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1. The change of swatch colour used for the QR code is ignored

   When a QR code is created using a swatch colour, the colour does not update when the swatch colour is modified.

   Step by step:
   1) Make QR code using default magenta
   2) Change magenta to any custom color
   3) The QR code stays in magenta

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2. Regression: Inability to cycle through Blend Modes using arrow keys in the Effects Panel

   Hi Adobe Team,
   I am reporting a significant workflow regression in the InDesign Effects Panel (and Properties Panel) that has persisted into the 2026 versions.

   The Issue:
   In older versions of InDesign, users could click on a Blend Mode (e.g., "Multiply") in the Effects Panel and then use the Up/Down arrow keys to instantly cycle through other modes. The effect was applied immediately to the selected object, allowing for a fast visual preview of all blending options.

   Current State:
   This functionality is broken.
   Clicking a Blend Mode and using arrow keys often moves the object on the canvas instead of changing the selection in the dropdown menu.
   The "focus" on the dropdown is lost immediately after selection.
   Even when using the Properties Panel (Opacity > Blend Mode), the menu requires constant re-opening, making it impossible to quickly compare different effects.

   Why this matters:
   This change forces users to manually open the dropdown menu for every single effect they want to try (e.g., 15 clicks to see 15 modes). This is a massive downgrade in UI efficiency for designers.

   Please restore the "Sticky Focus" on the Blend Mode dropdown menu in the Effects Panel, allowing the arrow keys to cycle through options with an instant live preview, as it functioned in legacy versions.

   Thanks a lot, Pavla.

   Hi Adobe Team,
   I am reporting a significant workflow regression in the InDesign Effects Panel (and Properties Panel) that has persisted into the 2026 versions.

   The Issue:
   In older versions of InDesign, users could click on a Blend Mode (e.g., "Multiply") in the Effects Panel and then use the Up/Down arrow keys to instantly cycle through other modes. The effect was applied immediately to the selected object, allowing for a fast visual preview of all blending options.

   Current State:
   This functionality is broken.
   Clicking a Blend Mode and using arrow keys often moves the object on the canvas instead of… more

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3. Place selected Illustrator artboard directly into InDesign from Illustrator

   Currently, placing a specific artboard from a multi-artboard Illustrator file into InDesign requires switching to InDesign, going through File → Place, locating the file, enabling Show Import Options, and then selecting the correct artboard — a slow and repetitive process when working with files that contain many artboards.

   A "Send to InDesign" button or action in Illustrator that places the currently active artboard directly into the active InDesign document as a linked object — without leaving Illustrator.

   Similar to how The Overlord plugin by Battle Axe (AE plugin) handles asset transfer — would significantly speed up layout workflows.

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4. Generate Text - Shorten to fix overset

   Useful option within the Generate Text function would be to rewrite/shorten the selected text to fit the available space in order to remove overset. It'd be ideal if this could be handled like a find/replace whereby the user could step through the document moving from each overset frame.

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5. Custom App Assignment for ‘Edit Original’ in InDesign

   It would be useful to introduce a feature in InDesign that allows assigning specific applications for opening files when using the "Edit Original" command, so that, for example, you can choose Photoshop for .jpg .jpeg .png, Illustrator for .pdf .ai etc...
   In this way, it is possible to keep the most common settings for the operating system, such as opening .jpg files with the Photos app and .pdf files with Acrobat.

   In InDesign there is already the option to assign a keyboard shortcut to start "Edit Original," but not one for "Edit With...," which greatly slows down the workflow.

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6. Make Paragraph Styles Apply Parent Pages and Section Starts

   1. Would like to have an option to apply a Parent page based on the Paragraph style. Similar to Mastermatic, but in the Paragraph style dialogue.
   2. Would like the option to have a Paragraph Style set a section start. As it is, if, for example, you set page 22 as a section start, but later need to delete pages 20 and 21, the page numbering now goes 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24 etc. For this reason I don’t use section starts and thus don’t use the TOC function. But I would like to use the TOC function and this would help.

