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  1. critical error displaying page content

    By default, InDesign sets the display mode using the GPU. After updating the program, a critical error began to occur: when turning pages, part of the page content simply disappears. For example, if you have 30 objects on a spread, at some point 15 of them disappear (purely conditionally, let's call them even), while the odd ones are visible. If you press the display mode switch (the w button), now the even ones appear, and the odd ones disappear. Then, to display ALL objects, you have to switch the display to enhanced view. But on the next spread, everything can…

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  2. display glitch on zoom / scroll

    New glitchy display issues in all documents when zooming / scrolling. Switching off GPU Performance fixes the issue, but degrades overall performance. Have not had previous issues like this in prior releases.

    1. Indesign Version: 21.3 x64. (Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX A2000 Laptop GPU, current drivers)
    2. Steps to produce result: most scrolling/zooming (alt+scroll)
    3. Expected result: Smooth scrolling/display
    4. Actual result: display glitches and requires zoom/pan to reset or change display mode.
    5. Samples attached. Not dependent on specific files.
    1 vote

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  3. In InDesign 2025 (version 20.5.2) and InDesign 2026 (version 21.3), when packaging a document, composite fonts and Japanese-language fonts a

    OS: macOS 15.7.4
    Version: InDesign 2025 (20.5.2) and InDesign 2026 (21.3)

    In all versions up to and including InDesign 2024, only Latin (Western) fonts were subject to collection during packaging. However, from InDesign 2025 onwards through the current version, Japanese-language fonts and composite fonts are also being collected during the packaging process. This requires us to manually remove the relevant files from the package folder each time, resulting in a significant and recurring burden on our workflow.
    Furthermore, because composite fonts are being collected as font files, an alert indicating that the fonts cannot be found is displayed every time…

    1 vote

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  4. ID2026 Export Issues

    Exporting PDFs and IDML files in ID2026 is taking far longer than it does to do the same export in 2025, and I'm losing almost all of the hyperlinks on parent pages when exporting to IDML.

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  5. Links panel

    Hi Support Team,
    I’ve been using Adobe InDesign for the last few years, and after the latest update it looks like the option to copy the missing file name from the Links panel has been removed.
    This feature was extremely useful, because you could quickly copy the file name and search for it across available storage locations (local drive / external drives / server).
    Now, instead, there are only two options to copy the full file path to the missing file. I don’t really understand why there are two versions of essentially the same action, and more importantly — the…

    1 vote

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  6. [ID-4259367]Error handling dialog shown while placing some TIFF/EPS files

    Error encountered while reading TIFF image. Image may be damaged or incompatible. Resave the image with different settings and try again.

    After I upgraded InDesign 19.5.1 to 19.5.2. Linked images do not show on the page in high quality display settings. I have about 60 linked indesign files into my one file. And I was afraid to upgrade to 20.1 and from Sonoma to Sequoia. Any fixes for this? Perhaps get rid of some of the links.. too many links? 60? 2 page document. Newer M2 MacBook Air.

    Edit: Update: Downgraded back to 19.5.1. Everything is working perfectly. Thanks Adobe…

    16 votes

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    The fix of the issue is now available in the latest InDesign 2024(v19.5.3.144). We recommend you upgrade to the latest version for the fix.

    If you are unable to see the update, go to the Creative Cloud application click on the context menu on the top right, and click on Check for App Updates.

    Sanyam Talwar

  7. InDesign 2026 application window automatically snapping to screen width

    I like to stretch the InDesign application window partially onto my second monitor but since updating to 2026 it keeps snapping back to the edges of a single monitor.

    It seems that if you pull two edges of the app frame away from the edge of the screen (left and bottom, for instance) it doesn't happen. But as soon as one of the edges goes back up against the edge of the monitor it resizes the width.

    There is also strangeness when trying to use "normal" windows functions like the clicking the control menu (top left corner of the app…

    2 votes

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  8. Since MAC OS Tahoe 26.0 is installed impossible to work properly with Indesign

    Since MAC OS Tahoe 26.0 is installed impossible to work properly with Indesign

    4 votes

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  9. Assets disappear when dragging off the page onto the artboard.

