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  1. Adjustable row- and column lines

    I'm setting this student book and the designer made nice tables.
    The tables have no touching intersection where row line meets column line.
    It's approved by the client who loves these tables.
    The problem is that the designer has drawn the lines by hand. As a typesetter you curse at it and find a solution for your 200+ tables, wich I did with a mix of paragraph borders and underlining/paragraphlines but I'm gonna cry pure salt if I need to make changes to this. With some clients you never know ;) I will attach a screenshot from a simple example.

    2 votes

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  2. Shift+Alt+Cmd = shortcut for Step & Repeat

    After duplicating an object by holding alt (and shift, if you wanted to) in CS6, you could step & repeat the object(s) again and again by simply pressing Shift+Alt+Cmd.
    Neat! No trip to the menu-bar required. No aligning required.
    But that feature is lacking in the CC version. Why remove someting that really made life easy and worked!?

    2 votes

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  3. Drop shadow effect affects only objects in the same group. Not background.

    I'd like to have an option to have the drop shadow effect only affect other objects that are grouped together. Not the background.
    If I for example have two images partially on top of each other, I'd like to have a drop shadow from the from object multiplying onto the object behind it but not on the page background.

    2 votes

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  4. 2 votes

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  5. Changing the height of a column individually

    I would be nice to be able to change the width/ height of a column individually, this would help making things easier instead of f*ing around with multiple text windows

    2 votes

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  6. Making collums smaller individually

    Having the ability to make collums smaller individually so you can make collums smaller pls vote this is rly annoying

    2 votes

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  7. Editing full preview like in presentation view

    Would like to a feature to edit atlest movement object in full preview like presentation view. So one can adjust the layout such as delete, shift any object to see the layout.

    2 votes

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  8. Allow border styles of top, right, bottom, left to vary

    It would be great if you could have different border style for every of the four borders. In CSS it has been easy to specify different colours or stroke widths for ages. It would be great if you could do this in InDesign.

    2 votes

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  9. 2 votes

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  10. Auto convert heavy Ai + Pdf files so InDesign don't die on export...

    Working with a lot of designers they often place very complicated and vector heavy patterens in indesign. (Ai+PDF format)

    Indesign eats all - no problem.

    Then the time comes and indesign need to make a PDF file, and it just dies!

    I can now spend hour finding that one or more pattern with a gazillion points...

    Why dont indesign say, --- > Hey! Stop! If you place this file you will not be able to make a PDF file, and i will likely crash and burn...

    And then InDesign converts the file, on the fly.. And places the new file…

    2 votes

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  11. Make guides work outside of the page like Illustrator

    Self explanatory really - Make guides work outside of the page like Illustrator, so you can lay things out on the pasteboard accurately before you put it on your document.

    2 votes

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  12. Sensei, use it to align text and shapes

    Hi all,
    Could Sensei be used to align text and shapes? Seems like a no-brainer to me to let AI fix it.
    An example , text in a circle.
    Now if you want to align it, you first need to Frame to fit the text. Then you need to select both the textframe and the circle. Then align them horizontally and vertically. ( on some frames you need to nudge the text up a bit to really align then horizontally.
    AI would could align both boundingboxes in less then a second.
    Please add it :)

    Rob

    2 votes

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  13. Support simpler EPS and SVG to be transfered into Path in Indesign by Right Click

    and not Copy Paste via Illustrator and Indesign. Basically like the function for fonts: the Hotkey for Fonts cmd + shift + o could be used if a graphic is selected.

    2 votes

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  14. I request crop overlays option in InDesign Picture Boxes for positioning placed images with more design precision. As is done with Lightroom

    I request crop overlays option in InDesign Picture Boxes for positioning placed images with more design precision. As is done with Lightroom and Photoshop crop overlays, e.g., Golden Ration, rule of thirds, Golden Spiral, etc.

    2 votes

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  15. New way to select individual text characters by marquee or dragging a box etc.

    Text selection via marquee like the lasso tool in Illustrator or photoshop. This would select individual characters in live (not outlined) text for formatting just the selected characters in interesting ways. This also helps to select a column if you are working in tabbed text rather than text in a table. Also, picture a large body of text where you could highlight say a circle for instance in the middle and make it a bolder font. There used to be a plug in for Quark that did this exact thing.

    2 votes

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  16. Image Borders for Selected Edges

    1. Make it possible to select the edges a graphic or image receives a border.
    2. This matters because it can be nice to e.g. only give a top and bottom border to an image when it's layouted in a column in order to separate it more from the typography. Without the feature you have to create line objects, keep them properly spaced manually etc. which is tedious

    An example would be how you can choose borders for cells in Apple's Numbers

    2 votes

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  17. More interactivity

    Be able to make things move like in pages but a little more sophosticated like premiere, after effects and spark.
    Being able to design like a post but add text that eases in and out.... that would rock!

    2 votes

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  18. Non printing folder in pages

    It would be very helpful if we could have a non printing folder in the pages window. This would allow pages to be switched in or out if multiple options for spreads are being used for a client. It would then be useful to have the ability to select a pages (or pages) and right click - swap pages with ones in the folder.....

    kind regards
    rory

    2 votes

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  19. customize number/bullet lists without multiple style sheets

    There should be some way to customize bullet and numbering lists without making multiple style sheets and then reapplying those styles to exisiting areas where styles are already applied. This is a crazy amount of work to do something that has to be done fairly regularly.

    2 votes

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  20. Please, please add the average horizontal/vertical line between to points to Indesign like Illlustrator has.

    being able to make a straight line between two points is so essential. this would make Indesign so much more user friendly.

    2 votes

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