Please please please make Rich tool tips optional.

If you of any reason at all as an advanced professional user of Indesign has to reinstall Indesign these Rich Tool Tips makes you suicidal. Not to criticize anybody specifically but they are the most stupid thing and first and foremost totally useless.
It actually makes you hate the software and the developers.

And i would rather like to love you instead.

It is an mental health issue basically. Because they linger on for far too long and occupies too much time and space when you actually tries to get the work done.

Please please please make the rich tool tips optional!

Please!

Show Ink Manager settings in the Swatches panel

Whenever we use Ink Manager to convert spot colors to process colors (1) or define one spot color as alias for another (2), this should be visualized in the Swatches panel so whoever edits the INDD can immediately spot (ha!) that changes have been made and fix them if needed (instead of shedding tears over inexplicable output results).

(1) Replace the spot icon by a “ink-managed” process icon that can be distinguished from the “native” process icon.

(2) Replace the spot icon by the alias icon from the Ink Manager dialog.
Make both (or why not all icons in the spot/process column?) clickable to be able to jump directly to the Ink Manager dialog.

Thank you.

Is there some universal way to turn off unnecessary dialogs?

For example when I click to publish a document for online, I get an annoying dialog that says "Are you sure you want to update..." (see attached).

Why is this dialog necessary? I can just re-publish if there was some mistake. It just slows things down. Some dialogs like this do have a "don't show me this again" option, but not here... why?

In general, I find the plethora of "Do you really want to..." dialogs disruptive and unnecessary. Except for something critical, or something you can't undo, why do software developers put in these speed bumps? This is not a situation where the developer needs to protect me from myself. 99.9% of the time, YES, we just want to do the operation or action and not have to click a second time.

1. When creating a Merged Document using Data Merge, InDesign displays a pop-up window if it detects any images missing from the Data Source. The Missing Images pop-up window lists the file paths of the missing images. In older versions of InDesign, the file paths could be copied directly from the pop-up window. This is no longer possible with the latest version of InDesign.




2. Being able to copy lists of missing image paths directly from the Missing Images pop-up window is valuable to me because I frequently use Data Merge to make merged documents containing tens of thousands of images. My workflow would be faster if I could simply copy the list of file paths from the pop-up window rather than saving a report to get them.

I think it would be beneficial to be able to quickly identify which properties in a cell style etc. inherit from a parent style.

If you look at my child.png , it is "Based On" parent.png. However, you can't see in the child what settings have been "learned" from the parent. It would be nice if the inherited characteristics appear with a light grey background or a little star or something suitable to distinguish them from the edits that are child-specific.

In my case, how this situation caused minor confusion is that I had "no idea" why the background fill colour for my new child cell style was coming out orange. Well, of course, I knew, but it took a while to find the setting that needed changing.

That is because I wanted to edit the fill colour, and my mind was looking for a setting that showed up in bright orange. My brain was not thinking "search for Fill Colour", it was thinking "I'm looking for something in bright orange that shouldn't be bright orange anymore because it looks awful"; less a few swear words in between.

Then again, maybe this inability is simply a characteristic of this particular blade for settings strokes for cell borders. I find that I need to control different attributes for each of the four borders of a cell.

For this particular blade, it is a very confusing process. I struggle to work out what borderline I am editing and what borderline I am leaving alone. I often destroy the edits that I have made to one of the other cell borders in the process.

I think I have figured out how to border selector works, but the choice of blue and black without any explanation as to what blue or black means is almightily confusing.

Kind regards
Mike Howell

Create an animation setting for the Background Task Pane so that the pane gives feedback while in a closed, docked position.

Why this is important is simple. Even with the larger and larger monitors with more and more real estate, simple things like the Background Tasks Pane having to be fully open to be examined is counterintuitive and by extension counterproductive. I would like to be able, with a simple glance at a docked pane to tell exactly what state the background task is in and if further detail is desired or needed, then it can be expanded with the option of more information if not a sharing of verbose logging shared in the expanded pane at that time.