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1. macOS system fonts in older documents

   When opening documents in 21.4.1.4 that were created in a version < 21.4 and that use macOS system fonts, those system fonts show as <Font Status="NotAvailable"/> in IDML exported from 21.4., and as FontStatus.NOT_AVAILABLE from the ExtendScript interface. They look installed and normal in Find/Replace Font.... Doing things to try to trigger a refresh, like app.updateFonts(), or typing inside a range of text in the document that uses the font, does not fix it; round-tripping IDML does.

   This affects some of our automated workflows.

   I'm not sure if this happens with every macOS system font, but I have seen it with more than one. The attached document, saved in 21.3, uses Avenir.

   I would suspect that this problem was introduced by the fix for [ID-4272938] After installing a Windows 11 update, InDesign is unable to find the Times New Roman and Calibri fonts

   When opening documents in 21.4.1.4 that were created in a version < 21.4 and that use macOS system fonts, those system fonts show as <Font Status="NotAvailable"/> in IDML exported from 21.4., and as FontStatus.NOT_AVAILABLE from the ExtendScript interface. They look installed and normal in Find/Replace Font.... Doing things to try to trigger a refresh, like app.updateFonts(), or typing inside a range of text in the document that uses the font, does not fix it; round-tripping IDML does.

   This affects some of our automated workflows.

   I'm not sure if this happens with every macOS system font, but I have… more

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2. InDesign 2026: CMYK objects on the pasteboard display darker with Overprint Preview or Separations Preview Body I am experiencing a displa

   I am experiencing a display issue in InDesign 2026 when using Overprint Preview or Separations Preview.

   CMYK objects placed on the pasteboard (outside the page) become significantly darker, while the same objects displayed inside the page remain correct.

   The same document does not show this issue in InDesign 2025.

   I have tested this issue in multiple versions of InDesign 2026:

   Version 21.4.1.4
   Version 21.5.1

   The same issue occurs in both versions.

   Environment
   Adobe InDesign 2026
   Versions tested: 21.4.1.4 and 21.5.1
   Mac mini M4 Pro
   macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 (25G83)
   Monitor: EIZO ColorEdge CX240
   Connection: USB-C to DisplayPort
   Issue

   I have CMYK text and graphic objects positioned so that they extend from the page area onto the pasteboard.

   In Normal Preview, everything displays correctly both inside the page and on the pasteboard.

   However, when print simulation preview modes are enabled, the objects on the pasteboard display incorrectly.

   When Overprint Preview is enabled

   When I enable:

   View > Overprint Preview

   the display changes as follows:

   CMYK objects inside the page → display correctly
   The same CMYK objects on the pasteboard → become significantly darker
   Placed photos on the pasteboard → may disappear

   The CMYK values of the objects are the same.

   The appearance changes specifically when the object crosses from the page area onto the pasteboard.

   Separations Preview test

   I also tested:

   Window > Output > Separations Preview

   Preview: Off
   Inside page → Correct
   Pasteboard → Correct
   Preview: Separations
   Inside page → Correct
   Pasteboard → CMYK objects become significantly darker
   The same issue occurs as with Overprint Preview

   Therefore, the problem also occurs when Separations Preview is set to Separations.

   Both Overprint Preview and Separations Preview produce the same incorrect display behavior on the pasteboard.

   Summary of test results
   Preview mode Inside page Pasteboard
   Normal Preview Correct Correct
   Separations Preview: Off Correct Correct
   Overprint Preview Correct CMYK becomes darker / images may display incorrectly
   Separations Preview: Separations Correct CMYK becomes darker / same issue
   Comparison with InDesign 2025

   I tested the same document in InDesign 2025.

   With Overprint Preview enabled, objects display correctly both inside the page and on the pasteboard.

   However, the issue occurs in InDesign 2026.

   I tested:

   Version 21.4.1.4
   Version 21.5.1

   and the same issue occurs in both versions.

   This appears to be a possible display regression or rendering issue introduced in InDesign 2026.

