Ah the good old 'did you try turn off and on again' ... should be the first step of any troubleshooting 🙂   If it starts happening again, or you face any other strange oddities hopefully the list helps you troubleshoot things in the future. ... View more

Indeed, apologies for not tagging you. I usually do. But got some bad news today and wasn't thinking straight.  ... View more

It's not pulsing for me so I'm going to jot down all the steps I'd go through (even though you've already tried some - I'm just going to consolidate ideas here) This feels very much like a redraw or compositing bug. Essentially, InDesign is re-rendering the images every time it refreshes the text caret. That would explain why it stops if you deselect the text frame: no caret blinking, no refresh cycle.   GPU Performance / Display Settings Go to Preferences > GPU Performance. Try disabling GPU Performance and restart InDesign. On some Macs, the GPU redraw has been glitchy when transparency, high-res RGB images, and blinking insertion points mix.   Screen Mode Try switching to Preview Mode (W). Sometimes the normal mode forces more redraw cycles. Or switch between Typical Display and High-Quality Display in View > Display Performance.   Transparency Blend Space (you did this) You confirmed changing RGB/CMYK doesn’t help. Worth trying again with GPU off.   Flattening Preview Choose Window > Output > Flattener Preview. Toggle some transparency options to see if it forces a stable redraw.   Rebuild Preferences Hold Shift+Ctrl+Alt (Windows) or Shift+Control+Option+Command (Mac) when launching InDesign to reset prefs. This can flush out old corrupted settings.   Update InDesign Double-check if you are truly on the latest patch, or if Adobe has quietly sneaked out a fix since your post. Go to Creative Cloud > Updates.    Try Another Mac User Profile Create a new macOS user account and see if it happens there. Sometimes it’s a system-level cache or user-specific setting.   External Display If you use an external display, unplug it and see if it happens on the built-in screen alone. External displays can trigger weird GPU compositing issues.     One other option - if you toggle the preferences   ... View more

I suspect there’s some mild corruption in the images, or they were saved with a JPEG encoding that InDesign doesn’t fully support. Try opening one of the JPGs and simply resaving it. See if it still glitches afterward — it’s a good way to test whether the file itself is the issue. If the problem disappears, it likely means the images in your library are the culprit. I’d recommend resaving them in another format, as others have already suggested. Over the years, I’ve seen this sort of image corruption crop up in InDesign, and almost every time it’s been a JPEG edited with some third-party software. Those tools can encode JPEGs in a way that InDesign doesn’t handle properly. It’s possible the file came from a photographer, a mobile device, or a website that adds extra encoding layers. If you’re linking directly from a library server, there could even be hidden data in the file from the server itself (though that part is hard to pin down).   ... View more

Well that's 100% not it - the files are completely cross-platform compatible.  ... View more

Check your transparency blend space in Edit>Transparency Blend Space ... View more

Optimise them how? What are you changing? For making edits to photos I'd do it in Photoshop and set it up as an action.    Indesign only Places the image and shows the image at it's Effective Resolution.  I wrote an article here - although not directly related it shows how it works basically. https://creativepro.com/high-res-image-look-low-res/   Indesign is not a photo editor/optimiser. But if you tell us more what you're doing that would help point you in the right direction, InDesign or another method.   ... View more

The GPU performance is only for 5k retina displays or HiDPI monitors.  It's not required for the overall performance.    Turning it off is pretty normal for most people. ... View more

No you're question is about applying a shortcut. And considering the font itself might be the issue you can apply a style instead and assign a shortcut to the style.   Which is what you want to do.   And using styles is highly recommended anyway. ... View more

Well, I wouldn't apply bold/italic/underline with the shortcuts for these, sure it's fine if you want to work like that.   But do you not make Character Styles? If you create the styles you can then assign a custom shortcut to apply the Bold/Italic/Underline as character styles.    You don't need to put in PT in the font family - just need to leave that part blank and inser Bold in the part underneaths.  Same for the other styles you want.    There's a free script called PrepText that can cycle through your InDesign Story and find and apply styles correctly so it can build the Bold/Italic/Underline etc. styles in the Character Style panel for you.    It's worth considering. ... View more

When you say they open the file - do you mean they open the file in Acrobat? Or are they opening the files in something like Illustrator?    PDFs created in InDesign should not be opened in any other program except Acrobat.    If they are opening the PDF in Acrobat then ensure that Gotham is embeded in the PDF, you can check if the font is embedded correctly - as per Brad @ Roaring Mouse    But we probably need more information to help further.    How is the font missing? What error are they getting and how are they finding it's missing?  ... View more

