Document Grid index lines

[keithconover]

With version 19 (2024) and before, the Document Grid lines consisted of two different thicknesses of lines. There were thicker lines for the "Grid" and thinner lines for the "subdivisions." In a parallel with countour lines on a topographic map, I think of those thicker lines as "index lines." I referenced them all the time for page layout.

But, with version 20 (2025) all of the lines look the same, making my page layout tasks much harder. When viewing a spread, I often can't tell where the fold in the center is. I looked through all of the menus trying to find a way to bring these back, but couldn't.

If I get close to the screen, and squint, I think I can tell the difference between the index lines and the subdivision lines. Maybe. Sometimes.

Is this a bug or a feature?

[jmlevy]

Hi @keithconover 

No problem on my Mac with 2025 version:

Did you try to reset preferences?

[keithconover]

Yes, I did. Didn't help.

Maybe it's specific to my platform (Windows) or my display. Although, I didn't have this problem with the same OS and same display with InDesign 2024 (19.x). I have an ultrawide monitor (LG curved 32-Inch 32GN50R 5120x2160 pixels running at 225% scaling) which makes working with InDesign so much easier than with my old monitor! Can see a full spread or two side-by-side windows. Better than having dual monitors. If Adobe would just let us tweak the grid thickness settings…

[Eugene Tyson]

Checked InDesign 2025 looks good to me

Checked InDesign 2022 and looks the same

Looks same on 2nd monitor and looks fine on laptop monitor 

Checked Windows computer, same no problem in line thickness 

Not sure what's going on - can you share screenshots or any other info?
Specs of your computer/monitor etc? 

[keithconover]

Thanks for the suggestion about the screenshot! But maybe not precisely for the reason you suggested. When I took a screenshot, the index lines show up fine:

But here is a cellphone picture of my screen:

Specs on the monitor are as above; you can see the index lines if you look really hard but they're really quite hard to see.  I tried twiddling all the options in Preferences > Display to no avail.

[Eugene Tyson]

I see it's running at 225% scale - can you reduce that to 100% to see if the issue is still there?

How is that scaled through the monitor settings or throught Windows setting scaling?

[keithconover · Accepted solution]

The 225% is the Windows scaling setting. I switched it to 200% and now I can see the index lines just fine. Now I can drag and drop graphics frames properly when I'm rearranging them! Can't see as much on the screen, but then it's a pretty big screen. Maybe the InDesign coders can test scaling in 25% increments and fix this in a future update. Thanks very much!

[Eugene Tyson]

Help menu in InDesign can bring you to the InDesign feature request/bugs and best place to raise the issue