Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Conditional Text Automation
Make Conditional Text more automated by either linking it with Character Styles, or utilizing the GREP Feature to globally tag text,
8 votes -
Pictures via drag and drop from the website to indesign (.png .jpg .gif....)
Copy pictures via drag and drop from the website toto indesign (.png .jpg .gif....)
Transparent PNG should be as well supported.1 vote -
Automatic Type Stacking
A feature that automatically arranges and resizes stacked type in a text box, similar to the "Capitalise and Fit" feature in Adobe Spark.
2 votes -
3 votes
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character styles stay/strip/replace in VARIABLES
Headers created with Variables need to be able to do three different things with character styles that are included in text :
- The Character Style stays present in the VARIABLE ;
- The Character Style is stripped.
- The Character Style is mapped to another character style.
These settings should accessible in the Style: <stylename> section of the TOC options -- customizable for each paragraph style used to generate the TOC.
The most notable use for the mapping style is when the typeface between the TOC and the body text of the book differs,…
28 votes -
make the footnote continue in the whole document rather than linked textframes
Let the footnote be continues in one document irrelevant to the text frames are linked or not
6 votes -
Trackpad gestures for windows 10 laptops
I really want pinch to zoom on my touchpad. Coming from macbook to windows I find it ridiculous that it isn't a thing already.
6 votes -
Paragraph rule will not appear on top of anchored objects
Currently an applied paragraph rule will not appear on top of an anchored object in a text box. According to one of the Adobe experts this is a default of the program.
Our catalogue has a country heading line of type followed by an outline of the country. The graphic of the country is embedded. Visually it appears underneath the subsequent text two or three lines of type.
The paragraph rule at the end of these two or three lines of type unfortunately appears underneath the image even though the text appears on top of the image. I would like…
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Table Formulas
It would be nice if Tables could handle simple mathematical formulas. Some information changes year to year, and manually updating it gets pretty monotonous.
23 votes -
ALT + click on a paragraph style
ALT + click on a paragraph style must not reset local character formating.
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Add the ability to Find/Replace linked images across multiple documents
The ability to Find/Replace links would be helpful, especially across multiple documents.
For example, if I have 20 instances of a.jpg on 10 documents, I would like the ability to be able to find all instances and replace with b.jpg without have to manually go into each document and do it one by one.
Thanks.4 votes -
Underlining that skips characters with descenders
While it is a last resort in typography, when I do underline I prefer it to be just below the baseline. But this default underline overlaps descenders. Rather than having to lower underlines to avoid these clashes, could the Underline Options panel or another feature detect when an underline will overlap a descender and skip that character? - Thanks!
13 votes -
IDML file icon in Windows Explorer almost indistinguishable from INDD file icon
I don't know who was the genius behind this change of InDesign file icons, but it's very time-consuming, most of the time i will open the IDML file instead of INDD file or viceversa. Probably for people working with few files is not a big deal, but when you work with tens of files, it's a hassle to constantly need to check the file extension. It cannot be changed from Explorer, you need a third party tool to do this on Win 10, which i don't wanna use.
1 vote -
Would like to be able to include fonts and links from linked Illustrator files when packaging an InDesign file for print
would like to be able to collect fonts and links in linked AI and PS files when packaging an ID file for print.
98 votes -
Set Solid Leading for Text
Having a Set Solid Leading Option for Text would be amazing as I regularly use this setting and have to manually change the leading everytime I change the point size (and sometimes when you're working out the perfect point size and spacing for a layout, this doubles the work having to change the leading everytime too).
2 votes -
Update the QR Code dialog box
The current QR Code dialog box has options for very basic QR codes, but does not take into account recent improvements and developments for the QR Code syntax. It would be great if the dialog could also include options for calendar events, map coordinates, etc (syntax can be found at https://github.com/zxing/zxing/wiki/Barcode-Contents)
12 votes -
Utilize paragraph shading for text messages with improved functionality
The new paragraph shading feature would be fantastic to use for laying out text message conversations in books, but needs a few tweaks to make is fully functional. Text messages in books is becoming very common.
It used to be that you had to create shapes and anchor each in for a text message. Now you can use Paragraph Shading defined in the style for left side texts with no adjustments, but because right side text messages need to have the "bubble" shape aligned right, but the interior text left aligned. My solution is (see sample file):
Create three base…1 vote -
Convert Clipping Path to Frame for multiple objects
There is a command, Object > Clipping path > Convert Clipping Path to Frame. This will read the clipping path in a placed image and convert it to a frame. The command only works when only one object is selected, If multiple images are selected and every one of them has a clipping path the command is selectable but has no effect. There is no reason for this limitation.
6 votes -
Export to Adobe XD
It would be fantastic, if the exchange with Adobe XD would be improved.
This could raise InDesign to a new, more modern level. Complete web designs can be created much faster and better with InDesign than, for example, with the layer-based Photoshop or the confusing Adobe Illustrator. There is already an ePUB export, so it would be obvious, to implement an XD export. Or XD imports InDesign data, that would work too. Thank you and always think ahead!10 votes -
Better collaboration between InDesign and Lightroom
For creating photo-books, magazines, or any piece of work which includes photographs, much better collaboration between InDesign and Lightroom should be possible. The ability to view Lightroom collections from inside InDesign, drag and drop into ID, and have those pictures refresh themselves automatically (if they are further edited in LR). I know this could be complex from an export perspective, but the LR book plugin (however basic it is) manages it.
51 votes
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