What's your transparency blend space set to - go to Edit>Transparency Blend Space ... View more

If a document is not behaving well then try  File>Export  Choose IDML Open the IDML in InDesign Save the file as a new InDesign file with a new name See if the issue persists.       ... View more

Change it to a non-adobe font then - deactivate everything and install a font - any font directly on the computer not using Adobe Fonts.      ... View more

Out of curiousity - can you try change the font throughout your document to something else.  Make a duplicate of your file In the Type menu you can go to Find/Replace fonts and completely replace all the fonts with something generic like Arial or Myriad or something standard. Then see if the issue persists. This will definitely rule out if it's the Font causing the issue.  ... View more

Make sure it's the CC Library And as I did - highlight text - click the + sign to add it and select the Text option. ... View more

Maybe something added in there, pushed it out, or maybe you had customised it and the update then reset the panel.  It's also do with monitor and resolution, if you changed that or anything, maybe UI scaling was reset or something.    Just trying to explain - not justify 😛 ... View more

Indeed - it can only fit so much - so you do need to trim away anything you don't need or use often.    ... View more

There's 3 lines on the bottom right - that's the sub menu panel - when you open htis you can choose Customise - then can you select the option from there? ... View more

I'd create a new Library and put it in there then drag and drop from library   Select the text you want to add - and then create the CC Library to add the text  Then you can drag and drop it anywhere      it also means if you right click the Library item you can edit it    So if you need to make a tweak to the text - edit the Library item - and the text updates everywhere at the same time.        ... View more

On the last one it didn't show the character style applied to it at all.   If it's not a local override then it could be the Style is Based On another style Check the character style to make sure it's not inheriting from another style.  Could be part of the issue.      ... View more

2nd option should move all the pages to a new document - which should fix TOC issues, has fixed some problems in the past.  ... View more

Not sure if this is what you mean     Here I set to 20pt stroke with Gap set to black too The with the Attributes Panel open - set the Overprint Gap to be ticked Then reduce the tint to 0%   The overprint Gap gets greyed out for some reason   Of course not tested in real world production But might work   Then changing to any colour works       ... View more

I've no idea what causes it - I was just sharing what I found.    It happens to me on 2023 - 2022 was fine. I haven't tried 2024 or 2025.    Maybe try disconnecting your 2nd monitor and try on your own laptop screen, see if it still behaves the same.  That might tell you if it's the monitor/connection that is causing it.      ... View more

I think it could be the mouse then - then if Logitech MX has a specific install files for a Mac that contain the correct drivers for the Mac.  I also use a Windows mouse on my PC because I hate the apple mouse.    Easy to test if you have an apple mouse and see if the issue persists.  Did you try any of the other suggestions?    ... View more

I've the same issue in InDesign 2023 and it has nothing to do with GPU performance being enabled or disabled - I actually haven't gotten to the bottom of why it does it - but I can enable and disable the GPU. So the fact it's not enabled or unable to enable probably has nothing to do with it.    It is annoying and I haven't fixed it cos it's mildly annoying but not so much that I've looked into fixing it.    I've done some research now and here's what I've found   Try Enabling and Disabling the Enable Multi-touch Gestures in the preferences (try restarting InDesign after each and see if it improves)   Another user has found that a non-Apple mouse was the issue and they were using a Microsoft mouse or other - and downloaded specific drivers for that mouse.    Some say to try disable Preflight   And others are saying that some anti-virus or third party software is the issue.  Do you use WebRoot, Magnet, or any other third-pary app running in the background like VPNs, firewalls, or other things?    One way to narrow it down to being definitely InDesign is to restart your computer in Safe Mode and launch InDesign.    If it works normally in Safe Mode then you can safely say another app is interfering with it.    If it works fine then you can restart you computer in normal mode and then try track down what app is causing the issue.  ... View more

What issue are you facing? It's not clear what is wrong - do you just need to go to View>Display Performance>High Quality? I think your monitor needs to be HiDPI dipslay I think it's a 1920x100 panel stretchedover 24 inches, making it a standard DPI not HiDPI.   This is probably why it's greyed out. Sadly, as you’ve seen, InDesign’s support is quite fussy, especially on Apple Silicon Macs without HiDPI monitors.     I'm not sure that the lagging is related to the GPU - so lets try and solve this one - can you explain in detail what the issue is.  I can't tell by the video what the issue is.   ... View more