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1. 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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2. ID very slow in scrolling with many tables

   When a document has many tables, even if small ones, scrolling is abysmally slow. You can't work on it, since you can't even stop scrolling when expected, since ID continue scrolling to previous or following pages as it likes.

   I had this same document in CS6 on a Mac mini Quad-Core 2012. It was faster than with the latest ID on a Mac mini M4 Pro.

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3. 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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4. undo not working properly InDesign 2026

   Undo not working properly InDesign 2026. It will work upon initially opening the application then randomly stop working with no history. On a Macbook Pro Nov 2024 - OS Tahoe 26.5.1

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5. Undo for Indesign does not work consistently for v21.5.1

   Undo for Indesign does not work consistently for v21.5.1. I have to quit and restart. I will work again, but then randomly stop working and I have to restart again. On MacBook Pro Nov 2024, OS Tahoe 26.5.1

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6. Cursor flickering throughout InDesign 21.5.1 on macOS Tahoe

   Since updating InDesign from 21.5 to 21.5.1, the cursor flickers and repeatedly switches between different pointer shapes/icons while working in InDesign. This occurs throughout the application, including over text, tables, frames and the pasteboard.

   System:

   MacBook Pro (2021), Apple M1
   macOS Tahoe 26.5.2
   InDesign 21.5.1
   Apple Magic Mouse
   Normally using two external monitors (one HDMI, one USB-C)

   Troubleshooting performed:

   Restarted InDesign and macOS multiple times
   Reset InDesign preferences
   Disconnected both external monitors and tested using only the MacBook display — the flickering continued
   Tested Photoshop — no cursor flickering
   Tested InDesign 20.5.4 — no cursor flickering
   Reverted InDesign from 21.5.1 back to 21.5 — the cursor flickering stopped

   The problem therefore appears to have been introduced in InDesign 21.5.1. The same hardware, mouse and macOS configuration work normally with InDesign 21.5.

   Please investigate the cursor/UI rendering changes introduced in 21.5.1 on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS Tahoe.

   Since updating InDesign from 21.5 to 21.5.1, the cursor flickers and repeatedly switches between different pointer shapes/icons while working in InDesign. This occurs throughout the application, including over text, tables, frames and the pasteboard.

   System:

   MacBook Pro (2021), Apple M1
   macOS Tahoe 26.5.2
   InDesign 21.5.1
   Apple Magic Mouse
   Normally using two external monitors (one HDMI, one USB-C)

   Troubleshooting performed:

   Restarted InDesign and macOS multiple times
   Reset InDesign preferences
   Disconnected both external monitors and tested using only the MacBook display — the flickering continued
   Tested Photoshop — no cursor flickering
   Tested InDesign 20.5.4 — no cursor flickering
   Reverted InDesign from 21.5.1… more

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7. Find/Change Custon Queries and Multi-Find/Change Extension

   The latest update to Indesign (verision 21.5.1) breaks Multi-Find/Change Extension and Custom (save) Queries menu in the Find/Change dialog box. As of the update I can perform only 1 task in Multi-Find Change. The task can be running a set of queries or importing a set or exporting a set. Whatever you do, you can only do 1 thing before crashing. Trying to do a second task results in a crash and quit of Indesign. Also the menu of saved queries in the Find/Change dialog is glitchy: sometimes showing and sometimes doing nothing. (Maybe this has something to do with the latest half-*** beta AI feature allowing conversation searching?) Had to revert to previous version.

   The latest update to Indesign (verision 21.5.1) breaks Multi-Find/Change Extension and Custom (save) Queries menu in the Find/Change dialog box. As of the update I can perform only 1 task in Multi-Find Change. The task can be running a set of queries or importing a set or exporting a set. Whatever you do, you can only do 1 thing before crashing. Trying to do a second task results in a crash and quit of Indesign. Also the menu of saved queries in the Find/Change dialog is glitchy: sometimes showing and sometimes doing nothing. (Maybe this has something to do with… more

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8. Pre-composed Hebrew characters do not track

   InDesign 21.1 ME
   Pre-composed Hebrew characters in many Hebrew fonts do not track through the Character panel, though precomposed Latin characters do (see image, line 5 versus line 9). I would expect that they track like any other discrete character.
   Many thanks for your help.

