Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Cross-check links used on both ways
Hi, the idea is to be able to check the links that a certain file (let's call file A) is being linked to.
The file A can be used as a link on files 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... so when I open file 1 and go to the links panels I can see my file A listed there. Right? But not the other way around, such as we can't see the files (1,2,3...) in which that one file (file A) is linked to unless we go one by one (1,2,3...). Would be great to have a link to and…
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Add “Report” button to get rid of garbage posted on these forums
Offer a “Report” option in your feature request forums so some of these completely irrelevant posts can be removed. Example:
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Please add database publishing feature
InDesign has become a powerful DTP-application but one feature is missing. Please add support for real database publshing (catalogs etc.). This feature would make thrid-party plugins like inCatalog or inData obsolet..
Database-Publshing should be a feature of the core..1 vote -
Accessibility Layer or Plugin
As accessibility becomes a prioritized feature of all documents, its pertinent to include it without sacrificing aesthetics, which is Adobe's strength. One idea for this is for the designer to create the InDesign document as they normally would on an initial layer, and upon a secondary "layer" the plain text for an e-reader could be supplied, mapped to the corresponding visual layer. This could be a less destructive method than physically altering text box widths to avoid soft returns/rags, or creating new text boxes for each text/paragraph style. It would also export ready to go without further alteration in Acrobat.…
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Real time Collaboration on a single file
Problem:
If DIFFERENT USERS need to work on the same file AT THE SAME TIME.Goal:
Two or more users working on real time on the same file.Currently:
they need to save a copy of the parent file and then merge them into one unified file.Solution:
With this new feature, only elements touched by each user would be locked for the rest. By saving the document would mean to release all objets and send updates to be visible to everyone.This is really important to create solid workflows and to avoid potential mistakes while merging files if two…
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Locked Content — Functionality Request
SUBJECT — Locked Content on InDesign Pages
• InDesign — version 17.3
This request applies to when an InDesign page has locked content — in other words, when multiple text boxes and image boxes and other page elements are all locked.
• When an InDesign page has multiple text boxes and image boxes that are locked, often enough I want to access only one of the locked text boxes to make a simple change to the text.
• Currently, in order to access that textbox to make the change, the quickest way I've found requires me to unlock the ENTIRE…
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keyboard shorcuts for pdf comments
would be great if we could use the standard way of copying text - double click then ctrl c - for copying text from the pdf comment field, instead of having to swipe over the text and wait for the popup and then click on the popup. Also would be great if we could delete comments with a shortcut, (delete key maybe?) instead of having to use the little drop down menu. This would make working with comments much more efficient.
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QR code phone number
Please add the ability to add a phone number to the QR code creator. Also to the hyperlink within an Epub or pdf online.
1 vote -
Create native paths from imported vector
Convert (simple) imported Illustrator files to native InDesign paths.
This makes it easy to e.g. convert a logo and make the InDesign document independent of an external graphic.
(See how After Effects has a function 'Create Shapes from Vector Layer'. https://helpx.adobe.com/nl/after-effects/how-to/convert-illustrator-layers-to-shape-layers.html)
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"Search tool " as we have in ArcGIS software...
Looking for some specific tool is daunting especially for newbie....So if you could add "search tool" somewhere it would be easy for look up for specific tool and see the difference.
I have used in ArcGIS software the same feature.
Thank you very much.1 vote -
Allow double click to open templates in CC Libraries
Opening an Indesign Template from CC Libraries requires a right click and a menu selection. Please allow a double left click for this.
1 vote -
Include art board dimensions in file name upon export.
The ability to Include art board dimensions in file name upon export of PDFs, and PNG, JPG raster graphics.
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examplefilename1500x864px.pdf1 vote -
Simple text editor for mobile devices
I would love a simple text editor - something not so function-focused as InCopy. Something where i can be interviewing someone and take down quotes. Or if I'm inspired at a restaurant - to pull out my ipad or my phone and just start writing. And then have that text autosave as a cloud document for when I'm back at my desktop.
Sort of like Premiere Rush, but just for text. Copy Rush?
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Add shortcut key option to Find/Change functions
When I'm making lots of changes to a document, I have to use my mouse and click "change" with it to make the change. It would be so much nicer if I could assign shortcut keys to "find next" and "change". This way, I could go through all of my documents and fix the things that are necessary simply by using two keys. Using the mouse this way strains the wrist/fingers on a large project.
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Dropbox missing links error
If links are not available (because they are only online in the dropbox), please provide 1 error message. And not a window that must be clicked for each individual image.
If you have to search older (archive) Indesign files (with hundreds of links), you will be endlessly bombarded with: "Error encountered while reading TIFF image. Image may be damaged or incompatible..."
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Export to gif from InDesign - feature request
PLEASE ALLOW EXPORT TO GIF FOR INDESIGN ANIMATIONS.
I can't work out why this feature exists if we can't export it. I design google ads, web banners, EDMs etc in multiple formats with fast turnaround, in IND. But can't export a gif despite animations teasing me with all the cool things it could do.
The best I can do is duplicate a page, flash something or duplicate 18 steps and export as jpg then stack & animate as frames in Photoshop (or create from scratch in Photoshop and use the comet tool, but that can be annoying to try to…
3 votes -
Keep InDesign in background while creating PDF (or any task), unless input needed for alert or error.
Mac OS, ID 18 (2023). While outputting a PDF or some other process that can take some time, I often switch to a different task -- but InDesign will make itself pop to the front multiple times partway through the process, usually without any input needed from me. Is necessary to switch back to the other program I am using again and again. The disruption wastes time and sometimes causes problems because I was in the middle of typing or moving the cursor when the window unexpectedly switches.
1 vote -
Interactive document
To be able to produce interactive document which works similar as website (for example - for presentation purposes or others..). To be able to read/present this interactive document for example in Acrobat.
1 vote -
Open PDF in INDD
It is utterly nonsensical that PDFs can be opened and edited in numerous apps, in particular Affinity Publisher, while InDesign cannot. Even Illustrator can do it (with various limitations).
If Affinity and Markzware and so so many others can manage it - and reliably and accurately manage it - it's farcical that InDesign can't.
4 votes -
Search QR Codes when Finding/Replacing
I'm not sure if this is categorized correctly, but it would be nice if we are searching to fix text in a document that it also search and replace text that is used in QR codes so they don't get missed and are more easily fixed.
2 votes
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