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  1. Incorporate of Indian rupee symbol ₹ on the default keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+4 for Indesign and Illustrator

    Please incorporate indian rupee symbol ₹ on the default keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+4 for Indesign and Illustrator.

    This is a default keyboard shortcut for all application to type Indian rupee symbol and Microsoft has released a patch for the same.

    8 votes
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      8 comments  ·  Text and Type  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Anchored Objects should be able to be sent to back so text can print above the object

      It would be nice if text could print above an anchored object

      10 votes
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        2 comments  ·  Layout/Graphics etc  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Would like to be able to include fonts and links from linked Illustrator files when packaging an InDesign file for print

        would like to be able to collect fonts and links in linked AI and PS files when packaging an ID file for print.

        7 votes
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          3 comments  ·  Print/Packaging  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Anchored Objects need be able to apply a text wrap when placed before their anchor point in text

          For example, if the reference text for an image falls on the lower half of a right hand page, but the placement of the image works better at the top of that page—or even on the facing left hand page—the text wrap should be able to work before the object's anchor point in the text. Otherwise, when dealing with long documents, this feature is somewhat useless if you can only anchor some of your objects.

          8 votes
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            2 comments  ·  Layout/Graphics etc  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • Table Summary Option as per Word and other apps

            Could you add a tab in the ‘Table Options’ dialog window when selecting a table. This tab called Table Summary would be a field that allows you to add a brief description on what the table is about. The information would then carry over to a PDF when you export it.

            An accessibility check on the PDF without a table summary produces a warning. Whilst tables summaries are not compulsory for accessibility, in order to get 100% compliance (green tick), tables summaries need to be added which Microsoft Word and other programs seem to do whereas Adobe Indesign does not.

            14 votes
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              0 comments  ·  Tables  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • Continued table subheaders (and headers)

              1. Our main need is a way to specify "subheader" rows which will repeat after the main header at the top of each page. In the screenshot, "Bank of America" with gray shading and "Canadian region" are both examples of subheader categories which appeared previously in the table. We need them to continue to appear as a subheader row, underneath the main header, with an option to add text (in this example, "cont."). Note we need the ability to style the additional text.

              A GREP style which could be used on the subheader row would be even better, as sometimes…

              7 votes
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                0 comments  ·  Tables  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
              • Please add proper standard printing condition(s) and icc-profiles

                Adobe, please change the standard color presets for printing to the proper standard printing conditions and profiles that are published by the European Color Initaitive ECI (eci.org.). The icc-profiles are publically available.
                Actually, Adobe still uses outdated FOGRA39 characterization data by default, second Adobe applies FOGRA39 in an own icc-profile that differs from the standard-profile by the ECI.
                FOGRA39 is outdated, it's been replaced by FOGRA51 since years, for good reason. ECI has published the corresponding standard ICC-profile "PSO coated v3", which should find it's way into Adobe's color settings. Please integrate the official ECI-profiles, because these are highly optimized…

                4 votes
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                  1 comment  ·  Print/Packaging  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                • Need the ability to assign fonts to Interactive Text Boxes

                  Please, please, PLEASE update the Interactive Buttons and Forms functionality to include the ability to assign fonts to the Interactive Text Boxes.

                  Currently, I have to hope that the design I have made is 100% final approved before I can create the final Interactive PDF and spend additional time fine-tuning the fonts and paragraph alignment. If there are any changes after that, I have to go through the entire process again, losing valuable hours, depending on the length of the document. The ability to change only the font size is useless.

                  But if the functionality was included in the InDesign…

                  4 votes
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                    1 comment  ·  Other  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • PDF Export Dialog

                    I still don't get the reason why you need to separate between Print and Interactive on PDF export at first stage where you choose your file format.

                    Please put make these options selectable in the PDF preset dialog insted.
                    It happens too oft to me that i don't look at the little format field at the bottom and just take attention to where i want to export my filesttoo and then am presented to the wrong dialog forcing me to abort the procedure to start over again.

                    Thank you!

                    5 votes
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                      0 comments  ·  PDF Export  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • ownership of libraries to the team and global changes

                      Libraries; Now at the center of every well organized team... but when a team member leaves, every «owned» libraries are deleted... so all the standardized color swatch of a client are gone for the remaining members... PLUS would be great to have a chart of 30 clients and add/remove one new/old user to those 30 libraries at once ! libraries are great; adobe please make them greater :)

                      8 votes
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                      • 10 votes
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                          0 comments  ·  Other  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Stop making new folders when I save individual pages to PDFs.

                          For my magazine, I export multiple files (over 15) to the same name+page number with the page number being the only difference. The new export feature keeps making a subset folder with the same name which screws up copying the files to the first folder. I have to rename the subset folder, copy the files to the original folder and delete the subset folder. I prefer it not to make a folder at all.

                          3 votes
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                            0 comments  ·  PDF Export  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Repeat last action feature

                            Please, make something like MS Word, that you can repeat your last action just pressing F4. That could save a lot of time.

                            9 votes
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                              2 comments  ·  Scripting  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Add row/column dimensions to table styles

                              When a document includes multiple similar tables, I would like to be able to quickly set them up to have the same column widths for better consistency. Adding this kind of information to styles seems the most logical place for it.

                              13 votes
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                              • Need much larger document size

                                The max 5468mm document size is very small and makes large posters, signage, wallpaper and murals very difficult to create in Adobe. To make things worse Acrobat will not export to 5468mm so this can cause more issue.

                                This has been an issue for years now and really as a professional standard program its not good enough.

                                2 votes
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                                • Make Single Line Composer the default selection, please

                                  Every time I receive a layout from my designers, I have to highlight and change every single block of text on it from Adobe Paragraph Composer (the work of the devil) to the controllable sanity of Single Line Composer. Who in their right mind wants the computer to be reflowing text that they have already edited?

                                  1 vote
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                                  • Display line number for each line in InDesign document

                                    @Adobe: Please include the new option to display the line numbers for each line in InDesign document and also inlude the option to show the InDesign line number in output PDF.

                                    Currently we are spending more time to add the line number in InDesign and PDF. Please include this feature in upcoming release.

                                    I've attached the required output sample for your reference.

                                    14 votes
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                                      6 comments  ·  Layout/Graphics etc  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                    • Notify us of bugs while they are being fixed.

                                      When you have a bug, it would be nice to get a notice. I just spent an hour trying to figure out what I was doing wrong with the dictionary. Finally got in a chat and realized I wasn't doing anything wrong.

                                      It's fine you have bugs. It's amazing what the software does. I don't mind not using a feature while the bug gets fixed. It would, though, save me time and frustration to know that you're working on it and I should relax and wait.

                                      Thank you!

                                      2 votes
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                                      • Object Style option for Graphic Cells in the Cell Style dialog…

                                        Please add an option to choose an Object Style for the Graphic Cell part in the Cell Style Dialog (just like the Paragraph Style Option in the General tab of the same dialog…

                                        4 votes
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                                          0 comments  ·  Styles  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                        • Export a specific color separation directly to PDF without having to print to file first.

                                          Let's say you have a file that's CMYK plus one spot color (let's say Pantone 123). You want to create a PDF file for print that is only the separation of the Pantone 123 spot color. What I have to do now is create the color separation first by printing to file, then distill the resulting .ps file.
                                          Can there be a way to directly export the color separation by using Export to Print PDF?
                                          Maybe there is a way to do this already, but I have not been able to find any info online on how to do this.

                                          3 votes
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