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  1. Stop the slowdown when Apple Time Machine kicks in

    InDesign slows down when Apple Time Machine kicks in every hour to write incremental backups to an external device.

    2 votes

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  2. Lock anchored object(s)

    When creating a complex text box with anchored objects used as decoration, it'd be great to be able to "lock" the anchored object(s) in a way that selecting all text and pasting other text wouldn't delete the anchored object(s).

    We have a "Prevent Manual Positioning" checkbox, it could be a similar "Prevent Special Character Deletion", so the anchored object(s) are locked and safe unless it is unchecked.

    Would that be possible?

    3 votes

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  3. How to release an IP address on a Mac?

    To release and renew your IP address in Mac OS X, you’ll use the Network system preferences to renew the DHCP Lease.

    1. Click the Apple button and choose System Preferences.
    2. Choose the Network icon.
    3. Select your method of connecting to the internet. In most cases it will either be Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
    4. Click Advanced.
    5. If you selected Ethernet, you should already be in the TCP/IP tab heading. If you aren’t, or if you selected Wi-Fi, click the TCP/IP tab heading.
    6. Click Renew DHCP Lease.
    7. Click OK to exit the Advanced window, and then exit System Preferences.

    A restart may be…

    1 vote

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  4. Adjust Leading Between Bullet Points

    It is super time consuming to adjust the leading between bullet points every time manually. If we could set it in the paragraph style that would be so much faster. Went mad researching online but apparently there is no way to resolve this.

    1 vote

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  5. Crop Marks

    I would like the crop marks to be cross hair style so when you cut one side you still have a mark to tell you where to cut the other. Right now once you cut one side the crop mark is completely cut off so you then have to measure where the next cut should be.

    3 votes

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  6. Please add support for natively placing HEIC format images in Indesign.

    I'm sure it's already in the works, but please add support for natively placing HEIC format images in Indesign. And how about webp images while you're at it? :)

    17 votes

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  7. Add preflight flags for specific paragraph and character styles

    The preflight panel is quite powerful and useful. I think it could be improved by adding the ability to flag specific font styles. For example, when working on a document, I use a character style to add highlight to text in need of revision. If the preflight panel could flag the text with that style applied, it would be easier to locate the items needing revision.

    2 votes

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  8. Disable support for authoring with Type 1 fonts

    I would like to request a solution to the problem with disable support for authoring with Type 1 fonts in January 2023 - https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html
    Our problem is that the company has thousands of indd documents that will reflect the change. All documents use the two complete font families and a few other fonts, but unfortunately even uploading new paragraph and text styles does not solve the persistent problem with some missing fonts.
    What would we need?A tool to preset that, for example, the missing font Frutiger CE 65 Bold will always and in every document be automatically replaced by Frutiger…

    3 votes

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  9. Can InDesign also implement functions such as "CoolSelection", especially the alignment function

    Can InDesign also implement functions such as "CoolSelection", especially the alignment function

    https://www.cool-selection.com/index.html

    1 vote

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  10. Pantone libraries for color bridge CMYK formulas do not match the published Pantone formulas.

    InDesign team advised Adobe has their own conversion. That's unacceptable. Designers need the confidence that the color libraries are in fact what they are called in CS. Any time a project goes to press and does not meet expectations, a printer can simply say - those colors are not the correct pantones and leave the designer holding the bag. Yes we can manually enter the correct values. But, unless designers experience a project go wrong, they're probably trusting Adobe libraries to be what they're called in CS. Adobe needs to update the libraries, or delete them, or simply call them…

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  11. InDesign real-time collaboration with Adobe Cloud Create

    To have the possibility of (at least two users) working at the same time on the same project, like google doc but with a synch option.

    3 votes

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  12. Please do not remove Adobe Color Theme panel from InDesign

    Please do not remove Adobe Color Theme panel from InDesign. Why are you removing features for paying customers! Firstly you removed the top menu bar with split window options and now this????

    3 votes

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  13. Dynamic Spelling Additions

    Please provide option that highlights assumed words/names versus words that are clearly spelled incorrectly. Please have them appear differently. A highlight for one and a underline for the other.

    1 vote

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  14. Dynamic Spelling Additions

    Please provide option that highlights assumed words/names versus words that are clearly spelled incorrectly. Please have them appear differently. A highlight for one and a underline for the other

    1 vote

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  15. Dynamic Spelling Additions

    Hi there,

    I've lost sleep over this one. So, I'd like to suggest a feature that would be a little more helpful in the future in regards to fixing erros in a document. Here's the problem. As, it happens regularly.

    I am provided a document with many highlighted spelling revisions. In the "DynamicSpellingChange" image dynamic spelling highlights all the families last names in a document. And just underneath Victoria Tseng Paepcke, Helen's Neice is spelled wrong.

    This is my human error. As I typed this in after sending a revised proof that was already incorrect because I was in a…

    1 vote

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  16. How do I get Adobe Flash on a Mac?

    How to install Flash Player on your Mac

    Here’s how to install Flash Player on your Mac:

    1. Click the Missing Plug-In button.
    2. Click on Download Flash.
    3. This will take you to https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ which is a legitimate site – if you ever get taken to a site that is clearly not Adobe be very cautious, it is likely you are being taken to a malicious site.
    4. Click on Download Now. The download is ~20 MB.
    5. Wait while the download is initialising.
    6. You will then see the installer appear in your Downloads folder.
    7. Double click on the installer.
    8. Click on Install Adobe…
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  17. easier navigation

    Can you please make it easier and faster to scroll and zoom? scrolling by clicking and holding the mouse wheel and zooming in and out with the mouse wheel (just like in Revit)

    2 votes

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  18. Live Collaboration Feature

    Please add a function to collaborate on one document with multiple users simultaneously. Version Control is one of the biggest tasks on our Indesign projects.

    12 votes

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  19. Content to Frame with Live Typography

    If there is a fit to frame to content tool. We should get a fit content to frame tool that works with live typography.

    I am not sure if this is a feature or not. I am also about to get more into creative coding so I would really appreciate it if you could get back to me with an explanation as to how you automate a feature like that with code.

    Thanks for reading this.

    3 votes

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  20. Batch Export indb

    I would need to have the ability to batch export a folder of books to pdf. The community scripts are not enough—there are features missing.

    Also batch export would have to have
    – auto update links in documents,
    – auto closing and saving (otherwise page numbers are wrong in shared documents).

    2 votes

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