I have folders structure for my engineering report. I want to use it for other projects too. So I need possibility to set relative paths for linked tables and pictures to have possibility to copy whole report structure to the new place and repeate all calculations and make new report. Now I have to copy structure, rename old project folder to force InDesign to take new project folder, open new report book,update all links,save new report book with all documents. Restore name of old project folder.

Support for multiple indices (Index of Subject, Index of Authors, Index of Passages, Index of pictures, index of tables).

That would greatly improve performance of work and cut a lot of time and get out books faster than before with higher accuracy!

Add the possibility to continue footnotes numeration over different stories. For example, continue footnotes numeration on different chapters of a book, where each chapter is one independent file.

Allow for text variable dates to have a condition add one to the date.

Monthly publication layout is usually done in the month prior to publication. The current options for text variable dating do not have an option to take the current month and add one to it for the date that appears.

Currently, to apply conditional text to text inside tables, you have to go cell-by-cell to apply the text. This behavior is unlike character and paragraph style application, where you can simply select a bunch of cells and apply the styles all at once. Conditional text application to cell contents should behave the same.

The reason is that the Find/Change function has a serious limitation in that it will only find text with certain conditions applied if you choose to search for ALL of the conditions applied to the text in question. That’s fine in the rare cases where I know all the conditions applied to the text that I need to find.

I want the a radio button behavior, where InDesign will find anything with a certain condition applied to it, even if there are other conditions applied as well.

For additional details, see:
https://indesignsecrets.com/limitations-findchange-in-conditional-text.php

We would like something called section colour property. Whereby any paragraph / character style which can be used as a property in any paragraph or character style.

So, if you had a paragraph style call heading with the character set to section colour, the heading would be red in page section 1 and blue on page section 2.

Great for long documents. Thank you.

It would be nice to have book level text variable(s) that is used in documents in that book.

Add run-in footnotes, so multiple footnotes could be on the same line to save space (instead of every footnote starting on a new line)

I have a design guide with a complex table of contents (see toc1.png).

There are topics like “Head - und Subline Allgemein” (see toc1.pgn) which spans over 3 different pages. After generating the TOC the topic is listed 3 times followed by their associated page number (see toc1.pgn).

I would like to see a check box in the table of contents dialogue box which merges all the same instances into one followed by the page range number (see toc2.png)!

Perhaps with a control of what character separates the two page numbers.

We work a lot with pictures that get there captions from xmp meta data stored in the pictures.

There is a great feature in InDesign called textvariables/live captions ;) for this… BUT these variables don‘t wrap like normal text :(

Instead we have to convert the live captions to static text to get the proper text warp and in doing so losing our live link to the XMP meta data.

So please enhance this feature to a real feature and allow variables to wrap like normal text. Thanks!

When creating a text variable, it would be great to have it capture the auto numbering, e.g. if the heading is "1. Introduction" and the number is set as an auto number to the paragraph style, then the text variable that references that paragraph style should also pick up the number. At the moment, all you get from the text variable is "Introduction". Or at least have that as an option!

In every other panel, when there is a style override, resulting in a + symbol, if you hover over the symbol, it will tell you specifically what the overrides are. For example, a different type size, or font family or leading or something along those lines.

But in the Condition Sets dropdown, all you get is that there are overrides. And you can either clear them or redefine the set. But if I choose to clear the overrides, I have no way of knowing what the result will be.

Better support XML import via xmlns: aid / xmlns: aid5: Assigning object formats