- InDesign User Guide
- Get to know InDesign
- Introduction to InDesign
- Workspace
- Generative AI
- Introduction to InDesign
- Create and layout documents
- Documents and pages
- Create documents
- Work with parent pages
- Work with document pages
- Set page size, margins, and bleed
- Work with files and templates
- Convert PDFs to InDesign files in InDesign (Beta)
- Create book files
- Add basic page numbering
- Number pages, chapters, and sections
- Convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents
- Share content
- Understand a basic managed-file workflow
- Save documents
- Grids
- Layout aids
- Documents and pages
- Add content
- Text
- Add text to frames
- Threading text
- South-East Asian Scripts
- Arabic and Hebrew features in InDesign
- Create type on a path
- Bullets and numbering
- Glyphs and special characters
- Text composition
- Text variables
- Generate QR codes
- Edit text
- Align text
- Wrap text around objects
- Anchored objects
- Linked content
- Format paragraphs
- Format characters
- Typography
- Format text
- Review text
- Spell check and language dictionaries
- Add references
- Styles
- Tables
- Interactivity
- Graphics
- Color and transparency
- Text
- Find and replace
- Share
- Publish
- Place, export, and publish
- Printing
- Extend InDesign
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
Find known issues and limitations in the latest release of InDesign.
InDesign 19.2 and later
Issue 1: InDesign crashes when text containing paragraph style with paragraph shading attribute is viewed in Copy Editor.
Workaround: Update to macOS Sonoma14.5 and above.
Issue 2: InDesign crashes intermittently when Story Editor is opened for a long text document.
Workaround: Update to macOS Sonoma14.5 and above.
InCopy 19.2 and later
Issue: InCopy crashes intermittently for InDesign and InCopy assignment workflow.
Workaround: Update to macOS Sequoia15 and above.
InDesign 19.0
Issue: InDesign 2024 and InDesign 2023 have the same GUID when installed in Windows.
Workaround: Upgrade to InDesign 18.5.1 after installing InDesign 19.0.1 to get the correct configuration.
Issue 1: The screen turns white when trying to marquee select objects on the layout or selecting text with the Text tool in CPU Preview and Overprint Preview modes in macOS Sonoma.
Workaround: Update to macOS Sonoma14.3
Issue 2: InDesign crashing on macOS Ventura (13.0, 13.1, 13.2).
Workaround: InDesign could crash due to a faulty dyld module in macOS 13.0, 13.1, and 13.2. Upgrade to macOS Ventura 13.3 to fix the crash.
InDesign 17.0 (October 2021 release)
Issue: Unable to launch Adobe InDesign.
Workaround: If you are using Trend Micro Antivirus software, update it to version 17.0 or above. If the issue persists, add InDesign to the exception list in application settings.
Content-Aware Fit
- When you place an asset in an InDesign document and select Content-Aware Fit as the frame fitting option, InDesign crashes. This issue occurs if the GPU driver of the machine is disabled. To resolve this issue, enable the GPU driver of the machine.
- Content-Aware Fit Preference option is ignored on placing an image by directly clicking on the document with loaded place gun without creating a frame
Adjust Layout
- Frame grid size, Char Aki, and Line Aki values are adjusted incorrectly when changing page size from Adjust Layout dialog box with Adjust Font Size preference enabled.
- Frame grids in threaded frames increases disproportionately to the page when changing page size from Adjust Layout dialog box with Adjust Font Size preference enabled.
- [Mac] Effects applied on the text content do not get adjusted with Adjust Layout.
- Graphic cells having Pasted Into graphics no longer show graphic content after using Adjust Layout.
Properties panel
- While reducing the number of pages containing objects from the Properties panel, no alert message is shown.
- When the Color pop-up from the Properties panel is in expanded state, dialog box that opens while performing certain operations is hidden behind the Color pop-up.
Import PDF Comments
- PDF comments added by iOS or Android Acrobat Reader, or by Apple Preview are not imported in InDesign.
- When you scale an object having a non-text comment, the comment moves to another place or disappears.
- Text comments in the following scenarios are not mapped to the text and are marked unmapped:
- Comments on text that falls outside a text frame
- Comments on all caps text
- Comments on master page objects
- Insert Text comment is shifted by few characters in MENA document.
- Text comments are merged with other drawings on text which might make text comments to hide or not appear correctly.
- Comments imported in an IDML document cannot be mapped.
- On trying to drag the pageitem by clicking on annotation draws the same annotation at some other location.
Fonts
- When you select a font as favorite through fonts.adobe.com, it takes a long time to reflect the changes in the Favorites filter on the Find More tab of the Character panel (Window > Type & Tables > Character).
- [Mac] While creating the outline for Apple Color Emoji font you get the following error:
Please select one or more characters that can be converted to outlines.