Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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More robust Variable Font support
Please provide a more robust Variable Font support. I am running Id v 15.1.1.
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Keyboard shortcut to adjust paragraph indents
I'd like to be able to quickly adjust the left, right, first and last line indents of my paragraph using a Quick Apply or a custom keyboard shortcut.
I find it strange that it doesn't already exist, given the countless other basic adjustments available in the shortcuts panel.
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Find missing characters
Sometimes a character is unavailable and InDesign highlights this with a pink box. However there seems to be no way to Search for these - one has to visually spot them on a page to be able to fix them. Please implement a Find feature
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Find
Find searches for anything that is NOT the term. eg. Find NOT 12 pt will select text that is not 12pt
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Increment Settings for Tracking/Kerning Applied to Control Panel Interface
Idea referenced in the link below.
This idea is already implemented in the preferences menu under Units & Increments but it's only applied to keyboard shortcuts. I don't see why this setting wouldn't be included for the tracking and kerning settings in the control panel. As mentioned in the link, needing to let go of the mouse just to adjust tracking is a nuisance.
I never increase tracking by 10 when typesetting to adjust for the rag of a text block. Having the increments hard set to 10 effectively makes the control panel useless to me when typesetting. Oddly this…
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Option to add hidden character on/off button the toolbar
Just a little toggle button on the toolbar so you don't have to click Type > Show/Hide Hidden Characters, for those of us who turn it on and off repeatedly. I swear an older version had it.
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Control paragraph rules when same styles
I love being able to control space above/below in Paragraph for consecutive application of the same Paragraph Style.
I would love to similarly apply a rule above only to the first paragraph in a sequence or a rule below only on the last paragraph in a sequence, with an interface on the Paragraph Rules pane of the Paragraph Style definition similar to the "Space between paragraphs using same style" field in the Indents and Spacing pane.
This will greatly simplify and enhance my options in an automated XML workflow with multi-paragraph fields in a newspaper production setting.
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Set leading as a pecentage of the type's point size.
I wish you could set the Leading as a percentage instead of a point size, so if the point size changes the leading stays in proportion. And this percentage should stay persistent, once I enter a percentage is should stay that percentage and not revert to the point size of what that leading is. I know you can modify the Auto percentage in Preferences, but I want to be able to it on an instance by instance or stylesheet by stylesheet basis. This should be doable any place the leading can be changed.
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Undo create outlines
The ability to undo anything especially the outline of text “ “anytime” even in illustrator or photoshop... not just backwards
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Character palette dropdown menu needs to expand full within workspace (revised post)
Apologies, but I posted this before but forgot to include screen grabs. In InDesign CC 2018 when I selected a typeface from the character window drop-down menu, the drop-down expanded to fill my workspace vertically no matter where my character palette was on the screen. Now in CC 2019 it only expands to show 19 or 20 fonts in a much smaller drop-down window. I would love either to go back to the way it was before or have the option to enlarge the drop-down typeface selection window.
See the difference between CC 2018 and 2019 in the screen shots.…
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Bring back the Paragraph Direction button/option that was removed in v14.0.1.
Bring back the Paragraph Direction button/option that was removed in v14.0.1.
I am using Middle East InDesign, with English/Arabic language app option.
I have been informed by Adobe Support that v14.0.1 has removed Paragraph Direction all together. Since I have to work with Arabic frequently, this is VERY disruptive since Arabic is written right to left. It seems that even Change Text Direction has even been removed from the Character window options, so I can't find any possible workaround.
I don't understand how any users that need Right to Left written languages will even be able to use your updated…
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Split one text box into multiple text boxes
Split one text box into multiple text boxes at the click of a button. I have a list of text from Excel that I've formatted, but I now need to distribute every word individually around the page. A 20 minute job could be turned into a 1 minute job.
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Add Text Macros like in InCopy
I create a lot of documents that have textual elements that are repetitive, like resumes that include a project description. When using MS Word, I use the Quick Parts functionality to capture that text and insert it whenever I need it.
My company is just beginning to explore the InDesign/InCopy workflow, and I saw that InCopy has a feature much like Quick Parts, called Text Macros. I could really use this if it was implemented in InDesign as well. I have used Autocorrect for similar functionality, but I have never tried it with more than a few words at a…
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text bullet outline
when use command+shift+O to outline the text, the bullets just disappear
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3 votes
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Text Variable as a consecutive number
Possibility of defining and inserting a text variable as a consecutive number of the list.
Thanks to this variable it will be possible to number subsequent words in a sentence. For example (1) thing, (2) thing, (3) thing etc, or thing1, thing2, thing3 etc. There are infinitely many possibilities. Verse of poetry at the end of the verse etc. References to comments which are not endnotes or footnotes (without laborious definition of cross references). Sometimes it is necessary to list the words or any fragment of text within a paragraph, or to add numbered references to comments inside the text.…
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Object corner effect
When I insert a spacing on a text box using Text Fram Options Panel I lose all my custom spacing once I apply a corner effect.
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Convert the selected footnote to the endnote and vice versa.
Convert the selected footnote to the endnote and vice versa.
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monospaced fonts! the ability to make any font a monospaced font (especially for numbers so phone numbers line up on business cards)
monospaced fonts! the ability to make any font a monospaced font (especially for numbers so phone numbers line up on business cards)
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Slant button to create faux italics
A one-click button to slant text and create faux italics.
Yes, the resulting text won't be real italics. Yes, typographic snobs will look down on InDesign and on you as a designer for using it.
But on projects were it doesn't matter, we get one-button access to make our clients happy and move onto projects where it real italics do matter.
I remember a time when this button was in InDesign, for the love of god, please bring it back.
3 votes
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