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  1. Severe InDesign Performance Issues

    I’m reporting severe and ongoing performance problems with InDesign that are significantly affecting day-to-day work.

    The application has become consistently slow and laggy during normal use — including delays when clicking, saving, zooming, switching pages, placing assets, and general UI responsiveness. At times, even simple actions take several seconds and the software feels almost unusable.

    While performance is worse when working from Dropbox-synced folders, the same lag and delays also occur when working with files stored fully locally. This suggests the issue is not limited to cloud storage and may be a broader performance problem within InDesign itself.

    This behavior…

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  2. Batch HTML Export Crashes InDesign 21.1

    Here is a (Gemini 3-assisted) report of an HTML export problem that is crashing InDesign consistently. It's somewhat urgent because crashing InDesign is not good for the nerves. Reverting to 21.0.1 permits the script to run to completion.

    Bug Report: Regression in HTML Export Automation (dvacore::xml / AXE8)
    Subject: InDesign 21.1 (and Prerelease) crashes with EXCEPTIONACCESSVIOLATION in dvacore::xml during iterative HTML Export scripting.
    Summary: Automated workflows that iterate through documents to export HTML (ExportFormat.HTML) fail consistently after processing 2–5 files. The crash occurs during the document closure or immediate post-processing phase of the export. This is a regression.…

    2 votes

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  3. Interactive Button

    Why not allow the “Create Button” option to navigate to a specific page and be exported as an interactive PDF?

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  4. PDF comments UI bug

    In the panel for "pdf comments" you can set a filter to show only some types of comments. If you open this panel, all "comment type fields" are unselected – although they can all be seen in the document (screenshot 1). This is a mistake. All the fields should be selected at this point.

    If you click on one or more types, only these types will be displayed in the InDesign document. Correct behavior now. (Screenshot 2)

    Tested with InDesign 2026 21.1 and 2026 Prerelease 21.2

    5 votes

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  5. Text boxes with rounded or beveled edges should have square (or controllable padding edges)

    I want to add text to a text frame with beveled edges without have to worry about the text being pushed by the bevel. Can we fix this?

    2 votes

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  6. 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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  7. unable to open any version of indesign, illustrator, photoshop or lightroom

    When attempting to open lightroom, indesign, illustrator, or photoshop on versions after 20.2 I am unable to without it either crashing or attempting to open. I was told by a service agent to just keep the old version till they fix it but it has been three months since this problem arose, and it is still not fixed. On top of this the older versions are running slower, and "help" pop ups have been popping up on my indesign and I am not able to close them.

    I have used adobe creative cloud suite for almost 8 years and have…

    1 vote

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  8. Workspace

    In the latest version of InDesign (2026 / 21.1), my custom workspaces do not work properly.
    I have always manually created 2 workspaces based on my most used tools in all previous versions of ID. However in the latest relaese, whenever I start the program or when I reset my workspace it loads certain panels which are not open when I save the workspace. Most notibly the History, Gradient and CC Libraries panels keep coming back.

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  9. Slow

    Please fix bugs in the latest update. The INDD has become so slow, and became pretty much unusable.
    This is affecting my work productivity (on Windows) big time.

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  10. Use of Paragraph Rules results in untagged PDF path elements

    InDesign 21.1

    Action: Apply Paragraph Rule

    Expected Result: Rules are tagged as artifacts when exporting to PDF

    Actual Result: The resulting path gets included in tagging, but is not tagged as an artifact. This results in errors when auditing for WCAG 2.1 compliance.

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  11. Indesign não consegue importar determinados objetos de um arquivo do Illustrator ou em PDF.

    Ao importamos com link ativado um arquivo do Illustrator, algumas camadas somem. Percebo que o erro ocorre de forma mais consistente com fotografias. Às vezes, alguns objetos coloridos mais complexos, como shapes com gradiente ou marcas muito coloridas, são importadas com erro ou simplesmente não aparecem.
    Exportei em PDF e o erro persiste. O que me faz acreditar que o erro esteja no módulo de importação com compatibilidade PDF.

