Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Popup message if INDD document opens as "read only"
We work on a cloud server (Nasuni). There is a slight lag (up to a few minutes) when a user opens a file and the lock file is synced to the cloud server.
Occasionally, someone will be able to open a file that another user already has open. When that happens, in the document tab, the document shows as (read only). But there's nothing beyond that small text in the document tab to tell the user they are not working in a file they can save (and that someone else has the source document open).
What I would like to…
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Export animations as Videos
Since it is possbile to make simple animations in inDesign. It would also be nice to be able to export these animations as a video file or as a GIF.
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Better UI for Round Corners dialog
Each corner represented by an icon oriented in the corresponding way.
I think this can help user to work more intuitive.4 votes -
Make Extracted Shapes 'smarter'
Extract Shapes in InDesign is in essence a good idea, but with a bad execution.
And it has been like that (not so smart, that is) since its inception as the original Shapes app or even now within the Capture app for mobile.In stead of yielding a directly editable vector based result (with an Illustrator signature) it creates a purely black and white 'graphic' file format, which still needs a lot of handling to e.g. change the color of its vectors.
Suppose I'd like to use the traced outlines of a flower, or the extracted rough structure of bricks,…
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Make spellcheck change colour when complete
When checking a story of several thousand words it's easy to miss the phrase 'Spellcheck complete' at the top of the box when you're busy looking at the page itself. Up to a couple of generations ago the box would change colour when complete which you could see out of the corner of your eye. Very handy – please bring it back.
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hyperlink destination
There should be a panel where I can see all of the hyperlink destinations I've created. And they should be clickable to test whether they are still working properly. Hyperlinks show up in the hyperlinks panel, but in-document destinations (used for cross references) cannot be tested without exporting to a test document. Nor can I see a list of them outside the drop-down within the xrefs panel.
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Indesign creates an incorrect href for Acrhive.org links
When InDesign creates the href for a link from Archive.org it does not href to archive.org, but to the dead link.
example: the typed link is
"https://web.archive.org/web/20220320173121/https://freewheelingeasy.com/
creates an href for "https://freewheelingeasy.com/"
rather than the correct href of "https://web.archive.org/web/20220320173121/https://freewheelingeasy.com/"1 vote -
1 vote
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Indesign Thumbnails for Windows Explorer
Hi Adobe!
I recently switched from CorelDRAW to Adobe, and the "No Thumbnails for explorer" drives me nuts.
Adobe seems to be trying to force us to use Bridge instead of Windows Explorer, but I'm not interested in using BR, I want to see my files directly in Explorer.
Please fix this issue!
See my post here:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-thumbnails-for-explorer/m-p/12545994#M4548934 votes -
Live Collaboration Feature
Please add a function to collaborate on one document with multiple users simultaneously. Version Control is one of the biggest tasks on our Indesign projects.
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Direct selection tool selects everything - in 90 percent of the cases is unusable
The direct selection tool in inDesign and Illustrator is almost unusable due to it is selecting everything it touches.
It would be much better to have an option to select the points of the currently active object. I have lots of stacked objects, I want to work with one of the objects, but as soon as I draw a rectangle over the desired points, EVERYTHING is selected everywhere. This makes the tool almost unusable, because it is unable to make a normal selection, it's too greedy.
At least in Illustrator there is a thing "isolation mode" but in inDesign the…1 vote -
Add support for Case Transformation in GREP Change to field
GREP Case Transformations in "Change To"
Add support for case transformation in the replace patterns "Change to" for changing the case of the original text when using subpattern
replacements.\u Make the next character uppercase
\U Make all following characters uppercase until reaching another case specifier (\u, \L, \l ) or \E
\l Make the next character lowercase
\L Make all following characters lowercase until reaching another case specifier (\u, \U, \l ) or \E
\E End case transformation opened by \U or \L108 votesHi everyone,
You can easily change text cases with just a few clicks, ensuring consistency across your designs. This feature streamlines text editing, saving you time and effort. Enhance your workflow by adjusting text case quickly from the Text or GREP tabs of the Find/Change panel. The feature is now available in the latest InDesign 2024(v19.5.0.084)
Helpx article - https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/whats-new/2024-3.html#change-case
Please let us know your feedback in the comments.
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Sanyam Talwar(he/him)
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Allow Nonprinting to have a keyboard shortcut
Nonprinting should be able to be assigned a keyboard shortcut. It is often used with text variables--if you are manually entering a separate "first on page" header, you don't want that printing, and a shortcut to make it nonprinting would be a time saver.
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InDesign Review saving all the versions
I really have to prove that I made (25) revisions but I don't want to make PDFs. Is there a way for InDesign Review app able to save all the versions without 'Saving As' and creating another and sometimes huge memory file?
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Reinclude the cutter tool
The cutter tool has not been included as it was in old Pagemaker This tool is very useful. Without this tool, if you import an Autocad drawing, it is not possible to resize the content to the frame. I recommend to include this tool as it was in Pagemaker.
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Add a lasso tool
Select points and objects (even text!) with a lasso as you can in Illustrator and photoshop
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aic
Please Make it possible for InDesign to read aic-files, since it is a huge part of working with InDesign to Place ai-files
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There can be a lot of ways to do that.
The easiest way is just to allow InDesign to open the "gate" to the "cloud-folder" and read it from there, since it is already done from Illustrator and Photoshop.
another way could be th make a "ghost-file" in the local CC-folder that shows a mirror or links to the file from there.And there is possibly a lot of other opportunities aswell.
I just don't understand that…
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Shortcuts not working for Bold, Italic or plain text! You HAVE NOT DONE SOMETHING RIGHT IN YOUR 2022 UPDATE. It has worked since CS3
Shortcuts not working for Bold, Italic or plain text! You HAVE NOT DONE SOMETHING RIGHT IN YOUR 2022 UPDATE. It has worked since CS3
1 voteWhat shortcuts did you use?
For Bold, Cmd-Shift-B should work.
For Italic, Cmd-Shift-I should work.
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Adobe InDesign team
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Shortcuts not working for Bold, Italic or plain text! You HAVE NOT DONE SOMETHING RIGHT IN YOUR 2022 UPDATE. It has worked since CS3
Shortcuts not working for Bold, Italic or plain text! You HAVE NOT DONE SOMETHING RIGHT IN YOUR 2022 UPDATE. It has worked since CS3
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Shortcuts not working for Bold, Italic or plain text! You HAVE NOT DONE SOMETHING RIGHT IN YOUR 2022 UPDATE. It has worked since CS3
Shortcuts not working for Bold, Italic or plain text! You HAVE NOT DONE SOMETHING RIGHT IN YOUR 2022 UPDATE. It has worked since CS3
1 vote
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