    Version 21.1 x64

    Assets disappear when dragging them off the page and onto the artboard. This also causes the the preview to ignore everything outside of the bleed effectively eliminating the artboard entirely. See attached.

    1 vote

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  10. loads of bugs when scrolling

    how is one supposed to do any kind of precise work in these conditions?

    pc specs:
    indesign ver. 21.1

    Windows 11 Pro ver. 23H2

    12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H 2.30 GHz

    2 votes

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  11. Slow and buggy when running of Dropbox or Pcloud

    When I use Indesign with Dropbox or Pcloud files, even really small files it lags and becomes unusable. I have raised this issue with adobe in the past a few times direclty and they have somehow managed to fix it but it seems like every 2nd or 3rd update it comes back. Now days people use cloud services as we need to work with global teams so we need to ensure that Indesign is always able to work with what ever links that we throw at it.

    I know there is a fix, because 1x a few years ago I…

    1 vote

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  12. History panel erases undo option and history steps (behavior different from previous version) and

    The history panel seems to be limited to 5 actions. Additionally, with the latest update (20.2), if you access the history panel at all, it overtakes the Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z function for undo/redo as it has worked in the past.

    When the history panel is opened, it selects the most recent action. Even if the panel is closed, whatever is done after this point erases all the other actions, so that you are left with "open" as the previous step. Edit>Undo (Ctrl+Z) is disabled, and you can no longer undo work.

    Additionally, steps will sometimes combine themselves without any user…

    14 votes

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  13. Display/performance issues

    InDesign version 21.0.1 parts of screen disappearing randomly for no reason mostly while scrolling at any display performance settings

    2 votes

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  14. GPU Accelerated Preview Issues on Windows 11

    InDesign 2025 & 2026 (v21.0 & v20.5.1)
    PC running Windows 11 Pro
    CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 16-Core Processor
    GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
    Display: ASUS ProArt PA279CRV @3840x2160
    RAM: 64GB DDR5 @6000 MT/s
    Storage: Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB

    There are mainly 3 issues, that have not improved with the new version:

    1. Animated zoom is broken; it's laggy, and does not zoom in on the actual point of focus where you click with your cursor, making it worse and slower to use than CPU Preview's regular zoom, and in many cases it literally zooms you in on a…

    3 votes

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  15. pdf

    Many occasions over the last couple of weeks when I try to export a PDF, it just blocks, wheel turning in the top right corner, and nothing happens until I forcibly close the program through Task Manager. On may occasions the completed PDF then appears in the folder.

    1 vote

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  16. shut down

    I was finished with a project and after trying to download it, the app shut down and deleted all the work I had done in multiple projects. I hate you.

    2 votes

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  17. InD closes itself 50% of time when I close my last open doc; very annoying

    I'm using InD 2026 recent release (today is 2/10/26). About 50 percent of the time, when I close my last open document, InD will close itself entirely. I have to go through the hassle of reopening it to get back to work. Then, upon reopen, it says that the last doc I closed may be damaged. This doesn't fly when you've just laid out and saved a 300-page text book. Can this be fixed soonest?

    1 vote

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  18. Severe UI Latency and Rendering Delays After Updating to Version 21.0 and Later (Windows 11 – Build 26200.7923)

    Description:
    After updating to Version 21.0 and all subsequent releases, the application exhibits significant UI latency and rendering delays. The user interface becomes intermittently unresponsive, with interactions (panel updates, tool changes, UI redraws, etc.) taking 30–40 seconds to visually update. This behavior occurs consistently across sessions.
    Environment:

    OS: Windows 11 Pro — Build 26200.7923
    Storage Tested: OneDrive-based project files and fully local NVMe SSD storage (no performance difference)
    Systems Tested: Issue reproduced on two separate PCs with different hardware configurations
    Application Versions Tested: 21.0 and all newer versions

    Observed Behavior:

    UI redraws and component updates are extremely slow (~30–40 seconds).…

    1 vote

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  19. I'm able to select objects and edit them even though they're on hidden layers

    The latest InDesign is very glitchy and unreliable, this is one of the main visible problems

    1 vote

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  20. InDesign 2026 (v 21.01) Won't lock "Constrain Proportions"

    When resizing an object, Indesign 2026 won't retain the selection 'Constrain proportions for width and height' when clicked from the properties window.

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