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9. Slow even with RTX 4070.

   I've used Adobe products for about 20 years, with all sorts of computers, good and bad, but it has always been a pleasant experience. But since 2-3 years ago, everything changed. I now really struggle on any app really even on top specs computers, in, photoshop, indesign, lightroom but especially Indesign. I have a Dell XPS with RTX 3070 desktop AND XPS RTX 4070 laptop. Both really amazing and new computers. Any other non-adobe software works flawlessly. Tried all the recommendation from Adobe, talked to technicians, still really laggy and worse with each updates...Unsubscribed after many thousand of dollars worth of adobe subscriptions...

   I've used Adobe products for about 20 years, with all sorts of computers, good and bad, but it has always been a pleasant experience. But since 2-3 years ago, everything changed. I now really struggle on any app really even on top specs computers, in, photoshop, indesign, lightroom but especially Indesign. I have a Dell XPS with RTX 3070 desktop AND XPS RTX 4070 laptop. Both really amazing and new computers. Any other non-adobe software works flawlessly. Tried all the recommendation from Adobe, talked to technicians, still really laggy and worse with each updates...Unsubscribed after many thousand of dollars worth… more

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10. Indesign freezes and Crashes when attempting to delete a row

    I am having an issue where InDesign is freezing and crashing after I try to delete a table row.

    I am unable to attach a DMP file even though your documentation asks for it.

    Only thing that seems to mitigate it is copying the INDD file, but the issue comes back after I work for a while.

    Using 21.4.1 x64 on Windows 11

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11. Save As not working again

    InDesign Classic 2026 21.4.1 x64 / Win11 Home 24 H2. Good grief. It's happening again!!! ---> To successsfully use "Save As" I must save with slight file name change to get it to save with correct date/time stamp. And yes -- we just had an MS OS update. Why is this still occasionally happening!? When does this problem finally get corrected so that saving a file --- a most critical thing to do --- works properly?

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12. Display glitch when multiple files open

    This has been most noticeable when we have multiple files open simultaneously. We work in a two-screen setup, so each of my team members will have the main INDD window on one screen and a reference INDD file on the second screen. As you're working in the main file, it will glitch at a diagonal to where most of your document is not visible. (see screenshot). This has been happening constantly for at least a month, if not longer. Version 21.4.1

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13. Bug Report: High Quality Display shows no improvement over Typical for large images (~45MP+)

    Placed raster images above roughly 45-48 megapixels show zero visible difference between Typical and High Quality Display Performance; both render a blocky, low-resolution proxy instead of the full-resolution source. The same content under ~38MP renders correctly with the expected difference.

    Steps to reproduce: place an RGB 8-bit image with total pixel count at or above ~45MP (e.g. 6000x8000px) at a large placed size (Effective PPI 700+). Switch between Typical and High Quality Display: no visible change. Reduce the same source to ~36-38MP (e.g. 6000px long side): renders correctly.

    Size pattern observed on the same source content: 8000px long side (~48MP), broken, no difference visible. 7500px (~42MP), partial improvement but still jagged. 6000px (~36-38MP), renders correctly. Orientation was tested and ruled out (wide/short vs narrow/tall at equal pixel count both broken), pointing to total pixel count or decoded buffer size rather than a single dimension.

    Environment: MacBook Pro M1, 64GB RAM, macOS 15.7.4. Reproduced identically on InDesign 21.4.1, 21.3, and 20.0.

    Already ruled out: single-version regression (broken on all three versions tested); corrupted preferences/cache (full reset, Cleaner Tool, reinstall); GPU vs CPU preview (Shift+E, no difference); external monitor (tested with internal display only); zoom level (tested up to 800%); object-level display override; file corruption (image rebuilt from scratch via copy-paste-flatten in Photoshop, same result); file format (PSD, TIFF, JPEG identical); color bit depth (8-bit and 16-bit identical); document-level cache (tested in fresh blank documents). Links panel shows no warnings and correct Effective PPI throughout.