   1. Would like to have an option to apply a Parent page based on the Paragraph style. Similar to Mastermatic, but in the Paragraph style dialogue.
   2. Would like the option to have a Paragraph Style set a section start. As it is, if, for example, you set page 22 as a section start, but later need to delete pages 20 and 21, the page numbering now goes 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24 etc. For this reason I don’t use section starts and thus don’t use the TOC function. But I would like to use the TOC function and this… more
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7. Feature Request: InPage-Style Urdu Nastaliq Kerning, Positioning, and Composition Engine for Adobe InDesign Dear Adobe InDesign Team, I wo

   Feature Request: InPage-Style Urdu Nastaliq Kerning, Positioning, and Composition Engine for Adobe InDesign

   Dear Adobe InDesign Team,

   I would like to request major improvements to Urdu Nastaliq publishing support in Adobe InDesign.

   Although InDesign supports right-to-left languages, it still lacks many professional Urdu composition features that are available in InPage and are essential for newspapers, magazines, books, and educational publishing.

   The most important request is the introduction of an InPage-style Urdu Nastaliq Composition Engine.

   Requested Features:

   1. InPage-style Urdu Kerning Engine

   • Automatic contextual kerning between Urdu characters.
   • Ligature-aware spacing adjustments.
   • Removal of excessive gaps between words and letters.

   • Font-specific optimization for:

     • Jameel Noori Nastaleeq
     • Nafees Nastaleeq
     • Mehr Nastaliq
     • Faiz Nastaliq

   1. InPage-style Kashida Justification

   • Intelligent Kashida insertion.
   • Balanced line composition.
   • Reduced dependency on word spacing expansion.

   1. Urdu Nastaliq Composer

   • Dedicated composer specifically designed for Urdu Nastaliq.
   • Better handling of multi-line Nastaliq text flow.

   1. Word and Character Position Controls (Similar to InPage)

   • Move selected word or character Left.
   • Move selected word or character Right.
   • Move selected word or character Up.
   • Move selected word or character Down.
   • Fine positioning controls using keyboard shortcuts.
   • Visual nudging tools for precise Nastaliq adjustments.
   • Support for adjusting individual ligatures without affecting surrounding text.

   1. Improved Baseline Management

   • Automatic baseline correction for Nastaliq fonts.
   • Better alignment of words across multiple lines.

   1. Improved Ligature Handling

   • Context-sensitive Urdu ligatures.
   • Better OpenType feature utilization.
   • Enhanced glyph substitution and positioning.

   1. Nuqta and Aerab Optimization

   • Better placement of dots (Nuqta).
   • Improved positioning of diacritics (Aerab).
   • Collision detection and avoidance.

   1. Urdu Publishing Tools

   • Newspaper composition presets.
   • Book publishing presets.
   • Urdu typography presets.
   • Nastaliq-specific paragraph settings.

   1. Urdu Keyboard and Editing Enhancements

   • Better Urdu text editing experience.
   • Improved cursor behavior in Nastaliq text.
   • Advanced Urdu proofreading and composition tools.

   Many Urdu publishers continue to rely on InPage because of its superior Nastaliq composition quality and precise word-positioning controls. Bringing these capabilities into Adobe InDesign would greatly benefit the Urdu publishing industry and help professional publishers adopt InDesign as their primary layout and publishing platform.

   Thank you for your consideration.

   Feature Request: InPage-Style Urdu Nastaliq Kerning, Positioning, and Composition Engine for Adobe InDesign

   Dear Adobe InDesign Team,

   I would like to request major improvements to Urdu Nastaliq publishing support in Adobe InDesign.

   Although InDesign supports right-to-left languages, it still lacks many professional Urdu composition features that are available in InPage and are essential for newspapers, magazines, books, and educational publishing.

   The most important request is the introduction of an InPage-style Urdu Nastaliq Composition Engine.

   Requested Features:

   1. InPage-style Urdu Kerning Engine

   • Automatic contextual kerning between Urdu characters.
   • Ligature-aware spacing adjustments.
   • Removal of excessive gaps between words and letters.

   • Font-specific optimization for:

     • … more
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8. Add sentence case to character options

   Add sentence case to the character options (alongside all caps, small caps, lowercase, etc.). My clients often send content with titles typed in all caps, and I’d like a quick, reliable way to convert them to sentence case (and/or title case).

