Hi Adobe team,
We’re honestly desperate at this point.

We’ve been trying for weeks to reach someone from Adobe who could even acknowledge this topic — through enterprise support, admin console, chat agents, even our reseller — and it’s absolutely impossible.

It’s insane that even as an enterprise customer, we can’t reach a real product contact to talk about something so fundamental.
We’re part of BurdaMedia International (Czech Republic), publishers of ELLE and ELLE Decoration.

But this isn’t just our pain — it’s something every single magazine publisher still using InDesign is facing.
There’s simply no native way to plan or visualize flatplans, page structures, ad positions, or collaborative magazine layouts inside Creative Cloud.

Legacy systems like WoodWing or K4 are outdated, overpriced, and don’t fit today’s workflows — yet Adobe still doesn’t offer even a lightweight in-house alternative.

Here’s what we’re asking for:
→ A Bridge-based flatplan module (or workspace) that can visualize InDesign pages as individual, draggable objects.
→ The ability to reorder pages, assign colors or labels (editorial, ad, marketing), and link InDesign or PDF files to each position.
→ Automatic renumbering in InDesign when page order changes.
→ Optional PDF preflight and simple export for final issues.

It’s a technically simple concept — no new platform, just a smarter integration between Bridge and InDesign — but it would solve a huge, decades-old workflow gap.
This isn’t just about convenience for publishers.
It’s about Adobe’s relevance in real production.
If tools like Affinity Publisher or Apple (after acquiring Pixelmator) start offering integrated flatplan collaboration, many teams will start moving away from InDesign.

We love Adobe, and we’ve built our entire production workflow around it — but right now, we’re forced to sketch magazine layouts in Excel.
That’s… absurd in 2025.

Please — could someone from the InDesign or Publishing Solutions product team contact us so we can share our technical brief and prototype concept?

We’re ready to collaborate and show how easily this could be implemented.

Daniel Koehler
Production Workflow Lead
BurdaMedia Extra CZ / Burda International
📧 daniel.koehler@burda.cz