If you are running on Windows click here or alternatively on a Mac click here. There are a number of ways to fix this so rather than repeat them all here I thought it might make more sense to link to Adobe support pages on the subject. This could be too many fonts installed, old or incompatible fonts, damaged fonts etc… Sometimes a font conflict can occur causing InDesign to crash. I don’t ever recall personally experiencing this problem, but have come across others who have. I haven’t personally needed to use their recovery service, but as a company they have a good and well established reputation and I can’t imagine this being any different. Marzware have been around for many years offering tools for conversion to and from InDesign. Incidentally if you have a file that is crashing indesign every time and you literally can’t open it, you might want to try Marzware’s recovery service. The IDML file is a backward compatible file that strips out all but the essential stuff, and doing this can often clean out minor corruption issues in an InDesign file which could be causing the problems. One thing worth trying if you suspect that might be the case, is going to File / Export and save it out as an IDML file, then reopening that file and saving it as a standard InDesign file. Sometimes this kind of problem can be caused by corruption in an InDesign file, and this is especially obvious if the crash always happens when you try and open one particular file. You can also save and then reload things like print presets and document presets by going into them from the file menu and clicking define then saving them.
That way if doing this doesn’t solve the problem you can always restore the preferences. The downside of this is it wiped your personal settings, including document and print presets, so I would suggest synching whatever settings you can to the cloud first to save a bit of time. Personally I find this fixes almost all my crashing issues. After a few seconds you should then get a pop up box that asks if you want to reset the preferences. To reset the preferences simply restart InDesign and hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift (Windows) or Cmd + Ctrl + Opt + Shift (Mac). In fact personally I find this method has worked almost everytime over many years. Having said that it generally does fix recurring crashes in InDesign (and Photoshop / Illustrator). This does wipe any customisation so if you have personalised workspaces, etc. The next thing which I usually try is resetting the InDesign preferences. It’s worth a go and only takes a few minutes. Generally this won’t resolve the problem but I have come across situations where it has. OK it sounds kind of obvious, but one thing you could do it restart the computer itself. There are a few things you can do to stop this, other than simply reinstalling InDesign. Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on InDesign is generally pretty stable I do sometimes come across people who have an issue with InDesign crashing repeatedly. Solution 5: Start the application in Safe mode and disable Font Preview. You may also want to check the Extensis website ( for updates to Suitcase. If you've installed Extensis Suitcase on the system, disable the FontAgent plug-in that comes with the application. Solution 4: Disable the Font Agent plug-in. If you identify problems with third-party plug-ins, then please complete a bug report, available on the Adobe website at Be sure to include the plug-in name, version and manufacturer. To remove third-party plug-ins: Move the plug-in file for each plug-in from the Adobe InDesign /Plug-ins folder to a backup folder and restart InDesign/InCopy. To identify third-party plug-ins/extensions in CS5 and later, choose Help > Manage Extensions (Windows) or InDesign > Manage Extensions (Mac OS). To identify third-party plug-ins in CS4 and earlier, choose choose Help > Configure Plug-ins (Windows) or InDesign > Configure Plug-ins (Mac OS).
Identify third-party plug-ins and then remove the plug-in files for each of those plug-ins. Solution 3: Remove third-party plug-ins from the Plug-ins folder. Note: If you identify problem fonts, Adobe requests that you complete a bug report at Be sure to include the font name, the font creation date, and the font type (for example, OpenType fonts from Adobe, TrueType, dfont, or Type 1).
In Font Book, enable one font at a time in the collection and try to reproduce problem until you find the problem font.
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