    Ao importar em .jpg, vem normalmente, mas isso gera mais tempo de trabalho e tenho que importar todas as paginas novamente.

    Indesign: v21.1
    Illustrator: beta v30.3 (same occurs on 30.1 normal…

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  12. graphic frame anchor proxy not visible

    Graphic frame does not include an anchor proxy symbol (unanchored) or a small blue dot (anchored). Screen mode is normal, show hidden characters is enabled, frame is not on a master page.

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  13. Change language

    Hi
    I have installed InDesign version 21.1 x64 for Windows with norwegian menus. I try to change menus from norwegian to english, but it does not work. I uninstalled InDesign and went to Creative Cloud Desktop -Apps. - Preferences - and changed the language to english and reinstalled InDesign. The menus are still in Norwegian. Why does that happen? Will you please give me an answer.
    Sincerly Gunnar Eggen, mailaddress: gunnar.eggen@gmail.com

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  14. Lenteur extrême indesign 2026

    Bonjour,
    depuis environ 1 semaine (dernière mise à jour 21.1 x64 d'InDesign sur PC), chaque lettre ajoutée à un document dans InDesign 2026 met presque 10 secondes avant d'apparaître et que je puisse agir de nouveau sur mon document. Même chose pour sélectionner un mot ou pour effectuer la moindre action dans un texte en cours d'édition. seule le curseur bouge normalement, mais il disparaît tant que l'action en cours n'a pas été réalisée.
    J'ai désinstallé et réinstallé InDesign en supprimant les préférences. rien n'a changé.
    J'ai réinitialisé les préférences et rien n'a changé.
    Mon système est très récent :…

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  15. Table of Contents running heads

    The Table of Contents should have an option to include just the running head portion of a paragraph, often in a bold style in my documents. Otherwise one has to manually strip out all the text that follows after a running head in the Table of Contents.

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  16. text dissapere when editing

    The documents text dissapeares when I'm editing text - why - and I have the latest version 21.1

    3 votes

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  17. BUG: InDesign 2025–2026 forces pasted Illustrator vectors to embedded EPS

    Description:
    InDesign 2025–2026 frequently forces pasted Illustrator vector artwork to be placed as embedded EPS, even when the artwork is extremely simple (few paths, no effects, no transparency).

    When pasting from Illustrator, the following warning appears:
    “This command would create a large number of page items and would severely degrade performance. Data will be placed as embedded EPS.”

    After confirming the warning, the pasted object is no longer editable:
    - Ungroup is unavailable
    - Individual vector paths cannot be selected
    - Fill and stroke cannot be edited
    - The object cannot be used as an image frame

    Steps to Reproduce:…

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  18. Tables and text randomly disappear in Adobe InDesign document

    While working in Adobe InDesign, tables and text frames intermittently disappear from the document, even though their frames and guides are still visible. As shown in the attached image, content that should be displayed (tables and text) is no longer visible on the page layout.

    This issue occurs during normal editing and navigation of the document and does not appear to be related to hidden layers or visibility settings. The problem affects document review and editing, making it difficult to verify content accuracy.

    3 votes

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  19. ePub synthetic spread export not including xml / html language tags

    1. Version 21.0

    2. When exporting a Fixed Layout EPUB with the <Enable Synthetic Spreads> option, the language tags are not exporting in the HTML, which is an issue for accessibility. The language tags ARE exported properly when the <Convert Spread to Landscape Page> option is chosen, so this clearly seems to be a glitch with this particular export option.

    3. I would expect the following code to be at the top of each of the HTML files <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns:epub="http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops">, and this at the top of the OPF file: <package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" version="3.0" unique-identifier="bookid" prefix="ibooks: http://vocabulary.itunes.apple.com/rdf/ibooks/vocabulary-extensions-1.0/" xml:lang="en">

    4. However, the exported files…

    3 votes

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  20. Linked images are not loading after Mac OS upgrade to Tahoe 26.2

    Linked images are coming up distorted/warped after upgrading my Mac's OS to Tahoe 26.2. Can be corrected by manually relinking all the images, but what a pain. Screenshot example included.

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