   Steps to reproduce
   Create a new document
   Create a text or graphic object with a CMYK fill
   Position the object so that it extends from the page onto the pasteboard

   Enable either:

   View > Overprint Preview

   or

   Window > Output > Separations Preview > Preview: Separations
   Compare the appearance of the object inside the page and on the pasteboard

   The CMYK object displays correctly inside the page but significantly darker on the pasteboard.

   Expected result

   The same CMYK object should display consistently and correctly both inside the page and on the pasteboard when Overprint Preview or Separations Preview is enabled.

   At minimum, I would expect the same behavior as InDesign 2025.

   I would appreciate it if others could test whether this issue can be reproduced on other systems, or confirm whether there has been an intentional change to pasteboard rendering in InDesign 2026.

   Screenshots are attached.

   I am experiencing a display issue in InDesign 2026 when using Overprint Preview or Separations Preview.

   CMYK objects placed on the pasteboard (outside the page) become significantly darker, while the same objects displayed inside the page remain correct.

   The same document does not show this issue in InDesign 2025.

   I have tested this issue in multiple versions of InDesign 2026:

   Version 21.4.1.4
   Version 21.5.1

   The same issue occurs in both versions.

   Environment
   Adobe InDesign 2026
   Versions tested: 21.4.1.4 and 21.5.1
   Mac mini M4 Pro
   macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 (25G83)
   Monitor: EIZO ColorEdge CX240
   Connection: USB-C to DisplayPort
   Issue

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3. spinning wheel effing up programme v21.3

   This just started randomly happening in the middle of a working day and now won't go away.

   The spinning wheel appears when working on a file (normally placing images). I can close the job, but I cannot save (unless I "save as" again), cannot undo anything, and other menu items are greyed out as well. The programme won't close, and I have to force quit. Making it impossible to get through a job.

   No background tasks are appearing.

   I have had two remote sessions with Adobe agents, and both times they did something different that was supposed to "fix" the problem. Still having the problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   1st fix (completely uninstalled everything Adobe related on my computer and reinstalled everything. All preferences and saved settings removed. DIDN'T WORK

   2nd fix - updating graphics card that was out of date. Worked for the rest of the day and then started the following day again.
   The jobs are not large, and the graphics are not complex.

   ADOBE FIX YOUR PROGRAMMES PROPERLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   This just started randomly happening in the middle of a working day and now won't go away.

   The spinning wheel appears when working on a file (normally placing images). I can close the job, but I cannot save (unless I "save as" again), cannot undo anything, and other menu items are greyed out as well. The programme won't close, and I have to force quit. Making it impossible to get through a job.

   No background tasks are appearing.

   I have had two remote sessions with Adobe agents, and both times they did something different that was supposed to "fix" the… more

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4. bugs with version 21.4

   Since version 21.4, there have been a lot of bugs and slowdowns while working.
   The process freezes very quickly, and I am forced to force-quit the application to close the software.

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5. Table of Contents Generation Silently Excludes Content Despite Correct Styling

   Summary
   Layout > Table of Contents fails to generate entries for a specific chapter document ("1Part 1FTCIT 3RD ED.indd") within a book project, even though the target paragraph style is confirmed correctly applied, the TOC style's Include list is confirmed correct, and the issue persists after rebuilding the TOC style from scratch, rebuilding the document via IDML export/re-import, and testing with brand-new, untethered content. A control test in a brand-new, unrelated document with a brand-new paragraph style and TOC style generated correctly on the first attempt, ruling out the application installation/preferences as the cause.

   Environment
   Application: Adobe InDesign 2026
   Build: 21.4.0.74
   OS: macOS Tahoe 26.5.2
   Project type: InDesign Book (.indb) with 9 linked chapter documents, synchronized paragraph/character styles

   Expected Behavior
   Running Layout > Table of Contents with a paragraph style included in the TOC style's "Include Paragraph Styles" list should generate a TOC entry for every paragraph using that style — whether scanning a single document or, with "Include Book Documents" enabled, across every chapter in the book.

