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  1. Data merge and type formatiing

    We data merge price tickets for retail from excel into InDesign. It would save so much formatting time if you could change the data merge fields 'case'.
    For example: could I change a data merge field to Sentence case, or Title Case etc? I know the feature ALL CAPS works but that's it?

    6 votes

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  2. Text Frame Row Rule Options

    It would be brilliant to have this feature added in the Text Frame Options in order to be able to add a number of rows (and its attributes) along with the number of colums.

    2 votes

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  3. CJK and Arabic Toolsets

    I frequently have to typeset Japanese, Chinese and Arabic, and it's very unfortunate the interfaces for the language tools cannot all be included in the same version.

    My understanding is that every version of the software is identical under the hood, and there's a simple hidden parameter that enables the different language tools after a reboot, but it would allow for a much smoother workflow if this could be done within the software. For example, under Workspaces have the option to choose workspaces that use a different language toolset, with a reboot required if necessary. Can this be addressed in…

    2 votes

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  4. add the ability to move from the type tool to the move tool with a right click or hold down a key

    switching from type tool to the move tool while your cursor is inside a text box can't be done by simply pressing the v key because it will put a v in the copy you are working with. Currently the solve is 1) push escape, then the v key-a real pain 2) click off the text box that you are working on, push the v key, go back to the text box and click on it to move it-slightly inconvenient.

    So would it make sense to have a right click with the move (V) tool at the very top of…

    2 votes

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  5. Hyphenation (H&J): Don’t break compound words except at hyphens

    Compound words should only be divided at existing hyphens when dividing words for line breaks.

    Example: “award-winner” should break only after “award-“ not as “award-win-ner”

    Other: “heart-stopping” can break after “heart-“ but never “heart-stop-ping”

    4 votes

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  6. Conditional Text Shortcut

    There are lots of Conditional Text requests, but simply the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to text conditions would be a huge time saver!

    3 votes

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  7. Editable Text Mask

    Still not understand why a basic feature like "editable text mask" not exist in 2021.

    1 vote

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  8. İçindekiler listesinde geliştirme

    İçindekiler bölümü hazırlarken çift satır olan ara başlık içindekiler listesine de çift satır geliyor ve aynın numarayı alıyor bunlara tek tek düzenlemem gerekiyor.

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  9. View Verso/Recto Page as Transparent Overlay

    Include within View > Extras an option to turn on a transparent and mirrored overlay of the other side of a given page in a book. Allow for customization of transparency and color. Provides a quick way to check the baseline grid is properly aligned and that there wont be conflict with elements on previous page.

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  10. View Verso/Recto Page as Transparent Overlay

    Include within View > Extras an option to turn on a transparent and mirrored overlay of the other side of a given page in a book. Allow for customization of transparency and color. Provides a quick way to check the baseline grid is properly aligned and that there wont be conflict with elements on previous page.

    1 vote

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  11. Select/Move Multiple Tabs in the Tabs Window

    I don't think I'm asking for anything spectacular. I agree the Tabs interface isn't the best but, one thing that would make it much more tolerable would be, what I think, would be a simple change. Can we shift or ctrl click multiple tabs in the same section to slide all of them together please? Having to re-adjust all tabs on a line just because #1 or #2 need to shift to the right seems like a crazy oversight in functionality. Not to mention a time consuming and frustrating one. Please add this little thing to the next update and…

    8 votes

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  12. The possibility to add a shortcut to "None" under Text format

    It would be so beneficial to be able to remove any text formatting via shortcut, when all the others text formats are accessible via shortcuts already.

    Use these shortcuts all the time, but every time I need to remove a format, I have to avert from the usual workflow.

    2 votes

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  13. Auto recognize type on path with overset text

    When using 'type on path' with multiple paths and you have overset text on one path. When clicking on the red plus so you copied the overset text to past it on the next path but it's not possible because InDesign doesn't automatically apply/recognize 'type on path' like in Illustrator.

    Attached an screenshot what I mean.

    1 vote

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  14. Baseline Options for Character Styles: vertical alignment to top, base, etc.

    Text Frames have Baseline Options where you can set the First Baseline.

    Please implement something similar for character styles, to vertically align characters within a line, based on Cap Height, Ascent, Baseline, etc. – similar to CSS.

    1 vote

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  15. make insert next page number/previous page number work properly

    at the time of writing, this feature only gives the CURRENT page number instead of the previous or next as intended

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  16. Add support for language based typographic rules

    Each language has its own set of traditional rules related to hyphens, dashes, quotation marks, punctuation, hyphenation, spaces etc. Most of the rules are pretty simple and it is very easy to apply them using a list of search-replace sequences.

    To significantly improve the quality of typesetting, Adobe should provide users a tool to clean up texts (remove additional spaces for instance) and create output matching the style guides and orthographic rules.

    The rules should be defined for each language and/or region. There are different quotation marks in German used in Germany or in Switzerland; in French used in France…

    6 votes

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  17. Ligatures - a completely stupid *OPTION* Adobe shoves down our throats

    So, ligatures is rearing it's ugly head again.

    I simply cannot fathom why Adobe feels the need to shove this option down our throats.

    I am working with documents I have used in the past 2-3 months and now, I would guess a recent update to InDesign, the ligatures option is on by default and is now reformatting my documents for me.

    Great. Thanks Adobe. Thought you were a professional software development company, clearly not.

    Can you not understand the MASSIVE IMPACT this has on my workflow, now having to check all pages of all documents I am sending out…

    3 votes

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  18. smart tabs

    Suppose I have a document with a table laid out in it. I don't want to use a table, instead I go to a tabbed list so I can save some space. What I would want is the option to left justify the first column, right justify the last column, and distribute the other columns so that each tab has the exact same width in that row without having to manually space them out.

    2 votes

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  19. Preserve Formatting Pasting text from CC Apps

    I just did a nutritional label in ai and linked it to an indesign project, but wanted it to be more flexible using Indesign's text frames. As you know, nutritional labels require a TON of font size and weight variances so it really threw me for a loop that I couldn't retain all the formatting I had done when I pasted the text into indesign. Ruined my day sigh

    1 vote

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  20. Multiple footnotes using different numbering schemes

    Sometimes an author would like to only have footnotes, but use one set for explanations and comments, and another set for source references. This isn't possible, but would be very useful for indie authors wishing to create complex books.

    3 votes

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