    Likely area: since GPU and CPU preview modes behave identically, the limit appears to sit in the routine that decodes and caches full-resolution raster data for preview, not in the Metal/GPU renderer itself.

    Placed raster images above roughly 45-48 megapixels show zero visible difference between Typical and High Quality Display Performance; both render a blocky, low-resolution proxy instead of the full-resolution source. The same content under ~38MP renders correctly with the expected difference.

    Steps to reproduce: place an RGB 8-bit image with total pixel count at or above ~45MP (e.g. 6000x8000px) at a large placed size (Effective PPI 700+). Switch between Typical and High Quality Display: no visible change. Reduce the same source to ~36-38MP (e.g. 6000px long side): renders correctly.

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14. Cursor changes to spinning circle, and undo stops working

    This keeps happening, sometimes it's a new document. Cursor is spinning wheel but still functions, undo doesn't work either!

    Windows 11
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15. Pasteboard color

    Since the last update 2026, all documents with custom preview pasteboard colour (I prefer a dark gray) revert to the standard light gray pasteboard colour.

    Also: when changing the custom pasteboard colour I get a long list of standard colors with the custom colour on the bottom of the list, why such a long list and why not put custom on top in pop-up menu?

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16. HEIC file usability

    I just embedded twenty HEIC files in an INDD file and the file rapidly became extremely sluggish. The color wheel of death spun regularly for almost every 5th action step. Even simple adjustments into the file, caused the color wheel to spin. Its time to get this bug fixed from Indesign.

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17. The assignments panel is not showing in the editorial menu.

    I've already tried to reset the preferences, but no luck with that. It's just not there.

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18. [ID-4281542]Unable to move multiple objects when selecting image frames

    With the latest version of Indesign (21.4) I can't move multiple image frames any more unless I group them. This also applies when selecting an image frame and graphic elements such as rectangles or text frames, everything else deselects and stays put with the image moving. Except when I click and drag on the non image frame of the selection, then everything works as it should. Can you please fix this as it is highly annoying.

    Mac OS 26.5, Indesign 21.4

    Workaround:

    • Holding the Shift key while dragging allows the entire selection to move correctly.
    • Rolling back from InDesign 21.4 to InDesign 21.3 resolves the issue.

    With the latest version of Indesign (21.4) I can't move multiple image frames any more unless I group them. This also applies when selecting an image frame and graphic elements such as rectangles or text frames, everything else deselects and stays put with the image moving. Except when I click and drag on the non image frame of the selection, then everything works as it should. Can you please fix this as it is highly annoying.

    Mac OS 26.5, Indesign 21.4

    Workaround:

    • Holding the Shift key while dragging allows the entire selection to move correctly.
    • Rolling back from InDesign 21.4… more

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    FIXED  ·  AdminRavi Kiran (Admin, Adobe InDesign) responded

    InDesign 21.4.1, which includes the fix, is now live.

    
    

    The update should be available in the Creative Cloud app. If you do not see it yet, please click “Check for Updates” to refresh the available updates.

    
    

    Thank you for your patience and understanding while we worked to resolve this issue.

    
    

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19. Cursor Disappearing when placing images or resizing bounding box

    Cursor is disappearing when placing images and resizing bounding box. It's extremely annoying.

    InDesgin 21.3

    OS Tahoe 26.4.1

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20. Undo ocassionally not available

    Please fix undo. Version 21.3.0.60 on Mac, Undo functionality is disabled from time to time when working on larger and very complex document. No warning, just grayed out Undo in the menu. As far as I remember, it is not possible to quit the app without crash after this happens (twice or three times a month in my case). It is extremely frustrating and annoying bug.

    It is perhaps the same bug reported as “[ID-4274243] InDesign clearing Undo stack frequently” and falsely claimed as FIXED.

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