I work with a lot of guides and need to use a lot of cross-references in my files. When these files later get used as a base for new files and saved under different names, or content is copy-pasted from one file to another, the cross-references point to the old (wrong) destination. I know you can select a cross-ref and change its destination document from the palette menu, but first you need to know that there is such wrong reference, but it is difficult when the cross-reference colour indicator is green and you think everything is fine. I would love to see an option in the cross-ref panel where you can show the destination document, the same way you can show the chosen folder level names in links menu. This would give a really good quick overview of whether you need to re-link the cross-references or not. In standalone guide it doesn’t make any sense for cross-references to open a different document. I would love to be able to disable it completely and limit all cross-references to the document they sit in. Or at a minimum, I would love to be able to set a pre-flight profile to give a warning if cross-references are pointing to another file.

Thanks!

People rarely go into preferences and change the defaults. So for them it’s important to have good default values from the start. For people who know how to change the defaults it’s helpful if those defaults start out with the right values.

I’m talking about the font size and leading increments and kerning/tracking value increments. Why would the default increment be two points for font size and leading, not one? Does Adobe think we want to make it faster to greatly increase the point size at the expense of not being able to dial in the exact point size size we need? The same with leading. If I’m trying to adjust leading with keyboard shortcuts I want to at least have the ability to get the exact point I want. Two points is obviously the wrong increment, and it has been for over a decade.

Kerning and tracking are probably not adjusted by most users. For those of us that do we want a finer increment than twenty units. Five is the correct value here.

Please, save us professionals the trouble of changing the defaults by setting them properly from the start.

Oh, and these preferences should be application wide preferences, not document preferences. When I use the shortcut I expect consistent behaviour. If I increase the point size by two presses of the shortcut I expect to increase point size by two points. If I use the same shortcut on the same computer using the same version of InDesign but on a document created by another designer the shortcut might behave differently. Why would I want that to happen? The preferences for keyboard increment shouldn’t be saved with the document, they should be an application preference.

I often have many different documents open in tabs but not in separate windows. I drag the tabs together so that InDesign's screen looks sort of like a browser with multiple tabs at the top. But only the selected tab is visible in the main windows. But rearranging these tabs in my preferred order is VERY finicky. I have to drag precisely left or precisely right, and about half the time my tab, instead of rearranging, opens in a new window. Frustrating.

The solution would be to recode so that when you drag a tab left or right to rearrange, OR to drag the tab for a separate window into a tab group, you have a buffer of a certain number of pixels above and below the tab group before you decide the user wants to move the tab, instead of into the tab group, into a new window.

Related to this, there is an option Window > Arrange > New Window for [nameoffile]. Why not an option for Window > Arrange > New TAB for [maneoffile]?

Thanks for listening.