InDesign Updates & Release Notes

Fixed issues

• Alt text message is truncated from right side.
• [Windows only] InDesign fails to locate the Times New Roman and Calibri fonts.
• [macOS only] Math Expression size gets larger and truncated on EPUB Interactive Preview Panel.
• [macOS only] InDesign requests permission to access data from other applications at launch.
• [Windows only] Indesign freezes and unexpectedly closes while opening IDML file containing double-hyphenated texts.
• [Windows only] When placing or updating linked files, InDesign hangs and shows a spinning cursor.
• Media files, groups, and interactive items are dropped off when None CSS Option is selected.
• The Blue border (focus) for the Flex icon is cut off on the right side in the Properties panel.
• Clicking on a footnote or endnote reference on EPUB preview, the page isn't redirecting to the footnote or endnote location.
• Fixed an issue where Share for Review 'Update Content' fails with 'Artifact error' for large InDesign documents.
• Keyboard shortcuts don’t work on transformed frames.
• Weird behaviour when the Add to flex frame action is done on a transformed interactive button or object states.
• Expose FlexObject to anchoredObjectSettings.
• Positioning of Flex Children isn't maintained correctly within Flex Container on Transforming Flex Layouts.
• URLs containing %27 were navigating to a 404 page in the published document.
• Issue with text appearance of placed WMF images.
• IDML export/import adds objects on master pages and dependent pages.
• Generate Alt Text feature is disabled and showing error, You do not have access to the Generate Alt Text feature.
• Fit Text feature is disabled for Type on a Path text objects in InDesign.
• Manually added alt text should not get removed when relinked from a missing link.
• [macOS only] InDesign intermittently crashes on Quit.
• Auto Alt Text causing crashes, freezing, and workflow disruptions in InDesign 21.2.
• CC Libraries panel freezes and becomes unresponsive in InDesign.
• InDesign crashes while saving to cloud-synced locations after a corrupt Windows update, resulting in document corruption.
• [Windows only] Users in Chinese Simplified are unable to use InDesign due to a subscription error.

Feature updates

• You can show or hide the Alt Text badge icon (View > Extras > Hide Alt Text Badge or Show Alt Text Badge). Hiding the badge does not remove alt text and does not affect accessible exports.

Fixed issues

• [macOS only] InDesign file becomes uneditable after using Share for InCopy on the web and then saving it back locally on macOS.
• [macOS only] Paper swatch applied to text has incorrect overprint settings.
• [macOS only] InDesign hangs at launch if the PDF preset folder lacks read permissions.
• [macOS only] Locate Object button is now available in the Layers panel.
• Provide an option to show/hide Alt Text adornment icon.
• Alt text added in the Accessibility section of Hyperlinks panel disappears when the file is saved as IDML.
• Incorrect image description when using the Generate Alt Text feature.
• The UXP WebView Support component should not be packaged or installed with InDesign Server.
• InDesign Server crashes when using the Adobe World-Ready Single-line Composer while interacting with multi-column text frames.
• InDesign intermittently crashes when opening or closing documents from a network location under low-memory conditions.
• InDesign intermittently crashes while opening the document.
• InDesign intermittently crashes while adding pages to the document.
• InDesign intermittently crashes while performing copy/paste of text containing hyperlinks.
• InDesign intermittently crashes during image placement.
• Documentation missing from InDesign Server installation directory.
• [Flex Layout] Elements added to the Article panel appear in incorrect sequence.
• [Flex Layout] Buttons and Object States cannot be applied directly to Flex child elements.
• IDML files with long indexes take excessive time to open.
• Page size changes in Alternate Layout after reopening the IDML file.
• Master page names are changed after IDML conversion.

Fixed issues

• [Windows only] Text becomes invisible during editing.
• [Windows only] InDesign is frequently clearing the Undo stack.
• Object Styles now support Size and Position values greater than 1440 pt.
• Plug-ins created with InDesign 21.0 SDK crashes InDesign 21.1 during hyperlink creation.
• The plug‑in’s document observer update function is no longer called when users switch between open InDesign documents.
• InDesign crashes on opening an IDML file with custom bullet character.
• Support for Size and Position values greater than 1440 pt in Object Styles has been extended to IDML round-tripping and Snippets/CC Libraries.
• Negative X/Y Position values in Object Styles are now preserved across Snippets/CC Libraries and IDML round-tripping.
• Conditional text setting is changing during IDML Export/Import.
• Showing text threads within IDML as in the original InDesign document.
• Custom page numbering is lost when saving as IDML if Automatic Page Numbering is selected and a number is entered in the Start At field.
• When converting an INDD file to IDML, Inner Glow, Size values over 12p6 incorrectly change to 0p7 in the exported file.
• [Windows only] Unexpected color changes occur on certain cell borders after exporting the document to IDML.
• When saving an InDesign file to IDML, the page size changes if margins are set to zero and the width/height is less than 6p0.
• [Windows only] PDFExportProvider object is being destroyed and recreated in the middle of an export, leading to an error.
• Crash on opening IDML when default object style has the same name as its style group.

Fixed issues

• Negative X, Y values can be set for Object Style Position option.
• [macOS only] Panels move from Extended Display to Main Display after waking Mac from sleep.
• Align to Bleed misaligns objects in facing-page documents when inner bleed is set to 0 or differs from outer bleed.
• Upload dialog does not appear when publishing documents created in earlier versions.
• GREP style sub-menu is missing the word aus.
• For converted documents, InDesign adds extra space at the top during PNG or JPEG export.
• Page View icon in browser looks grayed out on opening Share for Review link.
• Share for Review page is not shown centered when the link is opened in browser.
• When a Primary Text Frame uses an Object Style with the Position option enabled, its X and Y coordinates shift unexpectedly as text flows into the frame.
• It is now possible to remove Flex Layout from multiple selected Flex Layout Frames by choosing Object > Flex Layout > Remove Flex Layout.
• InDesign crashes intermittently while working with the Layers panel.
• InDesign crashes intermittently while working with the Pages Panel.
• [Windows] [JP] Document units didn’t match units set in the Preferences dialog.
• Pin & Draw comments made in the browser for Review may not appear in the InDesign document.
• Closing a PDF after opening it in InDesign without saving it deletes the file's Assets folder from: Windows - C:\Users<username>\Documents\InDesign PDF Assets macOS - /Users//Documents/InDesign PDF Assets
• Paragraph style names are truncated in tagged PDF.
• FRL offline is consuming high CPU resources when InDesign app is in idle state.