Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Allow Images/PSD's to be set to overprint using attributes panel
Allow images/psd's to be set to overprint within indesign like text and fill options in the attributes panel, this will allow for complex printing requirements to be done more easily. for example if you need to overprint and image onto a white ink base that has been set to a spot colour so the printer can print white onto clear vinyl then print a CMYK image on top without the white ink base knocking out.
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Copying Links to folder fails
Oftentimes, when I try to copy links to a folder, it fails. No explanation as to why. It's happened dozens of times. Occasionally, it works. Usually not, though.
I am running InDesign 13.1 on Mac OS 10.13.6
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Indesign work files have huge file size
I am used to work with older versions of indesign, and sometimes quark. The file sizes I am used to is around 300 Mb at most. On the newer indesign I get file sizes up to almost 3 GB! All the images I use combined in the document is not even a quart of that size, and I do not embed any images. This takes up a lot of space and makes it hard to work in a network environment.
6 votes -
SVGs / AIs and Graphics as bullet points
It would be nice if paragraphs styles would allow for SVGs and / or Graphics to be used as "custom bulletpoints".
5 votes -
Show warning if you try to spellcheck checked-in text
If you spellcheck a text which is checked in no changes will be made. You only get the information that 0 changes were made. This behaviour may be logically correct, but it i user-unfriendly.
Please inform the user that he/she is spell-checking a checked-in text. Plus: Allow him/her at this point to check out the text.5 votes -
Retained overwrites
While doing heavy make-up of book texts I often need to get in a line or to space out a line. Doing this without having countless paragraph overrides (with the danger that by clicking "clear override" or applying a script everything would be lost) the only possibility so far is to make numerous paragraph copies, e.g., "body", "body+5", "body+10", "body-5" etc.
A possible solution could be to have the paragraph style definition with some kind of "ranges", maybe "Tracking: 0 - +30" with a default value "0". And the actual value could be selected in a panel. Hopefully someone has…1 vote -
Multiple text cursors in a text box.
- Multiple text cursors in a text box.
- To place a cursor anywhere in a text box like Adobe Brackets for simultaneous editing of text in specific areas.
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macOS 'Dark Mode' support
Load/Save dialogues and title bar don't honour 'dark mode' in the latest Mac OS
• Open/Save dialogues (Illustrator/Photoshop/Indesign/AcobatDC)
• Title bar (Illustrator/Indesign/AcobatDC)Haven't tried any other apps yet...
32 votesAvailable in Prerelease Builds ·
AdminRavi Kiran
(Senior Lead Quality Engineer, Adobe InDesign)
responded
macOS Dark Mode is now supported in InDesign.
It is available in the latest PreRelease build of InDesign 2025.
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Adobe InDesign team
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Make Typekit fonts usable offline outside of Cloud app, just check activation sometimes
It's annoying that I have to close the applications (Illustrator, inDesign, Photoshop) since the Typekit fonts aren't available if I open them before the Cloud application is up and running. I get to work and open the programs right away and forget to make sure the Cloud app is already open. Forcing me to close all 3 and reopen all 3, waste of time..
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Show Ink Manager settings in the Swatches panel
Show Ink Manager settings in the Swatches panel
Whenever we use Ink Manager to convert spot colors to process colors (1) or define one spot color as alias for another (2), this should be visualized in the Swatches panel so whoever edits the INDD can immediately spot (ha!) that changes have been made and fix them if needed (instead of shedding tears over inexplicable output results).
(1) Replace the spot icon by a “ink-managed” process icon that can be distinguished from the “native” process icon.
(2) Replace the spot icon by the alias icon from the Ink Manager dialog.
Make…5 votes -
Character style in brush form so I can just set it and highlight parts of text and the brush does the rest.
Character style in brush form so I can just set it and highlight parts of text and the brush does the rest.
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CC Library Keyboard Shortcuts, or TextExpander feature
CC Libraries exist to make it fast to add pre-built content to an INDD. Text does not have a quick way of placing inline - you must right click and click place content. Annoying when doing hundreds of times.
Two solutions:
1. Right clicking on a library element should have "keyboard shortcut" adjacent "rename". When a keyboard shortcut is added, show that shortcut on the right side of the element in the CC Library panel.
2. Add 'text expander' feature. Right click on a text library element and have option for 'expand text on...' where a unique phrase can be…5 votes -
editable text from illustrator
Make editable text from illustrator already. Jeez.
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Make Preflight more intelligent/efficient about refreshing itself
It seems like whenever one single linked file is edited, preflight starts its entire 'checking' process over from scratch every time. This is extremely slow and inefficient.
Say I have a document containing 200 linked psd files. I edit one of those in photoshop and then update the link in indesign. Preflight then proceeds to check/process all 200 links over again. Can it be made more intelligent so that it only re-checks what has actually changed?
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Ability to assign a shortcut to [None] in the Character Styles window.
Because you sometimes want to REMOVE a character style and it would be very beneficial to be able to use a shortcut for that as well.
98 votes -
HKS Z 21 Field is missing
Could you please add this colourfield or something simular?
Because there seems like no alternative for this special colour.
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Paragraph Borders and Shading - Keep in Frame
I use a P Style for a Tip paragraph in my Quick Reference Cards (QRC). The Tip is typically one or two sentences, and has a light shading (light grey) with a top and bottom blue border. I use a similar style for Warnings, except I change the borders to red. Occasionally, the Tip/Warning falls at the top or bottom of a column, and the Border, and sometimes the Shading, lands outside the text frame.
Can we have a "Keep in Frame" for Borders and Shading, similar to the one for P Rules? David Blatner had a great workaround when…
39 votes -
Paragraph Rule Establish Length
Under Paragraph Rules, we have the option to increase the indent from the left or the right, it would be nice to just dictate overall length of size
7 votes -
Package items included on pasteboard
Basically our agency puts together loads of creative presentations in inDesign.
A great way to do this is having mock-ups on main page, but build an associated inDesign editable graphic and we normally put that to the side so if we need to make changes we can do on fly and get the editable file right which we can then very quickly update a PSD smart object mock-up for example. So we can keep all workings in one ID doc and it is easy to manage.
But if you package work it doesn’t include pasteboard links and I can get…
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Take into account alternate layouts when generating / updating tables of contents
Create a (say) 20-page A4 document with a table of contents (sections, subsections and whatever).
Then create an alternate layout of this document, for an A5 paper size. This should make the A5 version about 40 pages long.We can create and update the table of contents for the A4 layout, but we cannot specify a 2nd ToC for the A5 layout, that takes into account the page numbers, as they are adjusted in the alternate layout(s). If we link the A4 ToC to the A5 layout, its contents will display the pagination of the A4 version.
In my current…
8 votes
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