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1. Data Merge - allow "export to PDF" to have all features of regular PDF

   When using the data merge function of InDesign, it is currently not possible to export to a PDF with the same functionality as exporting a PDF from a regular document - several checkboxes such as "Create Tagged PDF" and include hyperlinks are greyed out. I've written a much more detailed article about it here: https://colecandoo.com/2016/12/17/data-merge-pdf-export-vs-regular-pdf-export/

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2. 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.

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3. 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.

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4. Improving table styles

   Problems in the development of tables
   Currently we have some drawbacks when it comes to automating as much as possible the application of the tables by using "table styles", this is because our tables have 4 different sectors (hotrizontals), unlike the possibility that Indesign offers only 3 types of rows "header rows", "footers rows" and "text rows". This, for the moment, we solve it in the following way: once we apply the style of table, we select the rows that we want to change and we apply by hand the "cell style".
   One possible solution is that the "style of tables" menu will allow you to incorporate more rows according to need, choosing the cell style you want and even being able to define in those headers parameters such as the number of rows they will occupy.

   Problems in the development of tables
   Currently we have some drawbacks when it comes to automating as much as possible the application of the tables by using "table styles", this is because our tables have 4 different sectors (hotrizontals), unlike the possibility that Indesign offers only 3 types of rows "header rows", "footers rows" and "text rows". This, for the moment, we solve it in the following way: once we apply the style of table, we select the rows that we want to change and we apply by hand the "cell style".
   One possible solution is that the "style of… more

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5. 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

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6. Changing Paragraph Style in InCopy story does not prompt check-out dialog

   1. InDesign 13.1 and 14.0 both exhibit this behavior.

   2. If you have an InCopy story that is not checked out to you, and you attempt to change a paragraph or character style, the following happens:

   • The style change does not take effect (this is correct)
   • The newly-selected style appears to be selected in the paragraph style panel (incorrect)
   • The "You must check out the contents of this frame in order to make changes. Check out now?" dialog does not appear. (incorrect)

   1. I expect the "You must check out the contents of this frame in order to make changes. Check out now?" dialog to appear.

   There are a few other inconsistencies in these sort of actions as well -- with a checked-in story, most text editing options in the control panel are not available -- but changing the weight of a typeface is, although, like changing a paragraph style, it doesn't do anything. Typing a space produces the expected "Wanna check out? dialog; but typing a tab doesn't.

   1. InDesign 13.1 and 14.0 both exhibit this behavior.

   2. If you have an InCopy story that is not checked out to you, and you attempt to change a paragraph or character style, the following happens:

   • The style change does not take effect (this is correct)
   • The newly-selected style appears to be selected in the paragraph style panel (incorrect)
   • The "You must check out the contents of this frame in order to make changes. Check out now?" dialog does not appear. (incorrect)

   1. I expect the "You must check out the contents of this frame in order to make changes. Check out now?"… more
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   Under Review  ·  AdminRavi Kiran (Admin, Adobe InDesign) responded

   Thank you for submitting this.
   It falls under the Feature Request category and thus being moved to the Feature Requests page.

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7. 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.

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8. 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.

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9. 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..

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10. Allow InCopy to be edited remotely by 3rd Parties (eg clients)

    We prepare large copy-heavy documents for our clients using InDesign and InCopy. However, our clients are not technically minded and do not have access (or the technical ability) to the Adobe software needed to open such documents and provide edits/comments.

    We therefore have to cut/paste the InCopy into a Microsoft Word document and send this, so that the client can edit/change/comment as necessary. They then return the Word file to us, and we re-link or re-copy the changes back into InCopy.

    Unfortunately, during this process we often lose the formatting and pagenation, increasing the time it takes for the edits to be made, and increasing the chances of other mistakes being made.

    We would love to see a mechanism by which we could allow the editing of InCopy documents online by non-Adobe customers so that all editing is contained within the Adobe workflow.

    Ideally, we could send our clients a link which allows them to open the InCopy document, read and review it (perhaps even track changes), provide comment, and then save it for our acceptance. It would be good too if they could print the unformatted document out to read on paper.

    We prepare large copy-heavy documents for our clients using InDesign and InCopy. However, our clients are not technically minded and do not have access (or the technical ability) to the Adobe software needed to open such documents and provide edits/comments.

    We therefore have to cut/paste the InCopy into a Microsoft Word document and send this, so that the client can edit/change/comment as necessary. They then return the Word file to us, and we re-link or re-copy the changes back into InCopy.

    Unfortunately, during this process we often lose the formatting and pagenation, increasing the time it takes for the edits… more

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11. Grammar Check

    Add a feature similar to the Grammarly App to check for grammar and sentence structure errors when typing text in InDesign.

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12. It'd be so much more efficient to be able to put in a default value in editable form text fields in InDesign vs Acrobat.

    I work on a creative team building editable form fields in InDesign for interactive pdf export. It'd be so much more efficient to be able to put in a DEFAULT VALUE OPTION with the correct InDesign formatting in editable form text fields in InDesign vs the limited option in Acrobat.

