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InDesign Preview For Finder

There really should be an InDesign preview for Mac Finder. This should be a requirement for your software and should not be considered a feature request.

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  • Patryk commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why this is still not possible if photoshop, illustrator etc. working well?

  • Richard Walker commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This really has to be my Number 1 most frustrating issue with Indesign. Apple's QuickLook is so powerful. I have been using https://www.code-line.com/artview/ for years (makes Quicklook work for Indesign and Illustrator files). Every year when new macOS comes out I send my usual email to code-line to make sure artview works before I update. It is that important to me. One year I didn't check and it wasn't compatible.. Boy, do I regret that 4 months until the update came out.

    I can not express how deeply I hated using Bridge for that 4 months just so I could get a preview of the documents.

    I have over 11,000 indesign files so using Apple's Spotlight search with thumbnail previews and Quicklook (thanks to ArtView) is a god send.

    Please, please, please enable Thumbnails/Quicklook on macOS.
    Thanks

  • Gabriel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Were there ever any recent updates on this? I understand this might be related to Apple also, but that there's absolutely no way to have previews seems rather surprising in 2020 with all the updates and finder's robust quicklook feature.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I just got handed over many many Indesign files and no preview of them is killing me now. Please improve the preview on Mac!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please, please please! I cannot work without seeing a preview of what the document is!

  • asties commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    ID UTIL was a great 3rd party workaround Apple gave me, but it's not compatible with 10.15.1, so I'm back to sorting through generic icons to locate a needle in a haystack of thousands of files. Since upgrading to InDesign 2020 Bridge doesn't even display InDesign Thumbnails. Apple points at Adobe.

  • Alison commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree! Without it, I'm wasting hours every day. It was not a problem until OS 10, so I believe it is a Mac issue.

  • Kev commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How does this work in Bridge. I cant get previews of my Indd files.
    Thanks.

  • Noel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes - please add thumbnail-sized document previews for InDesign documents when the software is open but no files are open. This already works well in Photoshop 2019 and Illustrator 2019. It even works with some of my InDesign docs (about 1 in 5), but it would be very helpful if the previews of all INDD docs were automatic.

  • Ken Maynard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, please. While you're at it, please standardize menus, windows and shortcuts across InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop... at least a little better than they are currently.

  • George Floyd commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I added the feature request as follows:

    InDesign Preview For Finder

    There really should be an InDesign preview for Mac Finder. This should be a requirement for your software and should not be considered a feature request. Sure would be nice to have a preview of document in finder for MAC. PLEASE HELP THIS SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM WITH ALL THE SKILLED TECH AT ADOBE!!!!!!

  • Alison commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Mojave can't preview INDD files in finder...only shows a generic indd icon for the thumbnail. Other adobe apps show generic icons in finder until you click on them, and then they show a larger preview. I was able to preview at any stage in finder on older operating systems. This is a HUGE downgrade. (I worked with a tech in this, who confirmed it was a software issue and not a setting to be changed on my system.)

  • Jason Carreiro commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    OMG. Please already, Adobe! An entire creative community held ******* for decades using sketchy feature plugins for this?! Meanwhile we're all paying $50 a month for a CC subscription. WTH? Divert some of that stock price money — or just BUY one the plugins, clean it up and rebrand. What's the problem?

  • Myrna commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Bravo! and thanks for keeing diligent on this issue. It is a real pain to try to scroll thru InDesign files and not be able to quickly preview.

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