Adobe InDesign for Mac

What's new in this version:

Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Build 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


Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Build 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


Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Build 19.1
Core features and workflow:
- Characters appear thinner upon changing the weight axis of the Variable font
- [Win only] Some linked files are not showing in the overprint preview and exported PDF
- The overwritten text in the Text frame placed from CC Library is missing


Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Build 19.0.1
Core features and workflow:
- InDesign is unable to import preferences from the previous version and displays an error message during launch

Stability and Performance:
- InDesign freezes while quitting the application on some machines

User experience improvements:
- InDesign 2024 and InDesign 2023 have the same GUID when installed in Windows


Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Build 19.0
Auto Style multiple text frames, create and manage Style Packs:
- Auto Style identifies text elements and applies a Style Pack to unformatted text. Use Auto Style by selecting multiple text frames or pasting text on the canvas. Use preset Style Packs or create and manage your own.

Search text and customize analytics in published documents:
- Improve reading experience with searchable text on Publish Online. You can also integrate Google Analytics while publishing your documents online to measure traffic and engagement.

File name suffix in JPEG and PNG exports:
- Add dynamic characters such as incremental numbers, page numbers, and page size as filename suffixes for JPEG and PNG exports to distinguish and easily filter them in your system

Hide spreads:
- Hide selected spreads to exclude them from Presentation mode and export options such as PNG, JPEG, PDF (print), or PDF (Interactive) formats

Harfbuzz as the default shaping engine under World Ready Composer:
- With Harfbuzz as the default shaping engine under World Ready Composer, you can see improved shaping and correct rendering of glyphs for Indic, and MENA languages


Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Build 18.5
Share documents for review:
- Collaborate seamlessly with the updated intuitive feedback and review system

Create plugins with UXP:
- Create and use InDesign plugins using UXP which allows extending InDesign functionality and address specific workflow needs


Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Build 18.4
- Search text in published documents
- You can now search your published documents for specific text from any device. While you can only search text from touch devices, you can search and copy text from desktops and laptops.


Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Build 18.3
User experience improvements:
- [Windows] Long file path isn't working with InDesign

Stability and Performance:
- Updates to an internal component to the latest version to ensure improved application stability


Adobe InDesign CC 2023 Build 18.2.1
Stability and Performance:
- InDesign crashes on launch on some machines
- Crash or failure in exporting to PDF if an InDesign document has a placed InDesign document with any Adobe Fonts applied


Adobe InDesign CC 2022 Build 18.2
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


Adobe InDesign CC 2022 Build 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


Adobe InDesign CC 2022 Build 18.0
Auto Style (Technology Preview):
- Work with our content-aware style packs and automatically format your text

Copy text between Illustrator and InDesign:
- Copy text between Illustrator and InDesign without loss of format or effects

Support for new graphic formats:
- Work with new graphic formats in InDesign like HEIC, HEIF, WEBP, and JP2K

Duplicate page after selection:
- Duplicate pages and spreads now appear right after the selection

UXP Scripting:
- Developers can now use UXP Script to automate tasks in InDesign

Document preview:
- See the preview of your InDesign Documents (.indd) in Windows or macOS

Fixed:
User experience:
- Unable to show '&' in the file name inside saveAs progress bar
- Incorrect placing of language in accessible HTML
- Switching to Presentation Mode and back to Normal dirties the document
- While importing an item as an inline object, an invisible layer is incorrectly displayed
- [macOS Only] When the SaveAs operation fails, the document gets dirty
- 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, Update Link of a Review does not work


Adobe InDesign CC 2022 Build 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


Adobe InDesign CC 2022 Build 17.3
Fixed:
Core feature and workflow:
- Endnotes do not work in Reflowable Epub with split document option
- Inconsistent behavior in Vertical typesetting, Place Holder icon
- 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
- 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


Adobe InDesign CC 2022 Build 17.2.1
Core feature and workflow:
- Unable to use some random fonts in InDesign
- Place gun is unloaded after first page of a multi-page PDF is placed in frame


Adobe InDesign CC 2022 Build 17.2
Fixed:
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


Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 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


Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 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


Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 17.0
Inclusive terminology:
- To support core Adobe values of diversity and inclusion, the term Master page has been replaced with Parent page

