Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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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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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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Indesign Claude, ChatGpt, Gemni, Integration
- Claude, ChatGpt, Gemni, Integration so users can convert a word doc to a PDF with a prompt or AI Agent
- Claude, ChatGpt, Gemni, Integration so users can make copy updates to PDF with a prompt or AI Agent
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Add draft # or suffix to Share for Review
Just as title says.
I'm always re-labelling the share for review file manually, but it'd be nice if there was a different option for version control.
Say the ability to add a suffix that was a drop down option of letter/number like we have when we go to export things and then the ability to also set it to increase automatically or set to change it manually. This field would just add the suffix to the Title name OR be used as a infographic somewhere in the reviewer to show the draft count...
Could be a little bit of a…
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Sync Font Favorites between InDesign and Illustrator
Sync Font Favorites between InDesign and Illustrator and keep them safe between updates. This is a very important feature for designers since it takes time to curate a list of favorite fonts and to repete that in other Adobe apps is cumbersome and time consuming and prone do diferences between them.
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Indesign .RTF or .DOCX exporter
If Adobe are so keen to help with sharing and workflows why have they failed to add a decent way of exporting to Rich text Files or .DOCX from Indesign?
I propose an adobe RTF /DOCX exporter that ships with Indesign.
Currently we have to rely on a third party product or a script to do this. It seems ridiculous to have to pay for software that is keen for AI to fill in the gaps but miss out on something as basic as this.
If anyone who has to re-assemble a document format PDF export knows what a nightmare…
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Turn off the "Free Transform Tool"
We should be able to turn off the "Free Transform Tool" so that the "Selection Tool" is the only one used. InDesign auto selects "Free Transform Tool" when I just want the "Selection Tool"!
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Easier rounded corners etc. with shapes
I wish it would be just as easy to make rounded corners in indesign as it is in adobe illustrator. I wish you would get the circles in the corners of the shape, and just drag them to the amount you want. Or easily type it in. I know its qyite easy now, but I think it should be the same as illustratir. Thanks :)
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Preserve the Book panel position on reopening
When reopening a Book, the position and size of the corresponding panel is reset to default.
I would like it would reopen with the same position and size that it had when closing it.
Having to rearrange and reposition it each time is really stressful.
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Home screen - Please put your creative hats on and re-design for functionality
I love and hate the Home Screen. I would really like to see Adobe really think through the reason for this screen's existence. The simple fact that you cannot reorder, delete, or organize the list is limiting. The additional fact is that, in some recent updates, the hover to see the "path" is no longer available.
Bottom line: this is valuable real estate that is going to waste or cause more frustration than it's worth because it feels more like an afterthought than a conscious UX/UI decision.
You guys are awesome creatives, and I know there are tons of things…1 vote -
Allow changing the Show/Print status of Text Conditions for the whole book
I use a text condition to highlight text to be revised. Usually, I expect to have this text condition only shown in draft mode, but not exported or printed. This is for my own use during development, or for future reference.
But when having to share a draft with my proofreaders, I want this text condition to be exported into a PDF file. I have therefore to change the Show status of the text condition to Show and Print. This is not allowed for multiple documents in a book. The status of text conditions is not synchronized.
I would like…
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Does the font selection in the Paragraph Styles panel not support autocomplete suggestions?
When selecting a font.
The Paragraph Styles panel has no filter or autocomplete feature.Just like in the Control Panel, where font selection is filtered and suggested as you type.
This feature seems to be missing in the Paragraph Styles panel, the Find and Replace Fonts panel, and the Composite Font Settings.
It’s very inconvenient.I wonder if there will be improvements in version 2026.
Also, it’s very inconvenient that you can’t quickly jump to the current font’s position in the font list.
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sync live preflight profiles, like others pref
je souhaite que les profiles de contrôle en amont soient synchronisés comme les autres préférences d'indesign.
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indesign 2024 version needed!!!
Hi, I need a 2024 version of Indesign because my INDD file shows damaged. The only way to recover is to open it with the old version which it was created from. This is very important to me. Thank you
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Add sentence case to character options
Add sentence case to the character options (alongside all caps, small caps, lowercase, etc.). My clients often send content with titles typed in all caps, and I’d like a quick, reliable way to convert them to sentence case (and/or title case).
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In Adobe InDesign, I am unable to set a table row height greater than 211.667 mm. However, this limitation does not occur in Microsoft Word,
In Adobe InDesign, I am unable to set a table row height greater than 211.667 mm. However, this limitation does not occur in Microsoft Word, where larger row heights can be applied without issue. Could you please advise on how to address this restriction in InDesign?
We need to add this feature in Indesign
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