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Changing display text for hyperlink is removing / deleting the hyperlink.Manually typed in footnotes. I highlighted the text “10” > right clicked > New Hyperlink > Put in URL (for this example dribbble.com). Went back into the doc realized “10” needed to be “20” highlighted my hyperlink and typed in “20” > Hyperlink is suddenly gone. And it’s happening with every hyperlink I’ve changed the display text on. I’ve never had this issue before. I’ve also done full resets of everything and I am running the latest update. Screenshots in order of process. help.  

Convertion of PDF to Indesign file by open the pdf file in  2026 version, the Kannada fonts are not rendering! More junks even using proper paragrapher composer. And paragraphs alignment are missing. See the attched image.Junk and paragrapher alignment issued image☝Observe the headline in blue box at the top. and in corcle shape content. And all the text is junkThis is proper PDF (Exported)So I am working for a newspaper that is Kannada daily (Prajavani Kannada daily in Karnataka India). Then what is the solution for this? We are planning to upgrade to 2026 version in comming march month. So consider it high priority and let me know for the solution.. Siddalingayya KanakalmathChief Graphic Artist,Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

In the last few days InDesign has started crashing on close. This happens whehter or not there is a document open when I close. It does not seem to happen if I open InDesign and then close it without opening a document.It does not seem to corrupt documents on crash, but for obvious reasons I’m nervous about that, especially after the recent cloud-drive fiasco. I’m using Win11 and version 21.2 of Indesign. (I am not positive about the versoin, becuase the version number in the About dialog appears to be set in 4 point font.)Suggestions?

Hi everyone,I am a professional graphic designer working on a Late 2014 iMac (macOS Big Sur 11.7.11). Due to hardware limitations, I cannot upgrade my macOS further at the moment.My Creative Cloud Desktop app does not show "Older Versions" for InDesign anymore. I specifically need the official offline installer for InDesign 2021 (v16.x) or InDesign 2022 (v17.x), as these are the last versions known to work stably on Big Sur.Can anyone provide the direct Adobe server links for these specific versions? I have a valid Creative Cloud subscription; I just need the installer file to bypass the CC app restriction. Thank you.

I have been having a really big problem with my installation across multiple projects. After working on a file and saving, I get an error that the file can’t be saved because of a database error. The program becomes unresponsive until it quits automatically or I terminate the process.  In the best case, I am able to open the recovery file and save-as. So I am now working on projects with “Version 15” etc appended to the name, to give an idea of the frequency of this issue. Does anybody have any suggestions?Thanks.

I was unaware that InDesign AI was now creating alt text, and even more surprised that the AI thinks this brown background image has a nude figure in it. Is AI good for anything?

Since this post seems to be marked as resolved after the Adobe Community update and it isn’t resolved, I’m creating a new post and linking to the old one. All the relevant information can be found here (at least all of the information that survived the Adobe Community update -- there are several missing posts). Long story short -- when you install Windows Security updates, some system fonts -- Times New Roman for me -- throw a missing font error in InDesign. This error only goes away if you uninstall the Windows Security update. More detailed info can be found in the linked post.This issue has been going on for literally months, since last November, and we’ve got bupkis to show for it -- less than bupkis now that some of the original posts have been nerfed with the Adobe Community update and the original thread appears dead. Adobe. Please. Help. This is beyond frustrating now... 

Linking an image in InDesign 2026 and exporting it as a tagged PDF generates an unpleasant Tag structure.The structure now is:<Figure>--<Link>----OBJR--ContentTags inside of <Figure> will normally ignored by any assistive technology. So the Link will not be present to the end user.This is a change to InDesign 2025 and before, where the tagging was properly:< Link>--OBJR--<Figure>----Content This new behavior violates WCAG guidelines and makes the link tagging inaccessible to screen reader users. 

