Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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More visible frame edges
Frame edges are too thin. Too hard to see. Please consider teachers teaching your product in class on a projector.
Even if there was a setting in Preferences for heavier frame edges.
Something... please.
3 votes -
Search in a text selection won't show
It's really annoying that I select some text and I want to Find/Replace something in that selected text and I can't do that within the Find/Replace window. Is this a bug or is there another reason why I can't do this?
1 vote -
Use data merge field to export filename
I have created 3 different invitations with a personalized company name on it, coming from excel with data merge. And when I want to export it as .jpg, it is not possible to export : invitationVIP<<company>>.jpg
now I have a list of "numbers" which i have to browse on which company I have to send my vip voucher to, instead of using the explorer search to find the company name that I need.
Conclusion : I need a way to export JPG (and maybe PDF) files using the data merge feature.
8 votes -
55 votes
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Slug capabilities
When we set up a new indesign document for an ad or for a brochure, we incorporate slugs at the top and the bottom for tracking specs, revisions, and proofing. Our bottom slug has an internal proofing checklist that we don't like the client to see when we output for print or PDF. Before we can output we have to go into the document set up box and remove the slug at the bottom. Then we have to turn it back on when we get a revision. It would be extremely helpful if you could add slugs to the PDF…
4 votes -
publish online accessibility
Since the web has accessibility standards and guidelines, the documents created and hosted online using Publish Online should follow those guidelines, at least the most basic parts.
For example, a screen reader cannot read out any text on the pages because all the text is embedded into images. This makes the documents unusable for anybody with vision difficulties.
Please consider adding an option to create these files with the actual text saved as HTML paragraphs, headers, lists, anchors, etc. This would make it suitable for the web and much more appealing.
38 votes -
Publish Online for INDB (book) file
Please extend Publish Online to Books. I use recurring elements as chapters in presentations and would like to publish online instead of exporting and transmitting PDF files.
91 votes -
Allow password-protected hosting, and hosting from a non-Adobe server
These two features would go a LONG way to making Publish Online a viable format for professional publishing. I'm sure many clients would pay an extra fee (nothing outrageous) for a self-hosted solution, if that would be necessary for Adobe to commit resources to make this happen.
230 votesPassword protection of Publish Online documents is available, starting with InDesign 19.4 version.
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Possibility to remap ALT Mouse Wheel for ZOOM
I do not find possibility to change ALT Mouse Wheel (for zooming). I prefer just Mouse Wheel to zoom (without ALT).
Or at least to get rid of ALT, because it can be overtaken by OS for other tasks (in my case).8 votes -
Please add Object Layer options also for TIFF files format that support layers
Object Layer Options are accessible for Photoshop and Illustrator and PDF files. It would be great to have that for TIFF files as well.
Thank you!
9 votes -
Option to turn spell check off or skip master pages.
It would be helpful to be able to skip the spell check in master pages without turning the language to [No Language]. As well as make the "Ignore All" or "Add" feature in spell check work better and actually skip common use for your documents.
20 votes -
Stroke weight should not factor into scale of object.
This should work more like Illustrator, where PATHS determine size and snapping
3 votes -
Download interactive PDF from Publish Online
I have posted an INTERACTIVE document on Publish Online, but when it is downloaded, all the interactivity is stripped out. What is the point of posting an interactive document if you can't download it as an interactive document! I have had to create a workaround to include a button IN the document that leads to an interactive PDF that I had to post separately on Google Drive to allow people to download the working PDF.
79 votes -
Search for missing links
When links are broken on our shared server, I manually need to type the name of the link to begin a search for it. Some file names are very complicated. It would be nice if the link name was already written in the input field or even better a button in the links panel that searches for the link and replaces it. Most often the link has just changed place on the server but has the same name.
8 votes -
Allowing 2-automatic page numbers/per page.
I work on proposals and we are usually limited to the number of pages within the document. It is often stated, that when we use an 11x17 page, this page counts as two pages in the proposal. It would be an amazing new feature if you could set up the option to have an additional automatic page number for these cases. Perhaps you could have an option to insert a second automatic page number on the master, or a feature that skips a number, starting the next 8.5x11 spread on the proper page number after counting the 11x17 as 2…
4 votes -
EXACT ALIGNMENT OF TEXT TO EDGE TEXT BOX
Perfect right and left alignment of text so that all of the end-of-line characters exactly hit the edge of the text box.
This is useful for certain designs that entail perfect geometric type alignment.
See attached screen shot showing the default setting of right aligned text.
5 votes -
Datamerge with several different datasources for different versions
Version: CC19 (14.0.1) on Mac OS 10.13.6 (High Sierra)
When there are datamerge-placeholders that are not in the datasource, the export aborts and you have to delete the placeholder.
When these placeholders are on invisible layers the same happens.In my case, sometimes i get different datasources for different versions of the same document so i put the different version on a new layer and make it invisible until i use the corresponding datasource for it.
Maybe a choice for the user to continue nontheless (only when placeholders are on invisible layers, to protect the user from using the wrong…
3 votes -
Animation Effects
It would be great if the animation effects of the Online Publish function could be made more sophisticated.
12 votes -
Keyboard shortucts for export presets / forget last export format
In a fast-paced, pdf-only workflow, having files remember their last export format is a frustrating hindrance! An option/preference to NOT do that would be great! AND/OR... the ability to add a keyboard shortcut to specific export formats that would override any previous settings would be ideal!!
(Apologies if that's all already doable. If it is, someone please enlighten me!)
Thanks!
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Table of contents update
how can I insert the same title to my book's table of contents which I did on two different pages? (table of content is divided into two text frames) Is it possible to do it automatically? I think it's not possible so I propose to add this option to new version of InDesign. It would be great!
1 vote
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