Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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InDesign language management needs improvement
Dear Adobe Team,
I am a long-time Adobe InDesign user and I would like to express my frustration regarding language management within the application.
Despite having Creative Cloud configured in Italian, InDesign frequently switches back to English after updates. The only reliable solution appears to be uninstalling and reinstalling the application, which is extremely time-consuming and disruptive.
Considering that InDesign is a professional product used worldwide, it is surprising that there is still no simple built-in option allowing users to switch the application interface language without reinstalling the software.
Users working in international environments often need to switch between English…
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Spread View Lock to keep it from shifting all the time.
Need to stop the spreads from moving and zooming on their own. When working on two-page spreads on a large monitor, we don't need Adobe to keep moving our spreads around creating more work. Dragging a photo from a second monitor will automatically scoot the spread over for no reason. Also hyperlinking to new page will center that page recentering the spread for no reason. Mouse scroll wheel will often accidentally scoot the spread unintentionally and would be great to lock the spread view.
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[ID-4284726] Add a German native-speaker & InDesign power user to your team to make proper and consistent translations
There were many small and big issues with incorrect translations within InDesign in the past.
Three examples:
– »tracking« was (correctly) translated to Laufweite at one occasion in InDesign but (totally wrong) to Verfolgung at a different place.
– »KI-generierte Inhalte« (wroing) and »Beschreibung von KI generiert« (correct)
– epub:type was translated to epub:Schrift instead of epub:TypPlus: German text is mostly longer than english, so it sometimes does not fit into the UI.
Consulting a German native-speaker who is also a InDesign power user would be great to make a better InDesign for the big number of German speaking…
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Pages Menu
I need to see pages reliably. The InDesign Pages menu pop-out fails. It will reappear and work properly when re-opened. It is not showing in an unexpexted place that I've found. It occurs sometime while working but I haven't identified what brings it to fail. Attachment named InDesignMenuFail-2026-06-26.jpg shows the icon is activated, but not visible as it is in the InDesignMenuOK-2026-06-26.jpg image.
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Can we add a default locking range feature for the stored 'find/replace' XML files?
I hope to lock the 'search scope'. And it can be included in the. xml file.
There have been two serious accidents, fortunately discovered, but I was still scolded by my boss.
I have a regular expression that repeats when indexing. When I store it, the range is "article", but one day I didn't pay attention. After selecting it, the range changed to "document", and as a result, some content was replaced.
Very scary.The search range is now automatically determined, but sometimes accidents may occur if not careful.
There should be a locking function that locks the default without…1 vote -
Turn off the "Free Transform Tool"
We should be able to turn off the "Free Transform Tool" so that the "Selection Tool" is the only one used. InDesign auto selects "Free Transform Tool" when I just want the "Selection Tool"!
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"Select Fully Enclosed Objects Only" Mode
Subject: Addition of a selection toggle to include only objects entirely within the marquee area.
Problem Statement:
Currently, InDesign’s selection tool (Marquee Selection) selects any object that the selection frame touches (Crossing Selection). In complex layouts with large background elements or overlapping frames, this behavior forces users to constantly lock layers or manually deselect unwanted items, significantly slowing down the workflow.Proposed Solution:
Introduce a toggle (e.g., in the Control Panel or Preferences) or a modifier key (e.g., holding Alt while dragging) that changes the selection logic. When active, only objects situated 100% inside the marquee rectangle will be selected.…
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Match Page Navigation When Comparing Two Documents Side-By-Side
It would be helpful if page navigation in one document could be matched in the other when comparing two documents side-by-side, i.e., when comparing two versions of a document.
As it is, it's necessary to navigate, i.e., page-down, in one document then click on the other document and repeat the navigation. As there's no key command to switch tabs/documents/windows either, it's even more unproductive.
Having the option to make the other document in the 2-up arrangement match navigation would improve productivity greatly.
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Implement Key Command for Switching Tabs/Documents/Windows
Implement the standard Mac Command+~ [tilde] key command for switching between InDesign tabs/documents/windows.
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Help search function to find how to do something like endnotes. (Like in google docs)
Help search function to find how to do something like endnotes. (Like in google docs)
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Improve links palette to include AI file color information
The Indesign Links palette should show the Adobe Illustrator file document color mode so that I can easily verify that art is CMYK without having to open it in Illustrator. Raster images show RGB, CMYK or Grayscale, but AI files currently give no color information. I understand this might be challenging for EPS or PDF files, but AI files have a Document Color Mode that you must be able to parse from the file.
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Turn off blue dots in menu
The blues dots adressing new functions in the menus are distracting. In the preferences menu there could be and option to turn them off.
It's rather annoying for a seasoned pro user to allways have to click the functions to turn the circle off.
However, some circles are permanent. We got blue light random places in the menu. It's bad UX with no possibilities to turn them off. Now the UI is getting cluttered in showing off whats new with dots that will not disappear.
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Add the ability to color code window tabs and allow custom tab names that are not linked to the actual file name.
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The current window tab design in InDesign can become cluttered, especially when working with multiple files that have long names. The tab size automatically adjusts to the length of the file name, which leads to a cluttered workspace, making it difficult to quickly locate and switch between files. I suggest two enhancements:The ability to color code window tabs, allowing users to visually differentiate between files at a glance.
The ability to edit the tab name independently of the file name, so users can give tabs more intuitive or customized names without altering the actual file name. This would…
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Please provide the ability to save a user preset File view
Please provide the ability to save a user preset File view. I am constantly having to click on List view and setting it to sort A - Z this is becoming cumbersome when trying to quickly navigate my files saved to web in InDesign and other CC applications. I've provided two screen shots. The first one is in grid view which is what adobe always defaults to. The second screen shot is how the view I always use that would be so awesome if it would save which view I am using so I don't have to change it every…
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Ability to save a user preset File view
Please provide the ability to save a user preset File view. I am constantly having to click on List view and setting it to sort A - Z this is becoming cumbersome when trying to quickly navigate my files saved to web in InDesign and other CC applications. I've provided two screen shots. The first one is in grid view which is what adobe always defaults to. The second screen shot is how the view I always use that would be so awesome if it would save which view I am using so I don't have to change it every…
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Make it possible to simply drag an image from Apple Photos into InDesign
Right now there's many steps required to add an image from Apple Photos to InDesign. You have to download all your images to a folder. Then you have to open the file directory from within the app and search for the image. If you're working with hundreds of images this process is very time consuming and is a real bottleneck.
What if you could just simply drag and drop? Please make this process easier and more intuitive.
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Urgent: Flatplan workflow feature request for InDesign / Bridge (critical for all magazine publishers)
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…1 vote -
Switching language resets preferences and breaks app recognition in Creative Cloud
I’m writing as an enterprise customer managing multiple Adobe Creative Cloud licenses across a multilingual team. We frequently switch UI languages and reassign machines, so consistent environment management is essential to maintaining workflow stability.
When switching InDesign’s UI language through Creative Cloud (for example, from Czech to English), all user-specific settings — workspaces, keyboard shortcuts, export presets, print settings, and scripts — are effectively lost.
This happens because each language version maintains a separate preferences folder (csCZ, enUS, etc.) with no migration or shared profile mechanism. After changing the install language, Creative Cloud also misidentifies previously installed applications…1 vote
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