Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Export of all opened documents
Please make it possible to export all opened InDesign documents at the same time. You can also use the same export defaults.
4 votes -
InDesign Dimmable Layers
I think it would be great if we could have an option to dim a layer similar to Illustrator. I think it would be a benefit when aligning elements above a background layer.
3 votes -
PDF format that edible in Indesign
PDF format that edible in Indesign, like photoshop and illustrator, so i can preview my work and edit in the same file
6 votes -
Center-point auto-selected when rotating images in a content frame
I want this to be something I can set in InDesign with my workspace. If it isn't automatically set to centerm then allow me to change the preferences for the whole program.
I make manuals that require six photos a page, and I am always having to select the center point square in the rotation toolbar.
I would like the option for this to be my default.
1 vote -
Section specific controll of the "based on" featues in paragraph styles
Add a checkbox to each menu under the paragraph style options, to let the user check if a set of options should be inherited or overwritten.
A bit like the way we define specific live attributes when creating object styles.
The goal is to give the user greater control and insight into what attributes are overwritten, and easily add/remove/change them.
1 vote -
Multiple styles per element with cascade like CSS
So many documents get output into electronic formats now. The limitation of only one style per element (paragraph, character, object) makes it difficult to map what is happening in InDesign to good HTML and CSS.
If InDesign allowed multiple styles to be applied to an element, with cascade rules like CSS, then electronic output would be easier and the quality of generated markup could be improved. In addition, being able to apply simple style changes to override more comprehensive styles would simplify documents and reduce the number of styles needed to make little variations of design possible..
33 votes -
Managing Multiple Sets of Endnotes In a Document AND allowing Endnotes to refer to a separate INDD Document
Issue #1:
Here's my first dilemma: I am building a book with several hundred pages. This book will be printed (won't be an eBook/iBook). I'm keeping each chapter as its own document that I will then collect together as a larger Book at the end. The last chapter will be just for all the book's endnotes. In previous versions of InDesign, I would import the Word document, delete the endnotes out of the "Chapter x" document, and pop them back into the "Endnotes chapter" without affecting the superscripts referencing the endnotes throughout the text. Easy. Now, in cc 2018 if…99 votes -
Integrate Macbook Pro Touchbar with InDesign
Hi!
I love Adobe InDesign and use it everyday for work. I recently upgraded to a Macbook Pro with a touchbar. Photoshop and Illustrator both support the customized touchbar feature and it is super efficient and awesome to have many tools right there on the touchbar.
As someone who uses InDesign more than the above mentioned adobe programs, I would LOVE to be able to use the touchbar feature in InDesign as well!
52 votes -
Double truck - object that spreads across gutter
Ability to link object that spreads across double truck to both pages so that when document is viewed or exported as single pages, the object appears on both pages.
1 vote -
Viewing bleeds on two-page spread
Would be nice if any objects that bleed off the binding edge would be cropped to the page edge when viewed as a two-page spread.
1 vote -
Add H1 or P option to Type> font selection filter
In Typekit there is an option for filtering for (recommended) Header or Paragraph typeface, can we please have this option within (Id) Type- Font classification selecting filter?
pRRRreeeeettttTTTy please
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Stylesheet Manager
A place to manage bulk style changes across paragraph, character, and object styles.
15 votes -
You can add font and swatches options to Buttons and Forms in the Interactive PDF section. Right now its too limiting.
stated clearly and simply above.
4 votes -
find and replace only on specific pages in stead of the whole document
please ad an option ware you can find and replace but you can also narow it to just selected pages instead of the whole document.
7 votes -
Converting text to outline from Tables
Convert text to outline in tables.
Once i convert text from tables, text become a outline and split from table, same time tables are repeated again. It's give me a problem when i working no of pages only tables. My printers always asking convert the text to outline.4 votes -
Option to paste in out of pasteboard also
In Adobe Pagemaker, pasteboard is firm. but in Indesign, the pasteboard also moving with the page. If you want to stick the pasted item to see in all pages that helps. So please provide Option to paste in out of pasteboard also
1 vote -
Add Anti-Alias Intent to text for graphic export
As web publishing has been an important part of InDesign since 5.5, it would be extremely helpful if anti-alias intent could be determined, either at a paragraph level or on output. Both Photoshop and Illustrator have this feature, and without it, export jpeg and png for web use is not up to publishing quality.
Relatedly, when an image is placed in a document at a scale other than 100%, it would be helpful if the downsampling/upsampling intent could similarly be chosen by the user.
Currently, the only way to produce publishable web materials from InDesign is to export a lossless…
9 votes -
Relative paths to external files
My goal is to do all the layout and linking in indesign then do an export to a PDF with hyperlinks. The PDF and all the external linked files will then be distributed to other computers via USB-stick or CD.
The links has to be relative for this to work and I would like to have that option in the hyperlinks pod/panel or when doing a PDF (or HTML export).
I have been waiting 10 years for this feature - I cant understand why it has not been implemented searching the internet. it must be a clear usecase for indesign.4 votes -
Make it possible to view names associated with user colors
InCopy allows users to pick user colors, which are displayed with tracked changes and with notes. But, far as I can tell, there's nowhere I can go to see which user is using each color, unless they leave a note. The editor spends valuable time playing detective about who's making which changes. Could you implement an "alt text" triggered by hovering over tracked changes, similar to how the username pops up when I hover over a note?
2 votes -
Table Cell Background Image
It would be really helpful if we could use an image as a background inside a table cell.
Or even just improve the ability to insert an image directly into a table cell, making the actual cell boundary function as the graphic frame.
Currently we can only paste a graphic frame into a cell as an anchored object, which is very cumbersome to align and position with all the levels of nesting involved.
12 votes
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