Zoom out operations.
Improvement to new features
- Column rules disappear when you move grouped objects with the text wrap applied.
- The Color applied to Column Rules is darker than the same color applied to Frame's Fill/Stroke or ParaShading/ParaBorder/ParaRules.
- For documents created before 15.0, the content placement option > Use Existing does not honor the applied frame fitting, if the Data merge placeholder is on Master page.
- Thin-space characters like en or em and text wrapping in Thai do not work as expected with world ready composer in 2020 version.
- Word cut/ hyphenate does not work in Thai language as expected.
- When a file is composed in 14.0.3 with Thaana text and opened in InDesign 15.0, the text is not aligned.
- CFF2 variable fonts installed in macOS Catalina do not appear in InDesign.
Note: Clear the InDesign Cache first to get these changes into effect. - In vertical text, character spacing for a variable font is different from non-variable version.
- TrueType hinting variations are not applied for variable fonts.
- Apply on all SVGs option is not working for table graphic cells and other type of page items.
- The Tint option applied in Column Rules works like Opacity.
- Option to mark fonts as favorite disappears if font preview is disabled.
- Font Style property is missing in Character Style after export to IDML.
- Balance Columns property, when set for text frames does not work for the tables.
Note: When opening legacy documents containing Tables (with the Split Column Option already set in them), force Recomposition of all the stories will be required to fix the issue using the shortcut Cmd-Opt-/ on Mac and Ctrl-Alt-/ on Win. - When editing text with large footnotes, the recomposition of text does not work as expected.
- Using Split Column in the table does not work as expected.
Note: When opening legacy documents containing Tables (with the Split Column Option already set in them), force Recomposition of all the stories will be required to fix the issue using the shortcut Cmd-Opt-/ on Mac and Ctrl-Alt-/ on Win.
- [InCopy] Opening ICML doc with Hyperlink panel results in unsaved changes in the document.
- XD components cannot be placed on canvas in InDesign.
- Sometimes, the values of left indent are calculated incorrectly when text wrap is applied to the frame overlapping first frame.
User experience improvements
- Thumbnail image is not displayed in Recent list of Home screen.
- [macOS only] Original length of menu is not retained in the Home screen without application frame.
- InDesign does not return focus to the cursor location in the text frame after committing a tab stop.
- [macOS only] GPU Performance option in Preferences grays out in 15.0.1 even if there is a compatible hardware.
Accessibility
- Hyperlinks are not read by screen reader when you use Read Out Loud in PDF.
- When you use a forced line break in TOC, the accessibility checker for exported PDF fails the Nested Alternate Text Accessibility check for Line break elements.
- Extra Art tags appear while exporting group through articles panel.
Stability
- InDesign crashes on moving or resizing tables when the text in a cell is aligned using cell options
- InDesign crashes on clicking "Column Rule" tab in the Text Frame Options dialog when multiple text frames are selected with different states
- InDesign crashes on launch due to an unexpected issue in Font Manager module
- InDesign crashes randomly while you work on a document
Core Features and Workflow Fixes
- Vertical alignment in text frames working incorrectly
- Tags defined under Articles panel are not exported properly
- Split columns do not work correctly
- PDF comments imported on master pages in case of overlapping master page item behind the comment
- Incorrect alignment for the tab indent of RTL numbered list
- Difficult to select Hebrew diacritics, vowels, and trop
- [Czech only] Incorrect translation of "rule"
- Rounded corners are not perfectly rounded
- [Japanese only] Underline does not appear when applying underline feature to TateChuYoko
- Character style of endnote reference number is not applied in case of preserve local override
- Text indentation does not work on bulleted text along with text wrap
Note: The fix only works only when left or right indentation is applied with rectangular or square objects. - Negative numeric values stripped-off while importing excel
- Turning Facing Pages ON changes first master page to a spread
- Alt or Opt+drag does not duplicate frames across spreads
- Font family reverts to the earlier selected font on choosing from Adobe fonts
- World-Ready Composer has issues with the kerning in Latin fonts
- HexValue for RGB color mode in "Swatch options" dialog does not get updated if the color values are modified in other Color Mode
