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  1. Middle mouse button to hand tool ...

    Please add this functionality! Want to map a mouse button for instant document panning. I can do it in Windows 10, but not MacOS.

    12 votes

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  2. Access setting defaults

    Share for review is a game changer! Thank you! But every time the compiling and uploading is done I need to change the access type from access setting it has to re-compile and upload. This is such a shame.

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  3. Alignment of anchor points is a really important feature

    In many many situations - when working with lines, shapes or boxes - being able to align and distribute anchor points is needed. Having to do this in Illustrator and then bring it back to InDesign is not ideal, it makes small adjustments or corrections arduous and time consuming.

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  4. For the love that all is good and right, please provide an option to disable the "missing fonts" dialogue box upon opening files.

    For those of us who have, for years, been opening InDesign files where we know there are missing fonts, we've literally wasted several weeks of our lives clicking the "skip" button. Can you please include a preference that allows us to turn-off this feature?

    2 votes

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  5. Gif Export directly from Indesign

    Why of why in 2021 can't I export a multi page document from Indesign to an animated gif format - even just rudimentary controls to allow a basic slideshow gif with no transitions would be better than having to faff about in photoshop!

    5 votes

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  6. Remove style attributes from Style Settings in General tab

    The Style settings overview is helpful, but dang would it be amazing to remove some attributes right from that box.

    Sometimes something odd will get added to a style if created from existing type (such as shading bottom right corner radius). If I don't want that as part of my style, there is no way to easily remove it. If the style attributes were in a list format, not a running paragraph, you could have a delete icon next to each attribute, that could be deleted. )Take it one step further, and an edit button would take you right to…

    5 votes

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  7. Favourite viewing size.

    I work with the same size documents and need to see them enlarged (eg 250% is perfect) and also full page. I am constantly going from cmd 0 then typing in 250% into the size box at the BL corner then back to cmd 0.
    Is it possible to get some toggle or previous view (like acrobat pro) method that goes back a forth between two viewing sizes.

    1 vote

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  8. Option to ignore the non breaking space and thin space of the font

    Many fonts created by English-speaking designers are poorly adapted to French typesetting in terms of the width of the non-breaking space and/or the thin space. It should be possible to ignore these spaces and use InDesign's default spaces.

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  9. Style shortcuts letters and numbers together

    It will be very useful to use the style shortcuts as "ctrl + alt + **** + a + 1".
    In its current form, it is no longer sufficient. Thanks, bg.

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  10. Swatch select in gradient window.

    The ability to double click on the gradient toggles to access pre existing swatches to select from.

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  11. "Select All Unused Stroke Styles" option for stroke style deletion

    Give us an option to "select all unused Stroke Styles" so that we can delete them. This feature is already offered in other panels: object styles, paragraph styles, colors. Currently there is no way to clean up stroke styles without selecting each individual stroke to see which stroke style is applied. selecting all unused stroke styles and deleting them all at once would save a tremendous amount of time, cause less confusion when applying styles, and help keep things tidy. Thank you.

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  12. Export correct unicode spaces to epub/html

    Logging this as a new feature, but it could also be a bug? Also logging this under "EPUB" since thats most important to me, but it also affects "HTML"

    Currently the only space characters exported by InDesign are the regular space and the non breaking space. All others are converted to regular spaces on export. These spaces should be retained in the epub, since they are supported by reading systems and in many cases it is typographically incorrect to use regular spaces.

    Spaces with direct Unicode mappings:
    Normal Space U+0020
    Nonbreaking Space U+00A0

    Em Space U+2003
    En Space U+2002
    Third…

    14 votes

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  13. Synchronize footnote settings in books and number across document

    Regarding using books and footnotes: I really, really wish the footnote settings were something you could synchronize when synching your book. Also, I wish there was an option to continue numbering throughout the individual documents. Currently, if you do not have your whole document threaded, it will restart the footnote numbering, so I have to set it to restart numbering at each page (or section).
    I frequently have books with a dozen different chapters and would like the footnotes to number sequentially within each chapter; and it would be one less thing to remember to edit if the document footnote…

    8 votes

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  14. Share for Review: Page view instead of Spread View

    I am having lots of people reviewing page-oriented instead of spread-oriented documents. (Books, manuals and the like.) Some are asking why they can't view the PDF in Share for Review as a single scrolling page, like in Adobe Reader. I personally don't care, but I have no answer for them. It would be nice, and it seems it would be technically not that difficult, to support single-page view. This would really help people reviewing on a tablet or a phone.

    12 votes

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  15. Content Placer Tool Thumbnail to Size

    Would it be possible to have an option to have the content placer tool thumbnail be proportional to the page it is being placed on? I use this tool to make large multiple image proofs from images placed into a client-supplied file and need to show them at the placed size. When I place them on the page, using the content placer tool, I cannot gauge the size until it is placed. I have to move them around to make them fit after placing a few and so on until all images are placed. Being able to see the size…

    4 votes

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  16. PLEASE PLEASE! Buttons and forms Window

    PLEASE PLEASE!

    The Buttons and forms window is really difficult to work with.
    Can you please enhance its usability?
    Being able to group buttons, reorder buttons in the window would be a massive help.
    Other users have expressed the need to expand the window - this is an absolute must so we can get an overview of the interactivity for each element, right now this is impossible and it takes so much time refining and debugging. Our clients are asking for more interactivity and it would great to be able to do this with the same efficiency as layout in…

    4 votes

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  17. Keep Comments on the Spread When Resolved

    My reviewers love being able to see the conversation and comments all the other reviewers are making, saving them time by not making the same comment over and over. My proposal team thinks the interaction between InDesign and SFR is wonderful!! In our large documents, we have found as we start to make the edits, the comments disappear making it challenging for the document editor to find where they were. The comment totally disappears or it throws them to the end of the list in a pile of "unmapped comments." BUT it then totally moves the comment off the spread.…

    6 votes

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  18. Need Better (and Less-Hidden) Accessibility Tagging Options

    Please make it much easier to add accessible alt-text to InDesign documents. There should be an accessibility panel and pre-check to make it very easy for designers.

    As it is now, it's too hidden: https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/indesign/alt-text.html

    Posted in reference to my tweet, at the request of Adobe Support: https://twitter.com/exkclamation/status/1424788475698499585

    6 votes

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  19. What are the causes of Quickbooks error code 15241 ?

    There might be one or more of the following reasons behind the occurrence of QuickBooks Error 15241:

    1. The File Copy Service (FCS) in QuickBooks Desktop is turned off. This service is critical for the QB application's and payroll service's functions.
    2. The downloaded file was tampered with in some way.
    3. Alternatively, if the QuickBooks installation was not completed correctly.
    4. If the windows registry files were corrupted as a result of installing QuickBooks, the identical problem would appear.
    5. One such explanation could be a Trojan assault.
    6. In the event that some QuickBooks-related vital files are accidentally erased
    7. If your anti-virus application is…
    1 vote

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  20. Share for Review - Include option to share a "book"

    Please include the option to share a pdf from a "Book" for review

    9 votes

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