I have a MacBook Pro 2018 and upgraded my OS to 10.13.5 last week. Ever since upgrading to High Sierra originally I had some issues with the program freezing when my computer was running lots of programs. However, after upgrading the OS last week now Indesign has become almost non-functional (I have CC v. 13.1 ). Every time I click to simply type or scroll pages the colour wheel spins and it takes literally minutes to make a single click.

I have restarted my computer, tried using different files locally on my machine and an our company server. Documents with more cross references have even bigger problems. If I try to click to frequently it will freeze up my entire screen and I have to do a hard shutdown and reboot my laptop.
I suspect there is some issue with incompatibility with the latest version of mac OS 10.13.5 that I installed but I must install mac updates for security reasons.
Will uninstalling and reinstalling Indesign make any difference?
I want to ask if this is a known issue and if there is a fix I can use?! Right now I cannot work with files I need to in indesign.
Thanks in advance - Steph

We've just updated our studio with new macs, running High Sierra Version 10.13.4 and the most recent InDesign Version 13.1.

When we open a .indb document and edit one of the individual .indd files within it and attempt to save back to our Studio NAS drive/Server on our ethernet network the program crashes, corrupts the entire file and makes no effort to restore the file.

We are also running our old Macs, on Yosemite 10.10.5 with Indesign 2017 and have not experienced this issue at all for the 7 years we have used these machines.

We’ve looked on various forums but Adobe and Apple seem to be pointing the finger at each other for a solution!

Any ideas?

I'm using InDesign 13.1 for a simple 12 page booklet (see attached)

First issue: ID was doing background work on a file for about 4 days and then ID crashed. Now whenever I open the program it asks me if I want to do "Automatic Recovery" for the file. If I click YES or CANCEL the program crashes. If I click NO the program stays open and I can continue to work. But if I go to export the 12 page booklet to PDF it crashes.

I have: (1) uninstalled and reinstalled ID; (2) tried to export the file to a JPEG (which did NOT crash ID); (3) tried to export a different file to PDF (ID crashed);

There's nothing unusual about fonts or graphics here. My ID skills are very VERY basic. Thoughts? Help? PLEASE?

I am running InDesign CC, the current version as of March 2018, however I have seen this same bug in older versions of the program. It is not unique to this version.

We use Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. If there is ANYTHING in the clipboard copied from ANY part of Open Office, it will cause a repeatable InDesign crash. The clipboard data could be text from the OpenOffice Writer program or cell data from the OpenOffice Calc program...it doesn't matter.

With Open Office data in the clipboard, if I attempt to use any of the right-click menus, or choose an item from the toolbar, such as EDIT, InDesign will immediately crash. If I open the exact same InDesign file but copy some data from another program (text from an email, text from notepad, etc.) into the clipboard, then InDesign works fine.

This crash is repeatable and consistent and has been a bug within InDesign for at least two years.

I'm working with linked endnotes in InDesign 2018 (version 13.1), but my file originated in InDesign 2015 (I skipped 2017). I have already saved the document as an InDesign 2018 file but seem to be having problems importing a document with linked endnotes.

I'm starting with an old InDesign file because I'm working on volume 2 of a multi-book series and want to maintain all my old styles. I don't know if that's relevant, but I have worked successfully placing linked endnotes from word in previous books already. In this one, the endnote references appear to have links but when I click on "Go to Endnote Text" from the reference point, my document crashes. When I try to add an endnote point, my document also crashes. I think the endnotes exist somewhere because there is a paragraph style and a few character styles that I can't seem to find in the document but apparently exist somewhere.

I don't actually know if this problem is an issue with the original Word document or with InDesign but I'm really hoping this issue can be resolved before I have to import the other chapters in this book.

Thanks!

I have recreated this bug on both Mac and PC InDesign 13.0

1. Create a text box


2. Insert a table with any number of table cells


3. Draw a rectangle anywhere


4. Create a new Object Style and set Size and Position Options -> Size -> Adjust: to Height Only


5. Apply the Object Style to the rectangle


6. Cut and past the rectangle into one of the cells of the table


7. Create a new Library file


8. Drag the text box into the Library


9. Try drag the Library item back out onto the page... It should crash.

This has become very problematic for us because we use the Libraries a lot for commonly used table designs. We are having to avoid the new Size Options in Object Styles. It seemed like a good feature that we had been waiting for... But not working for us yet.

I have attached a Library file with an item that will crash InDesign 13