- Text for Khmer and other South-East Asian languages are going out of the box when justified
- Text composition expected in threaded text frames
- Specified corner value does not get applied if the value is greater than a certain percentage of rectangle's dimensions
- Smart Text Reflow not working in IDS
Stability Fixes
- InDesign crashes when copy pasting text that contains a paragraph style with a nested line format from one text box to another
- InDesign crashes while creating a merged document if the data merge placeholder is in the graphic table cell
- InDesign crashes while exporting the document to PDF with the “Create Tagged PDF” option
- [Document-specific] InDesign crashes while spanning columns with Preview checkbox ON
- InDesign crashes on converting the tabbed text to a table using the convertToTable function through scripting
- InDesign crashes on using composite font custom set 」『 " with "Apply Tag-To-Style Mapping" on the text
- InDesign crashes on opening the IDML file
- InDesign crashes when doing a GREP search
- InDesign crashes on launch due to proxy
- InDesign crashes on importing a low-quality EPS file
- InDesign crashes while removing links or story
- InDesign hangs on launch with clean cache and preference
- [macOS only] Undo/Redo is disabled when 'Missing Plugin' dialog is shown in conflict with other modal dialogs on opening a document
- InDesign crashes when trying to find a space with a Positive LookBehind before the ~U (Endnote Marker)
- InDesign crashes if a non-empty library from network is opened and then quit is initiated
- Crash on minimizing InDesign when a progress bar is shown
- InDesign crashes on using GREP search for footnotes
- InDesign crashes on opening a file having a large number of Document Fonts
- InDesign crashes while copying-and-pasting cells in a table
- InDesign crashes on releasing the table that is anchored with vertical text frame in any page, except the first page
- Crash on launch for users with managed/network profile
- InDesign crashes when a graphic object with text wrap applied is drag dropped onto the CC Libraries panel with the Direct Selection tool
- InDesign crashes while opening corrupted documents (truncated ones)
- InDesign crashes on applying Outline to the "Minion Pro" font
Performance Improvements
- Improved performance when scrolling documents with long excel tables
- Lag in reflowing of text in a document with large number of footnotes
- Long delay when doing Command+A on a large text file after the CC Library panel is loaded
User Experience Improvements
- Sorting of 'Scale' in Links panel is not as per the numeric values
- Redraw problems when having multiple textboxes in a text flow (anchored frames)
- Shortcuts can't be assigned to Styles if keyboard does not have Numpad
- Blank window appears when creating a new document
- Error message is shown on switching focus to InDesign if Margins values are greater than page size
- [German only] Ambiguity in the meaning of word "Abstände" in InDesign
- Library panel does not open at the center of the InDesign window
- Cannot change page with focus set to XML structure
Improvements to Id 14.0 Features
- Text frames shrink to extremely tiny size on changing margins with Adjust Layout ON
- Comment does not map when the text frame is pasted into another frame
- PDF comments import from book PDF file in individual documents are wrong
Accessibility Fixes
- Ability to add alternate text to links
- Paragraph styles refuse to set Export tags
- Alt text added to group of nested groups will not tag them as figure in exported tagged PDF
- Missing Alt+text on some Graphics
- Wrong tag for endnotes in the tagged PDF
- Bullets are voiced twice
- List should not export as List Tag if another tag is assigned
Scripting
- Incorrect return value when a macOS script is run
- Table footnotes have no .index property and incorrect indexing of footnotes via scripting
- Interactivity does not work in Publish online
- Numbers in text move on printing to PostScript
- Missing font appears even after the font is packaged
- PDF exported from InDesign renders unreadable text since two different color profiles with the same name were used in a single page of a document
- Semi-colon appears in front of first keyword (File Info) when exporting to PDF
Stability fixes
- InDesign Server crashes when applying master spread to a page
- InDesign crashes when exporting the document as PDF and name starting with .pdf
- InDesign crashes when pasting text in another application
- InDesign crashes while saving documents that contain placed indd
- InDesign crashes when pasting a frame containing cross-references
- InDesign crashes on clicking a link in the Links panel if its metadata info is missing or corrupt
- InDesign crashes due to corrupt hyperlinks