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13. Enable slanted headers in tables

    Right now, in order to create a "slanted" header for tables (see attached graphic) you either have to create a separate table and slant the entire object, or create a slanted effect by using lines and text boxes. It would be great if there was an option to slant the entire row of text in a table.

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14. 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.

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15. 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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16. EPUB CSS output could be improved quite a lot

    So I’m currently in charge of Readium CSS, which is a project related to Readium 2 (link: https://github.com/readium/readium-2), a complete rewrite of Readium SDK, which you may know in the form of a Chrome app – this Chrome app is actually advised by InDesign engineers in the InDesign forums whenever a rendering issue pops up so I assume InDesign engineers know it exists.

    Unfortunately, there are a lot of CSS issues piling up right now and InDesign’s output could really do with some significant improvements to allow for better cross-platform support and rendering. Indeed, Readium 2/CSS is meant to be used with any stack/rendering engine, so it won’t be tied to Webkit, and that changes the situation quite a lot.

    I won’t necessarily go into details since the User Experience of posting this idea is abysmal (can see like 5 lines of text right now and I can’t expand the textarea) but here’s some issues for which a fix would be greatly appreciated:

    1. if you’re outputting prefixed properties, please output all necessary prefixed properties and the standard one. It’s indeed been a bad practice to not do so and it creates severe maintenance issues for Reading Systems over the long term (for vertical writing in Japanese for example, we’ll have to pre-process stylesheets and add the missing CSS properties so that it can render well on all platforms);

    2. for transforms, which are sometimes used for objects (scaled, rotated, etc.), I can’t guarantee rendering will be OK, especially as only some prefixed CSS properties are output (Kobo now has a specific guideline addressing this issue);

    3. more generally, the default for objects’ output (e.g. images), with the container sized using pixels values, is plain wrong – it only works because we have safeguards to deal with it, so that images don’t become a huge mess. Same for iBooks BTW, which even have a specific CSS declaration in its default stylesheet just because of that.

    4. absolute positioning, which is sometimes used for objects with several images/frames, is explicitly discouraged in the EPUB spec itself for reflowable text so you should assume it will create rendering issues in at least some Reading Systems;

    5. the way embedded fonts are output (font-family) is wrong, and puts a burden upon other authors.

    6. if color is black, you don’t need to output it (Kindle even had to take the liberty of sanitizing this declaration so that it doesn’t create issues in night mode i.e. it removes it entirely).

    7. absolutely-positioned <span> in fixed-layout is now strongly discouraged in the iBooks guidelines because it breaks search and selection (providing users with a subpar UX).

    8. you export several languages in metadata and this is fine. However, we have a spec issue there: there is nothing to define which language is the primary language of the publication, which can create significant edge cases (iBooks, for instance, defines the last language item as the primary language for the publication, which means it may lay out an english book right to left if the last item happens to be arabic because there are arabic characters here and there).

    There’s more but listing them there is quite uncomfortable. So please feel free to contact me by mail if you’re willing to improve the current output. That would indeed benefit the whole ecosystem, given InDesign is quite ubiquitous in publishing, and I’ll be glad to help.

    So I’m currently in charge of Readium CSS, which is a project related to Readium 2 (link: https://github.com/readium/readium-2), a complete rewrite of Readium SDK, which you may know in the form of a Chrome app – this Chrome app is actually advised by InDesign engineers in the InDesign forums whenever a rendering issue pops up so I assume InDesign engineers know it exists.

    Unfortunately, there are a lot of CSS issues piling up right now and InDesign’s output could really do with some significant improvements to allow for better cross-platform support and rendering. Indeed, Readium 2/CSS is meant to… more

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17. Stylesheet Manager

    A place to manage bulk style changes across paragraph, character, and object styles.

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18. 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.

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19. Apply Multiple Master Pages per Page (Akin to Layers)

    Ideally, InDesign would treat master pages like layers. In this manner, a variable number of master pages could be applied to any page, allowing for more efficient and quicker customization of page layout. For example, a user might set up the following master pages:

    A-Body (1 Col.)
    B-Body (2 Col.)
    C-Body (Fig. or Table)
    D-Header (Full)
    E-Header (Partial)
    F-Footer (Full)
    G-Footer (Partial)

    In this example, the many possible combinations, such as AD, AF, ADF, AE, AG, AEG, BD, etc. (based on layout needs) wouldn't need to be created. More importantly, as in styles based on parent styles, changes would effectively "cascade" due to changes in one master page, rather than requiring changes in every master page that contained any given element.

    Ideally, InDesign would treat master pages like layers. In this manner, a variable number of master pages could be applied to any page, allowing for more efficient and quicker customization of page layout. For example, a user might set up the following master pages:

    A-Body (1 Col.)
    B-Body (2 Col.)
    C-Body (Fig. or Table)
    D-Header (Full)
    E-Header (Partial)
    F-Footer (Full)
    G-Footer (Partial)

    In this example, the many possible combinations, such as AD, AF, ADF, AE, AG, AEG, BD, etc. (based on layout needs) wouldn't need to be created. More importantly, as in styles based on parent styles, changes would effectively… more

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20. 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.

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