Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Incompatibility with Mac OS High Sierra
I just updated my Mac OS to Sierra 10.13.2. I can no longer use my pre-2017 InDesign. The program opens but none of the console works and it gets 'stuck' so that I cannot even ask the program to close once opened. Is there a fix? Thanks.
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Bold & Underline Styles.
CMD+B and CMD+U to cycle through Bold or Underline Styles through a popup window would be handy.
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Media Controller Preview
Something that shows the user what the controllers they are selecting for a video looks like. I change the options and try the Interactivity preview but nothing changes. Reading a description on the help page of what the items in the list mean isn't helping either. A better naming system and a visual preview would be way better here.
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Stroke start/end arrowheads - In between Triangle and TriangleWide
Please add an arrowhead style that is an equilateral triangle.
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Support format style merging
When working on a document based on some template, it is often more convenient to alter paragraph styles (object and character styles, equally) in the current document, creating the need to check and evolve the template afterwards.
Luckily InDesign has the function to load styles from another document. This dialogue has some flaws and should be improved:
- Selection: apart from "select all" and "deselect all", there should also be the option to "select modified", that is, only those styles which differ
- definition display:
* these displays are very small and do dot scale with the rest of the…3 votes -
when I export Arabic text file to epub3 fixed layout, all the punctuation marks coming at the beginning of the line rather than at the end.
when I export Arabic text file to epub3 fixed layout, all the punctuation marks coming at the beginning of the line rather than at the end.
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Kerning Issues Between Text and Tabs
A detail about kerning/tracking that seems to have slipped through the cracks: how text and tabs interact with each other in Indesign.
I noticed this while doing fillable forms with underscores. The space after the type wildly varies in distance, and from what I can tell, there is no way to automatically or manually adjust it. I tried switching kerning between manual and optical, with no results. I tried manually adjusting the kerning, which doesn't affect it either. The spacing seems to be related to the length of the text.
A visual example:
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Countdown page numbering
I needed to start a book with the highest number to the lower, but it's not possible to start a page from 200 until 1 instead of 1 to 200.
Could a nice function also for double language book with right reading languages and left reading languages.3 votes -
For documents that are "name-heavy", it would be great to be able to have the option within spellcheck to skip a page or skip a text box!
For documents that are "name-heavy", it would be great to be able to have the option within spellcheck to skip a page or skip a text box!
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improving master page functionality
It would be super helpful if i could create a master page with regions of text and then apply that to pages. Then, those regions could be edited in the page with the correct information, but if i needed to edit the placement of the stuff, i could change it in the master and it would sync to the page.
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Enough blue, pop-up bubbles — It’s interruption and torture.
What’s much more useful is a tour of new features in each release. This could be standalone / outside the app. Thanks!
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other default setting for layer options when placing PDFs
When placing a PDF, default setting for actualization is "keep user-defined visability ...".
Once switched to "keep PDFs visability ...", in the next document it is again on default "keep user-defined visability ..."
I would prefer to have "keep PDFs visability ..." as a stable default for placing.Example:
1. I added a new Layer to a PDF, but set it invisable by mistake.
2. On actualization, I accepted "new layers visible as in PDF".
3. Later, I remarked my mistake an repaired the PDF.
4. On actualization again, nothing got better ...I would prefer to know the PDFs…
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3 votes
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Default search folders
I have to share documents with translators who having a different folder structure on the PC. They of course have the same linked files, so when opening the document, they relink all files, then save and send me. I would then have to relink again every time when opening the document for a check, because Indesign only remembers linked files folders as long as it is running. My wish: an option to permanently add folders to primarily look in for linked files.
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Recent Pane improvements
I would like to suggest some improvements for the "Recent" pane across all Adobe programs.
Right click the preview thumbnail, and have the option to select "Reveal in explorer"
When having one or more files open, be able to return to view this "Recent" pane (in a tab perhaps)
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Allow Linking of Conditional Text and Object Layers
Why not allow linking of conditional text conditions to an objects layers or layer comps. This could be done through the object layer options dialog, where you could have the ability to connect existing conditions to an object, by having a tick box to enable the functionality for that specific object. You could then when it is ticked link the conditions to specific object layers or comps in the object layers dialog box.
I appreciate the name conditional text clearly implies it's text, but it would save time in some cases to have image layers hide and show automatically when…
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Option to merge from PDF page other than page 1
It would be great t have the option to use a pdf in a merge and be able to specify which page of the pdf is to be used, instead of it just being the first page all the time.
Instead of just specifying filename in the mergefield, could we specify page number as well?
eg something like:
c:\docs\mypdf.pdf:2
to use page 2 of a pdf.
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Preview Checkbox in new document
Hi, Can you add the preview checkbox in the new document dialog box without going instead to preference and check the legacy dialog box.
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Separate text into different boxes in one stroke
We've all been handed a huge text file and asked to create a new document. From the sub par word processing program it came from, we begin the mind numbing process of cut/copy/paste.
You can cut headers, sub headers etc. and paste them into their own text box. But when you have to do it five hundred times, it's awful. And no, reflowable text is not the solution.
What if you could drag a selection around the text you needed to be separate and it would "snap" into it's all new, very own text frame? eh?
pretty please?
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3 votes
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