- 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
We heard you! We've been working hard at fixing the issues you reported to us. Here's the list of issues we fixed in the latest release of InDesign.
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InDesign 2024 (version 19.5)
Core features and workflow
- [Windows only] On touch-enabled devices, the previously selected workspace isn't automatically activated from the second launch onwards.
- Text indentation doesn't work on bulleted text when combined with text wrap.
- Ragged lines appear when using optical margin alignment and World-Ready Paragraph Composer.
- Align to Decimal tab feature doesn’t work when ligatures are present within the text, and World-Ready Composer is applied to it.
- Unable to use InDesign while opening some files due to continuous error dialogs.
- [macOS only] Data merge is not working for absolute paths.
Note: To work with data merge functionality smoothly, you need to update the data source file with the POSIX style path.
Stability and Performance
- Missing XMP data when placing file with Custom Data Link.
- InDesign crashes while exporting PDF.
- InDesign crashes when working on documents that use certain Variable fonts.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes while opening a file.
- InDesign crashes when Autostyle is applied to multiple text frames.
User experience improvements
- Swatches synchronize when object, paragraph, or character styles are selected in the Synchronize Options dialog.
Accessibility enhancements
- Improved page title selection for EPUB documents.
UXP enhancements
- Added GUID support for UXP 3P plugins.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.4)
Core features and workflow
- [Windows] Shortcuts to view at 100%, 200%, 400%, and 50% are fixed.
Double-clicking the Zoom tool to change the View setting to 100% is fixed.
- Active menu set, workspace layout, and keyboard shortcuts are not saved while exporting User Settings.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes when clicking on a UI element with the blue dot onboarding.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.3)
Core features and workflow
- [macOS Sonoma Only] InDesign crashes while changing the font or font type from the Type menu.
User experience improvements
- [JP only]: Complete string for numbers isn't shown in the Info panel.
- Updated list of options is available in the Accessibility Feature dropdown.
- Few InDesign documents created or saved from InDesign 19.2 fail to open in InDesign 19.1
InDesign 2024 (version 19.2)
Core features and workflow
- For right-to-left(RTL) language text, the character direction changes to left-to-right(LTR) after applying Forced Line Break.
- [macOS Only] Application window and panels are resized and moved after waking up from sleep.
- Copying text from and Pasting text into the Review panel.
- Share for Review link is removed from the Review panel on deleting the link in Sharesheet.
- When numerals along with operators are used in the Right To Left text, it changes direction after updating InDesign from 2023 to 2024.
- InDesign 2024 crashes on launch for some users.
- Fixed the Screen Redraw issues in CPU and Overprint Preview modes in macOS 14.3.
- InDesign SavedData gets reset to default if PluginConfig.txt is present.
User experience improvements
- The Review panel opens automatically on copying the Review link or inviting people to the Review.
- [Win Only] Unable to scroll using two fingers on the Trackpad/Touchpad.
Production
- Garbled characters and blank pages occur on printing PDF files exported from InDesign versions 18.4 & 18.5.
Accessibility enhancements
- Added support for Schema.org in accessibility metadata.
- Added support for Evaluation Metadata.
- Added support for Language attributes for all the HTML files.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.1)
Core features and workflow
- Characters appear thinner upon changing the weight axis of the Variable font.
- [Win only] Some linked WMF files are not showing in the overprint preview and exported PDF.
- The overwritten text in the Text frame placed from CC Library is missing.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.0.1)
Note: Quit all the previous versions of InDesign and then go to Edit > Migrate Previous Local Settings to import missed preferences and presets when launching 19.0.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign freezes while quitting the application on some machines.
User experience improvements
Note: Upgrade to InDesign 18.5.1 after installing InDesign 19.0.1 to get the correct configuration.
InDesign 2024 (version 19.0)
Core features and workflow
- PlaceMultipagePDF VBScript now correctly places the PDF on the selected page of InDesign document.
- CreateCharacterStyle script does not honor the attributes set for text.
- Text Annotations appear displaced in the browser when it is shared for review.
- Footnote numbering becomes incorrect while exporting a Thai document to PDF with World-Ready Composer.
- Incorrect Footnote text in an Arabic document.
- Numbering restarts from 1 after an unnumbered style in exported HTML.
- [SDK] Idle task not called when the InDesign isn't the active window or no document is opened.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes on launch due to Adobe Crash Processor.
User experience improvements
- [CJK only] Change the default quotes from 'straight-lined quotes' to 'typographer's quotes'.
InDesign 2023 (version 18.5)
Core features and workflow
- [KR only] "Shinsho" Print Document Preset is of the correct size now.
Production
- Partial rendering of images in exported PDF using ‘All Printer’s Marks’ and ‘Use Document Bleed’ export settings.
- PDF Export using ZIP compression for images shows an “Insufficient data for an image” error on opening in Acrobat.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes while quitting the application from the menu.
