Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Export selected pages
I very frequently need to export only certain pages to PDF. I know I can type a range or multiple ranges. But it would realy speed up my professional work if I could just select the pages and hit 'Export selected pages...' in the contextual mouse menu.
This feature was present until CS6 by a plugin named HandyTools by DTP Utils.
102 votes -
ID - Preflight Navigation
Hey there,
i wish i could navigate in my preflight window with arrow keys.
It's important to check all the "mistakes" fast.
Kind regards and big thanks!
7 votes -
Accessibility-Tag Tree-Data Merge
ID 14.0.1, Mac Pro, Sierra 10.12.6
Tags are not in proper order in exported PDF
Using Data Merge to create many pages of text and table from large Excel file Col A-FF. Each row produces one page. The first section of the page tags are at the top of the tag tree, followed by the first section of each successive page. Then the Next tags (from the tables) are listed, again by successive pages.
To remediate, all (table) tags have to be moved to the proper page.1 vote -
Allow a character style to be a percent of the paragraph it's in
For example, I have a style at 12 points for a paragraph and need to place in it a couple of glyphs from a different font, but at 11 points. If I could say character style X is 96% of paragraph style Y, that would be great.
To my fortune every instance of my "different" 11 font has been surrounded by the same 12 paragraph, but if I had to use this elsewhere at a different size, I'd have to have another character style for that new size.
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Want to check if Adobe has been 'hacked' because I've received an unusual email supposedly from an Adobe ID Product Manager
After sitting in the phone cue for an hour because there are no appropriate option choices for 'contact Adobe about suspicious emails asking for detailed questions about my account'. I thought I'd post it here because the email claims to have links to the InDesign team. Email content raises a number of security flags which require IT in my company to check it out and as I am IT, I tried - but if you can't get through to anyone at Adobe and there's nowhere to deal with security issues in the 'contact' section of Adobe, then guess I will…
1 vote -
Option to open or otherwise import/place Microsoft Publisher files directly.
As a commercial printer, we often receive customer created work in Publisher files. Working with these documents in InDesign would be a huge timesaver.
14 votes -
Please bring back Mini Bridge
Mini Bridge was an awesome feature that I, as a graphic designer, miss greatly. It made laying out books that were hundreds of pages long with tons of pictures so much easier!! Please bring it back!
6 votes -
Accessibility—Artifact tables for layout, but keep their content
Sometimes designers use a table for layout purposes, not for a traditional spreadsheet-like matrix data in columns and rows.
Example: A table that creates a complex, multi-celled form. For layout, it's easier to create rows and columns to hold the form labels and form control fields.
However, when the form is exported to PDF, the table structure itself is not needed and often gets in the way of many assistive technologies.
Need a way to artifact the table structure itself, but retain the content within the table as live text and form fields. And of course, have it correctly tagged…
25 votes -
PDF to InDesign. The only option is a $200 converter. Please give me a break. We pay enough. Your responses below say it is in backlog but v
Just let us import editable PDFs without having to buy Recosoft product. Please.
3 votes -
Animated InDesign icon in Apple Doc
When I print documents on a laser printer using the menu item "Print", the InDesign program icon in the Apple Doc is animated. You can see exactly what the progress is with an animated bar. It would be great if this animated progress bar could also be seen when exporting to PDF. Also as the sum of all background processes. THANK YOU!
3 votes -
Galley view in InDesign
It would be great to have galley view in InDesign, like the one already available in InCopy. This provides a way to work with the many features of the story editor while seeing line breaks within the text as they appear in the layout.
1 vote -
Enable Find (from Find & Change) in checked in content (Incopy workflow)
Currently the Find feature does not work on content which is checked in in an Incopy workflow. It seems like an unnecessary technical restriction which hopefully could easily be changed. E.g. when you'd be on the phone with copywriter while that person is working on the content and you need to quickly find certain sections. Or you need to place an image next to a certain passage.
(I understand it can be activated by checking out all stories, but there are scenarios when this would be unpractical.)
I reckon it should be technically not challenging to implement, while logic to…
1 vote -
grep queries on server
being able to store queries on the server, so that the whole team has the same queries (esp. greps). Maybe 2 options, a userbased and a "application" based solution, just like the scripts?
2 votes -
User Dictionary specifications for some languages
Unlike English, where the declension of nouns in cases is made using prepositions, there are many languages in which the declension is made according to other rules, for example, by changing part of the word itself.
For these languages, we add the same word to the dictionary dozens of times, but many words are built and changed according to the same rules. (Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian and many Eastern-European languages).
Here is an example (not complete) for two Ukrainian words ("dissertation" and "compilation").
ди~~сер~~та~~ція, ком~~пі~~ля~~ція
ди~~сер~~та~~цію, ком~~пі~~ля~~цію
ди~~сер~~та~~ції, ком~~пі~~ля~~ції
ди~~сер~~та~~цією, ком~~пі~~ля~~цією
ди~~сер~~та~~цій~~ний, ком~~пі~~ля~~цій~~ний
ди~~сер~~та~~цій~~на, ком~~пі~~ля~~цій~~на
ди~~сер~~та~~цій~~ні, ком~~пі~~ля~~цій~~ні
ди~~сер~~та~~цій~~ним, ком~~пі~~ля~~цій~~ним
ди~~сер~~та~~цій~~ній, ком~~пі~~ля~~цій~~ній…2 votes -
Possibility of defining several alternative Font Styles in one Character Style
Possibility of defining several alternative Font Styles in one Character Style.
E.g. Character Style: Italic
Font Style: Regular Italic OR RegularItalic OR Italic OR ItalicRegular OR Italic RegularCurrently working with two families of fonts, one of which has italic defined as Italic and the other as Regular Italic, this is impossible. You have to define two character styles and search the whole text.
6 votes -
Assign paragraph style depending on odd/even page
It would be nice to assign a paragraph style automatically depending on the “value” of a odd or even page? So you can for example make some styles have more margin at the right or left side, depending on odd or even.
Of course you can apply this with different paragraph style, but when a new page appears in the middle of a large document it would be very nice if this can go automatically.
27 votes -
Add ability to add multiple header rows to tables
I would like to be able to add multiple header rows (or something along those lines) to tables so that a table style would be reapplied from that row onward. This would allow alternating fills to always begin on the same color after a header. This feature would be especially handy when adding a row to an existing table as only the fills under the current section of the table you're working on would change. Additionally this table would then be one single table instead of multiple linked tables, allowing changes to any formatting such as column width to be…
11 votes -
Hyphenation of compound words must take precedence over hyphenation
Currently, in Indesign in german language "st" is always hyphenated. In my work, however, there are many compound words in which the "st" is at the beginning or end of the word and therefore the hyphenation of a compounded word must occur before or after the "st" instead of between "s" and "t".
Example:
"Führerstand", compunded of the words "Führer" and "Stand"Expected hyphenation:
Führer-standWrong InDesign hyphenation:
Führers-tand4 votes -
Please add the possibility of using conditional text to the Table of Contents.
Sometimes we need to shorten the title, or generate a list of abbreviations, a table of contents for each section, or any other list that could use the Conditional Text.
Conditional Texts can be created independently of Character Styles.
This should work.
What do you think about it?
4 votes -
Please make the text size in panels bigger.
It is hard to read the headings and the small instructions in the panels. It would be great if you as a user could adjust the size. not only the size of panels (when you drag to make it bigger) but also of the tect inside of the panels.
If this alternative already excist please give me a hint.
11 votes
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