Indesign not remembering window size (Again)

[garethirwin1234]

This seems to be a perennial issue for indesign. When I open the app it opens as large as the screen every time. Then I resize it and sure enough on relaunch its back to full screen. Its not world ending but its super annoying and appeared on the 2022 release.

Please fix it.

Also when is spell check that thing on computers since 1990 coming to this forum?

[callme.pads]

Fixed it - super simple but annoying.

With Indesign open - click on the Indesign app icon from the dock of the screen indesign is currently on.

This lets the computer and its apps know that screen is the "active/selected" screen. (this is the same as when you use command+tab app switcher but it only appears on one "active/selected" screen)

Now open Indesign, go full screen, and then exit full screen.

Resize your screen or double click on the top of the app window next to the app name to force full screen and try again. 

Should work now.

[James ONeill]

I can't follow this. InDesign doesn't seem to have a Full Screen option. And what does "top of the app window next to the app name" mean? The only app name I see is on the menu bar. Sorry, I'm very confused.

[PacoD]

@James ONeill 

Hi;

Callme.pads's directions are a bit tricky for me to understand, too, but I think I figured them out. I believe "full Screen" is to maximize the working window, which will do so to whatever size of monitor InDCC is launched on.

Attached is my PC's desktop showing InDCC in all its glory, hoping it might help understand. In any event, the instructions did not help correct the issue, at least for me.

Below is how InDCC currently is choosing to launch—notice the working window's placement, which varies with each launch; sometimes it takes up the whole monitor, sometimes it's very small, always in a random location on the monitor—in every case, I have to manually resize the working window to my preference/comfort.

[HSDA]

It's 2024 and this bug is still "bugging", my solution is primitive but it works for me, I resize indesign as a whole, quit, then re-open it, try the shift+w (presentation preview), and go back, if it shrinks then, I repeat quitting, resizing, quitting again, trying it out.
It usually takes a few times but it works then 😄

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hi All,

We understand your frustration and agree it's a long-pending issue. We've an active conversation about this issue on this post: https://adobe.ly/3Yzy2zY.

We want to inform you that we have logged a new bug for this issue, as mentioned in the post. We are actively working with the team to fix the issue on priority.

Meanwhile, we would request you to please upvote this UserVoice page: https://adobe.ly/3YHHAca for better tracking of upvotes and more visibility.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks,

Harshika

[James ONeill]

I don't understand why this should take literally a decade to fix. It WORKED in the FIRST version of InDesign and kept working until Creative Suite 4 or so. Was this maybe something that only worked in Carbon?

[PacoD]

@HARSHIKA_VERMA 

Hi;
The issue to which you refer to (and provided link) as having an "active conversation"—"InDesign minimizing window after exiting preview mode"—is entirely different from the issue addressed in this discussion.

This discussion is about InDCC not remembering the size of the working window from its last launch, and opening to a random size on next launch—the working window would open to occupy the entire size of the montitor it's launched on -or- any random size and location within the monitor it's launched  on ...which is what happens to me.

No matter how many or what forum fixes I apply, no matter how many times I save a workspace ('New workspace') whether new or overwriting an existing workspace, the working window will always open, at InDCC's launch, to a random size/placement within my PC's monitor.