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1. Margins and guides don't work regardless of preview mode or not

   The margins and guides disappeared and don't show when i click show and fix up the margin size. The feature just stopped working and doesn't want to even after computer restart and reinstallation of Indesign.

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2. Save As, Export and import file locations not behaving after Mac OS Tahoe update

   Previously for many older versions of Indesign, Indesign will remember your document, PDF export and import locations.

   Save As would always take you to where your current document is, PDF export would take you to your last PDF export location for that particular document, and Import would take you to your last import location.

   Since upgrading to Mac OS Tahoe - all of this has gone haywire. Save As will sometimes take me to the last location of the PDF export, PDF export will sometimes take me to where the document is located. And import is the same. I am now saving documents in the wrong folder all the time, my PDFs are all mixed up, and now that I am aware of the problem I have to check and re-navigate everytime I Save As or Export or Import. It's slowing me down a huge amount and mistakes are still being made.

   This needs to be addressed and returned to the previous workflow settings ASAP!!!!!

   Previously for many older versions of Indesign, Indesign will remember your document, PDF export and import locations.

   Save As would always take you to where your current document is, PDF export would take you to your last PDF export location for that particular document, and Import would take you to your last import location.

   Since upgrading to Mac OS Tahoe - all of this has gone haywire. Save As will sometimes take me to the last location of the PDF export, PDF export will sometimes take me to where the document is located. And import is the same. I am… more

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3. InDesign 20.5 nonresponsive in paragraph/character styles after Windows update KB5065789

   After a Windows 11 update to "September 29, 2025—KB5065789 (OS Builds 26200.6725 and 26100.6725) Preview" InDesign is nonresponsive hanging for minutes at a time trying to navigate menu options in Paragraph Styles and Character Styles.
   The same happens with prior versions of InDesign with this Windows Update.
   Confirmed the problem occurred on two different users/machines, with a new blank document.

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4. InDesign process dies after 3 minutes

   I'm facing the following problem. I'm on a new Windows 11 (24H2) and have Creative Cloud and various apps like Photoshop (26,11), Illustrator (29.8.2) or InDesign (20.5) installed. Every app works fine except InDesign. No matter what INDD file I work on, what menu I'm in or if I just leave the app open showing the start page, after 3 minutes the InDesign.exe dies. I've checked that I have the latest updates, reinstalled it, removed all presettings of previous versions, tried to run as admin and in compatibilty mode. Nothing changes. It runs 3 minutes and then suddenly dies. In Windows event logs is nothing reported around that moment so I have no clues, what's the reason.

   I'm facing the following problem. I'm on a new Windows 11 (24H2) and have Creative Cloud and various apps like Photoshop (26,11), Illustrator (29.8.2) or InDesign (20.5) installed. Every app works fine except InDesign. No matter what INDD file I work on, what menu I'm in or if I just leave the app open showing the start page, after 3 minutes the InDesign.exe dies. I've checked that I have the latest updates, reinstalled it, removed all presettings of previous versions, tried to run as admin and in compatibilty mode. Nothing changes. It runs 3 minutes and then suddenly dies. In… more

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5. ".pdf" added to packaged files

   Since InDesign 2025 launch, when packaging files InDesign adds ".pdf" file name to created packaged folders. It is annoying and incorrect.

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6. 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

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7. When copying text between InDesign documents, the Word order changes

   When copying text between InDesign documents, the Word order changes

   I have a textlbox with this content:

    "22. DEZ - 03. JAN Weihnachtsferien Ende"
   

   I copy this block of text to the clipboard. Then I switch to another InDesign document and paste the text from the clipboard into it. In the target document, however, InDesign changes the order of the text components into a completely meaningless sequence

    "JAN Weihnachtsferien Ende .03 - DEZ .22"
   

   I made another attempt with this text:

    "Eins 6 Zwei 5 Drei 4 Vier 3 Fünf 2 Sechs 1"
   

   In the target document, InDesign turns it into the following text:

    "1 Sechs 2 Fünf 3 Vier 4 Drei 5 Zwei 6 Eins"
   

   So it seems that the sorting isn't arbitrary, but rather a specific order is being achieved. But what's the point of this nonsense? How can I prevent this nonsensical behavior?

