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HARSHIKA_VERMA
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HARSHIKA_VERMACommunity Manager
Community Manager
March 7, 2024

InDesign 19.3 | Streamlined User Experience: Export, Import, Reset Preferences & Enhancements

  • March 7, 2024
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Hi All,

 

The March 2024 InDesign update (19.3) is now available for download from the Creative Cloud Desktop application. Update to this version to take advantage of all the Improved User Experience,  Core Features, and Workflow listed below.

Note: This is a phase-wise rollout, and updates will be available to users in different countries in the coming days. Check your notifications in the Creative Cloud Desktop application, or refresh the application to check for updates.

 

Major features:

  • Export and Import User Settings:- InDesign provides an option to export and import User Settings, providing users with a smooth and enhanced experience to restore their custom settings if needed.

    You can now

    • Export User Settings to a file.
    • Import and apply User Settings from a file.
  • Reset user preferences

 

Core features and workflow:

  • [macOS Sonoma Only] InDesign crashes while changing the font or font type from the Type menu.

 

User experience improvements:

 

Please click here to update InDesign to 19.3.

 

For more details, kindly click here.

 

To launch InDesign, please click here.


If you haven't bought your InDesign subscription yet, please click here to get your subscription.

 

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Thanks,

Harshika

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      @mj
      Community Expert
      @mjCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 14, 2024

      🙏

      Pariah Burke
      Community Expert
      Pariah BurkeCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 7, 2024
      quote
      • Export and Import User Settings:- InDesign provides an option to export and import User Settings, providing users with a smooth and enhanced experience to restore their custom settings if needed.

        You can now

        • Export User Settings to a file.
        • Import and apply User Settings from a file.
      • Reset user preferences
       

       

      Yay to the export/import. It sames me from having to backup up the XML files.

       

      What is new abou the Reset User Preferences? I'm not seeing anything new in that link.

      HARSHIKA_VERMA
      Community Manager
      HARSHIKA_VERMACommunity ManagerAuthor
      Community Manager
      March 8, 2024

      Hi Pariah,

      Thanks for reaching out. You can now restore the default preferences any time you want. When you select Reset Preferences On Quit, InDesign reverts to the default settings. Please refer to this section on this article.

       

      Thanks,

      Harshika

      100pk
      100pk
      Inspiring
      March 7, 2024

      Got the 19.3 update this morning, with a useful NEW function: the ability to export and import earlier usersettings. This seems like a welcome function since every time one has to reset prefs for whatever reason there are a LOT of small settings you have to set one-by-one. Haven't checked if indeed all those settings are saved in a Userprofile.

       

      UPDATE: useless; did not work as promised/expected.

       

      In the meantime I made the switch to Sonoma. Seems Indesign is running pretty smootly though I regularly get a graphics explosion on screen which is weird. MacOS Sonoma seems to run smooth(er) though.

       

       

        HARSHIKA_VERMA
        Community Manager
        HARSHIKA_VERMACommunity ManagerAuthor
        Community Manager
        March 7, 2024

        Thank you for sharing your valuable feedback on the feature. Please explore the feature and share your findings with us.

         

        We would love to hear about the latest update.

         

        Thanks,

        Harshika

         

        100pk
        100pk
        Inspiring
        March 7, 2024

        Wel, I hesitated to but I saved a user seetting; trashed my InDesign prefs by restarting with shift-option-command.

        And… drumroll: importing usersettings did not do anything right.

        Conclusion in short: that was a dead sparrow; very sad now.

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