For about 14/15 years I never had to reset preferences in InDesign.

Since CC2017 it's more or less once a week.
Colors disappearing.. panels blind or empty.. tools not working.. font now showing.
Panels self increasing size...

But it seems we have to deal with it, so we probably need a way to SAVE PREFERENCES.
**Save preferences in a moment everything work fine.. and restore it when (after just few days) nothing works anymore.**

Every time people have to reset preferences, they have to restore everything. UI colors, workspace, Application Frame (that mac users normally never use) Old Dialog way (the new are unusable and way too slow).

Too many things to restore and too often.

There's something i'd LOVE to see in inDesign.

Imagine, you design a document, with different images, logos, etc. They come from libraries, folders, bridge, you name it.

Now you realize a logo you used on page 1 needs to replace a logo on page 24. But not ALL logos. And you want to do it visually by dragging and dropping.

You'd need to copy, paste inside, or use the relink command. And may be need to dig in your CC libraries to find it again.

Same thing if you'd like to place it somewhere else. You have all your links in the links panel, but you'd still have to link to the original source file or library.

WHAT IF…

We could just drag and drop from the links panel to the page.

I would expect it to be EXACTLY like Drag&Drop from : the Finder, the CC library…

Being able to fill an empty image frame, to replace an existing image in a frame, to use the frame's adjust settings…

And of course, it wouldn't affect the previous location of the image (we still don't have "swap items" natively in inDesign).

Does anybody see this as an interesting feature ?

Upvote or comment if you see anything else.

The links panel should support Groups and Smart Groups. Large numbers of links in projects -- especially those that include a lot of InCopy assignments -- get unwieldy.

Ideally you would be able to make groups and manually move links into them, and also create smart groups that would automatically update. Ideas for common filters that smart groups would be used for:

All CMKY images, all non-CMYK images, all InCopy links, all links that need to be updated, all links that are embedded or not, all links that are currently on a Hidden Layer or hidden via conditional text, etc.

Also, just having a simple text box that can be typed into and have the visible Links narrowed down according to that search would be a big help -- similar to the way the Quick Apply interface works as you type.

If I click the little Previous/Next Page buttons at bottom left of screen, I can cycle through pages, and the position of the page within the window stays the same throughout the process. This is great and very helpful when flipping through a book quickly.

But if hit PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN on the keyboard, it seems to SCROLL the document position up/down by some numerical value, with no regard to the position of the page being displayed.

It would be logical and helpful if PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN had exactly the same effect as the PREVIOUS/NEXT page buttons. Then we could use those keyboard keys to quickly cycle through a document without the page position jumping all around.

Create an animation setting for the Background Task Pane so that the pane gives feedback while in a closed, docked position.

Why this is important is simple. Even with the larger and larger monitors with more and more real estate, simple things like the Background Tasks Pane having to be fully open to be examined is counterintuitive and by extension counterproductive. I would like to be able, with a simple glance at a docked pane to tell exactly what state the background task is in and if further detail is desired or needed, then it can be expanded with the option of more information if not a sharing of verbose logging shared in the expanded pane at that time.

I'd like to be able to add things that I use often to it.

For example, with nothing selected, it has the options for the Document Layout.
I would like to add to that to include

Export PDF - and select my proof settings

So in essence - I could add the options to export to
Print Ready PDF
Proof PDF
Image file format

etc. - just to be able to add those things would make this panel even better.

There are other things I'd like to add to this property panel - but that's the general idea, and everyone would have their own things they use often that they would add.

When I create a "complex" style definition with a long set of embedded styles and a "next" style, I want my coworkers and contractors to apply the full style to the correctly selected copy by using the "Apply (style) then Next Style, Clear Overrides" option (right-click Style Name in the Styles Menu).

I would be great if I could attach a "Tool Tip" ("Style Application Tip?") to the Style Name in the Menu--it would appear on application of the style, or perhaps on rollover. Attaching the Tip to Templated Objects on the page would be great also.

Basically, I want to embed production instructions directly into my template.

Thanks for reading