   I use Release 20.5 x64 on Win10

   When copying text between InDesign documents, the Word order changes

   I have a textlbox with this content:

    "22. DEZ - 03. JAN Weihnachtsferien Ende"
   

   I copy this block of text to the clipboard. Then I switch to another InDesign document and paste the text from the clipboard into it. In the target document, however, InDesign changes the order of the text components into a completely meaningless sequence

    "JAN Weihnachtsferien Ende .03 - DEZ .22"
   

   I made another attempt with this text:

    "Eins 6 Zwei 5 Drei 4 Vier 3 Fünf 2 Sechs 1"
   

   In the target document, InDesign turns it… more

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8. InDesign hangs constantly during normal editing with no CPU spike, on very fast win. 11 laptop with plenty of memory and drive space.

   When using InDesign normally (editing text, copying, pasting, rearranging objects, etc.). I am not saving, exporting, or anything, CPU does not spike, there is plenty of memory and disk space, it is a new high end laptop, it is plugged in, there are no power save features on.

   This didn't happen on my older win 10 machine and in older versions of InDesign.

   This SEVERELY interrupts workflows as it happens at least once every 15 min or so if not more.

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9. pdf comments

   Some pdf comments are not correctly imported in indesign. Mostly small remarks like punctuation marks, small text inserts,....

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10. 2-9% CPU usage when application is in background/minimized - happens on multiple computers

    2-9% CPU usage when application is in background/minimized. This happens on multiple computers. Older machines have seen up to 30% in IDLE. My newer PC runs 2-3% even with only one document open.

    This is unsustainable both for PC resource use, energy efficiency, and usability.

    There is no GOOD reason for this.

    It has been an issue for multiple years now. Please fix!

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11. [ID-4265787]InDesign 20.4.0 and above freezes when connected with Enterprise VPN

    Impossible to work with the latest version of InDesign 20.5. The screen freezes after a few second work. Only "end task" on Task manager is closing the program. (Working on PC under Windows 11 Enterprise)
    Only solution in the meantime is to switch to Version 19.5.5.

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    FIXED  ·  AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

    The fix of the issue is now available in the latest InDesign 2026(v21.0.0.192). 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.

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    Adobe InDesign Team

12. Window Explorer made unusable by opening InDesign

    Windows 11
    InDesign Ver. 20.5

    Here's an odd one. InDesign doesn't appear to be crashing or freezing, itself, but it is instead making my Windows explorer taskbar unusable. I can't select any icon pinned to it--they won't even highlight when I cursor over them--and only opening and closing the task manager will make them selectable again. I've tried to replicate this happening with other programs, but it's only happening when InDesign is made active.

    Can't seem to figure out what's triggering it, but it tends to happen on start-up of the program and at random intervals while using InDesign. Suddenly I can't switch out of it and have to force reset the windows explorer by "ctrl+alt+del"-ing.

    Any thoughts on what could be doing this? We've tried running multiple updates and resets (to both Adobe and Windows) to no avail.

    Windows 11
    InDesign Ver. 20.5

    Here's an odd one. InDesign doesn't appear to be crashing or freezing, itself, but it is instead making my Windows explorer taskbar unusable. I can't select any icon pinned to it--they won't even highlight when I cursor over them--and only opening and closing the task manager will make them selectable again. I've tried to replicate this happening with other programs, but it's only happening when InDesign is made active.

    Can't seem to figure out what's triggering it, but it tends to happen on start-up of the program and at random intervals while using InDesign. Suddenly… more

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13. The first letter typed in is English even when my system is set to Hebrew

    I'm using Indesign 20.5 on an Intel Mac Pro running Mac OS Sequoia 15.6.
    Here are the steps to reproduce the issue:
    1. Insert a new text box and enter some English text.
    2. Select the text
    3. Change the keyboard input to Hebrew.
    4. Start typing in Hebrew.