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes on dismissing dialogs that show up on opening a document with missing font and unavailable plugin
- InDesign crashes when adding note on empty frame grid
- InDesign crashes during save with low disk space
- InDesign crashes while performing copy and paste operations in specific documents
- InDesign becomes unresponsive on closing the nested ScriptUI dialog
- InDesign hangs when running a script using findGrep() on any document
- InDesign hangs while copying Anchored text frame with autosize enabled and pasting it into a table cell
- Limited number of undo steps
- InDesign hangs on scrolling the Font field of Control or Properties panel
- InDesign hangs on closing the Adobe InDesign window from the taskbar
- [macOS only] InDesign hangs on adding glyphs of a missing font
- InDesign becomes unresponsive when text spanned across columns moves to overset in non-rectangular multi-column textframe that has vertical justification applied on it
- InDesign hangs on exporting the text frame to icml/idms or on exporting the document to idml
- InDesign becomes unresponsive on creating text on path with text frame set to auto size
- InDesign hangs on IDML export of a document that has text frame, with track changes enabled, in which a table is inserted and tagged and some text deleted
- InDesign becomes unresponsive on closing subsequent Missing fonts dialog while opening multiple files
- InDesign hangs when editing Char Style used in nested Style
- InDesign hangs when changing the size and position option in Object Styles on Anchored Text Frame including text wrap with visible Text Threads
- Stopping InDesign service does not kill the InDesignService.exe
Performance improvements
- Object movement is very slow on a spread that contains links on network with slow connection
- Moving a text frame containing long tables is time consuming
- Improved performance while opening documents
- InDesign 2019 lags on editing the text in a document that has large number of GREP styles
- Faster text autoflow in large documents
- Performance improvement while scrolling documents having long tables.
- Straddling footnotes are faster on a text frame with less than 2 columns, no tables, split column, and span column
- [macOS only] High memory usage during launch and on browsing Adobe fonts
Core feature or workflow fixes
- Issue with creating ToC when multiple text variables are used in the same heading
- GREP Find or Change fails to find all instances
- InDesign creates incorrect QR codes for a few Japanese characters
- Indents do not work after page break
Note: The issue continues to exist if you open the affected file. As a workaround, do a Save As or do a force text re-composition. However, all the new files will not have this issue.
- Text disappears when a frame with drop caps and align to baseline grid is scaled using the Free Transform tool when Adjust scaling percentage while scaling option is enabled in preferences
- Cannot delete some specific swatches in certain specific documents
- [High-quality display] After placing an image in InDesign, if you copy the image, and meanwhile, image is edited outside InDesign, it gets distorted when you perform the paste operation
- Unable to place TIFF image with COMPRESSION_DEFLATE compression in InDesign
- Tint value of applied swatch is changed on placing a snippet multiple times across locales
- Table alignment relative to spine gets distorted when the start page is changed
User experience improvements
- Panels disappear while creating or opening any document with custom workspace
- Unable to detect GPU in MAC mini if Ultra Hi Definition Display (UHD 4K) is connected
- Font type should show SVG for the SVG fonts in the Find Fonts dialog
- [macOS only] InDesign fonts folder does not consider alias and symlinks
- Unable to copy Copyright Notice field's contents to clipboard
- Enhanced user experience while dragging objects
- [macOS only] InDesign UI remains invisible after InDesign is launched successfully
- [macOS only] Window shifts on setting bounds of window in InDesign
Export enhancements
- Endnote markers are lost in the exported HTML when the last word for endnote text is a hyperlink
- Text hyperlinks do not work in published documents and fixed layout EPUB if world-ready composer is applied
- PDF exported through data merge starts with a random record if this operation was canceled during the previous attempt
- JPEG placed in a document when exported to PDF does not adhere to the compression specified in the PDF Export dialog
- Cannot export to EPS when using a specific font
Improvements to InDesign 14.0 features
- Text comments on all-caps text are not mapped
- Insert text comment at the start of a list gets mapped incorrectly