Adobe Capture extension:
- Capture the Color themes, Shapes, or Type, from an inspiring artwork using Adobe Capture extension within InDesign

Scalable user interface:
- Scale the size of InDesign UI on high-resolution screens to suit your display needs

Fixed:
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



Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 16.4
Stability and performance:
- InDesign crashes on loading CEP plugins
- InDesign crashes on launch in some cases
- The Asset link panel freezes in InDesign 2021
- 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

Core feature and workflow:
- [macOS only] Content Aware Wrap doesn't work for some scenarios in InDesign
- [Windows only] Wrong rendition of wmf files with text for InDesign
- InDesign allowed the same file to open from different systems


Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 16.3.1
Stability and Performance:
- InDesign crashes sometimes on copy and paste of text in CPU mode


Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 16.3
InDesign for Apple Silicon:
- InDesign and all its features now work 1.5x times faster on Apple Silicon hardware with M1 processors


Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 16.2.1
Core feature and workflow:
- When exporting images as JPG or PNG, yellow horizontal lines are generated in some cases

Stability and performance:
- InDesign crashes in some cases when you quit after creating a new document


Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 16.2
Map optical size to font size:
- The optical size is by default mapped to the font size for the variable fonts in your text

Fixed issues:
Stability and performance:
- [macOS only] The character sequence -xx'-x crashes InDesign/InCopy when German language is applied on it
- [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:
- [macOS] Some text is missing or appears displaced when importing PDF created from Canva

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:
- [Win only] VB Script can be executed only after InDesign is launched in Admin mode at least once


Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 16.1
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


Adobe InDesign CC 2021 Build 16.0.2
User experience improvement:
- [macOS only] InDesign application icon appears bigger in size in macOS BigSur


Adobe InDesign CC 2020 Build 16.0.1
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


Adobe InDesign CC 2020 Build 16.0
Seamless content reviews with text annotations:
- Experience the enhanced review process with new set of review tools like highlight text, insert text, and, strikethrough text

Locate colors in your documents:
- Find any unused colors in InDesign document objects quickly and replace them using Find/Change colors

Intelligent subject detection and text wrap:
- Powered by Adobe Sensei, wrap text around the contours of a subject directly without having to use Alpha Channels or Photoshop paths

Use HSB values without RGB translation:
- Eliminate the need to translate color values into RGB. Use HSB values in InDesign wherever color values can be set

Detect damaged documents and recover:
- Detect the damaged documents and try to repair them on Adobe servers, all within InDesign application

Use navigation points in Media panel:
- Use navigation points to start playing video content from a specific point and save time in searching content in videos

Fixed issues:
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
- Post 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


Adobe InDesign CC 2020 Build 15.1.2
Copy Editor (Beta):
- No more lag while typing in InDesign text editor. Use Copy Editor (Beta) and start typing faster without any lag.

Review panel enhancement:
- Experience the enhanced workflows for Review panel to resolve comments effectively

Stability:
- InDesign document hangs while recovering the damaged document
- 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
- 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
- [InCopy] In high-resolution Windows machines, options within panels shift to the right on subsequent launch

Core feature and workflow:
- Resizing the text by holding the keyboard shortcut while making long ascenders and descenders using Variable Fonts creates images of previous position
- 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
- 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


Adobe InDesign CC 2020 Build 15.1.1
Stability:
- InDesign crashes on PDF export in some cases when PNG files are placed in the document
- InDesign crashes when you try to quit the application in some cases
- InDesign crashes on launch in some cases

Core feature and workflow:
- Text Variables, Page Numbers, and Footnote/Endnote markers get replaced by ss with World Ready Composers

Improvement to new features:
- Share for Review sometimes does not contain all document pages
- Share for Review dialog displays error after PDF export
- Review panel name appears incorrectly as %extension.comments.panel.title


Adobe InDesign CC 2020 Build 15.1
Share for review:
- Share your designs for review, add comments, and manage feedback seamlessly without having to leave InDesign

Adobe Fonts Auto-Activation:
- InDesign automatically finds and activates missing fonts from Adobe Fonts

Place video URL from media panel:
- Place a video from a valid URL to play streaming video in the exported PDF

macOS v10.15 support for InDesign Server:
- Support for InDesign Server on macOS v10.15

