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  1. Text variables with text preparation

    Text variables with text preparation:
    Text variables whose final values ​​are calculated using a script, GREP, case conversion according to user-defined schemes, and the ability to assign character styles to parts of the resulting string would be very helpful.
    Text variables can extensively use the existing serialization mechanism for paragraph and character styles, such as in running headings.

    For example, many scientific journals generate a DOI (Digital
    Object Identifier) for each scientific article, which is a URL that optionally uses a constant prefix, year of publication, issue number in the specified year, and the initial page number of the article.…

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  2. Create a checkbox to block and unblock text edition.

    I work with book layouts and sometimes will accidentally type in a letter into the already written text while formatting it. Most times I noticed and undo it, but here and then a mistake may go unnoticed and risk having that typo printed.
    It would be interesting to rely on a feature that allows me to easily disable and enable writting.
    For instance, when the box is marked, I can still edit size, color, all that, but can no longer add or delete any text.
    When it's unmarked, it works as usual.
    Another option would be a "popup" that shows…

    2 votes

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  3. Please stop Find/Change Font defaulting to Minion

    Please please please stop defaulting to Minion in Find/change fonts. I know this has been suggested, but this is a constant annoyance! Can someone at least make this intuitive and default either to the main font of the document or the font family that needs to be changed. This could be an option within the tool.

    For instance, if the offending font is, say, Adobe Caslon [nothing], it stands to reason that the user might want it to change to a valid Adobe Caslon. Not that this is certain, but it's likely. So if the suggested font is in the…

    2 votes

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  4. Layers Panel: be able to Group two Objects that are already in a Group with more than two objects

    I am creating flowcharts within InDesign as it seems to work better for me than in Illustrator. The Layers Panel allows me to do this. But I really, really wish I didn't have to do this workaround. These are my personal notes for future reference:
    Grouping for complex assemblages of objects: creating a new group
    This is needed because the Layers Panel won't allow you to group items deep in the Layers Panel, only if they're at the top level; you can't create a "Group within a Group."
    - Use Layers Panel
    - Keep two objects (doesn't matter what) off…

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  5. Online publishing and interactivity needs importvments

    1- make it responsive so it will fill in the screen
    2- add navigation (TOC) on the side
    3- better way to mange multiple publications, possibly folders..
    4- Adding custom URL, for example: Comapnyname.com/issue 01
    5- Allow publishing from another adobe ID, this would be great for teams so the publication isn't tied to one person. Maybe the publishing can be directly in the dashboard, for example: user login into the dash board, select new publication or exciting one, the click publish to get indesign file to be uploaded or opened on the computer and automatically published. this way we…

    2 votes

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  6. Restore the old position of "Save", "cancel" & "don't save" buttons

    Restore the old position of "Save", "cancel" & "don't save" buttons when closing a file or keep the same position of the buttons in all apps

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  7. Support for conversion or migration of legacy Adobe pagemaker files

    It would be nice if Adobe InDesign allows opening or showing conversion options for legacy Adobe Pagemaker PMD files

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  8. Include bit depth (8/16/32 bits per channel) as an item to be included in the Links panel (or at least in the Info panel).

    I know that bit depth is included in XMP File Info but as this panel is modal (and overly high) it is tedious to fetch this information from there. It would be convenient to have both in Links and Info panels. Possibly these panels could be updated with other useful data, too,. This is useful as HDR is becoming increasingly popular, and while PDFs can include 32-bit images, I'd imagine they are problematic in press.

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  9. Miro/Keynote-style simplified pen tool and magnetising arrows for diagrams.

    Often I have to make flow charts and diagrams for our projects, and the power of the hyper-manual pen tool and frames tends to show down the design process when compared to similar processes in Miro or Keynote. If there was a way to make a simple curved line and magnetise it to a text box that would make pushing around content 1000% faster.

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  10. Make other type of non-separable characters

    Sometimes, on dealing with math questions, we need to use measurament unities like "kg/cm²" and the character "/" wrap the line, separating a measure that is one itself. So I think it might be nice to include other non-separable characters than space and hyphen, like non-separable "!", "()", "/", ", etc. Maybe it could be even an option in the character panel...

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  11. Please fix text boxes after accepting a PDF comment

    When importing PDF comments and accepting the markup/comment, the text box becomes unresponsive until you click off and back on multiple times. This has been an unaddressed bug for years. I am working on a catalogue with over 1,000 comments, this is going to double the time it takes to work on each page. Please fix this bug

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  12. Please remove the text (GPU Preview) in the name tabs.

    They take up needed space if you have several files open. I know I can turn it off if I turn off GPU but would rather not.

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  13. Button to uniform Master page(s) margins to the whole Document margins

    In the Layout/Margins and Coloumns window menu when I have selected a Master Page, I find no way to re-uniform the margins to the original margins set for the entire document. This would be a useful feature: when I changed the format adding 4mm to my 17x24 cm to be 17x24,4cm as the standard used by Amazon kdp for paper format, I would like to preserve the preceding paging by adding 2 mm to the inferior and superior margins. I did it in the menu File/set document for the whole document, but I saw my pages did not update since…

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  14. Export Adobe PDF - General - Pages - CURRENT PAGE

    Export Adobe PDF - General - Pages - "Current Page" only.
    Each time I want to export just one page from one Indesign document I have to type the page number. There should be an option "Current Page" not only "All" and "Range"

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  15. Check GenAI Images in Preflight

    Add GenAI images to Preflight profiles. This is especially important since GenAI images default to saving to the user's computer, which is not ideal in a collaborative environment where other users will see broken links.

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  16. Color Swatch Info

    Please add the Color Swatch Info creation feature from Illustrator to InDesign. Not sure why this wasn't added along with the Illustrator one? It would be extremely useful in both apps, since InDesign is also used to create styleguides.

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  17. Add a note for paragraph and character styles

    Add a text field (doesn't need to be really long, maybe 255 characters?) to allow users to make notes about their styles!

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  18. Setting for location of new text-to-image generated images

    Can there be a setting option for the default location of new text-to-image generated images - I would like to be able to set this to the folder containing the current document rather than the user/documents folder. Thanks!

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  19. Regarding the InDesign file font pointing confusion: Wish Adobe would provide 3 options.

    Regarding the InDesign file font pointing confusion:
    Wish Adobe would provide 3 options.
    I receive InDesign files from a lot of different people when I'm actually working.
    Although they are all packaged and given to me later, they also copy all the fonts into the Documents Fonts directory.
    However, when I open them, some of the fonts in the files do not point to Documents Fonts, but to the “C:windows\fonts” directory, and the fonts have changed and become different from the previous one, and sometimes they are not even prompted.

    Some of the fonts I have on my computer may…

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  20. Non-Linear History and Undos - By page

    Much like paste, paste into, paste in place, undos should be able to have some added features. Photoshop has non-linear history, which feels confusing to undo a brush from 10 steps ago. However, InDesign would greatly benefit from current page specific history, undos, searching, text, edits etc.

    An example, my workflow for placing graphics and prepping captions in a document, is to do one task at a time page by page. I also use transform again individually to apply things like rotation to existing graphics, or frame fitting if I'm placing a graphic somewhere. When placing a graphic into an…

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