What’s New

Adobe InDesign 21.4

21.4WindowsmacOS

May 2026 (version 21.4)

Fixed
  • Alt text message is truncated from right side.
  • [Windows only] InDesign fails to locate the Times New Roman and Calibri fonts.
  • [macOS only] Math Expression size gets larger and truncated on EPUB Interactive Preview Panel.
  • [macOS only] InDesign requests permission to access data from other applications at launch.
  • [Windows only] Indesign freezes and unexpectedly closes while opening IDML file containing double-hyphenated texts.
  • [Windows only] When placing or updating linked files, InDesign hangs and shows a spinning cursor.
  • Media files, groups, and interactive items are dropped off when None CSS Option is selected.
  • The Blue border (focus) for the Flex icon is cut off on the right side in the Properties panel.
  • Clicking on a footnote or endnote reference on EPUB preview, the page isn't redirecting to the footnote or endnote location.
  • Fixed an issue where Share for Review 'Update Content' fails with 'Artifact error' for large InDesign documents.
  • Keyboard shortcuts don’t work on transformed frames.
  • Weird behaviour when the Add to flex frame action is done on a transformed interactive button or object states.
  • Expose FlexObject to anchoredObjectSettings.
  • Positioning of Flex Children isn't maintained correctly within Flex Container on Transforming Flex Layouts.
  • URLs containing %27 were navigating to a 404 page in the published document.
  • Issue with text appearance of placed WMF images.
  • IDML export/import adds objects on master pages and dependent pages.
  • Generate Alt Text feature is disabled and showing error, You do not have access to the Generate Alt Text feature.
  • Fit Text feature is disabled for Type on a Path text objects in InDesign.
  • Manually added alt text should not get removed when relinked from a missing link.
  • [macOS only] InDesign intermittently crashes on Quit.
  • Auto Alt Text causing crashes, freezing, and workflow disruptions in InDesign 21.2.
  • CC Libraries panel freezes and becomes unresponsive in InDesign.
  • InDesign crashes while saving to cloud-synced locations after a corrupt Windows update, resulting in document corruption.
  • [Windows only] Users in Chinese Simplified are unable to use InDesign due to a subscription error.
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