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  1. ID Plugin App for ChatGPT

    I am an independent author and publisher using Adobe InDesign to prepare books for print and digital publication.

    I strongly encourage Adobe to prioritize an official InDesign integration with ChatGPT. I need a conversational interface that can work directly with an InDesign document, inspect the full layout, adjust paragraph and character styles, manage parent pages, preserve Hebrew and right-to-left text, identify overset text and page-flow problems, update the table of contents, run preflight checks, and help export a print-ready PDF.

    The current InDesign interface has a difficult learning curve for independent writers who need professional book production but are not…

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  2. Can a PDF Be Converted Back to an INDD File?

    Hi!

    I only have a PDF, not the original InDesign file. Is there a reliable way to convert it back to an editable .INDD document survival race ?

    Has anyone tried a tool that works well? I'd love to hear your recommendations!

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  3. Add Navigator to inDesign, exactly like the one in Photoshop (Window>Navigator). Thanks.

    Navigator in inDesign, please, like Photoshop or Illustrator.

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  4. Add "First Paragraph Options" within Paragraph Styles

    Feature Request:
    Introduce a new section within Paragraph Style Options called "First Paragraph Options" (similar to how "Drop Caps and Nested Styles" works). This would allow users to define specific formatting rules that apply only to the very first paragraph in a consecutive sequence of paragraphs sharing the exact same style.

    The Problem:
    Currently, when a style is applied to multiple consecutive paragraphs, any formatting specific to the opening paragraph requires creating a separate, dedicated paragraph style.

    A classic example is book typesetting:

    • The first paragraph of a chapter or section should not have a first-line indent, while all subsequent…
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  5. Support Multiple PDF Preset Exports During File Packaging

    The Problem:

    Currently, when finalizing a project, designers must manually run multiple export cycles. We have to export a clean "Proof" PDF (no crops/bleeds) for client approval, and then a "Print" PDF (with crops/bleeds) for the press vendor. Doing this separately for every single job adds unnecessary clicks, wastes time, and introduces the risk of human error (e.g., forgetting to update one of the PDFs after a last-minute edit).

    The Requested Feature:

    Expand the "Package" dialog box settings to allow users to select multiple PDF Output Presets simultaneously via checkboxes.

    When the user hits "Package," InDesign should automatically generate all…

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  6. Make Swatch Groups moveable in the swatches panel

    Swatch groups are currently always at the bottom of the swatches panel and can't be moved around. Loose, single swatches are sometimes less important than the ones in groups. So being able to have a group at the top of the panel would be beneficial in situations where the swatches panel is small.

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  7. Request for Native HEX Color Support in Adobe InDesign for Modern Digital Workflows

    I would really like the ability to use HEX color values directly in InDesign. I understand that InDesign is primarily designed with print workflows in mind, where CMYK and spot colors are the standard, but more and more of us are working in hybrid or fully digital environments.

    As teams continue to move their entire design workflows into Adobe Creative Cloud, having better support for digital-first color systems would make a big difference. Being able to input HEX codes natively would help bridge the gap between design tools and web or UI workflows, where HEX is the standard.

    It would…

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  8. Feature Request: Use Alternate Layout Name as Export File Name When exporting documents from InDesign (especially to JPG, PNG, PDF, or othe

    Feature Request: Use Alternate Layout Name as Export File Name

    When exporting documents from InDesign (especially to JPG, PNG, PDF, or other formats), it would be extremely useful to have an option to automatically use the Alternate Layout name as the exported file name.

    Many designers use Alternate Layouts to manage different languages, formats, or versions within a single document. Currently, although each layout has a name, that information is not available during export, forcing users to rename files manually or rely on scripts.

    Suggested option:

    Add a checkbox in the Export dialog:
    Use Alternate Layout name as file name…

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  9. Urdu and Arabic users migrating from InPage to Adobe InDesign face a major usability issue with RTL cursor navigation. Currently, in RTL te

    Urdu and Arabic users migrating from InPage to Adobe InDesign face a major usability issue with RTL cursor navigation.

    Currently, in RTL text:
    - Right Arrow moves cursor visually left
    - Left Arrow moves cursor visually right

    While technically correct under Unicode bidi logic, this behavior is unintuitive for many professional Urdu newspaper designers who are accustomed to InPage-style visual cursor navigation.