- Adjust Layout is not triggered when master of a page(s) is changed which results in the margins and/or page size change
- Text comments do not map correctly when inserted at the beginning of a table cell
- PDF comments at the beginning or at the end of paragraph map to incorrect locations
- In no-document state, panels docked with PDF comments panel is also closed
- Incorrect icon while activating any font with single font face
- Properties Panel ‘More Options’ should remember user settings in every session
- Turn OFF the Adjust Layout by default in Margins and Columns dialog
- Unable to open .icap file in InCopy 2019
- Paragraph Return (\r) changes to ‘paragraph separator’ and the paragraph style of the first sentence changes to the paragraph style of the second sentence when the 8000th character is a Paragraph Return
- [macOS] Text/Typeface inside the PDF turns upside down when importing
- InDesign crashing while moving the page between two documents using the mouse pointer
- Copying gradient from Illustrator to InDesign is not working
- Dragged images are not placed at the right position when the spread is rotated
- InDesign crashes on searching for Column Break character in GREP tab
- Navigating in drop-down menus via keyboard does not show 'Highlight' of selected entry
- New character color created in Paragraph Styles dialog is not added to the list of colors
- Updating TOC makes some child entries merge with the parent entry
- InDesign document looks bad if Preview background is set to ‘Match to Theme color’ at the application level
- Same serial number should be available per user for InDesign current and older versions
- Live font preview resets after sometime and becomes difficult to work with
- InDesign hangs while importing a Word document containing a large number of fonts
- During Word document import, endnotes are converted to a static text and the character style of the endnote reference number is not applied
- Insert Text comment at the end of the paragraph is added at an incorrect place on importing PDF comments
- Use Spacing option in Align panel becomes grayed out
- InDesign on Windows should always remember the application size and position
- PDF setting of Pages/Spreads from Preset is not honored in Publish Online.
- Content Aware Fit should not be applied when links are updated.
- InDesign crashes while deleting a text frame that contains an inline
- InDesign crashing while adding a QR code in the last cell of the table
- InDesign crashes when any other dialog, such as File > Open, Preferences, etc. is invoked while the packaging and exporting PDF workflow is in progress
- Intermittent crashes on invoking ‘Relink File’ from Properties panel
- [Windows Only] Trying to open a file from ‘Recent’ tab of Start workspace, while quit for InDesign has been started, crashes the application
- InDesign crashing when deleting and reimporting pdf comments
- [Windows only] InDesign crashes on launch with "PlugPlugOwl.dll"
- InDesign hangs on launch due to some specific set of fonts
- InDesign crashes while saving when the disk space is low
- InDesign crashes on clicking distribute space
- InDesign crashing while opening the file with missing fonts
- Font menu is showing only 6-10 fonts with 2x resolution
- On Control panel, use spacing number field for page tool is disappeared
- [macOS only] InDesign fails to create or open a document greater than 4.3 GB in size
- InDesign crashing when switching to Custom Workspace
- No space exists when an outline is created for the vertical footnote or endnote text
- Incorrect tabbing order in Properties panel
- Scroll bar is appearing in Font menu on applying Show favorite font filter, even when the number of fonts in the filtered list is small
- Keyboard shortcut for 'EPUB Interactivity Preview' panel gets unassigned on clicking cancel in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog
- Overset text in a table cell causes issues in updating the TOC
- InDesign Server losing license frequently in production
- Admin port does not open when InDesign Server launches using Window Service
- Performance impact when using proxy images in print workflow
- [macOS only] Panel text field problem with TextEditBoxWidget and MultilineTextEditBoxWidget
- Content Aware Fit crashing InDesign Server
- Text composition expected in threaded text frames
- InDesign not responding when the snippet is placed twice over a document
- Tagged text containing merged rows creates an unexpected table when placed in InDesign
- ccolwidth attribute for cells is not honored with XML import
- InDesign crashing while importing IDMS containing a tagged text frame
- In Properties Panel, "Footnote and Endnote" strings are inconsistent
- Network usage optimization to improve font menu performance in InDesign
- InDesign crashes while importing certain word files.