   Actual Behavior
   When generating from the book's Front Matter/Preface document with "Include Book Documents" enabled, only two of nine chapters (Part 7 and Back Matter) produce entries. The other seven, including Part 1, are silently omitted — no error, no warning, just missing entries. This was traced down to Part 1 failing to generate any TOC entries even in complete isolation from the rest of the book.
   Isolation Steps Taken (in order) and Results
   Confirmed paragraph styles are synchronized and named identically across all chapter documents via the Book panel's synced-style indicator and manual inspection. (No issue found.)
   Saved all chapters via "Save Book" to rule out stale/unsaved content being read by TOC generation. (No change.)
   Checked Book panel status icons for broken links or "needs saving" flags on all chapters. (All normal.)
   Searched for duplicate/similarly-named paragraph styles (e.g., a style nested in a group vs. a flat style of the same visible name) using Find/Change with Format-based search, scope "All Documents." Confirmed the target style ("Chapter Titles") is found correctly in every chapter, including Part 1. (No duplicate found.)
   Checked layer visibility, conditional text, and master-page overrides on Part 1's chapter title frame. Layer visible, conditional text set to [Unconditional], frame is a local page item (not an un-overridden master item). (No issue found.)
   Checked Book panel > Synchronize Options to confirm "TOC Style" was included in the sync categories, then re-ran Synchronize Book. (No change.)
   Rebuilt the TOC style's Include Paragraph Styles list by removing and re-adding the target style fresh from the document's own current style catalog. (No change.)
   Isolated Part 1 completely from the book: generated a TOC from within Part 1 alone, with "Include Book Documents" unchecked, so the scan could only read Part 1's own content. Result: empty — not even Part 1's own chapter title appeared, despite the paragraph being confirmed (via clicking into it with the Type tool) to carry the correct paragraph style, and despite Include Book Documents being off (so no other document could be responsible).
   Tested a brand-new, untethered text frame inside the same document, with freshly typed text and a freshly applied instance of the same paragraph style. (Still empty — rules out frame/thread-level corruption of the original title frame, a known InDesign issue with a similar symptom.)
   Rebuilt the entire chapter document via File > Export > IDML, then reopened and re-saved as .indd. Re-ran the isolated test. (Still empty — rules out low-level document corruption that an IDML round-trip would normally clear.)
   Built an entirely new, independent TOC style from scratch ("New," not "Edit"), including only the target paragraph style. (Still empty — rules out corruption in the original TOC style object itself.)
   Confirmed via Select All (Cmd+A) inside the empty TOC result frame that no invisible/mis-styled text was being generated — the frame is genuinely empty, not a display/formatting issue. (Confirmed empty.)
   Control test: created a brand-new, completely unrelated document with a new paragraph style and new TOC style, no connection to the book project. Result: generated correctly on the first attempt. (This rules out the InDesign installation and preferences as the cause — the bug is confined to this specific project/document.)
   Notes
   Because a from-scratch document reproduces correctly, this does not appear to be a universal, easily-reproducible bug — it appears to be tied to some state specific to this document or book file that we were unable to identify or clear through normal means (resaving, resyncing, style rebuilding, or IDML export/re-import).

   Several users have reported the same core symptom (paragraph style confirmed correct, TOC style confirmed correct, entries still silently missing, sometimes traced to text frame threading) in Adobe's own community forums, without a definitive root-cause fix:
   community.adobe.com — "InDesign generates an empty table of contents" (thread 868203)
   community.adobe.com — "Table of Contents missing paragraph styles" (thread 11722707)
   community.adobe.com — "Adobe InDesign TOC Not Populating" (thread 13721262)
   Source files (the .indb and affected chapter .indd files) are available and can be provided to Adobe engineering to aid reproduction, if requested.

   Impact
   Blocks generation of a working, complete Table of Contents for a 9-chapter book project ready for publication.