InDesign 2023 (version 18.4)
Core features and workflow
- [macOS only] Share for Review comments submitted in the browser may not appear in InDesign unless forceful refresh is done for the document.
- Defined tags not exported for paragraph styles named with large character count.
- Network files open as read-only, when Quicklook Preview is enabled.
- [Win only] Template previews are missing in the New Document dialog.
- InDesign sometimes opens documents from the network in read-only mode when there is a delay in generating document previews.
- REBA pop-up does not display when you click Update now.
User experience improvements
- [Windows only] Icons scaling issue at higher UI Scaling factors.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes on launch due to the exclusion of Adobe-provided plug-ins in PluginConfig.txt.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes on launch in ObjectModelLib.dylib
InDesign 2023 (version 18.3)
User experience improvements
Stability and Performance
- Updates to an internal component to the latest version to ensure improved application stability.
InDesign 2023 (version 18.2.1)
Stability and Performance
- InDesign crashes on launch on some machines.
- Crash or PDF export failure for documents with placed .indd files containing Adobe Fonts.
InDesign 2023 (version 18.2)
As announced in January 2021, support for all Type 1 fonts in Adobe products, including InDesign, has ended. For more information, please refer to Type 1 end of support.
Core feature and workflow
- Issue with the Drop Cap with Negative First Line Indent.
- Kanji meta-character "~K" and "^K" have matching problems in Find/Change.
- While importing excel as an unformatted table, formula-based cells are imported incorrectly.
- Pantone Libraries that have been removed from InDesign will show imported PSD files containing Spot Channels as Gray/Black.
- Color differences between GPU and CPU on macOS Ventura.
- Issues with some keyboard shortcuts.
- Preview functionality keeps crashing for German and Ukrainian locales.
Improvements to new features
- Text with HSB color is shown as black on copy-pasting from ID to AI.
- While copy-pasting a Frame grid from AI to ID, text font size isn't honored.
Stability and Performance
- InDesign sometimes crashes on opening multiple documents together.
- InDesign stops responding while working on any file due to high CPU usage.
InDesign 2023 (version 18.1)
Core feature and workflow
- EPUB Validation Check fails because of erroneous "lang" identifiers in the underlying HTML of EPUB.
- EPUB validation check fails for Reflowable EPUBs for documents containing Endnotes.
- Issue while importing specific TIFF files in ID2023.
- When exporting EPUB using the Books panel, which has multiple documents, Endnotes Backlinks are not working from the second document onwards.
- [macOS only] ID crashes while working with styles.
- Missing Learn Panel icon on AppBar.
- [macOS only] UI issues with App Frame OFF and higher UI Scaling factors are addressed.
- Zooming in/out via Cmd+/- does not work when the cursor is above the page element in CPU mode.
- InDesign crashes while opening the IDML.
- The paragraph goes overset when the 1st word is longer than a certain number of characters.
- ID crashes while placing JPEG2000 files.
- [macOS only] ID crashes while placing specific HEIC files.
Stability and Performance
- ID crashes while relinking a file from the Properties panel when the Links Panel isn't open.
User experience improvements
- Default EPUB version changed to 3.0 while exporting to Reflowable EPUB.
Improvements to new features
- [InCopy only] When the Clipboard Handling preference is set to All information, the copy and paste action doesn't paste anything.
- The text overlaps in some cases when the ID document is copied and pasted to AI.
- The Prefer PDF When Pasting option in Clipboard Handling preferences doesn't display appropriate results when copying from AI to ID.
- Kinsoku Set isn't preserved on copying from AI to ID.
- UI scaling in InCopy 2022 affects window tiling Applescripts.
- Copy-pasting text content from a threaded text frame in AI does not bring text formatting in ID.
- While applying a font via parastyle in ID and pasting it to AI, the fonts are not mapped appropriately in case a text style with the same name already exists.
- Justification values are not applied on copy-paste from ID to AI.
- Tate-chu-Yoko horizontal and vertical attribute values get swapped when copied from AI and pasted to ID.
- Unrestricted files and folder support, Modules Support available for UXP Scripting.
- XMLRule support available in UXP.
InDesign 2023 (version 18.0)
User experience
- Unable to show '&' in the file name inside the saveAs progress bar.
- Incorrect placement of language in accessible HTML.
- Switching to Presentation Mode and back to Normal changes the document to an unsaved state.
- While importing an item as an inline object, an invisible layer is incorrectly displayed.
- [macOS Only] When the SaveAs operation fails, the document changes to an unsaved state.
- Panels are sliding from right to left in macOS Ventura beta.
Stability and Performance
- [Windows] InDesign intermittently crashes while working in Offline mode.
- CEPHTMLEngine utilizes a high amount of network data while launching the apps.
- [macOS] InDesign Server crashes on quit.
Core feature and workflow
- After restart, the Update Link of a Review does not work.
- Text indentation does not work on the bulleted list while using text wrap.
Previous releases
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.