Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Disable embedding assets... please...
I spend a huge amount of time in my work editing other people's artwork and the number one issue is embedded images that have been pasted in (instead of file-> place).
I have to jump through lots of hoops to get files to process correctly.
I'm not sure how it would work, but an option to have embedded files restricted by default, with a preference to allow it (with a warning dialog) would go a huge way to instilling the right working practice in new users.
And save me a huge amount of time.
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Allow placed Word Documents to map styles within folders
When placing a word document into indesign using the map styles feature, inDesign will only automatically map to existing styles in the document if they are in the root folder of the styles pane. If styles are in subfolders new styles of the same name are created in the root and I manually have to remove them and relink to the existing ones.
This is a nightmare when you have a lot of styles to map, as you end up with a messy styles pallette - i'd love to create subfolders for list / headings / footer styles etc :)
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Embed InDesign's Acrobat export settings in pdfs so they can be retrieved by other users.
PDFs are often delivered in artwork packages with no indication of what settings were used to make them.
Files are then updated, localised, re-worked by other users (I specialise in localisation DTP) and then PDFs are required with the same settings.
If these aren't saved in the InDesign file then it would be great to be able to "import" the settings from a PDF that has been made with this feature enabled. It would save having to revert to clients who themselves may not know the settings used by the original designers / printers.
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Export multiple joboptions with the same name as in the Indesign-menu
When saving joboptions, you are only allowed to save 1 joboption at a time. For someone who wants to hand over his joboptions to another person, this means you have to export every joboption bit by bit. That can last a long time!
Please allow to export ("save") multiple joboptions via the Pdf-Presets-Menu and include that the export saves the names of the joboptions!
((When exporting /saving one joboption, Indesign does not remember the name of it which is very annoying. Please change that!))
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Allow each section or master page spread to have a custom baseline grid
I work on many books that have different sections, with different content. While I try to make sure everything fits and follows the same baseline grid, often that's just not the best solution. I end up using custom baseline grid options on text frames, but that also doesn't solve everything.
It would be very useful to set a baseline grid that applies to a specific master page, or to a whole section.6 votes -
5 votes
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Find out the vitality of Facebook Phone Number:
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Lightroom to InDesign "Edit with"
I really wish I could easily go between Lightroom and InDesign. I regularly create proposals etc in InDesign and load in images that print dark. I would love the ability to right click and edit in Lightroom. Lightroom is far better/intuitive for me for basic edits of images than Photoshop. You offer Edit in: Photoshop, After effects etc. In Premiere you offer many options but not Lightroom. Seems like it would (as a side benefit) encourage use of another of your products.
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Create custom stroke with arrow ends
Need Custom stroke styles with arrow start or end and it can be applied in tables to. It will help in designing hierarchial data and other complex designs.
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Allow Interactive text fields to have longer names. Field names are limited to 100 characters currently. This limits use of names values.
Allow Interactive text fields to have longer names. Field names are limited to 100 characters currently. This limits use of names values in other products like Adobe Sign.
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Select path for text wrap for Illustrator files
When applying text wrap to an image (PSD, TIF, JPEG) the user can select a path to apply text wrap to. This allows the user to edit the path within the image using Photoshop’s path editing tools. This is much better than InDesign’s pen for editing a text wrap path. This is probably the worst path editing feature in any professional graphics program. So it’s a good thing we can edit that path somewhere else.
You know what program has the best pen tool? Illustrator. It also has excellent operators for paths, such as expanding paths and merging them. I…
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The book workflow is unimaginably bad, and it's because of how styles are managed
After trying out the book workflow for 6 months, designing 3 books with it -
I've concluded that it's a completely broken feature, that makes my work 160% more time consuming.I'm literally in the process of moving all documents of a current book I'm working on into a single document, because it became so frustrating.
So the main problem (among many others), which has already been posted here and seemingly ignored - is the entire way that styles and parent (master) pages are managed in the book workflow.
My workflow, and I can't imagine it being that different for…
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Ability to name pages
Ability to name pages (like artboards in illustrator), so that pages can be exported or placed with identifying information.
3 votes -
Rename layers and group of layers
Please, add the possibility to rename layers and groups in the layer panel (like in PS and AI).
Thanks!
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Transparent strokes with subtracting option
I'd like to be able to apply transparent strokes to overlapping objects, so they create an empty space between each other. This feature would be super useful for creating photo collages where background prevents you from using solid colour strokes (like black or white). It will also allow you to create clean and consistent looking space between overlapping objects.
4 votes -
Enlarge printing on controls
Enlarge the print on the control panels so that people with low vision can see and work on InDesign and Photoshop. My vision is failing and I publish a 32 page magazine on InDesign.
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Auto Layout of text frames (ala Figma auto layout)
Currently InDesigns' text frame fitting options are really powerful... but it would be amazing to pinch some of Figma's functionality, to supercharge them for dynamic layouts.
For instance, we often like to set up text variables on a master page, and have a layout which dynamically adjusts. Currently, we can use workarounds like whitespace to set spacing between elements, so that as the content shrinks & expands nothing overflows, and the spacing between these elements remains consistent. It's a limited approach, but better than nothing. You could take this further by having items dynamically align to layout grids (like baseline-grid…
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Please make it possible that whenever you create a QR code it automatically makes it into a hyperlink as well.
This could be done by maybe ticking off a box when creating a QR code to optionally create a hyperlink. I know QR codes are prodominently made to scan with a phone but if you wish to publish the same publication online it would be nice if you could also click on the qr code, making it easier for the reader. It would make it easier because now I have to make a QR code while also applying the same hyperlink on it thus taking me more time and increasing the possibility of an error.
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Copy & paste formatted text between apps
It is beyond baffling that Adobe is so incompetent they have not been able to implement a way to copy and paste formatted text between their own applications. There can only be two reasons we can’t copy and paste formatted text between (for example) Illustrator and InDesign: Either Adobe is unwilling to add this feature or Adobe is incapable of adding this feature.
Even a way to save formatted text between programs then place it would be an improvement over the nothing we have now.
4 votes
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