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9. Grids in Document setting

   Grids do not belong to the app settings. Should be part of document settings.

   Rework Styles/Settings.
   In Styles, the tabs are not logical.
   How is Language and 'Advanced Character Format'?
   Why is 'Align to Grid' part of 'Indents and Spacing'?
   Lots of work to do there.

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10. Increase bounding box line thickness via Preferences > User Interface Scaling > Anchor Points, Handle, and Bounding Box Display Size

    I would like the option in Preferences > User Interface Scaling > Anchor Points, Handle, and Bounding Box Display Size to be able to thicken the bounding box lines more. The Anchor Points and Handle are plenty big even with low scaling, but even with large scaling, the lines don't get thick enough for me to see well on my high-res display. Thanks for considering.

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11. Streamlining adding new pages of different sizes

    I often work with files with multiple sized pages in them. I want the print specific features of indesign, however adding different size pages to a document is a clunky and confusing process. Instead of having to 'create alternate layout' could you not just modify the 'edit page size' menu to have a 'add different size page' option.

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12. Save/Load Ink Manager Configurations within one file.

    I'd like to be able to save and load Ink Manager configurations, particularly ink alias sets, within a file.

    Use case: I have a series of labels that are, except for color scheme and copy, exactly the same. I'd love to be able to produce the different color variations simply by loading a set of aliases. I could change the color configuration of each label variant simply by loading the ink manager alias set for that colors scheme, starting from a SINGLE master file, without having to resort to identical layers in different colors, etc.

    My goal here is to reduce deltas between the labels. Using a single parent file that can be reconfigured from one color scheme to another just by changing the ink aliases would absolutely minimize the chances for deltas to develop, because there would be only ONE parent file.

    I have an application for this right now, with a large corporate client, and I can think of a half-dozen uses right off the top of my head.

    Thanks for your time and consideration!

    I'd like to be able to save and load Ink Manager configurations, particularly ink alias sets, within a file.

    Use case: I have a series of labels that are, except for color scheme and copy, exactly the same. I'd love to be able to produce the different color variations simply by loading a set of aliases. I could change the color configuration of each label variant simply by loading the ink manager alias set for that colors scheme, starting from a SINGLE master file, without having to resort to identical layers in different colors, etc.

    My goal here is to… more

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13. Recadrage PDF Importés (avec du texte non vectorisé) et Export / Framing of Imported PDF (with not vectorised fonts) & Export

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    When you crop a placed PDF in Adobe InDesign that contains live (non-outlined) text, the exported PDF still keeps all text data located outside the cropped frame. As a result, PDF text search can still find and highlight invisible text that is hidden outside the visible cropped area.

    This behavior makes little sense from a user perspective: if a PDF element is cropped in InDesign, the expectation is that everything outside the cropped frame should be removed from the exported PDF — or at least excluded from text search and selection.

    Currently, InDesign only masks the content visually. The hidden text remains embedded in the exported PDF, even though it is no longer visible. This creates several problems:

    • PDF searches return results in invisible areas
    • Copy/paste may include hidden text
    • Accessibility/readability can become inconsistent
    • Sensitive or unwanted text may remain inside the final exported document
    • File content does not match the visible layout

    This issue especially affects workflows involving imported PDFs containing OCR text or non-vectorized text layers.

    Expected behavior:
    When exporting a PDF from InDesign, any content outside the cropped frame of a placed PDF should either:

    • be truly clipped/destructively removed from the exported PDF structure, or
    • at minimum, be excluded from searchable/selectable text content.

    At the moment, the crop behaves only as a visual mask, not as an actual content clipping operation.

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    Faire en sorte que sur InDesign quand on recadre un PDF (avec du texte non vectorisé) et qu’on exporte ce PDF cela n’affiche plus le texte en dehors de la zone recadree.

    Car actuellement quand on recadre ce genre de PDF, et qu’on exporte le PDF, et qu’on fait une recherche de texte sur ce PDF cela recherche et affiche des résultats même dans le texte invisible masqué en dehors du cadre.

