21.5WindowsmacOS
July 2026 (version 21.5)
Added 16
- Table accessibility improvements in PDF and EPUB exports
- Specify header rows, header columns, and captions in your table setup to include accessible table structure information in exported documents.
- Keyboard shortcut search
- Search by command name or keyboard shortcut to quickly locate a specific menu item directly in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box.
- Data Merge enhancements
- Added support for multiline records and UTF-8 encoded data files.
- HTML Preview plugin no longer required
- Starting with InDesign 21.5, HTML previews generate without the HTML Preview plugin, and InDesign no longer displays an error if the plugin isn't installed.
- Manage your files faster from the home screen
- Add local files as cloud documents, or download cloud documents to your device, directly from the home screen.
- Speed up accessibility work with bulk Alt Text operations
- Generate or remove AI-generated Alt Text for multiple images at once, without affecting text you've written or edited manually.
- Missing font management in InCopy on the web (beta)
- Add or request custom fonts directly from the Missing Fonts dialog box without leaving your workflow.
- Access Learn from the homescreen
- For a cleaner, more focused workspace, the Learn option has been removed from the Window menu, and the Learn icon has been removed from the workspace. You can continue to access Learn from the homescreen, as always.
Fixed 10
- The primaryTextFrame property could not be set on a MasterSpread via InDesign scripting .
- Incorrect handling of Ampersands (&) in font family names and OpenType Stylistic Sets names.
- The Learn option isn't available in the Window menu.
- Data Merge did not support UTF-8 encoding.
- [Windows only] Users in Chinese Simplified are unable to use InDesign due to a subscription error.
- Content that isn't visible in the PDF appears when it's opened.
- Opening some PDFs duplicates images onto the pasteboard, degrading performance, and inflating the asset folder size.
- [Windows only] InDesign intermittently crashes during document recovery.
- [Windows only] InDesign intermittently crashes on quit.
- InDesign hangs with customer CEP Plugin.