   Summary
   Layout > Table of Contents fails to generate entries for a specific chapter document ("1Part 1FTCIT 3RD ED.indd") within a book project, even though the target paragraph style is confirmed correctly applied, the TOC style's Include list is confirmed correct, and the issue persists after rebuilding the TOC style from scratch, rebuilding the document via IDML export/re-import, and testing with brand-new, untethered content. A control test in a brand-new, unrelated document with a brand-new paragraph style and TOC style generated correctly on the first attempt, ruling out the application installation/preferences as the cause.

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6. InDesign deletes alt text when updating images - STOP IT

   Please stop removing alt text every time an image is updated. I worked for hours on that alt text and it has been completely deleted. More work for me now.

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7. AI content labelling

   Hi, I just opened indesign to see my own work labelled as AI generated. I haven't used any AI tools to produce any of my data, yet it appears as such in many instances. Are these metadata stores upon export too? How is Adobe going to address this? This basically robs me of my copyrights. Would appreciate if this was only toggle on/off feature, and not the default.
   Cheers,
   Tomas

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8. Alt+drag duplicates only one object

   When two or more placed/linked files are selected and duplicated using Alt+drag, only one of the objects is duplicated.

   (Workaround: Grouping the linked objects before Alt+drag works as expected

   Indesign 21.4
   macOS Tahoe Version 26.5.1

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9. function stops working

   More and more often in InDesign, the "Edit > Undo Move" (or "Undo") function stops working—it’s greyed out. It’s really frustrating!
   Thanks, everyone.

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10. Indesign 2026 freezes sometimes when adding a graphic
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11. InDesign 2026 (macOS): every open CEP panel costs ~20–25% CPU continuously

    InDesign 2026 (macOS): every open CEP panel costs ~20–25% CPU continuously — the host redraws the panel at display refresh rate even when the panel is completely static

    Summary

    With any CEP (HTML) extension panel open, the InDesign process burns roughly
    20–25% CPU permanently on a 120 Hz display, with no user interaction and no
    activity in the panel. Each additional open panel adds the same again (three
    panels ≈ 75%). Closing the panel, or collapsing it to a dock icon, returns
    InDesign to its ~5% idle baseline immediately.

    Call-stack sampling shows InDesign's main thread spending ~67% of its time in
    -[MTKView draw] → PlugPlugOwl.framework, which on EVERY display-link tick
    allocates a new MTLTexture, runs a CPU pixel-conversion pass over the whole
    panel bitmap, and uploads the full bitmap with
    -[MTLTexture replaceRegion:mipmapLevel:withBytes:bytesPerRow:] — even though
    the panel's renderer (CEPHtmlEngine) is idle and has produced no new frame.
    The MTKView appears to be in continuous-draw mode at the display's native
    refresh rate rather than paused-and-drawn-on-demand.

    Illustrator 2026 on the same machine, with the same PlugPlugOwl 12.1.0.5
    build, does NOT show this: opening a CEP panel there adds no CPU at all. So
    the issue is in InDesign's hosting of the CEP view, not in CEP/CEF itself.

    Environment

    • Adobe InDesign 2026, version 21.5.1.73 (build 21510)
    • macOS 26.6.2 (25G83), Apple M1 (8-core), 16 GB
    • Display: DELL U2725QE, 3840×2160 at 120 Hz, UI scaled to 1920×1080 (2×)
    • CEP 12.1.0 (CSXS 12); PlugPlugOwl.framework 12.1.0.5 inside the InDesign app bundle; CEPHtmlEngine Chrome/99.0.4844.84
    • CEP PlayerDebugMode = 1 (unsigned development panels), but the panels used are ordinary HTML panels with no special CEF command-line flags
    • For comparison: Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.8.0) — same machine, same PlugPlugOwl build — is unaffected
    • Persists after a full restart of InDesign: [ ] yes / [ ] no ← fill in

    Steps to reproduce

    1. Launch InDesign, let it settle, watch the InDesign process in Activity Monitor: ~5% CPU at idle.
    2. Open any CEP HTML panel. (Reproduced with three different in-house panels; the one used for the measurements below is a fully static page — no timers, no requestAnimationFrame, no CSS animations, no polling.)
    3. Do nothing. InDesign's CPU rises by ~20–25% and stays there for as long as the panel is open.
    4. Open a second and third panel: each adds ~20–25% more (≈75% with three).
    5. Close a panel: CPU drops by the same amount immediately. Collapse a panel to a dock icon: same — cost goes to zero.