    Quand on recadre sur InDesign un bloc d’un PDF importé qui contient du texte non vectoriel je ne vois vraiment pas pour quelle bonne raison le PDF continue d’afficher toute la police qui est en dehors de cette zone recadrée, ça n’a aucun sens ni aucune utilité car par définition quand on recadre un bloc, c’est qu’on veut pas ce qu’il y a autour…

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    When you crop a placed PDF in Adobe InDesign that contains live (non-outlined) text, the exported PDF still keeps all text data located outside the cropped frame. As a result, PDF text search can still find and highlight invisible text that is hidden outside the visible cropped area.

    This behavior makes little sense from a user perspective: if a PDF element is cropped in InDesign, the expectation is that everything outside the cropped frame should be removed from the exported PDF — or at least excluded from text search and selection.

    Currently, InDesign only masks the content visually. The… more

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14. Native PDF/UA-compliant export in Adobe InDesign (European Accessibility Act)

    With the entry into force on June 28, 2025 of European Directive 2019/882 (European Accessibility Act, EAA), the production of accessible digital documents has become a legal obligation for a wide range of public and private operators working in the European market. The regulation requires that electronic documents — including PDFs — conform to the PDF/UA standard (ISO 14289-1) and the technical standard EN 301 549.
    At present, Adobe InDesign is not capable of natively exporting PDFs that are PDF/UA compliant and verifiable with third-party tools such as PAC. This limitation forces professionals to rely on third-party plugins or manual corrections in Acrobat Pro after every export — resulting in additional costs, operational inefficiencies, and the risk of errors in every production cycle.
    Bringing InDesign into compliance with these requirements is today a legal necessity for thousands of European professionals who use the software daily to produce institutional communications, reports, publications, and technical documents subject to EAA obligations. It would also demonstrate Adobe's genuine commitment to the values of inclusivity and accessibility.
    The native implementation of these features would eliminate dependency on third-party tools, reduce production costs, and ensure that Adobe InDesign maintains a competitive position aligned with the current European regulatory landscape.
    Supporting accessibility is not merely an ethical choice — it is today a concrete responsibility toward the millions of users with disabilities and toward the professionals who produce content for them every day.

    Thank you for your attention.

    With the entry into force on June 28, 2025 of European Directive 2019/882 (European Accessibility Act, EAA), the production of accessible digital documents has become a legal obligation for a wide range of public and private operators working in the European market. The regulation requires that electronic documents — including PDFs — conform to the PDF/UA standard (ISO 14289-1) and the technical standard EN 301 549.
    At present, Adobe InDesign is not capable of natively exporting PDFs that are PDF/UA compliant and verifiable with third-party tools such as PAC. This limitation forces professionals to rely on third-party plugins or manual… more

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15. Native PDF/UA-compliant export (European Accessibility Act)

    With the entry into force on June 28, 2025 of European Directive 2019/882 (European Accessibility Act, EAA), the production of accessible digital documents has become a legal obligation for a wide range of public and private operators working in the European market. The regulation requires that electronic documents — including PDFs — conform to the PDF/UA standard (ISO 14289-1) and the technical standard EN 301 549.

    At present, Adobe InDesign is not capable of natively exporting PDFs that are PDF/UA compliant and verifiable with third-party tools such as PAC. This limitation forces professionals to rely on third-party plugins or manual corrections in Acrobat Pro after every export — resulting in additional costs, operational inefficiencies, and the risk of errors in every production cycle.

    Bringing InDesign into compliance with these requirements is today a legal necessity for thousands of European professionals who use the software daily to produce institutional communications, reports, publications, and technical documents subject to EAA obligations. It would also demonstrate Adobe's genuine commitment to the values of inclusivity and accessibility.

    The native implementation of these features would eliminate dependency on third-party tools, reduce production costs, and ensure that Adobe InDesign maintains a competitive position aligned with the current European regulatory landscape.

    Supporting accessibility is not merely an ethical choice — it is today a concrete responsibility toward the millions of users with disabilities and toward the professionals who produce content for them every day.

    Thank you for your attention.

