Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Make Table of Contents menu robust and intuitive
Make Table of Contents intuitive. It's a powerful tool, and yet difficult to set up even for an experienced user. The navigate the setup menu is static but closes every time. The explanations are poor, and impossible to navigate without watching a bunch of tutorials (and the user manual is not helpful either). Because the layout formating is done in paragraph styles it's difficult to know what and where to change to get a specific result. This software is supposed to make creating a long document easy and yet formatting a TOC requires so much pre-knowledge without any directions in the menu on where to find that info. A menu window instead of a pop-up would help, with more context text to guide a user towards the proper places to set up formatting.
Make Table of Contents intuitive. It's a powerful tool, and yet difficult to set up even for an experienced user. The navigate the setup menu is static but closes every time. The explanations are poor, and impossible to navigate without watching a bunch of tutorials (and the user manual is not helpful either). Because the layout formating is done in paragraph styles it's difficult to know what and where to change to get a specific result. This software is supposed to make creating a long document easy and yet formatting a TOC requires so much pre-knowledge without any directions in…
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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 other designers, is as follows:
I create a book with let say five documents in it, each representing a chapter or whatever. I then proceed to work on each of these documents, and as the design process advances, I create more and more styles - object, paragraph, character etc.And to make sure everything is synchronized, I make sure that the document I'm currently working on is the style source. Whenever I move on to a different document - I synchronize the book, move to the other document, make it the style source and then I keep on working.
At first I didn't see a flaw in that workflow. But things get very messy very quickly. After working on a book for while, you start to rethink your styles, the logic behind them, the way they're organized and grouped together. And then you start deleting styles, and changing names, and grouping them.
But the next time you synchronize the book, all the changes are ACCUMULATED rather than SYNCHRONIZED. That is, my documents become a dumpster for every style and parent page that I ever used.
(as can be seen in the screenshot attached)Getting them in order is painstaking, and the fact that parent pages can't be grouped together - just adds to the mess.
There should be a better way to do this. And there is.
Styles should be on the book level. Simple as that.
And a user that feels like he really could use document-level style and parent pages - grouping styles by the document name should suffice.I can't imagine this being SO difficult for the indesign team for it to not be a viable solution.
InDesign is a software aimed for professionals, and it simply isn't robust enough right now. Many crucial features are missing and have been requested for such a long time - whether they're at the core of book design, or whether they're simply needed for effective editing and designing.I REALLY hope to see a major update tacking the book workflow, as it's much needed, but sadly unusable.
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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Ability to name pages
Ability to name pages (like artboards in illustrator), so that pages can be exported or placed with identifying information.
3 votes -
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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Swatches: Double click active color to open Color panel
Swatches: Double click active color to open Color panel
3 votes -
Frame fitting option auto-fit image to a percentage
It would be helpful when using an Object Style that uses the frame-fitting option to include a percentage value, so for instance "place image proportionally at 100%"
3 votes -
Data Merge for spreads
it should be possible to export Data Merge directly to PDF as spread. So you don't have to create an InDesign-File first or edit your InDesign-File to generate an single page file.
3 votes -
Scrubby Sliders for Everything Like Photoshop
In Photoshop, every scalable feature (opacity, text size, feather radius, etc) is a slider if you click and drag on the name of the adjustment. This is particularly useful for (large) font size. In Photoshop, you can live preview your text size by sliding, while InDesign you have to either arrow key or type numbers to preview. At the very least, make the font size drop down go above 72 pt like Figma!