- InDesign crashes while switching context after dismissing Tint slide in the Properties panel.
- Adding or changing formatting of text in an anchored text box with Auto-fit Height enabled causes InDesign to crash.
- InDesign crashes on launch in certain scenarios.
- InDesign crashes while importing some PNG files.
- InDesign crashes while opening Styles drop-down from Properties panel for some specific fonts.
- InDesign crashes while using Content-Aware Fit in certain conditions.
- InDesign crashes while moving text frames with Indent To Here and Baseline Grid alignment.
- Text tool response is delayed on application start up and while switching to Text tool.
- Color settings in InDesign revert to default.
- Applying font style from the Find More tab appends style name in the font family field.
- Unable to apply font if fonts are filtered by Activated Adobe Fonts in Find More tab.
- Unable to export PDF with some presets, when a PDF containing embedded Type 3 fonts is placed in the document.
- Control Panel, when un-docked, becomes blank upon resizing.
- Extra space is added between characters while creating outline.
- Clicking document installed font from the fonts list displays a message to "Activate Font" and does not change font.
- Export to PDF converts text with certain fonts to All Caps.
- Nested styles do not work as expected.
- InDesign crashes while activating or deactivating fonts, if the Find Font alert is active.
- InDesign becomes unresponsive on launch with corrupt preferences.
- InDesign crashes when you hit escape on a word file in placegun, if the Import Options dialog box is open.
- [Mac] InDesign crashes while applying small caps in a specific document.
- [Mac] InDesign crashes while trying to open documents from Google Drive.
- InDesign crashes on clicking Change All while changing footnote reference to double-byte character.
- InDesign crashes if PDF preset name contains CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B characters.
- InDesign crashes while moving a row having footnote and endnote.
- InDesign crashes while using Find/Change for a table having endnotes.
- InDesign crashes while rotating a PDF using Transform panel or Properties panel.
- InDesign crashes on opening a specific document and working with fonts.
- InDesign crashes on typing a character in a document in converted state.
- InDesign crashes while placing a TIFF image with complex clipping path.
- InDesign crashes while sorting bookmarks in a specific document.
- InDesign crashes while scrolling in the Links panel with custom-data assets.
- [Mac] InDesign crashes on immediate click after text selection.
- InDesign crashes while performing transform operation on a page.
- InDesign crashes on launch in a particular proxy environment.
- [Mac] InDesign crashes on launch due to specific color profiles.
- [Mac] InDesign crashes while trying to open a template.
- InDesign crashes while working with a XML file having a tag that ends with a letter with accent.
- [Win] InDesign crashes when Ctrl + Z is pressed after moving a page from one document to another.
- InDesign crashes after deleting a hyperlink in a specific document.
- InDesign crashes when copying table with graphic cell having grouped images/text.
- InDesign crashes on launch in a particular environment.
- [Win] InDesign crashes while deleting an object.
- InDesign crashes while toggling App Frame On and Off.
- InDesign crashes while creating notes in the Notes panel.
- Paragraph composer changes when text frame is copied to different document.
- Unable to place some of the images, encoded using progressive JPEG, in InDesign.
- Specific fonts are not detected accurately when disabled from FontBook.
- Unable to modify buttons with Link action and space at the end.
- Custom baseline grid of a frame is not visible unless the frame is moved.
- InDesign incorrectly clips text from a placed PDF or Ai file.
- InDesign hangs on Windows and tool become non-responsive on Mac.
- Slide bar of sample text in composite font disappears.
- InDesign crashes while deleting a character in specific documents.
- Unable to edit graphics, containing some special GB18030 characters in the file name, in InDesign.
