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  1. An easy way to design a flowing

    An easy way to create a cover that wraps and flows around a magazine, without having to mess with page location or having to create the cover on a spread in a another document

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    • It would be great to have a dashboard feature within InDesign so you view all open/tabbed documents all at once in one window,

      It would be great to have a dashboard feature within InDesign so you view all open/tabbed documents all at once in one window. Ideal when you are resizing a lot of web or print ads.
      You could activate by hitting F5 function key.

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      • The KEYBOARD INCREMENTS part of Units and Increments preferences should application level not document level.

        I have to go into this panel multiple times a day to change this from 2 to 1.
        It should be application level, because it all relates to how much I expect text to move when using keyboard shortcuts. Or at least let me toggle it or override.
        I think this is like if my custom keyboard shortcuts were document level and I had to set them back up every time I got a file made by someone else.

        11 votes
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        • Major problem with image links

          When I click on an image, the link in the links-window does not show. Note: there's nothing embedded. I'm encountering this all the time and it's very very time-consuming. How can this major problem exist in a software where placing images is really what you do with it all day layouting?
          I really wonder what we pay the monthly fees for when even the most basic stuff is far from working properly.
          Why is Indesign CC detoriating compared to CS6, though we pay more money?
          What are the Updates and the cloud really for?

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          • Relative Link Paths for InDesign

            At this company we work in teams on many project simultaneously along with a massive server of shared assets. Talking to my colleagues in other companies this is quite a common thing these days. We mostly work off of InDesign for the majority of our projects. As InDesign uses linked files for composition/layout, we keep our server organized. All IDD files are worked from directly off of our server, no files are stored on any person's computer locally.

            We don't need to package everything (only rarely, for sharing to external entities) because all of the content already exists on the…

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            • Cross-reference window really too small

              I have to cross-reference dozens and dozens (not to say hundreds and hundreds) of items according to their item number. Of course, they all have a paragraph style and can be found, but not easily: the dialog box for the cross-reference is way too small, displaying only 6 items at the time and we need to scroll and scroll and scroll. On top of that, the items do not appear in alphabetical (or in this case by increasing number) but just randomly. Hair loss guaranted and nerve breaking after an hour of work on the menu too. Would it be…

              4 votes
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              • Hide pages

                Have the ability to hide pages in the indesign railway. For example, for the creation of a book, have the possibility to exclude some pages.

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                • 1 vote
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                  • GREP Customizing Live preflight Profile

                    Live Preflight is great tool of identifying and helping to prevent potential production problems, but it would be really handy if there was a possibility to create a custom GREP live preflight profile (like find/change Grep); es: check Title Case (all words are capitalized).

                    Thanks

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                    • Add the ability to Name Pages

                      We build all our digital ads in indesign. 20 pages at 20 unique sizes. When we export to jpegs, we have to go and manually name every single image with the file name.

                      It would be nice is we could tag the file dimensions to each page and have this information export as a suffix tot he original file name.

                      i.e. 0000-Client Code-'600x600', 0000-Client Code-'1280x760'

                      The pages would allow us to assign the 600x600 and the 1280x760 to the page for exporting and would carry over from document to document.

                      Please and thank you for your consideration.

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                      • Social Media Document Sizes

                        Add social media sizes as an entire emnu option (next to print/web/mobile) in the New Document settings.

                        2 votes
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                        • Ignore pasteboard

                          I would like to "ignore pasteboard" when running spell-check. Often I have extra text on the pasteboard that I don't want to delete, but I don't want to wade through while spell-checking.

                          Related to that -- it would be great if we could indicate certain frames we don't want to spell check. I do publications that have long lists of names that take forever to work through. I don't need to spell check them. Or maybe an "ignore capitalized words" function could do that.

                          These would be enormously helpful to editors! Thanks.

                          7 votes
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                          • Make smart guides work on the pasteboard

                            Smart guides are a really helpful feature but they currently do not work on the pasteboard area of a document. I frequently use the pasteboard to create design elements which I then move onto the page. This would be so much easier if we had the same guides functionality across the workspace. There doesn't seem to be any logical reason for smart guides to stop working once you move to the pasteboard.

                            5 votes
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                            • Skip Page Numbers

                              Please create the option of deleting some pages from the numbering sequence. I use tabs in my documents and being able to skip them from the automatic numbering would save me so much time.

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                              • Weird grey objects appearing on pages

                                I updated my OS today -- and I'm having major problems with InDesign. For one, it's running slowly. More distressing, however, are the strange dark grey angular objects that are appearing on pages. They appear and then disappear and then reappear. See attached screenshots. Those grey objects are NOT part of my page design. I have no idea where they are coming from. This is a file created two months ago, and this is the first time I've encountered this problem. I'm using InDesign CC.

                                3 votes
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                                • Microsoft Office Compatibility

                                  Documentation, documents and colors in Microsoft Word document come in differently.

                                  It would be much better for us to work more with Office programs.

                                  Please fix it.

                                  2 votes
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                                  • Lock Pages - Lock Pages to prevent changes when specific page design has been finalized

                                    I'm working on a 55 page Yearbook and I'm now working on a page per page basis; I complete one page and move on. Some of the pages I know FOR SURE that they are done; I would love to be able to lock them to prevent further changes. They would not be altered by master page changes or anything else; just locked and ready to go.

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                                    • Enable switching of pages in imported pdfs

                                      I wish there was a way to change the page of an imported multi-page pdf instead of going to relink the image (to the same file) and selecting the page with the import options clicked. This would save me so much time. All it would require is a page up/down button in the links palette that would only be visible when a multi page pdf was linked in the document.

                                      3 votes
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                                      • Able to insert paragraph numbers in table of contents instead of page numbers for Chapter mini-toc

                                        I have a chapter mini-toc that requires paragraph numbers instead of the default page numbering. it woiuld be really nice to be able to define variables or attributes and use them accordingly.

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                                        • Adding feature for first page number in Text Variable

                                          We work a lot in typesetting Journal which need to mention page number for each article. The 'last page number' in Text Variable are very useful and I wish to have an option for first page number in the feature. In current situation, I have to change the first page number manually if the pagination changed.
                                          Thank you.

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