Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Add a way to mark pages in the Pages palette
For complex projects, with a lot of revisions, it would be nice to mark pages with a color label, to distinguish the ones that need an update, are done etc.
1 voteThis feature has been there in InDesign for a very long time.
Right-click on a Page in the Pages panel, choose Page Attributes > Color Label. Choose the color that you want from the multiple options available.Hope this helps.
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Control Font in Form Fill Box
Please allow us to set the fill-field font and style in InDesign, so that when the form exports, the data looks correct when the user enters it on their side.
Forms need to be better enabled in InDesign. Doing things manually in Acrobat becomes unwieldy and impractical from a cost standpoint if you're working at a large scale.
8 votesBased on user response, marking this as ‘Feature Already Exists’.
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capitalize first letter of each word in sentence or paragraph
button to push and automatically capitalize first letter of each word in sentence or paragraph
0 votesUnder the Type menu, you can choose Change Case > Title Case. If you wish, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it.
Hope this helps.
Adobe InDesign team
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Add Distribute Spacing Options to the Properties Panel
I have been wishing for the Distribute Spacing icons to be on the control bar for years. And it would be a welcomed addition to the new Properties Panel now as well. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, having the Distribute Spacing part of the Keyboard Shortcuts as well. I have unsuccessfully tried to make macros for this as a keypress to instantly align objects on a page (to the preset number of pts). This addition would be tremendously helpful.
2 votesDistribute Spacing icons, the checkbox to Use Spacing and the field to input custom spacing is available in the Properties panel under the Align Options (click the More Options button indicated by the 3 dots). You can also assign a Keyboard Shortcut to both Vertical Distribute Space and Horizontal Distribute Space in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) and choosing the Product Area : Object Editing.
Hope that helps.
Adobe InDesign team
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Allow to disable Zoom to slection in InDesign
This is annoying and I'd like to be able to turn it off as in Illustrator, but there is no preference that I can find.
2 votesSorry to see you facing problems with this new method of zooming in and out.
To turn this off you can go to the Preferences > GPU Performance and turn Off the option “Animated Zoom”. This should revert the zoom behaviour.
Hope this helps.
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2 votes
The progress can already be seen in the Background Tasks panel in InDesign.
We can also see the progress on the Top bar of InDesign.Thanks
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Multi-page PDF use in InDesign
When placing a multi-page PDF into an InDesign document - it would save so much time if it were possible to then scroll through the pages in that PDF and select the desired page from within InDesign.
3 votesThis feature already exists. As mentioned by David and Bastia, you can turn on the “Show Import Options” from the Place dialog. Following which a dialog which can help you chose the page that you want and how many of the pages you want to place in InDesign.
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Footnotes and problems
With footnotes all more or less normal, when they are applied in the simplest form. Problems begin when they need to be applied in a multi-column layout using "span all" headers. Footnotes begin to be ungrouped - before the headings, at the bottom of the pages, and the most incomprehensible - if the footnote is contained in the title, it will open not at the bottom of the page, but directly under the heading!
1 voteHi Viacheslav, this issue is now resolved with the latest version of InDesign. You may want to download InDesign CC 2017 or above. This issue should be resolved in it.
Please post here if it doesn’t work. Thanks
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Let me calculate in fields
With the new update, you wont let me edit posted values. for example, I calculate alot. lets say something is 3,4 but i want it to be 5,76 – I then open alfred (or a calculator) and calcutate 5,76/3,4=1,694117647 – this value I then copy and post into the scaling field. In order to increase the value, I have to move the coma from 1,694117647 to 169,4117647. In your new update you eliminated this possibility for me. I work like this very often, so you limit my effectiveness alot. Please give me back my calculating in the fileds!!!!!!!
9 votesClosing this as feature already exists, since you can already do basic calculations in the edit fields directly.
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Update Link in contextual menu please
When a linked image is changed outside InDesign, a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark appears.
How nice would it be when we could update the image via right mouse click! Currently we have to go to the Links Panels menu.2 votesNot in the context menu, but you can click on the Yellow Triangle and that would update the link.
Closing this request.
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Bring back the old "New Document" window
When clicking "New Document", the old UI was fast, simple, and just worked. I could switch between web or print, or select A3, US business card, Letter, whatever preset, in one click each, and set to work.
Now I have to go from "Recent" to "Print", then expand presets with "Show all presets", then scroll very precisely down to the correct preset - all because you've decided to flood the bloody thing with your templates. If I ever wanted to make some bland, generic stuff from user-friendly "templates" for whatever reason, I'd open Word.
1 voteSorry to see you facing issues with the new “New Document” dialog.
In InDesign there is still an option to revert to the older dialog by going to Preferences > General > Use Legacy New Document dialog.
This should make the older New Document dialog come up from then onwards.
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Share paragraph, character, and object styles to other adobe tools like illustrator
Share paragraph, character, and object styles to other Adobe tools like illustrator. So we can maintain consistency between layout and diagrams in the layout.
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New Options in the PDF-export menu and presets would be helpful
we have always to open new generated pdfs in acrobat to edith settings like
- page view options
- safety/password4 votesHi Florin and others,
The feature that you mention already exists in InDesign. Use the below links to learn about it:
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/pdf-options.html#security_options_for_pdfsHope it helps.
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Lock items
Not sure why Adobe now locks items but still can be selected; it used to be great to lock an item and remain locked until unlock. This is extremely annoying to lock items but remain able to select them while selecting other items. If it isn't broken; DON'T FIX IT!
1 voteThis is actually governed by a preference. You can go to:
“Preferences > General > Object Editing > Prevent Selection of Locked Objects”and enable the setting so that you no longer are able to select Locked Objects.
Hope it helps !!!
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Footnotes
If you have a text with two or more columns the footnotes appear in the same column. That's great but it would be much nicer if you could have the footnotes under the colums ans as wide as both/all columns together. At the moment the efford to get this is very high and I have to use additional text boxes and I loose the connection between number in the text and footnote.
2 votes
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