    Expected

    An idle panel should cost ~0%. The host should redraw the panel's view only
    when CEF delivers a new frame.

    Actual

    The host redraws — and re-uploads the full panel bitmap to a NEW Metal
    texture — on every vblank, regardless of whether the panel content changed.

    Evidence

    1. It is the InDesign process, not the panel's renderer. With one static
    panel open (Activity Monitor): InDesign 50–58% (with sample running
    concurrently; ~30% without), the panel's CEPHtmlEngine process 0.8%. A Chrome
    DevTools Protocol CPU profile of the panel page over the same period was
    99.7% idle, and document.getAnimations() returned an empty list — the page
    produced no new frames.

    2. Call-stack sample (attached: indesign-sample-one-panel-open.txt,
    sample <pid> 5 at 1 ms). Of 3465 main-thread samples, 2310 (67%) are:

    -[NSApplication run] … __CFRunLoopRun → _dispatch_main_queue_drain
      → __23-[MTKView __initCommon]_block_invoke (MetalKit)
        → -[MTKView draw]
          → PlugPlugOwl +0xf0ea8 → +0xf03ec → +0xf07ec           (2302 samples)
              ├─ PlugPlugOwl +0xf0da4 → +0xf5b20/+0xf5b64/…   (1216 samples — a per-pixel CPU loop over the panel bitmap)
              ├─ PlugPlugOwl +0xf0874 → -[IOGPUMetalTexture replaceRegion:mipmapLevel:withBytes:bytesPerRow:]
              │     → AGX::Texture::writeRegion / processCompressedRegion2D   (342 samples — full-bitmap upload)
              ├─ PlugPlugOwl +0xf0744 → -[AGXTexture initWithDevice:desc:…] → IOGPUResourceCreate   (35 samples — a NEW texture every frame)
              └─ PlugPlugOwl +0xf087c → _xzm_free_large_huge   (freeing a large buffer every frame)
    

    The CEP CVDisplayLink thread in the same sample shows MetalKit's
    DisplayLinkCallback → dispatch_source_merge_data → _dispatch_runloop_queue_poke
    on every vblank — i.e. the MTKView is running with isPaused = NO /
    enableSetNeedsDisplay = NO at the display's refresh rate.

    For comparison, indesign-sample-panels-closed.txt is the same sample with
    all panels closed: the main thread is ~96% blocked in mach_msg and there
    are no PlugPlugOwl frames at all.

    3. The cost tracks the display refresh rate. Switching the display from
    120 Hz to 60 Hz (nothing else changed) roughly halved InDesign's CPU with the
    panel open (one measurement: 58% → 24%).

    4. The cost tracks the panel's pixel area. Resizing the panel larger /
    smaller moves InDesign's CPU up / down accordingly.

    5. A collapsed (icon-docked) panel costs nothing — consistent with the
    per-frame work being proportional to the view's size.

    6. Illustrator is unaffected. Same machine, same session, Illustrator
    2026 with a CEP panel open stays at ~2% CPU.

    Impact

    Every CEP extension — third-party and Adobe's own — costs a sustained ~20–25%
    of a CPU core per open panel on any 120 Hz display, which includes every
    MacBook Pro since 2021 (ProMotion). Users who keep two or three panels open
    have InDesign sitting at 50–75% CPU all day: lag, fans, battery drain, and the
    effect compounds with other work. Users are unlikely to attribute it to the
    panels since the panels themselves look idle and their renderer processes
    show ~0%.

