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  1. Embed InDesign's Acrobat export settings in pdfs so they can be retrieved by other users.

    PDFs are often delivered in artwork packages with no indication of what settings were used to make them.

    Files are then updated, localised, re-worked by other users (I specialise in localisation DTP) and then PDFs are required with the same settings.

    If these aren't saved in the InDesign file then it would be great to be able to "import" the settings from a PDF that has been made with this feature enabled. It would save having to revert to clients who themselves may not know the settings used by the original designers / printers.

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  2. I would like to know if Adobe thinks of optimizing the management of tables in InDesign for the accessibility of PDF files

    When will the automatic markup of tables (gender in table styles) like we do for paragraph styles (H1, H2, H3, BlockQuotes, List)?
    <TR> row
    <TH> header
    <TD> data
    Example when you end up with one or more vertical TH "headers" so you don't have to manage that in the PDF

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  3. We need a way to convert PagerMaker files to ID files

    I know that I am not the only person, that there are many of us, who were loyal Pagemaker users for many years and now have a big archive of PM files. Adobe pages says that they can be opened with ID CS6, but that doesn't work for me, my CS6 gives me a message that I need a plug-in, but that plug-in isn't available anywhere. I know I'm not the only person who has asked for a plug-in to convert PM files. Please do something about this. Adobe is really failing us.

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  4. option to have PDF Export to output PDF using page number as prefix

    Printer needs files with prefix page number. The export make no sense with it being at the end when you have different file names and won't allow the combining of multiple files with different names that I use to proof my magazines. By the way, scripts are not working using Monterey OS any more. What a disappointment.

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  5. The book workflow is unimaginably bad, and it's because of how styles are managed

    After trying out the book workflow for 6 months, designing 3 books with it -
    I've concluded that it's a completely broken feature, that makes my work 160% more time consuming.

    I'm literally in the process of moving all documents of a current book I'm working on into a single document, because it became so frustrating.

    So the main problem (among many others), which has already been posted here and seemingly ignored - is the entire way that styles and parent (master) pages are managed in the book workflow.

    My workflow, and I can't imagine it being that different for…

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  6. Allow object styles to be applies to all threaded text boxes

    I have a couple of threaded text frames. I would like them to all have the same object style, which also includes a paragraph style in them.

    As of now, indesign officially states that threaded text boxes can't share these settings. I can see why this makes sense in certain conflicting situations, but it is definitely required in many situations (just as I'm really needing it now).

    I think it's fair for indesign to at least have it as an option that can be turned on or off - the option to apply object styles (e.g. paragraph styles) across threaded…

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  7. Convert all Live Captions to Static Captions

    I would like the ability to convert all Live Captions to Static Captions. Currently, you can only do one at a time by selecting the caption, and selecting the menu item to convert (or create a hotkey).

    When working with a long document with a lot of images, you can't use character styles with Live Captions. But once you convert to static captions, paragraph styles can then call character styles (nested, GREP). If you have a long book or catalog with a lot of images that rely on up-to-date captions, but then require character styles (for example, an image from…

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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. Easy Setup for Printers Spreads without using Print Booklet feature

    I would like to see an option within the Document Setup when creating a new document to arrange spreads in readers spreads or printers spreads. This way, I would not spend two hours attempting to manually arrange my pages into the correct spreads.

    For example: I have created a new document with 12 pages (not facing pages). However, in order to see the pages in printers spreads, I need to go about individually changing page settings for each page within the document. I want the back cover (p.12) and front cover (p1) to sit side by side so that in…

    2 votes

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  10. hyperlink destination

    There should be a panel where I can see all of the hyperlink destinations I've created. And they should be clickable to test whether they are still working properly. Hyperlinks show up in the hyperlinks panel, but in-document destinations (used for cross references) cannot be tested without exporting to a test document. Nor can I see a list of them outside the drop-down within the xrefs panel.

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  11. 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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  12. Thin space export to ePub

    Thin/hair/em/en spaces are not exporting to ePub.
    Please allow the creation of character styles for irregular spacings that will also export to ePub

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  13. Double Click Parent page name to open options

    Double Click Parent page name to open options

    Because that's what the user is used to from other apps.

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  14. Exclude Parameters from Paragraph Styles

    A bit CSS-like.
    E.g. exclude Character Color from a Paragraph Style, to allow changing all but color by editing the style.
    Comes in handy when text is colored manually per story, but the typeface has to be changed for all stories.

    2 votes

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  15. 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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  16. Book Sections

    It should be possible to define a section in a book that spans multiple documents. At the moment, I have to redefine a section at the start of each document.

    There's no easy way to create a book of essays, grouped into sections and rearrange the essays and sections at will, renaming as I go, without huge time investments.

    2 votes

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  17. Name of the image near the link icon

    Near the link icon, add the option "show/hide file name (and or extension)".

    This will help when you have a catalog with 1200 products and in order to get the SKU and Color to fill the caption, you must click the image, then return to the text tool.

    I know there's ways to auto input the name of the image. But sometimes the image contain other Information not important.

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  18. 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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  19. Button "back to starting point" in search and replace window

    When working through a document you need to search and replace words and other if you recognize a typo error, another word needed or anything else. But if you "search and replace" forward and you find a hit somewhere further ahead or back there is no button to jump back from where you started your search.
    Then you need to remember exactaly and search by scrolling where you started.
    A button "back to starting point" would eleminate these useless search.

    2 votes

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  20. Add submenu listed to Paragraph settings

    When editing a Paragraph Style, we can see all options in the left column of the panel. Why no ad that to the Paragraph panel als well

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