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  1. 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..

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  2. 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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  3. Export Image Metadata and Keyword contents contained within any image when exported as a .PNG file

    Export Image Metadata and Keyword contents contained within any image when exported as a .PNG file. Why should the metadata and keyword contents embedded in an image file be wiped when exported as a .PNG File>. AS the need for transparent PNG files needed for AR experiences becomes more critical for use in Aero and other AR environments, the metadata should travel with any export from INDD

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  4. Integrate Adobe Express/Canva-like features into Indesign

    So Adobe Indesign has some BASIC animations and I feel this is a completely missed opportunity on Adobe's behalf. Apps like Canva have been spreading like wildfire for years and while Adobe has released Express it is a poor cousin. The idea behind Express/Canva is to have an easy-to-create, templated video/animated solution for social media (which let's face it, is mostly video now), yet as a very heavy InDesign user I should be able to animate and export these animations while also taking advantage of the powerful mail merge (text, images, and it really needs to also have swatches), bulk…

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  5. 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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  6. 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.

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  7. 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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  8. 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.

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  9. 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.

    examplefilename1500x864px.png
    examplefilename1500x864px.jpg
    examplefilename1500x864px.pdf

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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.

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  15. "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.

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  16. 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.

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  17. Drop shadow effect, hold on rotate

    Text or image box with drop shadow effect, the angle of the shadow should be maintained when you rotate the object.

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  18. GPU performance on Mac Pro 5.1 Monterey

    Indesign GPU performance is not enable such as Photoshop or Illustrator. I got last update in this three apps.

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  19. command+s issue

    Command+s does the same thing as command+shift+s when saving files that were created in an older version of indd. It creates a dialogue box and a "are you sure you want to overwrite"

    This is a useless (expected, i have been told by support) behavior that only slows things down when revising large amounts of files.

    Its because it updates the file to run smoothly, but who would then not want to save it into the updated version? command+s should just overwrite/create the new version file automatically. If need be there could be a warning dialogue the first time with…

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  20. Save-able drop shadow settings

    You should be able to SAVE Drop Shadow settings so as to be able to add them to a future object with a single click. Those of us who do publication-length work often want to add drop shadows to multiple objects over many pages. Your needs rarely match the defaults, nor each other (drop shadow settings are very context sensitive and depend on size of the object, background contrast, etc.). Please make it so that I can save customized Drop Shadow settings in an object, and then apply to another object with a single click.

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