Fixed issues in InDesign

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. 

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.

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

• [macOS only] Unable to overwrite PDF when saving to network
  
• [macOS only] While importing from Excel to InDesign, number cells (date, number, currency, etc.) are imported as zeros                

• 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

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
  

• 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. 

• 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.