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  1. It should be consider reading mml code by assistive tech for accessibility and need to think on providing option image or artifact

    The new features of MathML implementations, should consider MML code need to read by assistive devise for accessibility purpose.

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  2. Preview Checkbox for Polygon Tool

    I'd love to see a preview checkbox added to the Polygon Tool.

    When you click on your artboard with the Polygon Tool selected, some options come up to make adjustments to the shape. It's difficult to know how your changes to these settings is adjusting the resulting shape without a preview tool.

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  3. Lossless GIFs, Further Customizable Shapes, Added Photoshop Tools, Improved Publish Online

    My wish is that InDesign is bolstered with all the presentation design features necessary to compete against Canva / Figma / ReadyMag / Google Slides. Here are just a few suggestions:

    1. GIFs (or any media) should not revert to it's original form when published online. GIFs with rounded corners, GIFs filling shapes, GIFs blended with other layers - should have all the same editing effects as a still image.

    2. All preset shapes should be able to be adjusted smoothly and intuitively into others - and still capable of being filled with imagery / text.

    3. PLEASE add more of photoshop's design…

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  4. Regarding the InDesign file font pointing confusion: Wish Adobe would provide 3 options.

    Regarding the InDesign file font pointing confusion:
    Wish Adobe would provide 3 options.
    I receive InDesign files from a lot of different people when I'm actually working.
    Although they are all packaged and given to me later, they also copy all the fonts into the Documents Fonts directory.
    However, when I open them, some of the fonts in the files do not point to Documents Fonts, but to the “C:windows\fonts” directory, and the fonts have changed and become different from the previous one, and sometimes they are not even prompted.

    Some of the fonts I have on my computer may…

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  5. It is recommended that “GREP”, “Shortcuts”, “PDF preset templates” in the directory can be quoted in the directory shortcuts.

    Just as I can copy the shortcut to my script directory (D:\myscript) to the InDesign script directory (C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign 2024\Scripts\Scripts Panel\Samples), I can use my existing scripts without having to copy them to this location. I can use the existing scripts without copying them to this location.
    Just copy “myscipt.lnk” to Samples.

    For example, these locations, of course it would be nice to add these to the preferences to be able to import and export, that would be more convenient.
    The benefit of course, is that you don't have to worry about losing these files, because it's just shortcuts…

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  6. Can the increment for table row height adjustment be set to ±0.1mm?

    Can the increment for table rowI often need to adjust the height of the rows of a table to align them to the bottom edge of the center of the plate, and I need to enter the possible values several times, maybe 3-5 times.

    I can also click on the up and down triangular arrows to the left of the row heights, but I find that the increment is 1mm each time, not far out of the controllable range, I suggest that this increment can be self-negotiating and the default is preferably 0.1mm. height adjustment be set to 0.1mm?

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  7. Packaging cloud

    When you package a file, it would be helpful if InDesign took any cloud documents and then saved them as part of the packaged file. Currently when you send someone your packaged file, the links are broken/missing because they still exist on the original designer's cloud.

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  8. Start Paragraph On Next Odd/Even Page should work inside tables

    It would automaticcaly move the whole table (if use in header) or it's part to the next Odd/Even page.

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  9. Make text wrap around Drop Cap

    Please make the text wrap around the Drop Cap as it does when you make the Drop Cap into an object. See examples. This would save about 10 minutes of faffing around for every Drop Cap. Doesn't seem like much but it's a pain when you're working on a book with many chapters.

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  10. Include parent (master) page assignments in styles

    When designing a book, every time I make a substantial amount of edits or add photos, it shifts all pages after it through smart reflow (which is great); HOWEVER, once the edits are done, part of my proofreading workflow is to then to manually. reassign CO master pages to chapter openings, "blank" to any blank verso pages preceding them, and Text to the pages that were shifted to the blank- and CO-assigned pages.

    This happens EVERY TIME I make edits, and adds a SUBSTANTIAL amount of time to my workflow--unnecessarily, I believe.

    I put this request on the InDesign forum…

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  11. Print Blank Pages

    Please, please, please make Print Blank Pages on by default. I tire of explaining to my boss why the pages ARE NOT out of order and then have to reprint to prove they are correct. I try to check each document when I print, but it doesn't always happen. Having it on by default would be so much better.

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  12. Please create a way for designers to change crop marks to white (when your artwork is dark/black) when exporting a print-ready pdf.

    Please create a way for designers to change crop marks to white (for when your artwork is dark/black) when exporting a print-ready pdf.

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  13. Delete unused

    In several menu's 'Select unused [...]' can be found.
    I think everyone uses this to get rid of unused Swatches, Styles etc.

    Why not add 'Delete unused [...] to the menu?

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  14. Floating Toolbar for Scale x percentage

    I use the Scale x percentage very regularly and was hoping to have it as a floating toolbar so I dont have to move my cursor backwars and forwards constantly across the screen for multiple image box content resizing.

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  15. Document resizing without layout adjust

    For me, the "feature" Adjust layout is always seemingly active when I change the document size, even though I have turned it off (or rather, never turned it on); my content elements move around on the screen when I change the document size. Which has always annoyed me.

    However, today I found an explanation, at least in part. It's only the elements that are placed outside the document area, on the pasteboard, that jump around. And they do so in relation to the pasteboard. Anything placed on the document area, wholly or in part, stays where it should be.

    So,…

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  16. Add Find or Search in a document Shared for Review from InDesign

    It is critical that reviewers of our white papers are able to use Find or Search in InDesign documents that are Shared for Review to locate terms and phrases used in the InDesign document.

    I can't believe that Command F or Ctrl F doesn't work in documents that are Shared for Review from InDesign. This does work for documents Shared by Acrobat Reader and Acrobat Pro.

    Why is this not an option when commenting on documents shared by InDesign?

    I can use Edit > Find > Find in Google Chrome to search, but it only searches the COMMENTS, not text…

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  17. Scaling Text in InDesign

    I would like to suggest an improvement to how InDesign handles text scaling. Currently, when I scale an object containing text, the visual size of the text changes, but InDesign still shows the original size in the text panel, displayed in parentheses. This forces users to go through several complicated steps to make the scaled text size permanent without showing the parentheses.

    It would be incredibly useful if Adobe could implement a simple feature where the scaled text size is automatically updated to a permanent size, without needing to create outlines or perform manual recalculations. This would streamline workflows and…

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  18. table accessibility

    InDesign to PDF - Table Accessibility. Please add a way to scope and add an ID to table heading cells. Add a way to then associate table headers to data cells. Ensure that the table elements are properly exported to PDF tags. No table tags are available to be mapped to any InDesign style using Export Tags.

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  19. Please create an option in Layout > Table of Contents to "Clear Character Styles" for the "Styles in Table of Contents."

    Currently (v19.5 in 2024), any Paragraph Styles used in the "Styles in Table of Contents" carry over any associated Character Styles, which makes a real mess of the ToC Entries. We can manually reapply the ToC style to the entries after updating the ToC, but there should be an option to automatically clear character styles from the Paragraph Styles added to the ToC.

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  20. why can I not snap InDesign using MacOS window snapping features?

    I am unable to snap two adobe products side by side using the new MacOS Sequoia update. I can snap every app on my Macbook except adobe products. as you can see in the screenshot I have snapped my music app window to the right but adobe indesign is unable to snap. Please can you fix this annoying bug?

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