Adobe InDesign for Mac16.1

Stability and performance:

• InDesign crashes on clicking the Applying Text Wrap option Select Subject in a few cases.
• InDesign crashes on saving after deleting an underlying file.
• InDesign hangs on spell check when the cursor is placed between fullstop (.) and pipe (|) symbol in the document.
• [Win only] InDesign crashes in CRClient.dll module.
• InDesign crashes on launch in some cases.
• InDesign 2021 crashes while converting older .indd files which were shared for review and had review comments.
• InDesign crashes on launch on some Windows machines.
• Performance improvements in Scrolling / Zooming / Redraw.
• InDesign crashes on launching and quitting multiple times.

User experience improvement:

• [Win only] The horizontal mouse scroll over the input elements in the Create New Document dialog won't change the values incrementally.
• An extra white box appears in the Media panel slider when the name of navigation point is too long.
• Video poster appears trimmed in the Media panel.
• Panel Widget has misplaced icon image after porting plugins from InDesign 2020 to InDesign 2021.
• Right-to-Left binding direction icon is displayed incorrectly in the Middle Eastern version.
• Enabling Preview of a document causes Create New Document dialog to lose focus.
• Trouble in typing comments in Korean when the Review panel is accessed using the Window menu but works fine when accessed through the Share for Review icon in the application bar.
• Translation typo in Swedish version: Wrong translation of Endnotes.

Core feature and workflow:

• Descender of characters in italic font style of variable fonts appears incorrect when document is exported to PDF.
• Attempting to edit an asset created in InDesign from the CC Libraries panel in Photoshop or Illustrator displays some error. InDesign won't open the object for editing.
• [Win only] In a document with facing pages, when you set the text direction from right-to-left, the numbers in Pages panel are jumbled or extra characters are added.
• Footnote text not visible on page layout in some cases.
• Switching from workspace to Home screen and back loses the set workspace.
• The width slider for some variable fonts freezes while sliding it.
• Creating a new review in the Share for Review panel is working incorrectly.

Production:

• Some Composite Japanese font characters with stroke applied are missing when exported to PDF.

Improvement to new features:

• The Background Tasks panel and the spinning wheel continue to show as Activating Font even after the font is activated and displayed correctly in the document.
• Text copied from the document and pasted in the Share for Review panel gets pasted twice.