Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Prioritize Adobe Photoshop in “Edit With” context menu
Currently, InDesign relies exclusively on the operating system’s default application associations when generating the Right-click → Edit With menu for linked images. As a result, users often see irrelevant applications such as Microsoft Edge, Word, or generic photo viewers, while Adobe Photoshop (the natural and professional tool for image editing) does not appear by default.
This workflow inconsistency is counterintuitive for professional users:
InDesign is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem.
Photoshop is the industry-standard editor for images.
Most users expect seamless integration between InDesign and Photoshop, without having to manually browse for Photoshop each time.
Suggested improvement:
InDesign…1 vote -
separations preview - keyboard shortcuts to toggle one channel on and off
At the moment, the separations preview has the ability to toggle ON an individual channel by using a keyboard shortcut e.g. viewing the Cyan channel only can be done by going cmd + opt + shift + 1. Similar shortcuts can be used for the M Y & K channels as well as 5 spot channels, and all 4 process channels at once. However, they only toggle the separation ON. What would be preferable would be the ability to toggle a channel OFF.
Here is a use-case: I'm a finished artist inspecting a magazine layout from my designer. They have…
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Preflight incorrectly flagging Adobe fonts as "protected"
Adobe InDesign's preflight is displaying an incorrect message whenever Adobe fonts have been used in artwork. The specific warning is "Fonts not allowed: Protected" and then suggests to change the font to something else.
I feel that Indesign is false-flagging these fonts as they behave differently to other fonts that are usually installed or referenced on a user's machine. If anything, the preflight shouldn't warn about them at all if they are correctly loaded.1 vote -
More controls for exporting form fields to Adobe
When exporting interactive PDFs, please include functions to (1) toggle on/off the highlighting in Adobe; (2) visually manage tab order without having to close and reopen the panel for each page; and (3) enable Reader users to fill-in forms.
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Snap Frame to Letterforms
Please add an option to align text frames by the actual letterforms instead of the font’s bounding box.
InDesign currently uses the em-box and sidebearings, which means misaligned text when trying to align separate text boxes that contain different styles or type sizes. This makes precise alignment for headings/subheads really frustrating.
Illustrator already allows bounding boxes that hug glyphs more tightly, so it feels like a big gap in InDesign.
Proposed solution: Add a toggle or context menu option (e.g. “Snap Bounding Box to Text” or “Align to Glyph Edges”) so users can switch between:
Align to Frame (current behavior)
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Upgrade font selection dialog to match new Illustrator format and capabilities
The Illustrator team are upgrading the font selection dialog, so that there are now three versions: Photoshop's, InDesign's, and Illustrator's. At this point (September 2025), the Illustrator beta is the most capable and flexible.
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Share for Review with ChatGPT
Can you allow Share for Review to connect to ChatGPT. I want to share it with ChatGPT and it will proofread it and populate a bunch of edits that I can go through.
Automated grammar/spellcheck with contextual awareness
• Visual layout critique suggestions
• “Tone” analysis for editorial documents
• Accessibility flagging (e.g., contrast, font sizes)
• Multilingual proofreading (Hebrew, English, etc.)
• Brand consistency checks (“Did I use the correct logo spacing or style guide font?”)1 vote -
Support compressing images with WebP when exporting with Adobe PDF Presets
When exporting a PDF, there are several options to compress images: JPEG, JPEG 2000, ZIP. And we can choose the image quality, from Min to Max. To a degree, PDF file sizes can be reduced with these settings, but at a certain point the image quality is too poor for anything meaningful. WebP has incredibly high quality for a low file size, plus it supports an alpha channel.
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maurice.williams@optimum.com
The Save a Copy default should be to not overwrite existing copies. Instead it should append a number to the filename of the new copy, the same way MacOS handles file duplicates. Overwriting could be a checkbox in the Save a Copy dialog box.
If it worked this way, I'd have a simple method of keeping versions of my files without having to remember to rename each copy. If there's another way to do this via a script, I'm all ears! Cloud docs are unfortunately not an option for me.
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Please restore the "Paragraph styles: Edit All Export Tags" option to Keyboard Shortcuts
Possible to restore the "Paragraph styles: Edit All Export Tags" option to Keyboard Shortcuts? It is not present in InDesign 2025.
