InDesign 2025 removes all PDF export setting files from InDesign 2024
During the installation of InDesign 2025, all .joboptions files with PDF export settings were removed, even in the older version 2024! This is absurd!
Thank you for reporting the issue. It is currently being investigated. We will share an update as soon as investigation is completed for this issue.
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Filip Blazek commented
Welcome in the year 1990! Deleting user files just because they contain "á" in file name is ridiculous. Have you ever heard of Unicode? I’ve been using the same files for more than a decade in various versions of InDesign. Why CC2025 does not support it?
Workaround to this bug: rename all .joboption files and only use basic ASCII characters.
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Erin Kelly commented
I am having the same issue. InDesign updated itself two days ago (from 2024 to 2025) and I lost all of my PDF Presets. I have tried to reload them as well as create new ones. Each time I have done this they disappear after I close out of an open document. I was lucky to have some of my presets saved before it automatically updated, however, I lost the rest and cannot retrieve them. I use PDF Presets on a daily basis, several times a day, so to have to manually input this for every file is tedious. Can this please be addressed? Thank you.
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Nayan Kankariya commented
Hi Filip,
Thanks for creating this thread and bringing this issue to our notice. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused with this issue. We are able to recreate the issue internally and currently investigating the behavior observed on Mac platform with double-byte and accented characters.
Currently we do not any workaround which is available for this issue and hence we request users having PDF export setting preset names containing double-byte or accented characters to take backup of all the .joboptions files present under the folder location:
"/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings".We will surely keep this thread once the fix is made available as part of next release.
Have a pleasant day!
Regards,
Nayan
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Filip Blazek commented
It looks like it keeps .joboption files with ASCII only characters. Files containing accented characters, even “á”, gets deleted everytime CS2025 is installed.