Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Would like to be able to anchor images anywhere and have the text wrap respected
Specific anchor location is important for placements in ePub/HTML exports. However, there are a couple major drawbacks with InDesign's current anchoring abilities.
(1) If an image is supposed to appear after a certain paragraph, but that paragraph ends on the previous spread, you cannot anchor the image to the paragraph it belongs with on the previous spread. (see screenshot: ToPreviousSpread.png). This seems to defeat the purpose of an anchored object. It can't be anchored so will not travel with re-flowing text and it will not Export to ePub/HTML in that specific location.
(2) Images cannot be anchored after their placement…
15 votes -
Work in Whole Pixels (Snap to Pixel Grid)
When working in a document whose intent is Web or Mobile it would be great if InDesign had an option to force users to work in whole pixels.
Not to be confused with InDesign's "Snap to Document Grid", what I am thinking is something more like Photoshop's behaviour when your Preferences -> Tools has "Snap Vector Tools and Transforms to Pixel Grid" selected.
The outcome would be that you could never have a page item with floating point values.
3 votes -
An Unlock All option
I think the Unlock All option in illustrator should also be available in InDesign in the Object Tab
1 vote -
Unlock an element via context menu (as in Illustrator)
Hi,
an option in the context menu to unlock an element would helpful (for me) – as it is possible in Illustrator.
Thanks!
mycc1 vote -
add absolute last page number as text variable
I cannot get a document with multiple sections, or a book with documents that contain sections, to display the absolute last page number as a text variable. They will only display the last page number of the section when using "last page" text variable. I want and "absolute last page number" text variable that would choose the absolute last page in a single document with multiple sections, and the absolute last page in a book with documents that contain sections. I want to be able to say "page 1 of 35, page 2 of 35", etc, where "35" is the…
1 vote -
Group objects across different layers
Group objects across different layers and prevent grouping from bringing the group to one layer. The group can exist on any level where there is a grouped object. Thus the group can better intersect with intermediate levels to the objects that compose it.
1 vote -
Add option to embed placed INDD like other placed files
Indesign can embed all linked files into an INDD, except for at least one file type: INDD. You place an external INDD, you can't embed it. If you share the main INDD with other people, they have the external files separately, but Indesign cannot find them, because of different paths.
Also, embedding files into an INDD is used to create a snapshot or final version, which isn't possible in this case. The reason to embed an INDD instead of a PDF created from it is the work flow. If you modify the external INDD, which may be used in several…
1 vote -
Ratios of Height to Width
I would like to see ratios of height to width in InDesign similar to Photoshop. In PS, when using the selection marquee or crop tool, you can set the tool to a ratio of height to width. InDesign should have that when making a frame shape and when making a page size. Designing content into frame regions that express a ratio of H x W furthers graceful design.
2 votes -
Editable SVG graphics from CC Libraries within InDesign
Being able to import and edit SVG graphics from CC Libraries within InDesign.
For instance, a company has 200+ icons that they use on documents.
Being able to edit within InDesign, after placing the icon from CC library, to edit colours or backgrounds that the SVG is on.CURRENTLY available to do within XD and Illustrator, but directly within InDesign, would be AMAZING....
2 votes -
BLM: Black Lines Matter!
Please remove the black shadow on the right and the bottom in Normal Screen Mode in inDesign. It's aggressive contrast is annoying as ****.
1 vote -
Add the option to find/replace objects at certain x/y coordinates.
Add the option to find/replace objects at certain x/y coordinates.
1 vote -
Text wrap around anchored objects needs to work according to settings, regardless of where the anchor is placed.
Text wrap refuses to wrap properly around my anchored objects regardless of anchor placement in the paragraph or text wrap offset settings.
This causes the anchored object to overlap the text and/or have inconsistent margin offset around the object. It's erratic and inconsistent among the various objects, even though they all have the exact same object style applied.
Some of the objects wrap a little better than others - at least they're not overlapping on top of text - but the wrap margins are still inconsistent. Not a single object wraps how I believe it should based on the style…
6 votes -
Special-shaped Tables
If there is any way possible to get InDesign to be able to create a table that's curved on an edge?
1 vote -
Page number ranges in TOC
Table of contents don't have the ability to add page ranges.
So the contents look like this:
Section A . . . . . . . 1
Section B . . . . . . . 5
Section C . . . . . . . 9
When they should look like this:
Section A . . . . . . . 1-4
Section B . . . . . . . 5-8
Section C . . . . . . . 9
All this needs to be implemented is to have the second number be one page less than…
7 votes -
Please allow align stroke centers again
It was once easy to align frames with a line. By dragging them on top of each other you could 'snap' the middle of the line together.
Can this please be added back to InDesign? It would make life so much easier and more fun.
Alignin a stroke to a box with a stroke still works, aligning boxes with strokes on the center of the stroke doesn't work anymore. Please fix it.
1 vote -
Delete all instances of link
It would be great to be able to delete all instances of a link from the Links panel.
1 vote -
Make Arrowheads features same as Illustrator.
Why the control is the same, but result different for this Arrowhead feature from InDesign to Illustrator. I want to scale down arrowheads, but couldn't. Workaround is nice but why? when the Illustrator control works perfectly.
1 vote -
Condition also for graphics instead of text only
Make it also possible, to show or hide Graphic Elements and Logos according to "Text Conditions". So it would be possible, to make one Template for Merge and set the content in 2 Languages with different Logos or Graphics.
1 vote -
The ability to have space before/after not add up
When two paragraphs with different paragraph styles with differing 'space before/after' settings are below each other, InDesign adds the 'space after' and 'space before' together. It would be nice if you could optionally set in the paragraph style that these values are not added together, so that only the highest value is honoured.
1 vote -
Linked filename on hover
When you hover over an image, the name and path of that file pops up in a tooltip.
1 vote
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