    Request:
    Please add an optional preference:

    "Visual RTL Cursor Navigation"

    so users can choose:
    1. Logical movement (current behavior)
    2. Visual movement (InPage-style)

    This would greatly improve Urdu, Arabic, and Persian publishing workflows.

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  10. Restore color books

    For some reason, I am not able to add one of the preset colourbooks to my files. I had help from an Adobe employee and finally he reached the conclusion individual colours needed to be added one by one. This is insane. I want to be able to access these colour books! Please restore so they can be added to the Swatches window!

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  11. Pages Menu

    I need to see pages reliably. The InDesign Pages menu pop-out fails. It will reappear and work properly when re-opened. It is not showing in an unexpexted place that I've found. It occurs sometime while working but I haven't identified what brings it to fail. Attachment named InDesignMenuFail-2026-06-26.jpg shows the icon is activated, but not visible as it is in the InDesignMenuOK-2026-06-26.jpg image.

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  12. Allow use of numerical font weights instead of labels

    Please include an option to use font numerical weights in paragraph/character styles. Font weight labels are not standardized among fonts. A variant could be labelled Normal, Book, Regular, Roman, or any other label that the font foundry thought was a good idea at the time. That means in my character style menu, there are many different labels corresponding to the same weight.

    If InDesign internally tracked its weights numerically, I wouldn't have to use a separate character style for different uses of Semibold just because one foundry calls it "Semi Bold" or "SemiBold" or "SemiBd". CSS has this feature even…

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  13. Object Style default option for the Rectangle Frame Tool (F) other than [None]

    Hello and thank you for the opportunity to offer feedback! I have always used the Rectangle Frame Tool (F), primarily for images but also for text. I am trying to streamline options and defaults in InDesign as my work is now required to make all digital reports and other documents with accessibility requirements for screen readers. In trying to set the default of my frames to the [Basic Graphics Frame] object style with my updated changes or a custom object style, the object style immediately snaps back to [None] when I draw the frame. It doesn't matter how I draw…

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  14. Add a X in the homescreen recent thumbnails, to remove projects from that overview

    When working for multiple clients, it is very inconvenient having thumbnails popping up when opening a document. Please make it easy for the user to decide which projects are shown in the home screen.

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  15. Can we add a default locking range feature for the stored 'find/replace' XML files?

    I hope to lock the 'search scope'. And it can be included in the. xml file.

    There have been two serious accidents, fortunately discovered, but I was still scolded by my boss.
    I have a regular expression that repeats when indexing. When I store it, the range is "article", but one day I didn't pay attention. After selecting it, the range changed to "document", and as a result, some content was replaced.
    Very scary.

    The search range is now automatically determined, but sometimes accidents may occur if not careful.
    There should be a locking function that locks the default without…

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  16. PDF-Export with MathML in <Formula>-Tag

    Now that InDesign supports MathML, we need MathML content to be exported correctly in tagged PDFs.

    Currently, MathML is exported as a <Figure> tag, but it should be exported as a <Formula> tag.

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  17. The quick color change for a text field should change the cointaining text color.

    The quick color change for a text field should change the cointaining text color instead. The text box color control can rely on a button for selection of itself that then changes interaction of quick color controls. ****, put it in place of the OpenType button that is pretty useless to many (I for one ONLY click it accidentaly and it makes me crazy, but that's another ticket).

    It's incredibly impressive how simple and intuitive this should be. The logic... This is extremely valuable to me because since text inside InDesign irreversably ceases to be editable once Ctrl+Shift+O (Outline Txt)…

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  18. Feature Request: Fill Frame With Placeholder Text

    Illustrator features the ability to drag a text block and have it filled with placeholder text. Why doesn’t InDesign have that? In InDesign, we first have to create the text block and then choose Fill With Placeholder Text. Why not mirror what Illustrator does?

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  19. Add toggle checkbox in spell checker for "Case Sensitive" so you can turn it off when needed.

    There are so many false positives when I use spell check, because it treats everything as a sentence. So all bullet points with uppercase style, every bit of text like websites, "mm" "cm" etc. get flagged for the first letter not being capitalized. I'd like a toggle check box named "Case Sensitive" so that I can uncheck it when working in documents that don't require a check for capitalization. Because not every text box in my document houses a grammatically correct sentence. This will speed up the process for the types of documents that I work on.

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  20. 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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