    With the entry into force on June 28, 2025 of European Directive 2019/882 (European Accessibility Act, EAA), the production of accessible digital documents has become a legal obligation for a wide range of public and private operators working in the European market. The regulation requires that electronic documents — including PDFs — conform to the PDF/UA standard (ISO 14289-1) and the technical standard EN 301 549.

    At present, Adobe InDesign is not capable of natively exporting PDFs that are PDF/UA compliant and verifiable with third-party tools such as PAC. This limitation forces professionals to rely on third-party plugins or manual… more

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16. Add an option to disable the downloading or saving of embedded videos

    Please include an option to disable the downloading or saving of embedded videos in Adobe InDesign documents. This feature would be extremely useful for designers, publishers, and businesses that distribute interactive PDFs or digital publications containing licensed or proprietary video content. Currently, users who receive these documents may be able to extract or save embedded media files, which can create copyright, security, and content protection concerns.

    Adding a setting that allows creators to restrict video downloading while still permitting playback inside the document would help protect intellectual property and give publishers more control over how their media is shared. It would also improve confidence for companies and educators who rely on InDesign for interactive presentations, training materials, magazines, and marketing content.

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    Please include an option to disable the downloading or saving of embedded videos in Adobe InDesign documents. This feature would be extremely useful for designers, publishers, and businesses that distribute interactive PDFs or digital publications containing licensed or proprietary video content. Currently, users who receive these documents may be able to extract or save embedded media files, which can create copyright, security, and content protection concerns.

    Adding a setting that allows creators to restrict video downloading while still permitting playback inside the document would help protect intellectual property and give publishers more control over how their media is shared. It… more

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17. Feature Request: Language-Aware Punctuation Correction in "Refine Your Text" (Generate Panel)

    Hi Adobe InDesign Team,

    I would like to request an enhancement to the "Refine Your Text" option available under the Generate panel (similar to the Rewrite feature).

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    Feature Request: Automatic Punctuation Correction Based on Script/Language

    What I need:
    When a paragraph is selected, I would like an option under "Refine Your Text" that:
    1. First reads and analyzes the selected paragraph
    2. Then intelligently applies correct punctuation — but based on the language/script of the text, not a universal rule

    The core problem:
    Currently, punctuation correction tools apply English/Latin punctuation rules universally. This breaks Urdu, Arabic, and Persian text because these languages have their own distinct punctuation systems.

    For example:
    - English uses: , . ! ? " " ( )
    - Urdu uses: ، ۔ ؟ — (Urdu comma ، Urdu full stop ۔, Urdu question mark ؟)
    - Arabic uses: ، ؟ ؛ — (Arabic-specific punctuation marks)
    - Persian/Farsi follows similar RTL punctuation conventions

    Expected Behavior:
    - If the selected text is in English → apply English punctuation rules
    - If the selected text is in Urdu → apply Urdu punctuation (rumooz-o-auqaf / رموز و اوقاف)
    - If the selected text is in Arabic → apply Arabic punctuation
    - If the selected text is in Persian → apply Persian/Farsi punctuation
    - Mixed-language paragraphs → detect per sentence or per segment and apply accordingly

    Why this matters — A Global Need:
    This is not just a niche request. InDesign is used worldwide by publishers, journalists, and designers working in dozens of non-Latin scripts — Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and more. Millions of InDesign users across South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia deal with this problem daily.

    Incorrect punctuation (e.g., using a Latin comma , instead of Urdu comma ، ) is a critical typographic error in professional publishing. Right now, users have to:
    1. Copy the text from InDesign
    2. Paste it into an external AI tool (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.)
    3. Ask it to fix the punctuation
    4. Copy the corrected text back into InDesign
    5. Reformat and recheck the layout

    This is a slow, repetitive, and error-prone workflow that breaks the entire design process. If Adobe builds this directly into InDesign's Generate panel, it will eliminate this friction entirely — and it will be a major reason for non-Latin publishers worldwide to upgrade to and stay on Creative Cloud.

    A smart, language-aware punctuation refinement tool would dramatically speed up the work of millions of users who currently feel underserved by InDesign's AI features.

