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msingleton
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April 9, 2020
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Finder window (Save As/Export, etc) show up in light color even though the system/app theme is dark

  • April 9, 2020
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I know its not a huge issue but as a designer its a little irritating. When running under the darkest theme in Illustrator and Indesign the open, save, export, and place dialogues are all in light themes even with the OS in Dark mode. All of the dialouges in Photoshop however show up dark.

 

 

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    Correct answer Christopher-James

    Hi @msingleton 

     

    I know this is an old thread but the answer from @Ashutosh_Mishra - Adobe Employee just said a lot about how Adobe are blind to anything any end user has to say, they don't even read a post correctly, time and time again!

     

    You can force dark mode for the finder UI windows for InDesign for Mac using this command through the Terminal app.

    Currently on InDesign 17.4

     

    1. Make sure InDesign is closed
    2. Open a new terminal window
    3. Copy and paste the below code and press return
    4. Open InDesign and test

     

    defaults write com.adobe.InDesign NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool NO

     

     

     Hope this makes you happy that now all adobe apps have the same UI, it makes me happy (kind of, just now have to assign global palette names!!)

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    Ashutosh_Mishra
    Ashutosh_Mishra
    Inspiring
    April 10, 2020

    Hi there,

     

    Thanks for reaching out. You can always change the color theme of InDesign under Preferences > Interface.

    I have also attached a screenshot as well for reference.

     

    Hope it helps.

     

    Regards,

    Ashutosh

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      halogen88
      March 13, 2022

      Hi, as it's been almost two years and this issue still occurs in the latest version of InDesign, can you please provide an update, date for a fix, do something, anything at all?

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        msingletonAuthor
        Participant
        March 21, 2022

        Agreed, its very strange. And just for documented refrenece here is the Save As dialogue in Indesign compared to Photoshop.

         

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