New Features in Adobe InDesign 2024

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InDesign 2024: What's New

Adobe InDesign 2024 introduces a range of enhancements targeting workflow efficiency, document organisation, and digital publishing. Here is a summary of the most notable additions.

Auto Style for Text Frames

The Auto Style feature automatically applies consistent paragraph and character formatting to text frames based on your defined styles. This reduces the need to manually apply styles to newly placed text and helps maintain design uniformity across long documents. It is particularly useful in data-driven publishing workflows where text content is frequently updated or replaced.

Searchable Text in Publish Online

Documents published via Publish Online now include searchable text, making digital publications more accessible and improving discoverability. Readers can use browser-based search to find content within the publication, which significantly improves usability for long-form documents such as catalogues, reports, and magazines.

Dynamic Filename Suffixes

InDesign 2024 allows users to define dynamic filename suffixes when exporting documents. These suffixes can incorporate variables such as date, version number, or custom strings, eliminating the need to manually rename exported files. This is valuable for teams managing multiple versions of a document across different output formats.

Hide Spreads

The Hide Spreads feature allows designers to temporarily hide specific spreads within a document without deleting them. Hidden spreads are excluded from output and PDF export while remaining part of the file for reference. This is useful for managing alternate layouts, draft sections, or content that is not ready for a particular deliverable.

AI-Assisted Features via Adobe Sensei

InDesign 2024 continues to integrate Adobe's AI capabilities. AI-powered text reflow suggestions and smart layout adjustments help automate some of the more mechanical aspects of document adaptation — particularly for multi-format publishing where the same content needs to work across different page sizes.

Performance Improvements

Adobe has continued to improve InDesign's performance with large documents, including faster page rendering and reduced memory usage when working with complex layouts containing many linked graphics.

Developer Perspective

From a plugin and scripting standpoint, InDesign 2024 maintains compatibility with existing CEP extensions and ExtendScript-based scripts while continuing to expand UXP API coverage. Developers building InDesign plugins should review the updated scripting DOM for new objects and properties introduced in this version.

Mapsoft has extensive experience developing for InDesign across all recent versions. See our InDesign development page for more information on our capabilities.