The table below summarizes the use of InDesign with Q++Studio, as of December 2024.
Supported Versions |
Currently (December 2024), the XV4 version of Q++Studio supports all the versions of InDesign from InDesign 2020 to InDesign 2025, inclusively.
InDesign-Windows Restrictions and Incompatibilities
All versions of InDesign, starting with InDesign 2020, require Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit).
See also: supported versions of QuarkXPress. |
Recommended Versions |
InDesign 2022, 2023 or 2024 are currently the recommended versions of InDesign to use with the XV4 version of Q++Studio, although Q++Studio still functions equally well with InDesign 2020 and 2021, and none of our clients have reported any issue when using Q++Studio with InDesign 2025.
Additional consideration
If you use Type1 fonts and/or rely on Pantone colors, then you might want to remain with InDesign 2022.
When using InDesign 2023-2025, Type 1 fonts are not available and accessing the Pantone libraries requires the additional purchase of a license for the Pantone Connect Extension. |
Backward compatibility |
As is the case for our support of QuarkXPress, we will always try to maintain the compatibility of Q++Studio with as many older versions of InDesign as possible, for as long as possible. |
The table below gives more details about each individual version of InDesign, and its particularities and features, as regards its use with Q++Studio.
New features of each version of InDesign
James Wamser has published a fantastic 149-page document listing all the key features from InDesign 1.0 released on August 31, 1999, through the October 2024 release (version 20.0). This PDF resource is free to download and highly recommended.
InDesign Versions
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(Version 20)
Minimum required version: 20.0 Recommended version: 20.0.1 Latest version: 20.0.1 |
Released October 15, 2024
Q++Studio has supported the prerelease version of InDesign 2025, since early August 2024, and, as usual, we supported the release version of InDesign 2025 on the day of its official release.
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(Version 19)
Minimum required version: 19.01 Recommended version: 19.01 Latest version: 19.5.1 |
Released October 10, 2023
Q++Studio has supported the prerelease version of InDesign 2024, since early August 2023, and fully supported InDesign 2024 on the date of its official release, October 10, 2023.
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(Version 18)
Minimum required version: 18.2 Recommended version: 18.4 Latest version: 18.5.4 |
Released October 17, 2022
Q++Studio has supported InDesign 2023 since the day of its release.
➢InDesign 2023 feature summary.
The minimum required version of InDesign 2023 is version 2023.2 (18.2).
The use of version 18.5 is not recommended as many users of InDesign (not only Q++Studio users) have encountered problems with that update. If you have already updated InDesign to 18.5, you can revert back to 18.4 (which seems to eliminate the problems for all users). |
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(Version 17)
Minimum required version: 17.2 Recommended version: 17.4.2 Latest version: 17.4.2 |
Released October 27, 2021
Q++Studio has supported InDesign 2022 since its official release.
➢Feature summary | Adobe InDesign | 2022 releases
The minimum required version of InDesign 2022 is version 2022.2 (17.2). |
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(Version 16)
Minimum required version: 16.4 Recommended version: 16.4 Latest version: 16.4.3 |
Q++Studio support for InDesign 2021 was part of the initial support for InDesign on July 1st, 2021.
➢Feature summary | Adobe InDesign | 2021 releases
The minimum required version of InDesign 2021 is version 2021.4 (16.4). |
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(Version 15) Recommended version: 15.1.4 Latest version: 15.1.4 |
Q++Studio support for InDesign 2020 was part of the initial support for InDesign on July 1st, 2021.
➢Feature summary | Adobe InDesign | 2020 releases
The minimum required version of InDesign 2020 is version 2020.1 (15.1). |
As is the case for our support of QuarkXPress, we will always try to maintain the compatibility of Q++Studio with as many versions of InDesign as possible, for as long as possible.
See also: fixed issues in InDesign (Adobe web site) and what's new in the latest release of InDesign (Adobe web site).
Topic 183215, last updated on 03-Dec-2024