    Related reports

    • InDesign 2022 17.3 – HIGH CPU when idle
      (community forum, Jul 2022 – Jan 2024, unresolved). Very likely this same
      bug seen from the outside: 30–40% idle CPU in the InDesign process itself
      (the reporter ruled out CEPHtmlEngine when staff pointed at it) on a 16"
      M1 Max MacBook Pro — a 120 Hz ProMotion display — persisting from 17.0
      through the 2024 release. The default workspace includes the CC Libraries
      panel, which is a CEP panel, so a user needs no third-party extension to
      hit it. Quick check for that thread's reporters: collapse the Libraries
      panel to an icon and watch the CPU drop.

    • High GPU load on macOS 26 Tahoe
      (Illustrator UserVoice, also reported for InDesign; status "Started",
      3 Aug 2026: "platform-level compositing issue … flagged with Apple",
      workaround in Illustrator beta 30.8.0.72). Adjacent but NOT the same
      issue — that one is WindowServer GPU with the app's CPU low, whereas this
      is CPU inside the InDesign process in its own MTKView draw. Please don't
      merge them; note that Illustrator 30.8.0, which carries that workaround,
      is the app that does NOT show this problem.

    Suggested fix

    In the InDesign side of the CEP view hosting (PlugPlugOwl's MTKView usage):

    • Run the MTKView paused (isPaused = YES, enableSetNeedsDisplay = YES) and call setNeedsDisplay only when CEF delivers a new frame (OnPaint), the way Illustrator's hosting evidently already behaves.
    • Reuse one MTLTexture per view rather than allocating and freeing one per frame, and skip the CPU conversion + upload when the frame is unchanged.

    Workarounds for affected users

    • Set the display refresh rate to 60 Hz (halves the cost).
    • Collapse panels to dock icons when not in use (cost goes to zero).
    • Keep panels closed rather than open-but-idle.

    Attachments

    • indesign-sample-one-panel-open.txt — sample of the InDesign process, 5 s at 1 ms, one static CEP panel open.
    • indesign-sample-panels-closed.txt — same, all panels closed (baseline).

    This bug report produced at my request by Claude Code Fable.

    InDesign 2026 (macOS): every open CEP panel costs ~20–25% CPU continuously — the host redraws the panel at display refresh rate even when the panel is completely static

    Summary

    With any CEP (HTML) extension panel open, the InDesign process burns roughly
    20–25% CPU permanently on a 120 Hz display, with no user interaction and no
    activity in the panel. Each additional open panel adds the same again (three
    panels ≈ 75%). Closing the panel, or collapsing it to a dock icon, returns
    InDesign to its ~5% idle baseline immediately.

    Call-stack sampling shows InDesign's main thread spending ~67% of its time… more

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12. Puntero de mouse queda trabado con icono de reloj y permite trabajar a medias

    Apenas se abre el programa y selecciono una herramienta, el puntero queda trabado con ese icono, permite seleccionar menues pero no puedo hacer nada mas y es mucho peor cuando inserto una imagen, se crashea todo y es imposible tener un flujo de trabajo, no se soluciona incluso al reiniciar el programa. La unica forma de salir es a través de el finalizardor de tareas.
    No puedo deshacer ninguna accion y los menues que se abren estas en blanco.

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13. Pointer disappears / shows unrelated shape after ~10–15 min of use — requires force quit

    Environment:
    InDesign 21.5.1
    macOS Tahoe 26.6.2
    Mac Studio, Apple M1 Max

    Description:
    After roughly 10–15 minutes of normal use, the pointer stops behaving correctly. No specific action seems to trigger it — it just starts happening during regular work. The pointer either disappears completely or displays a random shape unrelated to the current tool or action. Once this occurs, InDesign becomes unresponsive and the only way to recover is to force quit and relaunch the app.

    Steps to reproduce:

    Open InDesign and work as usual.
    Continue working for approximately 10–15 minutes (no specific trigger identified).
    Observe the pointer.

