Description:

I have multiple files open at once.

When finished working on the first, if I close it, InDesign will skip to the last file that was opened, rather the next file in the order.

See attached - I closed “untitled 1” and it skipped to “untitled 5” rather than going to “untitled 2” which is next in line.

Why this would be valuable:

This interrupts an expected workflow to InDesign's usual left to right UI direction.

InDesign allows users to reorder the file tabs to suit their needs. Skipping to the end file in unexpected behaviour and switching back to the next file in order can be particularly annoying when you have a lot of files open and you need to select the one you want through the dropdown list.

This has also lead to problems for me in the past when lot of the files look the same, and I've started to edit the wrong file.

Scenario: The client needs content changes after approving design/form process -- that means I scrap all of my acrobat calculations in the form fields to make the changes in InDesign.

It would be great(!) if InDesign supported either a "round-trip" editing process or has all of the features of Acrobat forms. I really don't care to edit in Acrobat, because InDesign is far superior for layout of complicated forms, with more editing tools, master pages, layers, etc.

As a side note, I think a really great feature would include a "form cell" style, for both character and paragraph. It is really tedious to edit in Acrobat a cell, one at a time, for alignment, type (i.e. number), size, etc.

Thanks for listening. Becki

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/quot-how-may-i-select-multiple-links-for-re-linking/m-p/11682784?page=1#M407985

Looking to perform "Select Multiple Link Replacement”

Right now I can Re Link Parent Link (of ALL Instances) and change 1000 instances of an image.

Right Now I can Relink ONE individual “Child” instance or ONE image at a time.

But I cannot SELECT and RELINK Multiple Selected Links (example: 10 out of the 1000) SELECT instances of an image.

The only way to presently do this is to highlight the 10 instances and then Relink them one by one where a dialogue box opens and requires me to repeat the link process and click OK all 10 times. This is a time suck and there must be a better way!

The only way to adjust the UI size in Indesign is to change the scaling for your whole system, and even then it only supports up to 200% scaling and there is no way to make it bigger beyond that.

I got a new laptop with a HD 4k screen and its already scaled to 250% (I'm using Windows 10) but the user interface is still too small and it really slows down my workflow. Even if increasing my OS scaling to 300%+ fixed it (which it doesn't), it would still be infuriating to have everything on my computer scaled that high all the time, or have to adjust it every time I wanted to use the program. You shouldn't have to change the scaling for your entire system to make this program usable.

I just don't understand why a professional-grade product doesn't account for high-resolution screens, or even include a simple in-program UI scaling slider or option.

Please make CC-apps aware of user display setups and changes, single or multiple screen resolutions. Hunting for them acress multiple screens, repositioning and resizing them each time is needlessly cumbersome and time consuming!

1. Default:
   – in case of multiple screen setup: main screen (as specified in OS display preferences), centered.
   – in case of single screen: centered




2. User settings
   – record and store user changes to dialog box sizes and positions with current screen setup. Store setups in prefs file.
   – make CC app recognize changes in multiple screen real-estate and store and recall users dialog box positions from this setup. Update catalog of setups accordingly after each screen stup change.
   – include reset dialog box positions button in CC app prefs to restore factory settings.

Thank you!

I find seeing were I am in a document difficult in the pages thumbnails.
As I scroll through a long document there's no indication of the page I'm looking at until I click an element on the screen page. And then the "indicator" is just the subtle highlighting of the text and a colour overlay on the thumbnail.
Feels like a legacy thing. If it was created new today we'd use something far more obvious.
I'd like to see a rectangle floating over the pages that matches the frame of the main document window (for example).
Or at least a selected page needs to stand out far more than it does. Right now it takes some serious visual searching to see what is selected. Make it larger, frame it, make it glow... something that shows in a quick scan.

Thanks!
N.