Windows Task Scheduler: review whether any manually created scheduled tasks exist to re-serialise existing/older versions of InDesign Server and disable those tasks when upgrading.

Make a note of your service account for InDesign in Services.

Here are the Typefi Server system requirements and the InDesign Server system requirements.

Make sure you are running Typefi Server 8.7.2 or later.

Please allow for 1-2 hours to upgrade to InDesign Server 2021. For example, if you already have a license for InDesign Server 2020, you can use that same license for InDesign Server 2022. InDesign Server 2020-2022 licenses are reusable.

InDesign Server 2021 and later is quite a bit different in terms of distribution and licensing than in the past. Typefi Server 8.7.2 and later adds support for Adobe InDesign Server 2021 and later. You can read the full list of fixes and improvements in InDesign 17.2 here.This article only applies to Typefi customers using Typefi Server for Workgroup on Windows. Other fixes include issues with endnotes and text variables. Users have reported that it finally solves the long-standing problem of disappearing text on Mac computers with the M1 processor.

To be fair, the news on 17.2 isn’t all bad. These will be wiped out when you roll back. Just be sure you have backups of all customizations you’ve applied, things like workspaces and especially scripts. You’ll see a list of available older versions you can install. Go to the Desktop Apps section and click on the ellipsis next to InDesign and choose Other Versions. You can install older versions of InDesign via the Creative Cloud Desktop App. Reportedly, rolling back to InDesign 17.1 solves both problems. You can also learn more and participate in the discussion about these bugs at the InDesignSecrets Facebook Group. These new bugs include the loss of the ability to place multi-page files and the inability to get InDesign to recognize certain active fonts that all other apps can see.īoth issues have been filed multiple times as bugs at the InDesign UserVoice site, where you can add your comment and vote for them to be fixed: If you’re thinking about updating InDesign to the March 2022 release (17.2), or have already run the update, you should be aware that users are reporting some significant new bugs.

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