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  1. Restore adjustment arrows in Transform window for X/Y and W/H values

    When InDesign updated to the 2024 version, I lost the ability to use the Essentials Classic layout with the Properties bar at the top instead of the right, and in the Transform window, either as part of the Properties bar or on its own, lost the up and down adjustment arrows with seemingly no way to bring them back. I prefer being able to make tiny adjustments by sixteenth increments rather than at random or just eyeballing it and this change is absolutely driving me insane. I've rolled back to the previous version for now, but I know you all…

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  2. Restore adjustment arrows in Transform window for X/Y and W/H values

    When InDesign updated to the 2024 version, I lost the ability to use the Essentials Classic layout with the Properties bar at the top instead of the right, and in the Transform window, either as part of the Properties bar or on its own, lost the up and down adjustment arrows with seemingly no way to bring them back. I prefer being able to make tiny adjustments by sixteenth increments rather than at random or just eyeballing it and this change is absolutely driving me insane. I've rolled back to the previous version for now, but I know you all…

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  3. Allow pop-up panels such as paragraph styles editor to be resized

    When the operating system font size and/or software UI scale is increased it causes the bottom of the panel to be too long and clipped off under the Windows taskbar. Most of the panel is just empty grey space so can be scaled down without losing any of the contents.

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  4. Custom Font Menu

    Please ad the ability to customize a font menu. In order, with colour across all software and the ability for it to over-ride current files with that same custom menu.
    The favourites is just not as powerful at custom order and colour coding for each kind of font style.

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  5. Remember last selected section in Preferences

    Remember the last selected section in the Preferences window.

    For example, if I selected File Handling then clicked OK in the Preferences window, File Handling should be selected the next time I open Preferences.

    Right now it always defaults to General. While in many cases I want to use the last preferences section I used before when I open the Preferences window.

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  6. Make it possible to create GROUPS in the Pages palette and the Layers palette.

    Make it possible to create GROUPS in the Pages palette and the Layers palette. Just like I can do in the Swatches palette or Styles palette.
    When there are many pages (or layers) in a document, grouping them will be very handy.

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  7. Buttons and forms (Interactive) panel needs revamping

    The panel is barely usable in it's current form for anything more than a few buttons per page due to not being able to increase the height and width of the panel, especially the visibility section when a button is highlighted. At the bare minimum this needs to be resizable so that more can be seen so that linking and adjusting the on/off states of buttons can be performed more easily.

    Ideally, the panel needs an overhaul so that multiple buttons can be shift+selected so that they can be set to be called before being visible by default, or switched…

    3 votes

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  8. Better Relinking to CC Libraries

    I'd love to see some much needed quality of life/functionality improvements to CC Libraries in InDesign when relinking:

    • Ability to Search when relinking

    • Ability to see/sort by groups when relinking

    • Ability to change view (thumbnail/list) when relinking to CC Libraries

    • Infact, anything more than the current 'Relink to CC Librarires' functionality, which is literally just a list of every single asset in that library sorted by name

    We have thousands of assets in some of our libraries, which are all nicely sorted by group. But this is useless when this is completely ignored by the CC Libraries panel.

    4 votes

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  9. A workspace option to work on a laptop vs on a desktop.

    Probably a larger working space and smaller windows for tools on a laptop

    2 votes

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  10. Share for Review Editing Tools

    When a stakeholder is commenting on a Share for Review document, it would be great if the editing tool they used most was either sticky or became the default. Our proofer posts around 300 comments on our magazine and when he's using Share for Review, he has to select the highlighter tool each time he makes a comment. Having it be the default (or allowing it to stick once it's chosen) would making proofing much more efficient.

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  11. Add leading zeroes to single page image exports

    When exporting pages to images (something we do quite a lot in comics), it helps with further batch processing to have a sufficient number of leading zeroes as part of the exported filename.

    So instead of:
    Page 1
    Page 2
    Page 99
    Page 103

    Page 001
    Page 002
    Page 099
    Page 103

    This can be a selectable feature in the user preferences or automatically generated to pad the number of leading zeroes to match the number of pages in the exported file (e.g. if there are only 93 pages in the book, only add leading zeroes to 1-9 so all…

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  12. Command Line

    I think this feature would make all Adobe products so much faster, easier to use, and more efficient. Something where you could turn it off and on and type your command, or a custom alias, and immediately activate the tool or menu item you want. It could just be something you toggle in the Window menu and that could appear at the top of the screen under the upper toolbar.

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  13. Set Grid in double page documents new for every page

    In double page documents, the grid overlaps the gutter, which sometimes makes it hard to use the grid on the right side, when the right side starts with half a grid box or 3/4 or whatever.

    IT would be nice if you could choose between overlapping and starting the grid from zero at the page on the right side.
    It would also be VERY helpful if you could turn the visibility of the grid off outside of the pages because all the lines make the view so "noisy".
    AND it would be helpfull to be able to adjust the transparency…

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  14. Dictionaries and Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic scripts Hide

    I would welcome the ability to hide all unused dictionaries in Indesign. Also, it would be nice to be able to hide Japanese, Chinese and Cyrillic in the font menu. It's just insane scrolling sometimes and not UX like at all.

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  15. Selected Page Count in InDesign's Pages Panel

    Please add a visible count of selected pages in the Pages panel.

    This could be displayed on hover or added to the existing status text - "X pages in Y spread".

    This feature would replace the current, less intuitive method of calculating page count via "move pages" for instance.
    Potential use-cases:

    • Quick calculations of chapter lengths.
    • Determining page ranges for specific paper types, e.g., those requiring division into 16 pages.

    Please consider adding this feature to improve InDesign's functionality.

    I provided a very quick mockup for how this could be shown.

    Thank you.

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  16. Copy Info: File Name

    Would love to see an option added in the 'Copy Info' dropdown in the links panel for copying only the filename.

    Super handy for searching old drives for images in large catalogues or for relinking etc.

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  17. RESIZING THE DOCUMENT WINDOW!!!!!

    I shouldn't have to re-size the window EVERY time I open the app, or a document -- and even if you can't fix that, it shouldn't be so hard to re-size the **** thing! I'm sick of having to spend five minutes every time I open the app just getting the window to be the shape and size that I want! On Mac, moving the mouse to the lower right corner (which I have to do to resize the **** window) causes a contextual menu to pop up if I don't grab fast enough. Even if I do get ahold…

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  18. UI setting grayed out/can't use at necessary screen resolution

    I use a very large TV monitor, so I can see all my work, and as such, the screen res is higher, but your UI scaling feature is grayed out, and info says it's because of my screen res, so does not allow those settings. It's the only software I own that does not enlarge UI along with everything else. Do you not think that if we need a larger screen, we don't also need a larger interface??? We are not all squinting at laptops when we design books. As such, I can't make out the panel and menu options/…

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  19. When you create a new layer, it should be selected

    It doesn't make any sense to create a new layer and not have it selected. Obviously, if I'm creating a new layer, I want to put stuff on it. Make newly created layers selected automatically. For once, Illustrator gets this right and InDesign gets it wrong.

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  20. Drag Edited Images in Lightroom Directly to InDesign which automates Export and Creates Shadow File Folder Structure of Edited Files.

    Drag Edited Images in Lightroom Directly to InDesign which automates Export and Creates "Shadow File Folder Structure" of Exported Edited Files. This would allow easy Image Navigation for visually identifying assets from Lightbox environment and directly linking them to INDD files without the cumbersome and redundant step of Exporting and then searching for exported file in FINDER. This is a no brainer for LR IND Integrated workflows! Please prioritize!

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