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  1. Book numbering options in one panel

    Please streamline book numbering options into one panel. It's beyond aggravating to go from Layout -> Numbering & Section Options, then to the Book Panel -> Update Numbering and fumble around with that until you get it right. If the suggested panel had a "Preview" box as well, you could preview your changes until you get your desired result.

    2 votes

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  2. Text "before" and "after" user-definded variables

    Text variables
    For "User defined text" also allow to define "Text before..." and "Text after..." as it is possible for the predefined variables (like "Output date").
    We often need pre- and post-text for self-defined variables

    2 votes

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  3. Table of contents: control space between entry and number

    Add a feature to control the amount of space between the entry and number in a table of contents.

    At present, soft returns have to be added manually to prevent entry text coming too close to the number. This has to be redone every time the table of contents is updated. (Non-breaking spaces can be used in some instances but they do not always solve the problem.)

    2 votes

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  4. Phonetic guide

    Hello, please add an option for phonetic guides like in Word. This will help make textbooks and learning materials for languages that don't use the Latin script, such as Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, and so on. Thank you.

    2 votes

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  5. Option to Restart Number Lists by Default

    As it says on the tin, an option is needed to restart number lists by default. There shouldn't have to be an extra step to restart numbering for every single list and there shouldn't be any need for the convoluted workarounds that there are out there.

    2 votes

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  6. left to right (LTR) text option in indesign 17.2.1.

    I don't find the left to right (LTR) text option in indesign 17.2.1. Do you know why? I work with multilanguages and I must have the option to change the direction of the texts (arab-english). In previous versions I had that option but now I don't. Do you know how to do now, please?

    2 votes

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  7. Always fill the type area

    Please give us an option to always fill the type area. When setting up books like novels many customers want the type area to be filled up to the last line. But setting up the text wrap to avoid widows and orphans often leads to blank lines at the bottom of the type area. Normally we try to get around this by increasing or decreasing text spacing or scaling a bit to save or generate an additional line. It would be wonderful to have an option that brings InDesign to always try to fill the type area.

    2 votes

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  8. Request for adding Mongolian language spelling dictionary

    Hello,

    Of course, there are many users from Mongolia, but we can't use our native language spelling dictionary in Indesign. And I want to add a Mongolian language spelling dictionary to Indesign. I've attached the Hunspell dictionary file with the hyphenation file. Hope every Mongolian will be using a Mongolian spelling dictionary within Indesign soon. Thank you!

    You can find the Hunspell dictionary from these links:
    https://zuv.bichig.dev/, https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/1980, https://github.com/bataak/dict-mn

    2 votes

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  9. Smart Object typography in Photoshop Be Editable in InDesign

    I work in sports so I have create schedule graphics. I love to format the text in InDesign and paste it into Photoshop as a smart object to build out my digital graphics but when I need to edit that smart object it kicks me into Illustrator to edit the text. I would love to be able to edit the smart object typography in InDesign where it was originally created.

    (My work around has been to edit the text in InDesign and just re-paste into Illustrator.)

    2 votes

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  10. Adjust text in frame to the right

    Text tool. If you have too much text for a text frame with a small amount of text (e.g. 1-10 words), the text frame should enlarge to the right instead of downwards by using the keyboard command cmd+alt+c.
    It would improve the workflow significantly, since you don't always have to drag the text box "right" again afterwards.

    2 votes

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  11. Layered Fonts

    Please do provide a tool to implement layered fonts. The tool would need to:
    - be able to automatically superimpose different layers of a font with different styles (color etc.) in the same place, or in a slight interval to create a shadow-effect
    - be applicable to initials (as this is a very common use for layered fonts)

    2 votes

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  12. Change colour of text dependent on immediate background colour

    Some of my jobs involve text being placed on a background image or company logo. Often,, this background has wildly contrasting colours/shades and the text immediately in front of it becomes invisible. I then change the colour of that text from, say, black to white, to render it visible again.

    Unfortunately, if there are then any amendments to the text, the white text now lies over a light background and becomes invisible. Currently, I just go over the text with a beady eye and make the amendments accordingly.

    Is it, would it, be possible for there to be a script,…

    2 votes

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  13. Tracking: highlight tight and loose lines with two colours

    I typeset books and it is often useful to see at a glance where text can be tweaked in order to make or lose a line. Having two colours would make it much quicker and easier to identify affected lines. Being able to modify the colours would be a bonus.

    2 votes

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  14. Option to hide fonts

    One thing that I would love to see is a hide button that allows you to hide rarely used and/or system fonts from the main list. Having to scroll through a large list of often useless or irrelevant fonts, to find the ones that might work for your project tends to be frustrating and inefficient, especially in an application meant for text and document layout. Having an option to reduce the amount of visual clutter, would make for a better user experience and more effective workflows. The document is a quick mockup I made to show what it might look…

    2 votes

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  15. Update the dictionary in all languages

    Hi! Make updates to the the dictionaries part of the updates that come down from creative cloud. Or make it easier for a user to update their own dictionary. Words like coronavirus should be included, these are easily spell checked with Google but not in InDesign.

    2 votes

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  16. Sorting alphabetically (A-Z) and all other languages

    This is very important feature for any application deal with text and books.
    i think i don't need to mention that other applications like Ms word have that option.

    it is really important that InDesign should have sorting option for paragraphs/text and tables.

    it is disappointed that in that time still sorting options is not exist in InDesign.

    2 votes

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  17. Show/Hide global baseline and textframe baseline individually

    It would be nice to be able to show/hide the global baseline and textframe baseline individually. At the moment they are turned on and off together which can be pretty hard to navigate.

    2 votes

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  18. Full document (all text frames) word count

    Instead of having to thread everything together (UGH), just need a simple, whole document word count feature

    2 votes

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  19. Allow option to specify pages to spell check!

    Give us an option to specify what pages to spell check, or spell check entire document.

    Sometimes when you have a long document and you've only made revisions to one page, you don't want to have to spell check the entire document all over again. Think annual reports!

    2 votes

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  20. word cloud

    implement a word cloud creation tool would be much helpful

    2 votes

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