When applying text wrap to an image (PSD, TIF, JPEG) the user can select a path to apply text wrap to. This allows the user to edit the path within the image using Photoshop’s path editing tools. This is much better than InDesign’s pen for editing a text wrap path. This is probably the worst path editing feature in any professional graphics program. So it’s a good this we can edit that path somewhere else.

you know what program has the best pen tool? Illustrator. It also has excellent operators for paths, such as expanding paths and merging them. I would love to be able to create and edit a contour using Illustrator’s pen and path tools.

TL;DR: There should be a way to save a path in Illustrator to use as a contour just as we can in Photoshop.

We work on a cloud server (Nasuni). There is a slight lag (up to a few minutes) when a user opens a file and the lock file is synced to the cloud server.

Occasionally, someone will be able to open a file that another user already has open. When that happens, in the document tab, the document shows as (read only). But there's nothing beyond that small text in the document tab to tell the user they are not working in a file they can save (and that someone else has the source document open).

What I would like to see is that when InDesign allows a user to open a read-only file, that they get a pop up window that informs them they are opening a read-only version, similar to the way that MS Office informs the user that the file is open elsewhere and asks them if they want to open a "read-only" version or cancel the document opening.

Extract Shapes in InDesign is in essence a good idea, but with a bad execution.
And it has been like that (not so smart, that is) since its inception as the original Shapes app or even now within the Capture app for mobile.

In stead of yielding a directly editable vector based result (with an Illustrator signature) it creates a purely black and white 'graphic' file format, which still needs a lot of handling to e.g. change the color of its vectors.

Suppose I'd like to use the traced outlines of a flower, or the extracted rough structure of bricks, in green, or brown. I can use the Capture app directly on a live photo or image, or apply the Extract Shapes feature inside of InDesign. But the result is a placed Cloud Library item, with no immediate or easy possibility to change its black/white appearance.

In essence, it's a bunch of vectors, but:
- I can't edit it easily as (a group of) vectors inside of InDesign;
- it won't let me edit it through opening the placed item in Illustrator;
- it forces me to accept the result as newly created Cloud Library item;
- but double clicking the Library item won't open it in Illustrator either.

I have to go to Illustrator, whip up a blank file, drag the Cloud Library item into it, copy the vectors to use them in InDesign, or drag them in the Cloud Library as a NEW item, to be used in other applications like InDesign (and edit them anytime in Illustrator).

Why not let this Extracted item simply be or become a vector-based, Illustrator-aware item, and let me maybe choose to paste or even replace it immediately as a group/compound of black and white vectors or to place it as a Library item but with the obvious option to immediately edit the vectors through Illustrator ?

The direct selection tool in inDesign and Illustrator is almost unusable due to it is selecting everything it touches.
It would be much better to have an option to select the points of the currently active object. I have lots of stacked objects, I want to work with one of the objects, but as soon as I draw a rectangle over the desired points, EVERYTHING is selected everywhere. This makes the tool almost unusable, because it is unable to make a normal selection, it's too greedy.
At least in Illustrator there is a thing "isolation mode" but in inDesign the other objects has to be hidden in order to work with a certain object. Of course, hiding other objects makes the editing again unusable, since there is no feedback on what happens when the edited object alters the other objects.
All other software is able to make a normal direct selection tool, but the Adobe's direct selection tool was always unusable, annoying and a pain.

Please add an export option save as webp.

Hello, I do a lot of my flyers and promotions in InDesign and have been exporting them as PNG for years. So instead of me saving the file as PNG then opening the file in Photoshop and exporting as webp, having an export webp feature in Indesign would a better streamline workflow.

I've read that webp is a better solution for web graphics Webp in 75% lossy format is a better looking and compressed file than PNG it will save loading times on my website and eblasts.

See my PS exports from a 40 Meg File using 75-100 percent quality.