    Expected behavior: Pointer reflects the active tool/action as normal.

    Actual behavior: Pointer disappears or shows a random, unrelated shape. InDesign then stops responding and must be force quit.

    Workaround: None. Force quit and restart InDesign to restore normal function.

    Frequency: Consistent, occurs after ~10–15 minutes of use.

    Environment:
    InDesign 21.5.1
    macOS Tahoe 26.6.2
    Mac Studio, Apple M1 Max

    Description:
    After roughly 10–15 minutes of normal use, the pointer stops behaving correctly. No specific action seems to trigger it — it just starts happening during regular work. The pointer either disappears completely or displays a random shape unrelated to the current tool or action. Once this occurs, InDesign becomes unresponsive and the only way to recover is to force quit and relaunch the app.

    Steps to reproduce:

    Open InDesign and work as usual.
    Continue working for approximately 10–15 minutes (no specific trigger identified).
    Observe the pointer.

    Expected behavior:… more

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14. Duplicated layers when placing Illustrator files

    When an Illustrator file is placed in InDesign, the tab with Layer options shows multiple versions of the same layers. The number of layers is multiplied by the number of artboards.

    I see this issue with newly created Illustrator files. The older .ai files are placed correctly.

    InDesign 20.5
    Illustrator 29.8.1
    macOS

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15. [ID-4272090]Blank Save As dialog is displayed

    When I hit File > Save, it's like the Save box won't "charge". I don't have this issue with the previous version 20.5

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    Need More Info  ·  AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

    Thank you for contacting us and bringing the issue in the latest release of Adobe InDesign to our attention. We sincerely regret the inconvenience this has caused and fully understand how disruptive such interruptions can be to your workflow.

    Our preliminary analysis indicates that this issue may be an isolated scenario. We have identified a workaround that can help resolve the issue.

    Please rename the following folders:

    – Rename the CEP folder to CEP.old from:

    • macOS: /Library/Application Support/Adobe

    • Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe

    If that doesn't help, rename the UXP folder to UXP.old from:

    • macOS: /Library/Application Support/Adobe and ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe

    • Windows: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe and C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe

    Once done, relaunch InDesign and check again.

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16. InDesign window opening between two monitors

    In InDesign 2026 (v 21.51), I'm having troubles opening files by right-clicking on them in my Microsoft File Explorer. I'll have InDesign running, but with the program window collapsed. Then when I try to right click an INDD file and select to open it with InDesign 2026, the program window pops up and opens the file, but the window is split between my two external monitors and the aspect ration is off. Then I end up having to shut InDesign down entirely to get it to revert back. This only happens so far when the program window is collapsed to my taskbar - but it's been happening for several months to no avail with prior updates.

    In InDesign 2026 (v 21.51), I'm having troubles opening files by right-clicking on them in my Microsoft File Explorer. I'll have InDesign running, but with the program window collapsed. Then when I try to right click an INDD file and select to open it with InDesign 2026, the program window pops up and opens the file, but the window is split between my two external monitors and the aspect ration is off. Then I end up having to shut InDesign down entirely to get it to revert back. This only happens so far when the program window is collapsed to… more

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17. Incorrect PDF Tagging for Tables Split Across Pages with Repeated Header Rows

    When exporting a tagged PDF from InDesign, tables that span multiple pages and use repeated header rows are tagged incorrectly.

    Instead of generating a single table structure, the exported PDF creates repeated <THead> and <TBody> elements within the same table:

    <Table>
    ├─ <THead>
    ├─ <TBody>
    ├─ <THead>
    └─ <TBody>

    This results in an invalid or semantically incorrect table structure for PDF accessibility.