Stability and Performance:
- Better stability performance, and enablement of smoother workflows

Fixed issues:
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


Adobe InDesign CC 2020 Build 15.0.3
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


Adobe InDesign CC 2020 Build 15.0.2
Community scripts:
- Script panel now includes scripts created by the InDesign community

Stability and Performance:
- Better stability performance, and enablement of smoother workflows


Adobe InDesign CC 2020 Build 15.0.1
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
- 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"


Adobe InDesign CC 2019 Build 14.0.3
- Change log not available for this version


Adobe InDesign CC 2019 Build 14.0.2
- Change log not available for this version


Adobe InDesign CC 2018 Build 14.0
Content-Aware Fit:
- With Content-Aware Fit, InDesign can now intelligently fit the best part of an image when you place it inside a frame. The best part of the image is determined based on the dimensions and aspect ratio of the frame as well as by evaluating various parts of the image.

Layout adjustment:
- Layout adjustment in InDesign is now quick and easy. If you need to change the page size of a document after text and images have been added, you no longer need to manually adjust the text, images, or other elements.
- The new Adjust Layout feature automatically adjusts all elements in the layout when the page size, page margin, or bleed of a document is changed.

Import PDF comments:
- You can now import any marked up PDF into InDesign and easily track the feedback and comments noted in the PDF. You can accept comments and mark them resolved or unresolved. Selecting a comment also highlights the section in the document where the comment is applicable.

Properties panel:
- The new Properties panel in InDesign lets you view settings and controls in the context of your current task or workflow. This new panel has been designed with ease of use in mind, ensuring that you have access to the right controls when you need them.
- The Properties panel is available by default in the Essentials workspace. You can also enable it from Window > Properties.

Visual font browsing:
- You can now browse thousands of fonts from hundreds of type foundries from within InDesign, activate them instantly, and use them in your documents. The Fonts panel includes various new options to provide you an enriched experience while working with fonts. You can apply a filter to view only the recently added fonts. You can also select a sample text from the list of predefined text for font preview or select your own text as well. You now also have the option to change the font size while previewing the font.

OpenType SVG fonts support:
- With the support for OpenType SVG fonts in InDesign, you can now provide multiple colors and gradients in a single glyph.

OpenType SVG fonts: Multiple colors and gradients:
- Using OpenType SVG emoji fonts, you can include various colorful and graphical characters, such as smileys, flags, street signs, animals, people, food, and landmarks in your documents. You can also create composite glyphs. For example, using the EmojiOne font, you can create the flags of countries or achieve skin tone diversity in your glyphs.
- Combine glyphs to form the flags of countries
- Combine glyphs to form the flags of countries
- Combine single-person characters with skin colors
- Combine single-person characters with diverse skin tones

Add footnotes in tables:
- You can now insert footnotes in a table in InDesign. The footnote text appears at the bottom of the text frame.
- The reference number of a footnote in a table will be in continuation with the reference number of footnotes in that story.
- Table footnotes are retained while importing Word documents and are exported to formats that support footnotes, such as PDF, EPUB, and HTML.

Space between paragraph styles:
- You now have the ability to choose whether the spacing before or after affects the text of the same style. The Space Between Paragraphs Using Same Style option in the Styles dialog lets you specify a value for space between paragraphs having the same style. This value is used only if two consecutive paragraphs have the same paragraph style. If the paragraph styles of consecutive paragraphs are different, the value for the Space Before and Space After options are used.

Other enhancements:
- You can now retain the filename while exporting a document. When you select the Use InDesign Document Name as the Output Filename option, the exported PDF will have the same name as the name of the document from the next export. Else, it will have the name previously entered by you.
- You can now convert endnotes to footnotes and footnotes to endnotes in InDesign.
- Now, while creating a package, you have an option to choose whether you want to create printing instructions for that package.
- Select Create Printing Instructions from the Summary tab in the Package dialog box.
- Click Package.
- Now, every document will remember its last export format. If the document is shared with another user or accessed from another machine, it will still retain the format in which that document was last exported.
- The Index panel now has larger area to display index entries, so you can locate them.
- Also, you will find a new search box to search for an index entry. Simply type the text you want to search and use next and previous arrows to search in the index entries.
- Now, with custom fonts you can customize the look of forms in an exported PDF.