Ich habe dieses Problem hier schon einmal gepostet, finde es aber leider nicht mehr. Wenn ich einem Objekt einen Schlagschatten zuordne und dieses Objekt danach auf meiner Seite verschiebe, verschiebt sich auch der Schlagschatten völlig willkürlich. Passiert auch mit Objekten, die bereits einen Schlagschatten haben. Der Fehler lässt sich in jedem ID Dokument reproduzieren und scheint ein Darstellungsproblem zu sein. Sobald ich das Dokument schließe und danach wieder öffne ist alles in Ordnung. CPU Vorschau ein bzw. ausschalten bringt keine Verbesserung. Ich vermute einen Bug im Programm. Ich frage mich nur, warum dieser nicht schon längst behoben wurde. der Schatten wird über Effekt → Schlagschatten erstellt   korrekte Darstellungfalsche Darstellungen sobald ich das Objekt verschiebe   Indesign 2026, version 21.2OS Tahoe 26.3.1 Video kann man sich hier herunterladenVideo

Hi Adobe Community and Team,I am transitioning from CorelDRAW and Illustrator to InDesign for my publication projects. While I understand that InDesign is frame-based, I find it very cumbersome that we cannot simply click and type without manually creating a text frame first.In Illustrator, we have 'Point Type' where a single click allows us to start typing immediately. This would be a huge time-saver for small labels, page headers, or quick annotations in InDesign as well.Is there any plan to introduce a 'Point Type' behavior or a shortcut to create a text frame with a single click in the future updates?Thanks!

I’m following up on an email I sent about a week ago regarding ongoing InDesign crashes.I’m having difficulty accessing the existing support threads you referenced previously. When I click any of the links in your emails, I’m redirected to a generic home page rather than the relevant discussion, which makes it impossible to review or continue the troubleshooting steps.Unfortunately, the core issue remains unresolved. InDesign is still crashing while editing text, even when using the latest pre-release versions. At this point the problem has caused me to miss a publishing deadline, which is extremely frustrating and has had a real impact on my work.I need this issue properly addressed as a matter of urgency. Could you please:Provide direct, working links to the relevant support threads, orEscalate this case so we can move toward a definitive fix rather than further testing cyclesI’m happy to provide logs, files, or any additional information required, but I do need a clear path forward.

I’m using an .indb to create a guidebook that is both text and photo heavy, with separate .indd docs for the chapters. Each new chapter will start with a double page photo spread – what’s the best practice method to do this? Do I have to place half the photo at the end of the previous document? Thanks

I used the richpaste plugin (https://indiscripts.com/post/2015/10/richpaste-copy-and-paste-with-minimal-formatting) in InDesign to transfer text from Word to InDesign using the ctrl + c, ctrl + v commands. It helped me maintain formatting without complications when I selected a specific paragraph/character style. However, the plugin seems to have lost compatibility with the latest versions of InDesign.When I copy text from Word that is italicized and bold and paste it into InDesign using the Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V command, I select the paragraph style, but the font does not change. I need to either configure a character style or do it manually.With richpaste, I could just select the paragraph style and use the “paste with richpaste” option, and it would paste the paragraph formatting and character style all at once.I work with academic texts, so I need this process to be more agile, and richpaste helped a lot in that regard. I can't use the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V commands with the option to

I have this same issue with every accessible document I export from InDesign and open in Adobe Acrobat. Under the Oder panel, everything is sectioned out correctly but under the Accessibility Tags, the sections are divided into individual lines (see the purple boxes). The only way I have found to fix this is to manually drag the containers together in the adobe Content panel. I have gone through every variation within the export settings and have combed through paragraph style settings (like turning off baseline gridding and optical margin alignment) to try and figure it out with no luck. I am working with a very simple test document with minimal formatting to try and solve it but am out of ideas.  