    Expected Behavior:

    Option 1 (structurally correct, though not ideal semantically):
    Each table continuation on a new page should be exported as a separate table:

    <Table>
    ├─ <THead>
    └─ <TBody>
     
    <Table>
    ├─ <THead>
    └─ <TBody>

    Option 2 (preferred, semantically and structurally correct):
    The entire table should be exported as a single tagged table:

    <Table>
    ├─ <THead>
    └─ <TBody>

    In this case, the automatically repeated visual table header on subsequent pages should be marked as an Artifact and not be included as a second <THead> element in the tag structure.

    Impact:
    The current tagging can lead to accessibility issues, incorrect table semantics, and potential PDF/UA compliance problems for assistive technologies.

    When exporting a tagged PDF from InDesign, tables that span multiple pages and use repeated header rows are tagged incorrectly.

    Instead of generating a single table structure, the exported PDF creates repeated <THead> and <TBody> elements within the same table:

    <Table>
    ├─ <THead>
    ├─ <TBody>
    ├─ <THead>
    └─ <TBody>

    This results in an invalid or semantically incorrect table structure for PDF accessibility.

    Expected Behavior:

    Option 1 (structurally correct, though not ideal semantically):
    Each table continuation on a new page should be exported as a separate table:

    <Table>
    ├─ <THead>
    └─ <TBody>
     
    <Table>
    ├─ <THead>
    └─ <TBody>

    Option 2 (preferred,… more

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18. InDesign 21.1 x64 on PC: panels not expanding when clicking on the icon

    Panels sometimes do not expand when clicking on an icon in the right-hand column of panels. It seems random. Sometimes the panel you choose expands when you click on the icon (as it should), but sometimes you have to click the two little chevrons pointing leftward at the top of the column of icons, which makes them all expand and it's a mess to work with. Only the one you click on should expand, but sometimes it doesn't.

    This isn't a new bug. There were previous submissions about this and the issue was supposedly resolved, but it is NOT. The comments are closed, so I couldn't comment on there that the issue is not resolved. This has been happening ever since the first upgrade at the beginning of the year. I'm on the latest update and still having this issue.

    Panels sometimes do not expand when clicking on an icon in the right-hand column of panels. It seems random. Sometimes the panel you choose expands when you click on the icon (as it should), but sometimes you have to click the two little chevrons pointing leftward at the top of the column of icons, which makes them all expand and it's a mess to work with. Only the one you click on should expand, but sometimes it doesn't.

    This isn't a new bug. There were previous submissions about this and the issue was supposedly resolved, but it is NOT. The… more

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19. [ID-4270896] Workspace resets every time I open (InDesign 2026)

    On the new InDesign (v21.0) all of my workspaces have been reset and aren't saving properly every time I open a new document. I even set up my docked tabs and tab groups and saved them to a NEW workspace within a fresh 2026 file, and it reset to a default state next time it's opened. It seems to ignore all of the tools I've chosen to remove from their tab groups and opens with all of the default tools within those tab groups.

    The screenshot with all of the icons is what all of my workspaces revert to upon opening InDesign 2026, while the other screenshot is what I've saved my workspace to include.

    On the new InDesign (v21.0) all of my workspaces have been reset and aren't saving properly every time I open a new document. I even set up my docked tabs and tab groups and saved them to a NEW workspace within a fresh 2026 file, and it reset to a default state next time it's opened. It seems to ignore all of the tools I've chosen to remove from their tab groups and opens with all of the default tools within those tab groups.

    The screenshot with all of the icons is what all of my workspaces revert to upon… more

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    This issue is being reviewed.

    
    

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20. Tiny bug within the German UI: GREP style sub menu is missing "aus"

    Please add the German word " aus" (more correct: a space and the word aus) after "Mehrere Zeilen" in the GREP style sub menu within the German InDesign.

    This " aus" (= "off") is missing since at least v2016!

    Screenshot 1 shows the english version, srceenshot 2 how it should look like in German(of course not in red color).

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    FIXED  ·  AdminRavi Kiran (Admin, Adobe InDesign) responded

    This issue is fixed in the latest InDesign Release 21.1

    Please update your version of InDesign to this latest release whenever it becomes available in your locale via the CCD app.

    
    

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