Would be so much easier than opening that command through the Paragraph Styles panel each time.
I am on a Mac.1 vote -
Advanced color options
I'd love to be able to define a custom CMYK / RGB pair in a single color swatch. There are Corporate Designs with a huge difference of the CMYK and RGB equivalents in their brand colors. So if I design a document that'll be used for viewing on screens and also printed, I have to maintain & update two versions of the document with two different sets of colors. If there's a solution to this, that'd make my day.
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QR Code Indesign - Business Tittle
Hi there, I was happy to create a QR Code in InDesign, but I encountered 2 issues:
The Title doesn't display above the name in the .vcf file. Instead displays the email which you can find later below in the email section. Can anyone help me in How can this be fixed?
There is no option to include a Logo. It would be great to have this option.
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How To Comment Anonymously On Facebook Group Post - Easy Guide 2025!
Commenting anonymously on a Facebook Group message is simple, however making sure particular elements are needed. For this, you should know that the team owner is permitted confidential individual to enter that team. Furthermore, you need to check whether you can find the comment or drop the comment there.
Below are certain steps that can give you the guidelines about it. Hence, follow these How to Comment Anonymously On Facebook Group guidelines completely. Actions to Comment Anonymously.
Most likely to the team article:
When you go to the team post and then discover the team blog post where you wish…
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I would love it if InDesign could read sidecar files - xmp.
I create digital scrapbooks. I edit my pics locally in Lightroom - they are mostly jpgs. These are usually specific copies of images I have exported from Lightroom solely for the purpose of going in the scrapbook. The local edits all have xmp files because they have been previously exported. I don't want to have to save them again - I'm talking hundreds of photos spanning years. Hours spent on edits now I have to go back and re-save / export them all. It would be fantastic if InDesign just read the xmp file and brought them in with the…
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Why Is HBO Max Not Working? Here’s a Troubleshooting Guide
Here are three main reasons why is HBO Max not working that you should look over.
Test your internet connection: You must check your internet connection before starting to watch videos.
Restart your device: Power off and then on your device back on to fix the issue.
Restart your network: Remove the plug from the router as well as the modem, and then plug them back in.After the reasons, let’s see some troubleshooting ways.
Update the app: Make sure you are updating your HBO Max application timely.
Clear cache and data: To do so, open Settings and search for…1 vote -
AI agent for remembering text content style
I often work with instruction manuals that have been poorly translated, and I need to reword them so they read clearly and professionally. A lot of the content is similar across different jobs, and I’d like to stay consistent with how I’ve written things in the past without having to dig through old files manually.
It would be great if InDesign had an AI agent that could:
Learn my style and remember my text preferences (e.g. whether I use “kg” or “KG”).
Automatically reference past projects so I don’t have to copy/paste from older manuals and allow me to ask…
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indd export to express - please create a dialogue box
indd export to express - please create a dialogue box that allows the user to select options like include bleeds, convert eps to png, etch.
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Página Principal (Maestra) aplicada automáticamente
Hola desarrolladores,
¿No sería genial que InDesign pudiera aplicar automáticamente una Página Princpal cada vez que detecte un estilo de párrafo en particular?
👉 Ejemplo: en la apertura de cada capítulo aplicamos el estilo de párrafo “Título capítulo”. Si InDesign pudiera reconocer ese estilo y asignar de forma automática la página maestra correspondiente, se ahorraría tiempo y se reducirían errores.
Esta función simplificaría muchísimo nuestro trabajo en documentos largos como libros, manuales o revistas.
Espero puedan conciderarla.
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InDesign Document Icon Previews in macOS Finder
Hi. Please, can we have InDesign files in MacOS Finder show the document preview. See attached screenshot for exactly what I mean.
I have relied on 3rd party developers over the last 10+ years (ArtView and inddPreview.app) to provide this essential feature. Unfortunately Apple has dropped support for legacy plugins (so called Quick Look generators) so inddPreview.app has stopped working.
I have over 15,000 InDesign files, and to now do what is usually a quick visual finder search is impossible with the Finder only showing the generic InDesign Document Icon. (Yes, I can use Bridge, but this is a clunky…
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InDesign Mac remember window size and position
InDesign should remember the window size and position for each file it has closed upon reopen, as well as new files, too.
Simples.
1 vote
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