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  1. Directly create transparency on letters/words in a text frame

    Currently it is not possible to define a letter or words within a text frame with a certain percentage of transparency. It is only possible to adjust the Tint. In the Effects Panel, the Transparency options are greyed out (not accessible).

    Sometimes in a design you want to create such text effects, which at the moment can only be achieved with a workaround: an anchored text frame which poses several challenges if the transparent text runs over several lines.

    Affinity Publisher offers this right out of the box in the current version (2.3.1). Quark Xpress can do this as well.…

    8 votes

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  2. "Create Outlines" should automatically "convert bullets and numbering to text" first.

    Currently you have to remember to select "Convert bullets and numbering to text" before you also select "Create Outlines." This should not be a two part process as there would never be a time when a designer would suddenly want the bullets and numbers to disappear when making outlined text for a printer.

    5 votes

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  3. Opentype + Glyphs UI Menu Preview

    The UI for Opentype is extremely difficult and time consuming to use. The entire thing needs to be set up like Illustrator, with one addition: PREVIEW TYPOGRAPHIC FEATURES (especially the stylistic sets).

    This UI feature should behave just like the Fonts Menu: When you open the font family menu with text highlighted, each font you hover over previews on your selected text.

    This needs to be replicated for Opentype and Glyphs. So once you open the dropdown for stylist sets or glyphs, each style you hover over, will preview in real time on your selected text or in a pop…

    2 votes

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  4. Possibility to control Superscript/Subscript, i.e., 40% if >XX font size, 65% if<XX font size

    In "Advanced Type" (in settings) I can control Superscript, subscript and Small Caps. Many fonts has got a gigantic and ugly ® (registered trademark) and needs to be shrunk. Sadly, that shrinks the ® in normal body copy too much. It would be great if I could have options in Advanced Type to control it more.
    E.g., 40% size and 65% baseline if bigger than 36 pt font size, and some other setting for anything smaller than that size.

    2 votes

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  5. Find/Change text in Index entries too

    I find it amazing that we have been relegated to using fancy scripts to perform what should be a simple find and replace.
    Currently (as far as I know) search and change (aka Find and Replace) has no means to affect an index and its entries. There are scripts that try and address this shortcoming, but why? This is a simple and basic function. Correction, should be a simple and basic function.

    1 vote

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  6. Add brackets and arcs as underline options

    To signal a contraction of a word, or a relation between two words, it would be helpful to have brackets and arcs (like slurs in a musical sheet) as underline options. This would simplify the edition of dictionaries and musical text.
    See the examples attached.

    3 votes

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  7. Don't prioritize line breaks after end brackets ] }

    Newer versions of InDesign identify the position immediately after a bracket -- ] or } -- as a high-priority for a new line. Earlier verions did not.
    1. For us, that's a big problem because we use some fonts on which a different image is at this location, and it must connect with the one that follows. We never want a new line to start here. (The nonjoiner character fixes this, but it would be far easier if it didn't happen at all.)
    2. Most of the time, when these characters are used as bracket, there will be a space…

    1 vote

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  8. Ability to change text from a dialog box like Corel Draw

    I use Corel Draw from time to time and when I need to edit a string of text it lets me edit it from a dialog box instead of only on the page so I do not have to zoom up on any text strings to edit them. Can this be done for InDesign and Illustrator as well.

    1 vote

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  9. have a marker for "last page"

    have a marker for "last page" as an option

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  10. Ich benötige Hilfe für meine Abschlussarbeit und bin auf der Suche nach einem Service, der alle Aufgaben übernimmt.

    Ich benötige Hilfe für meine Abschlussarbeit und bin auf der Suche nach einem Service, der alle Aufgaben übernimmt.

    1 vote

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  11. ajouter ue outil de sélection de tous les blocs de texte

    ajouter un outil de sélection de tous les blocs de texte par page ou par document. permet de dupliquer les blocs dans des calques de langue différentes sans avoir a sélectionner manuellement bloc par bloc pour les associer.
    ou outil de selection par type ex: selection de toutes les images.

    1 vote

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  12. artificial intelligence for text

    Wouldn't it be a nice idea to have InDesign apply some artificial intelligence for looking at the text? Like what ChatGPT can do, but then integrated into InDesign. Checking the complexity, readability, Colorcontrast, tone-of-voice etc of your text. Would love to see that. Or suggestions on how to solve readability-issues for accessible PDF! Yeah!

    1 vote

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  13. intelligent swatches for type

    When changing selection from object to text frame swatches should change to the text itself intead of the text box.
    I always accidentially fill the text box with colour first instead of the text. I think, users want to change the text colour a lot more often than the colour of the text box.

    1 vote

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  14. Keep text box attributes when creating outlines.

    When creating outlines for text, InDesign should separate out the text box and turn that into an object with the same parameters that were initially set. So, if I have white text in a black box with a yellow stroke, the black box with yellow stroke should remain in the layout when selecting "Create Outlines". Right now the box disappears.

    1 vote

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  15. Characters Length Limitations

    Create an option for the user to set the number or range of characters per line in either paragraph styles or character style panels or as text frame option

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  16. Please add Document First Page Number and Document Page Range to Text Variables

    I'm doing a layout for a scientific journal, and each article is in a separate file. The articles are then combined into a book. An important piece of information is the page range, which is part of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) used by scientists to search. Additional text variables like Document Start Page and Document Page Range are much needed. The last variable requires separator formatting between numbers (e.g. 35-70 or 35…70)

    1 vote

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  17. Ability to copy and paste only the text style

    1. After copying any text field by any means, having the ability to do a special paste on an different text field (copy/apply the properties and not the actual text).

    2. Wordpress-Elementor has this feature and can be a real time saver for quickly making small changes to various smaller text fields.

    3 votes

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  18. cerca-sostituisci testo in una cartella intera

    cerca-sostituisci testo in una cartella intera

    1 vote

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  19. Option to lock text box position only, with text remaining editable

    I would love the ability to lock the position of text boxes in a layout, while still allowing editing of the text contents. (Similar to the multiple types of layer lock in Photoshop).

    This would be useful for the template documents I make and then share with collaborators. Other users edit the text, but sometimes accidentally nudge text boxes out of place that should be consistent in placement. I use Object Styles to check placement, but it's time-consuming to check each text box in a document with 100+ pages.

    2 votes

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  20. Favourite font groups

    I'd like to be able to save some of my commonly used fonts into groups or themes of my choosing, such as calligraphic, infographic, corporate, Christmas etc.

    I realise InDesign (and other Adobe apps) already offer favourites and filters but the favourites list can get rather long and the filters don't always capture the fonts I'm actually trying to find, especially with non Adobe fonts. For example, I have a font called 'Beauty Night Script' installed and it doesn't show up in either the script, handwritten or decorative font filters.

    I think this feature could be quite useful for people…

    6 votes

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