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Select plug-in presets on start-up
It would be so great if there was a way to choose a working environment at the start of InDesign. We use many different plug-ins for different clients. These cannot and must not be mixed. So it is very difficult to always copy the plug-ins out of the folder first and the ones needed for the client into it. If I have to edit a document for another client, I first have to close InDesign, swap the plug-ins and start again. With many different clients, this is very time-consuming. It would be better if you could save these different settings and plug-ins as a preset and be asked which preset you want to continue working with when you start InDesign. Many greetings
It would be so great if there was a way to choose a working environment at the start of InDesign. We use many different plug-ins for different clients. These cannot and must not be mixed. So it is very difficult to always copy the plug-ins out of the folder first and the ones needed for the client into it. If I have to edit a document for another client, I first have to close InDesign, swap the plug-ins and start again. With many different clients, this is very time-consuming. It would be better if you could save these different settings…
3 votes -
Auto open the folder a pdf has been exported to
As the title, add an option to automatically open the folder a pdf has been exported to.
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3 votes
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Object styles: Display performance
Add the Display performance option to Object Styles.
For example, I want all the barcodes in my files to be displayed at High Quality Display, but want all my photos to appear as Typical Display.
3 votes -
Urgent Need to retain Metadata in PNG Export for transparent Composited images
In 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 -
Application Menu Search (Windows)
I know this is an operating system thing, but after switching to Windows from Mac, I'm missing the search bar under the Help menu. I made a suggestion on the Windows Feedback Hub, but it doesn't seem to be getting much traction there. Unless I'm missing something, there's got to be others of you missing this functionality. Here's a link to my Windows Feedback Hub request. Go there and upvote! https://aka.ms/AAdvidk
3 votes -
Outline Stroke feature, urgently needed!
Convert stroke to a shape, pretty please!! :-)
3 votes -
Character Limits, Comb Line Form Fields and Font Alignment for Form Fields
Hello,
I would like to suggest that character limits can be set for comb line form fields. Also I would like there to be a possibility of creating comb line form fields (without creating tables). In addition, there should be alignment of the text as an option in the form field (whether left, center or right). This would save so much time and effort so that once the document is exported as a tagged PDF, those features mentioned would also be set. Finally, there should be a way to tag layout tables so that it does not register as a table when it is exported to PDF. Due to the fact that tables have to be used to create comb line form fields, once it is exported as a tagged PDF, the comb line form fields are tagged with Table tags. Once the Accessibility Checker is run in PDF, errors would be encountered as Table Summaries and Headers would be demanded by the Accessibility Checker. It is tedious to take out the tagged text out of the tables and delete the table tags in order for the info to not be read as a table. There should be a way to tag layout tables as such. I hope these requested features are developed in a timely manner as Adobe PDF is way ahead of InDesign in terms of development.
Hello,
I would like to suggest that character limits can be set for comb line form fields. Also I would like there to be a possibility of creating comb line form fields (without creating tables). In addition, there should be alignment of the text as an option in the form field (whether left, center or right). This would save so much time and effort so that once the document is exported as a tagged PDF, those features mentioned would also be set. Finally, there should be a way to tag layout tables so that it does not register as a…
3 votes -
More functionality and control with form fields
Please add the ability to set leading in form fields. Many clients want to print lines for writing but also have multi-line fillable text fields. It's nearly impossible to create this and have it look good. Would be awesome if form fields used paragraph styles for formatting. Please also allow the designer to change the field highlight color. The default blue isn't ideal for most designs.
4 votes -
Odt support in Place dialogue
Hi! I'd like to see ODT Support in the Place dialogue. Since it already supports docx, ODT would be a logical extension
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Allow Extensis Suitcase to Connect to Adobe Fonts Subscription
I understand that this isn't a specific InDesign feature request, but I can't seem to find any way to put in a feature request for Adobe Fonts.
Until, and unless, Adobe decides to create a full-featured font management software package, it would be great if for subscribers of Extensis Suitcase that we could link our Adobe account to access fonts from within Suitcase much the same way we can access Google fonts.
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Warning for Registration usage
WAY too many designers use Registration as a color in their jobs. This is a MAJOR mistake for print design. Indesign desperately needs a warning that can not be disabled every time Registration is attempted to be used, warning designers that it is NOT the same as Black, nor is it a "rich" black, and it WILL cause problems in printing.
3 votes
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