Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
When entering a new feature request, please provide:
1. Description
2. Why is this valuable to you?
Thank you.
5128 results found
-
ability to package without first saving
When creating mechanicals I often need to break a large InDesign file up into multiples- this is extremely cumbersome due to a multitude of poor design decisions:
- Save-as kills file history
- No option to save pages as individual files
- and, no ability to use packaging to save into individual folders.
Please fix all of these
1 vote -
Ability to undo after save-as
Because indesign can't save individual pages as files a workaround is to delete pages and save-as, however, this inexplicable clears the undo history. Please fix this bug, and add the ability to save pages as individual files.
1 vote -
ability to open and edit pdf files
Why can indesign not open and edit pdfs like illustrator? Please add.
1 vote -
Ability to name pages and export individual pages as separate indesign files.
How is it that illustrator is a better tool for creating mechanicals in 2022?
1 vote -
Add range of pages option to Find/Change.
Add range of pages option to Find/Change. Many times I only want to Change All to a selected range of pages.
1 vote -
When placing a pdf with drag and drop...
When placing a pdf with drag and drop, rather than simply refusing to do it if the pdf being placed doesn't have a trim/crop/whatever box the same as the previously placed pdf; it would be far more polite to pop up the place options.
1 vote -
QR Code
When creating a QR code in the software: have access to the text despite opening the creation window + increase the number of fields availab
1 vote -
Data Merge preview longest record
Data merge preview should have an option to "View longest data", which would display the longest record for each data field. This way we can make sure there is no overset text which currently notifies after creating a merged PDF.
3 votes -
left to right (LTR) text option in indesign 17.2.1.
I don't find the left to right (LTR) text option in indesign 17.2.1. Do you know why? I work with multilanguages and I must have the option to change the direction of the texts (arab-english). In previous versions I had that option but now I don't. Do you know how to do now, please?
2 votes -
Option to have sharp inset padding on custom shapes (image example included)
Inset padding needs to have option to be sharp or at least able to control the rounded inset. See attached image to show the issue:
2 votes -
Space After and Space Before with negative values
Space After and Space Before with negative values, so that two different paragraph styles have less spacing than the sum of both
3 votes -
Always fill the type area
Please give us an option to always fill the type area. When setting up books like novels many customers want the type area to be filled up to the last line. But setting up the text wrap to avoid widows and orphans often leads to blank lines at the bottom of the type area. Normally we try to get around this by increasing or decreasing text spacing or scaling a bit to save or generate an additional line. It would be wonderful to have an option that brings InDesign to always try to fill the type area.
2 votes -
Add Clarivate Endnote for Indesign - Dynamic - work straight from indesign itself
No need to tell Adobe that MS Word is NOT the way to layout text and graphics, but academia is stuck using MS Word because Adobe does not have support for Endnote software. Indesign endnote features can't compete with the specific capability of the Endnote software. (Search loads of online resources for your references.
Access to full text research articles.
Access your research from the cloud.
Automatic and bulk reference updating..
Search, read & review PDFs in your library.)
PLEASE CONSIDER ADDING. Do not want it for incopy, or to import from Word, but to layout DIRECTLY in Indesign when…2 votes -
Hi, I need to include an iCal (or similar) file into an interactive inDesign newsletter
Hi,
I need to include an iCal (or similar) file into an interactive inDesign newsletter / interactive PDF / published interactive web link.
I have gone to extreme lengths to try to find where / how to do this.I send out a monthly newsletter (InDesign-interactive PDF-interactive web link) to update the audience on the coming monthly event. I need to add an iCal (or similar) file to enable them to enter it/download it into their own calendar.
I have tried setting up a specific Google calendar, putting the event details in the calendar, then go to ‘publish event’ which…
1 vote -
I want to lock the palettes so I don't dislodge them accidentally
I have a tremor in my hands and dislodge my palettes when I try to open them. They are so sensitive! My tremor doesn't impact my work in any other way but this. It is frustrating and embarrassing when I am teaching InDesign to others. I have customized my workspace and I would like to "lock" it so I can't accidentally dislodge palettes. Of course I would still need to open and close and expand them as needed.
4 votes -
It would be great if you could change the language in paragraph styles for the entire document, rather than for each style individually. Sim
It would be great if you could change the language in paragraph styles for the entire document, rather than for each style individually. Similar to the "global light" in the effects. So a checkbox "Change language in the whole document" or "Global language"!
1 vote -
Wish for a character format option to suppress the automatic hyphen
I often have to set URLs in literature references. The hyphen must not be displayed, because this would corrupt the link - as it could happen e.g. with codelistings.
The actual hyphenation should not change, only the hyphen should be suppressed.This option could consequently also be offered for paragraph formats; as well as for manual formatting, comparable to »No Break«.
All in all, the procedure with this new option would be much faster than working with the »Discretionary Line Break« at every corresponding separation point.Please consider this option of suppressing the hyphen.
Many thanks1 vote -
Enable more control panel and app bar customization
Please enable greater customization of the control panel (the top/bottom panel from the Essentials Classic workspace).
I realize you can customize which tools are included, however, it takes up too much space. Even if I reduce the number of tools to very few, the panel takes up two rows worth of space and all the tools are stacked (in two rows) at the far left of the panel. You also cannot arrange the order or position of the various tools.
I hate how much space the panels take up on the screen and that's part of the reason I like…
1 vote -
Redesign keyboard shortcut system to mimic that of After Effects
After effects uses a mappable graphic interface of a keyboard. Utilizing this interface would make reassigning keyboard shortcuts a much simpler and more intuitive endeavor. Along with allowing any command to be assignable to any keystroke/key combination it would be unbeatable. I don't understand why this isn't just the Adobe standard for all desktop applications. Can they not share? They put so much effort into syncing through the cloud but they don't put effort into matching their programs up to each other.
2 votes -
Make hover tool tips an "opt-in" instead of making us them off every time we update.
Make hover tool tips an "opt-in" instead of making pros turn them off every time we update.
3 votes
- Don't see your idea?