Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Option to disable the drop shadow in artboard on screen mode "Normal" of the "View" menuPlease, enable an option to disable the drop shadow on the artboard in 'Normal' screen mode in the 'View' menu (on the right side and in the footer of the artboard/sheet). The shadow makes it very difficult to achieve accurate positioning and alignment of objects. I found several people on Google complaining about the same thing, and there is no solution! The "Preview", "Bleed" and "Spacer" options do not have the shadow, but they also do not display what is on the workspace outside of the artboard/sheet. The "Normal" screen mode has to look like the artboard/sheet in Illustrator. I'm… 3 votes
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Rename a file from link panelAs we place a lot of files with default name inside an InDesign document, it would be great if we could rename a file from Links panel. 3 votes
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Add Date function to the Interactive Forms Creator in INDAdd ability to put date formatting into the IND form creator (ie MM/DD/YYYY) - its a PAIN to add this in Adobe Acrobat AFTER I create a form in IND (especially when I have to make a change to the form within InDesign, I have to go back and re-add all of the places where I used Adobe Acrobat for date fields.) 3 votes
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Export Image Metadata and Keyword contents contained within any image when exported as a .PNG fileExport Image Metadata and Keyword contents contained within any image when exported as a .PNG file. Why should the metadata and keyword contents embedded in an image file be wiped when exported as a .PNG File>. AS the need for transparent PNG files needed for AR experiences becomes more critical for use in Aero and other AR environments, the metadata should travel with any export from INDD 3 votes
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QR code phone numberPlease add the ability to add a phone number to the QR code creator. Also to the hyperlink within an Epub or pdf online. 3 votes
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preflight preferences panel flag images missing alt textin the preflight preferences panel add an option to flag images that are missing alt text 3 votes
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Export to gif from InDesign - feature requestPLEASE ALLOW EXPORT TO GIF FOR INDESIGN ANIMATIONS. I can't work out why this feature exists if we can't export it. I design google ads, web banners, EDMs etc in multiple formats with fast turnaround, in IND. But can't export a gif despite animations teasing me with all the cool things it could do. The best I can do is duplicate a page, flash something or duplicate 18 steps and export as jpg then stack & animate as frames in Photoshop (or create from scratch in Photoshop and use the comet tool, but that can be annoying to try to… 3 votes
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Disable features to speed up performance and remove bloat.I wish there was a feature where we could disable all the bloat that we don't need - I am not interested in CC Libraries, Share for Review and god knows what else. The performance of this bloated app is sub standard and something like this would help. 3 votes
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Please make it for ChromeOSThe only thing I still use computers for is mild browsing when I need a larger screen than my phone, and creating a program once a year for a convention. I don't want to invest $600+ in a laptop just to use InDesign when my Chromebook is more than enough for everything else. Please make it accessible either online or for ChromeOS. It's long overdue. 3 votes
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Ability to name pagesAbility to name pages (like artboards in illustrator), so that pages can be exported or placed with identifying information. 3 votes
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Urgent Need to retain Metadata in PNG Export for transparent Composited imagesIn Design critically needs to retain Image Metadata when exporting composite image to .PNG! This is an urgent need and no brainer! Please support! 3 votes
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Export to a Word/.doc fileWould like to be able to export a project to Word. Which typically exporting to PDF is fine, there are some clients that require us to send them Word/.doc file. I've been exporting to PDF and from there exporting to Word, but that means much of the formatting is lost. 3 votes
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Worksharing across multiple usersBeing able to have multiple people working in the same file at once similar to how Autodesk Revit is formatted - there is one "central" file and each user has a "local" file that they work on and every time they save it saves back to the "central" as one master file. There is also a safe guard against two people doing the same work where if two users were on the same page, the second person to try an edit the same object would see an error message telling them that someone else owns that item and in order… 3 votes
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Reveal in Bridge should Select File in BridgeIn macOS, Reveal in Finder not only reveals the file, but selects it in the Finder. Reveal in Bridge should work the same way, to make it easier to immediately manipulate the file (such as updating metadata). 3 votes
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Please make live captions work also on anchored images!Please make live captions work also on anchored images! And when I wait for that - tell us that it is impossible now, beceause I have tried several hours to understand why live captions don't work in my document with anchored images. When I read the user handbooks it doesn't tell me!!!! 3 votes
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Make it faster!I have 16GB of memory on my graphics card and 128 in my computer, but Indesign only utilises 2GB & 16GB respectively. I regularly create multi-page documents that need complex vectors, style sheets, table of contents, etc which I cannot create in Illustrator and would slow me down even more if I had to. I'm also using a 10-core 3.6Ghz i9 processor. I don't know how many cores InDesign uses, but I would like to know if it utilises all of my processor cores. If it doesn't, can you make it do so please. 3 votes
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Combo box and list box csv importHello, I was wondering if you all could make a system for Excel or CSV data to be imported into interactive elements like combo boxes and list boxes. Its a real pain to manually input an array of items and also not have the ability to edit them in their place. The current process requires deleting an element in the list, and retyping it and then manually type in alot of options. Imagine if having to make a combo box that included all 50 states. 3 votes
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Show/hide buttonsWe are working on interactive brochures with indesign but it is really difficult. If you have a page with a high number of buttons it is almost impossible deal with them because the window ("show/hide buttons") to control them is too small, you can't resize it and you can't change the position of the elements inside it... Could you please solve this problem? 3 votes
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Ability to track large file sizes causeIt would be a useful feature to allow users to be able to track down what in their documents is causing their file sizes to be inflated. The feature would be an audit of what is in the document and how it is directly linked to the final file size of the document. This would really help in keeping bloat in the files down to minimum, or choose alternative ways to configure files. 3 votes
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Enlarge the size of the panels; so hard for the eyes with PAO after 40 years (Illustrator and Photoshop have this option in user/interface)ADOBE TEAM - SVP aux concepteurs 
 Cela fait des années qu'à chaque màj d'inDesign j'attends qu'Adobe permette enfin (comme déjà dans Photoshop, et Illustrator) qu'Indesign autorise dans ses préférences l'AGRANDISSEMENT DES CARACTERES ET/OU DE SES PALETTES!!! Il y a des milliers de graphistes de plus de 40 ans qui se tuent les yeux avec ces palettes miniatures lorsqu'ils deviennent presbytes!!!. Quand on est graphiste, on pleure de mal à la fin de la journée. J'ai tout essayé et moi aussi pas la place de mettre un deuxième écran! j'ai essayé avec iPad Pro et Duet, mais l'affichage le plus bas…3 votes
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