Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Properties panel: make “Apply to Text” the default for text frames
When I select a text frame, I find that most of the time I want to change the colour of the text, not the frame. But InDesign defaults to “Apply to Frame“ every single time, which is particularly cumbersome in the properties panel, where the option is now a menu.
I believe it would be much more useful to have the default either be "Apply to Text“ whenever you choose a text frame or at least remember your preference.
(I am aware that you can double click to select the text, then select all, then the properties panel applies the…
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Book synchronize feature does not synchronize color groups
Color groups are not synchronized via the book feature. I'm happy that the colors inside the group are not lost but placed "normal" on the first level of the color panel.
But to have all book files with the same order even at the color panel would be great. So please make synchronizing work correctly even at this tiny thing.
Thanks to Heike Burch for discovering this issue.
27 votes -
Line spacing measured in millimeters
When working with grid systems, measuring the line spacing in millimeters would be practical—similar to the default setting for strokes.
3 votes -
Editing full preview like in presentation view
Would like to a feature to edit atlest movement object in full preview like presentation view. So one can adjust the layout such as delete, shift any object to see the layout.
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Provide a resolution option for indesign
When I export an image as a jpeg in InDesign and select anything above 72 dpi, I end up with a larger jpeg. This seems to correlate with the ppi, so my original 1612 x 640 would end up as 2149 x 853 with 96 dpi, 8463 x 3360 with 150 dpi and so on. It is very inconvenient because I need my files to be exactly the same size as when I started, but with a higher resolution than 72ppi. It would be awesome and save me time if you could provide an resolution option for indesign that we…
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Align round a circle
There shod be an option (in all of the Adobe programs) to have align around a circle and to be able to distribute the objects evenly around a circle (or other shape for that matter)
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Under "help" there shod be an option to click on a question mark, and then to click anywhere with it
Under "help" there shod be an option to click on a question mark, and then to click anywhere within the inDesign program, and it will give you a basic explanation of that feature/tool and what it is used for.
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It is essential for non-fiction book authors to have the endnote indices restarted with each chapter (section).
InDesign must allow endnotes to be continuous OR restarted for each chapter. The latter option is not possible at the moment without splitting a book draft into separate chapter files. This is both very time consuming and prone to error. Authors of documents with thousands of citations cannot realistically use the continuous endnote numbering approach.
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Multiple strokes like Illustrator has
InDesign should have the ability to have more than one stroke on an object the way that Illustrator does. I've wanted this multiple times and now it's come up again with a design that uses a filled frame behind a headline and also a stroke inside the bounding box of the filled frame. To make this design efficient in production, the ideal is for this to be one object with the type in the center, the stroke a controlled distance away and another stroke that is the same color as the fill outside the first stroke. See attached screen shot.…
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Add the ability to data merge text files like images
I am data merging a document that includes both images and tables of information in adobe tagged text files. Currently, the @ symbol is used for image fields, would it be possible for the # or & to be used for text files?
3 votes -
deploy InDesign/InCopy preferences company wide
set centrally ("Cloud Services") InDesign/InCopy preferences for all employees or usergroups in a company
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Assemble book for printing
I use French InDesign 2020 in Windows 10 environment, mainly for book editing.
There is an annoying bug when I assemble the book for printing. InDesign asks for a location to assemble the different files, incorporate the fonts, images, etc. It proposes as folder name "Dossier Book name" (Dossier meaning Folder in French). It is not possible to save in an existing folder (created for instance by a former assembly), the programme asking for a non-existing folder. Unfortunately, it is not possible to delete the pre-existing folder, because Windows considers that this folder is being opened in the programme EVEN…1 vote -
InDesign Preflight should be pressready (default)
InDesign Preflight should be pressready (default)
Bleed 3 mm, no low-resolution images,
no RGB-swatches, no missing links or fonts,
no missing glyphs.
That would be great.9 votes -
Video quality in PDFs should be better
Videos shouldn't be integrated as Flash in 2020. There are better standards from HTML5.
2 votes -
Swatches palet should ALWAYS 'Add Unnamed Colors'
Swatches palet should ALWAYS 'Add Unnamed Colors'!
especially if RGB or SPOT-colours
regarding printready files6 votes -
1 vote
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Allow border styles of top, right, bottom, left to vary
It would be great if you could have different border style for every of the four borders. In CSS it has been easy to specify different colours or stroke widths for ages. It would be great if you could do this in InDesign.
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Negative value for object style position
When placing a frame in the bleed area (-3mm), inDesign won't allow me to set the position of an image frame to -3mm, it has to be a positive value. Meaning I have to position image frames on the left-hand page manually, rendering the feature useless on the left hand page of each spread... If you can set the value to a negative amount in the regular coordinates palette why wouldn't this be mirrored in the styles?
16 votes -
Style mapping.
It would be great to be able to see a tree of styles to easily see which ones are based on which without having to open each style. Picking up a file from a messy designer and tidying up the styles can take hours without this feature.
4 votes -
Indesign Thumbnails for explorer WIN10
Where is this feature? Why isn´t Adobe delivering this simple feature as other software? This would be a great feature for user expierience and I guess, it would be that hard to fix.
When I ask Adobe for this feature, they recommend me to use a third party app - I don´t want a third party app, I expect this from Adobe for a software that I am paying a lot of money!
So, please - anybody who is in charge, talk about this feature at your next meeting.
Dirk
4 votes
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