I was busily importing and editing graphics on page 68 of a large document, when suddenly the pink margin guides around each page suddenly disappeared!  I was using some keyboard commands and must have accidentally done something ... I have looked at various sections of the InDesign guidelines and have tried several things. Nothing brought them back (yet) & I've reversed each thing I tried in various dropdown menus. Can anyone help me restore those Margin Guides?  I can't work without them. Thanks

There is a really boring problem with simple tasks like selecting text or using the Find/Change feature in large documents. For example, this task has already taken about 1.5 hours, and I don’t know how long it will take. As you can see, the task is very simple: just find/change text elements. The exact query is not important; it may be selecting a sentence, changing a word, or something similar. And every time it takes ages.It started with about InDesign version 2022, but was not so noticeable. And for now, it has grown to disrupt the entire workflow.What could be done? I can divide the document into smaller parts, but it’s unwanted for this project, and there aren’t any warnings in the documentation about the document’s length. The Text Editor does not help; it works as slowly as the layout mode.The system is good enough for comfortable work:Processor    13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1355U (1.70 GHz)Installed RAM    32,0 GB (31,7 GB usable)System type    64-bit operating system Windo

Hello all,We are an Architectural firm where we are working towards moving to cloud storage (away from traditional servers across network).  We are primarily moving towards Autodesk Construction Cloud, however we recently found INDD files are not supported and recently seem to be having issues.It appears that the Adobe Cloud may be a great solution for storing, and working with InDesign files, as it appears this also allows for co-authoring, which would be terrific (assuming it works like Microsoft co-authoring).What I am unsure about and would like some clarification on is if/how InDesign linked assets can be stored and shared in the Adobe Cloud.  I don’t see anything about this in the help documentation and after going through, it sounds like links need to be local or on a server.Any clarification on this is appreciated, thank you.

Hi,noch nie untergekommen, dass eine einfache Linie “zu viele Anfasser” hat.Ich möchte die Linie per Maus einfach nur verlängern. Kann aber den mittleren Anfasser nicht anfassen… Hab ich versehentlich irgendeinen speziellen Modus in ID, Windows, neueste Version erwischt? Grüße!mycc  

I’ve seen this problem mentioned in the InDesign Community a few times in the past, but has anyone recently had problems with Share for Review comments unmapping from their pins? 

I have a top of the line machine. i9-14900k, Radeon 9070XT, 64gb DDR5 RAM, and a fast NVME drive.InDesign lags more than any adobe program, because of the AI Generated Alt Text, which is enabled by default and I cannot disable it, as I have a pro plan.Every time I drag an image onto a file, it lags for a good 5 seconds while the AI generated text does its thing. I want to disable this feature fully. I do not use any AI in InDesign.Please recommend a way to permanently disable this feature, as it nearly doubles my working time on any document, lagging with every adjustment. If I have to edit something in the registry to do so, or block something on a firewall, so be it. Please release me from this torture

The new feature auto generates pornographic alt text in pictures it cannot seem to identify. It does seems to work ok on real photos but all complex icons have nude people and body parts described. It seems to me instead of giving a warning that it can’t identify a content it correlaties it to pornographic content. I don’t know if there was no introduction/pop-up to this new feature or if I simply missed it, but auto generating nsfw text is not okay. Why is there no filter that stops it from doing so?   

Le fichier est un livre d’art. Il ne s’ouvre plus avec message d’erreur grave. indesign se ferme lorsque je coche ok. Je voudrais récupérer tout ou une ancienne version. comment dois-je procéder?

Hello! I am on MAC OS TAHOE and when i package, my link folder is empty, and i have an error message - i mean, i REALLY have to package with all the links… What do i do to resolve this issue! Thanks!  

For the past year this program has become slow and unresponsive to the point of being completely unusable. Any command that I give the software is followed by a 5-15 second lag on average - this is not an exaggeration. This problem persists with existing documents, INDD and INDL, as well as with brand new documents saved to my desktop.  For example: Create a new document. When the document loads, create text box and begin to type. 15 seconds later the letters appear in the box. Actions taken during the lag are ignored by the software. Other applications on my machine are also significantly impacted by this performance issue, even the mouse stutters and freezes. Trying to use other software while InD is "thinking" can often result in the other applications to show a (not responding) error. Because InD is so unresponsive, I need to use Task Manager to force close - even this process can take up to a minute to complete. I'm not certain, but I believe the problem with lag is

ID 20.3.1, macOS 14.8.2. When different users open the same document, with the same fonts installed, the line case changes. I suspect some underlying setting in the program, but what should I look for?