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Fixed issues in InDesign

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

We heard you! We've been working hard at fixing the issues you reported to us. Here's the list of issues we fixed in the latest release of InDesign.

fixed issues

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InDesign 2023 (version 18.3)

Stability and Performance

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

InDesign 2023 (version 18.2.1)

Stability and Performance

InDesign 2023 (version 18.2)

Note:

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

Core feature and workflow

Improvements to new features

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

Stability and Performance

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

InDesign 2023 (version 18.1)

Core feature and workflow

Stability and Performance

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

User experience improvements

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

Improvements to new features

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

InDesign 2023 (version 18.0)

User experience

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

Stability and Performance

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

Core feature and workflow

InDesign 2022 (version 17.4)

Core feature and workflow

Improvement to new features

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

InDesign 2022 (version 17.3)

Core feature and workflow

Stability and Performance

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

InDesign 2022 (version 17.2.1)

InDesign 2022 (version 17.2)

Stability and Performance

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

Production

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

User experience

Core feature and workflow

Improvement to new features

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

InDesign 2022 (version 17.1)

Stability and Performance

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

Production

User experience

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

SDK and Scripting Support

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

Core feature and workflow

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

Improvement to new features

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

InDesign 2022 (version 17.0.1)

Stability and performance

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

Core feature and workflow

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

InDesign 2022 (version 17.0)

Stability and performance

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

 Improvement to new features

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

User Experience

Production

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

 

Core feature and workflow

Scripting

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

Previous releases

Stability and performance

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

Core feature and workflow

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

Stability and Performance

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

Stability and performance

User experience improvements

Scripting

  • AdobeXMPScript library fails to load.

Production

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

 

Core feature and workflow

  • Cannot create new document using Cmd-N dialog for some cases.
  • Variable fonts 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.

Stability and performance

Improvement to new features

Production

Core feature and workflow

Scripting

Stability and performance

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

User experience improvement

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

Core feature and workflow

Production

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

Improvement to new features

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

User experience improvement

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

Stability

Improvement to new features

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

Core feature and workflow

Scripting

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

Stability

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

User experience improvements

Scripting

Production

Core feature and workflow

Improvement to new features

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

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

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

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

Production

Scripting

  • The Script Editor does not launch when you choose Edit Script option for Apple Script.

 

Stability

Stability

Core feature and workflow

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

Core feature and workflow

Accessibility

Stability

Improvement to new features

Core feature and workflow

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

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

Core Features and Workflow Fixes

Stability Fixes

Performance Improvements

User Experience Improvements

Improvements to Id 14.0 Features

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

Production
  • 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

Core feature or workflow fixes

User experience improvements

Export enhancements

Improvements to InDesign 14.0 features

  • 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
Stability fixes
  • 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.
Key issues fixed
  • 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.
Stability fixes
  • 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. 
Key issues fixed
  • 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. 
Scripting fixes
  • 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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