    The resulting text will be an English letter (corresponding to the Hebrew letter typed in) followed by the correct Hebrew letters typed.
    Two things to note:
    1. You must select all the text in the text box for this issue to take place.
    2. For some reason Adobe fonts are immune to this issue

    I'm using Indesign 20.5 on an Intel Mac Pro running Mac OS Sequoia 15.6.
    Here are the steps to reproduce the issue:
    1. Insert a new text box and enter some English text.
    2. Select the text
    3. Change the keyboard input to Hebrew.
    4. Start typing in Hebrew.

    The resulting text will be an English letter (corresponding to the Hebrew letter typed in) followed by the correct Hebrew letters typed.
    Two things to note:
    1. You must select all the text in the text box for this issue to take place.
    2. For some reason Adobe fonts are immune… more

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14. Preferences reset popup penalty

    When an existing user has been driven by degrading performance to the extreme step of resetting user preferences, please do not also make us undergo the maddening experience of dealing with the ENDLESS blue popups / tooltips / ads for the features we've already seen and considered. You could make an argument for forcing a user to deal with the blue boxes on a major upgrade. A preferences reset is not the same situation. Please consider reducing the burden of this type of visual pollution in our workspaces.

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15. Add colour values to swatch list when placing file from Illustrator

    It would be beneficial if, when placing a file in an InDesign document from illustrator, that the colour value information of that file be added to the Swatches menu. Strangely, the colour values do import into my Swatches when I copy and paste an object I’ve created in Illustrator onto my artboard but not when I place/import that object within a picture box.

    Another minor gripe - when pasting an object it does not retain the name of the colour if it has a custom name - it only brings the swatch in as the colour values.

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16. Share for Review: actual page number is only halfway visible

    The field to show the actual page number is too small. It only shows one character of the number.

    Tested on a Mac with Chrome, Safari, Firefox.

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17. Bug on page naming

    In Indesign 25.0, on Mac,
    Despite having named the pages with a letter (here, "C" in the screenshot) the pages are not correctly named.
    Therefore, all my custom scripts that are using the special naming don't work anymore. Please, fix the bug.
    It used to work just fine before

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18. Close/Minimize/Maximize buttons are hidden under the top menu on Mac OS

    For some reason the very top bar of the InDesign window is hidden underneath the top menu (File, Edit, etc.), making it impossible to minimize or move the window to another monitor. Currently the only solution I've found is to unplug my external monitor's HDMI cable from my Macbook which forces the InDesign window to appear properly.

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19. Find/Change | Glyph | Failure to find characters with applied character styles

    Version: Adobe InDesign 19.5.4 and 20.3.1

    I cannot post a .zip here apparently, so I've put my InDesign file.

    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Make a character style that ONLY sets the font to bold.
    2. put down a glyph twice, I used the AE glyph (GID/CID 138).
    3. For one, apply bold manually.
    4. For the other, apply the bold character style.
    5. Open the Find/Change Glyph menu and enter the GID/CID used, along with the font and bold style.

    Expected Result:
    Both of the glyphs would be found

    Actual Result:
    Only the glyph without the character style applied will be found.

    As listed in multiple other reports, managing missing glyphs is a major pain point.

    Version: Adobe InDesign 19.5.4 and 20.3.1

    I cannot post a .zip here apparently, so I've put my InDesign file.

    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Make a character style that ONLY sets the font to bold.
    2. put down a glyph twice, I used the AE glyph (GID/CID 138).
    3. For one, apply bold manually.
    4. For the other, apply the bold character style.
    5. Open the Find/Change Glyph menu and enter the GID/CID used, along with the font and bold style.

    Expected Result:
    Both of the glyphs would be found

    Actual Result:
    Only the glyph without the character style applied will… more

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20. Bug: Wrong centered text justification in round text frames

    Center-aligned text in round text frames is misaligned, i.e. too far to the left. Please see screenshots for all details.
    As soon as you convert the frame to a rectangular one, text is aligned to center correctly.
    This is simply a calculation bug which should be fixed now finally - it persists for years already.

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