- New Layout Grid dialog box is displayed along with the Cmd-N dialog box when "Preview" is checked in the Document Setup dialog box.
- Unable to open a file, containing some special GB18030 characters in the file name or file path, in InDesign.
- Garbage characters are displayed in HTML preview when a HTML code containing GB18030 characters is inserted in InDesign.
- Convert URLs to Hyperlink does not work for specific documents on a 64-bit system.
- Installing InDesign 2015 over InDesign 2017 makes InDesign 2015 as the default application to open InDesign documents.
- Layout grid does not resize on undo, if the page size is changed from document setup.
- The translation of spreads is incorrect In the Export dialog box of Japanese version of InDesign.
- The unit of stroke weight does not link with Format section in the Object tab of the Find/Change dialog box.
- Text in a placed PDF using Type 3 fonts gets incorrectly converted to filled polygons.
- Few projects are missing from SDKSample.sln.
- LayersPanel open SDK project fails to compile.
- Documents created using a template have the same documentID as that of the template.
- InDesign crashes while inserting tab leader after text variables, in a specific custom tab spacing setting,
- Text in a frame does not recompose on deleting text from it, if second text has balance columns applied to it.
- InDesign does not create correct Kannada language character.
- InDesign crashes when you right-click a table in Story Editor.
- Combination of Keep with Next and Span All table options causes InDesign to crash.
- InDesign becomes unresponsive while performing Select All operation on a large file.
- Incorrect ME characters appear in a table when opened in Story Editor.
- Text box from a placed InDesign file ignores cropping.
- Cannot copy or paste structure element if the content is from data source of data merge.
- Unable to export the combination of XML tag and Aki before char to PDF.
- [Mac] InDesign crashes on launch on macOS 10.14 (Mojave).
- Data with number formatting in Excel is imported incorrectly in InDesign.
- InDesign becomes unresponsive while exporting a specific document to PDF.
- Panels are not loaded properly in custom workspace.
- Unable to copy and paste XML elements in an InDesign document.
- Ignore All does not work during spellcheck.
- InDesign crashes after making changes in the Margins & Columns dialog box.
- Edit Cross-Reference dialog box opens at [All Paragraphs] instead of the selected cross reference.
- Single-page PDF exported from Data Merge has duplicate content after second page.
- Mouse pointer position is not aligned with InDesign menus on external HDMI monitor due to which wrong menu is expanded.
- Assignment panel is blank after an .icml document is placed in InDesign.
- [Mac] InDesign crashes while changing the font or working with the font drop-down.
- Frame fitting is not honored when object style is applied.
- [Win] Unable to create some type of objects in a new document.
- InDesign crashes on closing a document when modal dialog appears.
- Data merge panel does not contain all the data placeholder instances when the .idml version of the file is opened.
- PDF created using Export to PDF from Data merge panel does not contain the text on path or regular text objects placed on a master page.
- PDF exported from InDesign does not display the effects properly.
- Unable to add a paragraph style to the CC Libraries when Kerning is set as None.
- [Mac] Unable to save a file if its name has been renamed manually from Finder while it is still open.
- The size of certain panels, such as Tool Hints, Adobe Color Theme, and EPUB Preview, changes to default after resizing and opening them again.
- [Mac] Panels linked to the left of panels do not open from the Icon view when App Frame is off.
- [Win] Font size changes after changing color of a menu command in the Menu dialog.
- Text appears jumbled if a marker is placed in a text frame from Properties panel.
- endnote.storyOffset returns wrong value in stories with tables.
- story.endnoteRanges.everyItem().getElements() only returns the first endnoteRange in the story.
- InDesign crashes while removing text range in loaded place gun containing endnotes in table.
- findgrep() function does not return correct value of footnotes.
- Unable to find an endnote in a table via scripting.
- InDesign crashes on importing excel file via script when incorrect sheet name or range is set.
- [Win] VB Script can be executed only after InDesign is launched in admin mode at least once.
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