Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Artifacting Master Page Items—accessibility
Within the past year, Adobe InDesign changed the way it handles items on a master page when the file is exported to accessible PDF.
We used to be able to control each MP item and designate whether it was artifacted or kept live and tagged in the PDF reading orders. BUT, in recent versions of InDesign, EVERYTHING on the MP is automatically artifacted and we have no control over this.
This fowls up workflows where some MP items must be kept live, tagged, and in the PDF's reading order, such as the project I'm working (series of fact sheets for…
25 votes -
Preferences/Units & Increments/Cursor Key Distance
Please make this feature faster to change. It is the first preference in Illustrator and I love that. Can you make it the first preference in InDesign? I change this number a lot. Right now I have to hit command k, hit the down arrow five times, tab six times, change the number and hit enter. It wasn't always this hard. It doesn't have to be this hard now. Please fix to make it easier.
6 votes -
Syncing Workspaces and Preferences
This use to be here but doesnt seem to be around anymore. When I would access Indesign on another computer using the same account info, my workspace and preferences would always carry over. In the last year or so, this doesnt happen anymore and I cant figure out why. I cant find an answer online about it either so my guess is that it was removed. Can you bring this back? Thanks!
38 votes -
Publish online error 38
I just can't publish online anymore. My login is ok, but InDesign keeps me reporting an error number 38.
2 votes -
InCopy Autoflowing Text takes forever (a long time)
i use InCopy as a notes app since 2015. the file i write on is now almost 5 mb big. and i noticed that over the years it takes longer and longer for incopy to open my document. and it is because of "Autoflowing Text" i do not even know what it is and i can't even google it. But it takes so long. what i have been doing over the years is that i just wait for it to finish. But now i am trying to find a setting in preferences to turn it off whatever it is so…
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Column rules
I think Column Rules in the Text Box dialog would be a winner. Easily add a vertical rule to left, right and mid gutter.
8 votesWe added Column Rules functionality in InDesign 2020. Please try it out.
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Add "Preview" button when creating a new color swatch
When you have and object selected and a fill or stroke color is applied to it...and you want to create a new swatch using a different color...a "Preview" box in the New Swatch dialog box would be helpful so you can see how it would look before accepting it. Currently, ID will apply your new swatch to your selected object(s) after it's created, so allowing adjustments at the same time could cut down on an extra step should you need to tweak the color.
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2 votes
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[Scripting] add all find functions to the Page class
Hi,
Could you please consider adding all find/change functions to the Page class ?
.findText / .findGrep / .findObject / .changeText / .changeGrep / etc6 votes -
BUG? Random grey bars on screen in ID CC
I'm trying out ID CC and opened an ID C6 file to test. There are grey bars that appear randomly on screen. Not in fit in window view but in any other view when zoomed. Please see attached screen shot of the grey bars.
I'm using a 13" MacBook Pro (2017) with 16GB RAM. Under preferences, Display Performance is set to default and CPU Performance shows Compatible CPU and Monitor Detected.
How to resolve this?
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Simultaneous Sharing
You should allow multiple people to work on a document simultaneously. Google docs & slides allows this with a share option, and it is free.
5 votes -
Endnotes placement needs to be adjusted
The way books work is that the notes to a chapter fall immediately after the end of the text, not on a new page. Please change this feature so that we can force the notes to a new page if that's how we want them, but they normally fall after the end of the text. Other than that, the dynamic endnotes feature will be nice when someone decides to add or delete notes.
4 votes -
Object Styles (Size and Position) Reference point
Object Styles (Size and Position) Reference point is now only possible from te left and top side of a page or margin.
Please make it possible to set from bottom and/or right side of page or margin or spread.16 votes -
Adding feature for first page number in Text Variable
We work a lot in typesetting Journal which need to mention page number for each article. The 'last page number' in Text Variable are very useful and I wish to have an option for first page number in the feature. In current situation, I have to change the first page number manually if the pagination changed.
Thank you.10 votes -
Add a feature that allows you to predefine paragraph style spacing based on which style comes before or after it
I have set up some paragraph styles in my InDesign document that have space-before and space-after set on them. Some of the styles are for headers. When the headers precede a regular paragraph, I want the space to be there, but when they precede another header, I want there to be less space. In web development, I can write rules in CSS that say things like this:
p { margin-top:10px; }
h2 + p { margin-top:5px }I am able to make the margin-top narrower on a <p> tag that is immediately preceded by an <h2> tag, but otherwise, it's…
3 votes -
Add a feature that allows you to predefine paragraph style spacing based on which style comes before or after it
I have set up some paragraph styles in my InDesign document that have space-before and space-after set on them. Some of the styles are for headers. When the headers precede a regular paragraph, I want the space to be there, but when they precede another header, I want there to be less space. In web development, I can write rules in CSS that say things like this:
p { margin-top:10px; }
h2 + p { margin-top:5px }I am able to make the margin-top narrower on a <p> tag that is immediately preceded by an <h2> tag, but otherwise, it's…
6 votes -
Customizing Export Options for Images
If an epub is exported with the “Use Existing Image for Graphic Object” option selected, crop information is not maintained on any of the exported images. If you select "Preserve Appearance from Layout", the crop is maintained, but the images are downsampled quite extensively.
There should be a way to export the images in their original resolution while also preserving the crop information, or at least having more customizable image export settings.
17 votes -
Combine more than one paragraph style for a single TOC entry
Major navigation points sometimes have headers that are split across multiple paragraph styles, not just one. This makes it impossible to correctly generate the TOC styles, since you can only select a single paragraph style per TOC/NCX entry. It would be helpful if multiple paragraph styles could have their text combined into one entry, so that they create a single navigation link in the epub. For example, "Chapter" and "One" may have two different paragraph styles, but you would want 1 NCX entry, with "Chapter One" as the text.
20 votes -
chart panel
It would be great to have a chart panel that allowed you to make charts and graphs from indesign. Something with the same capabilities as powerpoint chart/graph making tool.
11 votes -
Change rectange tool default stroke to fill
When you create a new rectangle, it is annoying that it always adds the stroke to it by default, forcing you to resize the rectangle after you have removed the stroke. Resizing is needed after removing stroke, because you first draw the rectangle to its correct size and then when you remove the stroke, it leaves a tiny gap as the stroke was aligned outside the rectangle.
Personally I need stoke rarely, but fill almost every time. I am pretty sure others find stroke to be the not-so-often used one, too.
So, why not change the default stroke to be…
2 votes
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