    Proposed Workflow:
    1. User selects a paragraph
    2. Clicks: Generate → Refine Your Text → Fix Punctuation
    3. AI detects the language/script of the selection
    4. Applies the correct punctuation standard for that language
    5. Shows a before/after preview for user approval

    This feature would make InDesign's AI tools genuinely useful for non-Latin script publishing — a massive, underserved global market.

    Thank you for considering this request.

    Best regards

    Hi Adobe InDesign Team,

    I would like to request an enhancement to the "Refine Your Text" option available under the Generate panel (similar to the Rewrite feature).

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    Feature Request: Automatic Punctuation Correction Based on Script/Language

    What I need:
    When a paragraph is selected, I would like an option under "Refine Your Text" that:
    1. First reads and analyzes the selected paragraph
    2. Then intelligently applies correct punctuation — but based on the language/script of the text, not a universal rule

    The core problem:
    Currently, punctuation correction tools apply English/Latin punctuation rules universally. This breaks Urdu, Arabic, and Persian text because… more

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18. When using Find/Replace, show how many instances were found.

    If I'm trying to find something in a document to modify it slightly, I'll use Find to find it. If there's only two instances of the thing occurring, than I can just quickly manually fix it. If there's 200 instances though, then I know I either need to be more specific in my search or start writing some GREP. The problem is that I have no way of knowing how many times the thing I'm looking for occurs, and if it's a lot I would have to click through "Find Next" an unknown number of times. When replacing items, there is a pop-up that tells me how many items were changed, but it would nice to know that number before I hit "Replace."

    This is also useful in catching mistakes, especially in cases where I made the change in all open documents, realize that my find+replace should not have caused 2,000 replacements, and now have to go into each document and ctrl+z.

    If I have a similar issue in Microsoft Word and use Find, Word shows me in a side panel how many times the thing I searched for occurs in the document, and then I can make decisions on how best to proceed.

    I don't think an entire side panel is necessary, but could you just add a line in the Find+Replace window or a pop-up that says "found 80 times" or whatever? Find+Replace has a pop-up that says how many items were replaced, but it would be helpful if I could know how many things I'm changing before I actually change it. If you think the pop-up would be annoying for every Find, maybe it could be an additional button next to "Find Next", like "Find How Many"? It would also be helpful if this highlighted every instance of the search in the document, but I'd settle for just a "found x times" message.

    If I'm trying to find something in a document to modify it slightly, I'll use Find to find it. If there's only two instances of the thing occurring, than I can just quickly manually fix it. If there's 200 instances though, then I know I either need to be more specific in my search or start writing some GREP. The problem is that I have no way of knowing how many times the thing I'm looking for occurs, and if it's a lot I would have to click through "Find Next" an unknown number of times. When replacing items, there… more

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19. Add feature: 'open in new window' for creating hyperlinks within InDesign Document and exporting to interactive PDF.

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    Add feature: 'open in new window' for hyperlinks within InDesign document, so that you don't navigate away from interactive PDF when you click on hyperlinks within the document.

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20. See Page Content Order and Structure Types (as in Acrobat) in InDesign

    The InDesign/Acrobat accessible PDF workflow is a nightmare. Fixing reading order and tags in Acrobat is one particularly frustrating aspect of that nightmare.

    It would be very helpful – and a major time-saver because of these issues in Acrobat – to be able to see Page Content Order and Structure Types, as displayed in Acrobat when the Reading Order tool is active, in InDesign so that issues can be resolved BEFORE export to interactive PDF.

    A much more productive solution would be to have live updates in Acrobat as changes are made in InDesign. I'd be seriously impressed if you could get that to work. Forget rubbish AI-generated cartoons and concentrate on more practical issues, please. Improvements in the InDesign/Acrobat accessible PDF workflow are long, long, long overdue.

    The InDesign/Acrobat accessible PDF workflow is a nightmare. Fixing reading order and tags in Acrobat is one particularly frustrating aspect of that nightmare.

    It would be very helpful – and a major time-saver because of these issues in Acrobat – to be able to see Page Content Order and Structure Types, as displayed in Acrobat when the Reading Order tool is active, in InDesign so that issues can be resolved BEFORE export to interactive PDF.

    A much more productive solution would be to have live updates in Acrobat as changes are made in InDesign. I'd be seriously impressed if you… more

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