Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Keyboard Shortcut for Adopting Paragraph Style Sheets
Using the text tool, click in a paragraph.
Hold Option & Shift, then click a Style Sheet formatted paragraph
The paragraph that had the text tool in it is now formatted to the [Option/Shift] clicked paragraph's Style Sheet.
This is one of the most time saving keyboard shortcuts from Quark Xpress.
This saves countless hours for anyone formatting text, albeit a tri-fold, or a 1,000 page catalog.
PS: If you're going to mention Command/Return to bring up Style Sheets, this is not time saving. The user still has to scroll the curser around to select the Paragraph/Character Style Sheet, removing…
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Autmatic High of Textframes and Tabel-Cells in steps/on grid
If a textframe has an automatic high, is dos not fit on the grid. it would be nice, when there would be the option "fit on grid" or/and "in steps of XX mm". The same probelm is in Tabels, when in one cell the text get lmultiline.
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A archive/backup save feature
I recently was working on a highly important document. InDesign crashed AT THE SAME TIME as it was in the process of saving the file. I do regular saves, but because of how it crashed I couldn't revert to an earlier saved version of my file. My new workflow is to regularly save my work and I use sequential numbers e.g. filename-v01, filenam- v02. I also sometimes will use save as and create a new file called filename-backup and then I will have to do another save as to revert the document back to filename.indd. What would suit my workflow…
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Mimic Text Box
For Example: If you have a list of people and you create a text box for each person that has a number in the text box.
Further in the document you would have a map that also has the numbers showing which person is situated where.
What would be very helpful is to have those 2 numbers (1 and 1, 2 and 2, etc.) be able to auto update the other.
So when someone is removed from the list, the person numbered 10 originally now becomes 9, which also auto updates on the map
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Merge mulitple pages together to create one page. Clients design each panel as the same size rather than having a short fold in panel
Would like to be able to combine pages into one page. Clients are sending files (such as a 3 fold brochure) where each panel is the same size, not taking into account that the fold-in panel should be shorter. Seems difficult to make a shorter page as the page seems to be off and its not an easy fix.
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Open pages of a pdf file in a single InDesign file
I always face this problem where I need to open a single page of a pdf. file to do amendment. It’s difficulty when my client doesn’t have the working file (indd). I hope adobe is allowing me to open all pages of a pdf. file in a single InDesign.
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Native AI support.
Using links within AI to keep source files small is useless if INDD is a part of the workflow because INDD will not place AI files unless PDF compatibility is turned on. Turning on PDF compatibility in AI when saving embeds all links so linking files instead of embedding them makes no difference.
Please make INDD able to place AI files that have not been saved with PDF compatibility turned on.
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Condition Sets: Show overrides when the set has a +
In every other panel, when there is a style override, resulting in a + symbol, if you hover over the symbol, it will tell you specifically what the overrides are. For example, a different type size, or font family or leading or something along those lines.
But in the Condition Sets dropdown, all you get is that there are overrides. And you can either clear them or redefine the set. But if I choose to clear the overrides, I have no way of knowing what the result will be.
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Restore the page overlay display in the print dialog.
I previous version of InDesign and the initial releases of InDesign 2017, you could see quite clearly what would print on the selected sheet size. In the latest update as of Aug 2017, if I change a sheet from letter to legal that has been printed previously, letter is still selected in the dialog, but due to the preview sheet being legal and cannot see that there is a size mismatch without going through the individual dialogs. For reference, the portion of the document that would not be within the printable region showed as a different shade of grey, whereas…
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When you highlight text - then select something else - it would be really cool if the same text was selected when you went back to it
When you highlight a block of text - then select a different element - it would be really cool if the text was highlighted when you went back to the text box and selected it.
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Bring Photoshop's Dynamic Text Feature to InDesign — Why Is InDesign Behind?
Please bring Photoshop's new Dynamic Text feature to Adobe InDesign!
Dynamic Text automatically adjusts and fits text into different frames and shapes, making typography faster and more flexible.
If Photoshop already has this technology, why in the world is InDesign — Adobe's dedicated professional layout and publishing software — still missing it?
InDesign should be leading the way in typography and text layout, not falling behind Photoshop!
As a graphic designer working on magazine layouts every single week, I constantly need to adjust headlines and text to fit perfectly within specific spaces.
Being able to automatically resize, reflow, and adapt…
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Annoying tooltips in PDF comments panel
This tooltip is completely useless and usually appears right on the top of the comment's text, so the user can't even decide that applying it will be a good thing or not (see screenshot).
Please get rid of this absolute nonsense, or at least provide an option to disable it!1 vote -
preflight: errors open expanded
Preflight: option to show errors expanded so we don't have to click on an arrow to open a category and click on another arrow to open the errors in that category and see the page of the error to go to it.
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Enable Variable Font in Composite Fonts
It's unable to select variable fonts in composite font editor menu. The problem was not mentioned in helpx session.
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Copy Editor no longer (Beta): also adjust size of text
Why has Copy Editor (Beta) been (Beta) for over five years? I use it all the time. It is easier to read than Story Editor (more readable screens). I would argue to take it out of Beta after making one and only one change, resisting the temptation to ruin it by adding too much to it. The only thing I want to be able to do is make the text a bit bigger for my old eyes. I don't need to change the font, or do any formatting. Clean and simple!
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Adobe, Don't Leave InCopy Behind: AI Development Must Prioritize Editorial Workflows, Not Just InDesign.
InCopy should not be left behind in Adobe's AI development roadmap.
It is difficult to understand why Adobe is prioritizing AI-based Text Generation tools in InDesign while InCopy, the application specifically designed for collaborative writing and text editing in professional editorial workflows, remains without these features.
InDesign is the layout tool. InCopy is the editorial writing tool. AI development should reflect this fundamental distinction.
Adobe should prioritize AI integration in InCopy, including text generation, editing, copyfitting, headline generation, and future AI-powered journalism tools.
Professional editorial teams need a clear commitment to InCopy's continued development and its role in Adobe's AI…
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Cancel required color in Character Style Options > Character Color > Tint ...
Allow users to specify a color shade (and other options) without having to select a color. This would make the character style much more versatile; a single character style could be used for paragraph styles with any color, such as bullet points in different colors depending on the brand.
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option to start a certain paragraph, for example chapter title, at a specific page
When creating a lay-out file with text for an illustrated book that covers all available pages: it would be nice to tell the title of chapter two, to start at page 13 for example and the title of chapter 3 to start at 21 and so on. In that way you can instantly see how much blank space can be filled with images and you won't have to deal with constantly reflowing of the entire text. Also that way it could possibly be easier to place images on the right pages without having to deal with anchored objects that sometimes…
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Can't PNG File on Feature Requests
Speaking of oversights, this is a design program and the feature request forum doesn't allow users to post pngs? What?
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"Clear All Alerts" in Background Tasks
The fact that you cannot clear background tasks in bulk by selecting multiple, or clear all is a waste of time and a huge oversight.
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