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Place Gun Enhancement
We use InDesign in our printing department to place images for printing on our Epson Printers.
At the moment we have page templates with Auto-Fit frames placed and ready to accept the various sizes of supplied images (clients always manage to supply images to the wrong dimensions).Here's what we do :
1. Call up a template.
2. CMD-D to load the Place Gun with multiple files (anything from 2 to 50 - sometimes more).
3. Click in each frame to place the loaded images.Here's where I believe the procedure could be enhanced - in fact it's the only hold up in the whole process.
The only option currently available to the Place Gun is to click inside an existing frame and place the image.
But often the file is portrait when the frame is landscape (or visa versa).What would be brilliant is if a modifier key could be assigned to change the orientation of the placed file so that when you click it automatically goes into the frame at 90 (or even -90) degrees.
Hope this makes sense.
The modifier key should also work if the Place Gun is loaded without frames having been created.
So a click and drag with the modifier key pressed would place the image at 90 degrees to it's normal orientation.Sure I'm not the only one who would find this useful.
Or maybe that should read - hopeful that I'm not the only one who would find this useful !!Thanks !!!!
We use InDesign in our printing department to place images for printing on our Epson Printers.
At the moment we have page templates with Auto-Fit frames placed and ready to accept the various sizes of supplied images (clients always manage to supply images to the wrong dimensions).Here's what we do :
1. Call up a template.
2. CMD-D to load the Place Gun with multiple files (anything from 2 to 50 - sometimes more).
3. Click in each frame to place the loaded images.Here's where I believe the procedure could be enhanced - in fact it's the only…
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Conditional Vertical Justification
Add a new option to the Vertical Justification settings for text frames: "Conditional Justify".
BehaviorWhen Conditional Justify is selected, vertical justification is applied only when the text frame is sufficiently filled. Add a numeric field: Content fill threshold (%). If the frame’s text occupies a percentage equal to or greater than this threshold, the frame receives full vertical justification. If the frame’s fill is below this threshold, the frame uses the chosen fallback alignment.Fallback option
Provide a dropdown: Fallback alignment with the classic vertical choices: Top, Center, Bottom.Notes / Suggested defaults
Default Content fill threshold: 90% (editable). Default Fallback alignment: Top. Show a small live preview or indicator in the Text Frame Options dialog that displays the current frame’s content fill percentage.Rationale (brief)
This lets designers apply full vertical justification only when a frame is nearly full, avoiding awkward spacing in partially filled frames while maintaining consistent alignment when content is dense.
Additional conditions may be added later (e.g., minimum/maximum number of paragraphs, presence of headings, or specific glyph counts).Add a new option to the Vertical Justification settings for text frames: "Conditional Justify".
BehaviorWhen Conditional Justify is selected, vertical justification is applied only when the text frame is sufficiently filled. Add a numeric field: Content fill threshold (%). If the frame’s text occupies a percentage equal to or greater than this threshold, the frame receives full vertical justification. If the frame’s fill is below this threshold, the frame uses the chosen fallback alignment.Fallback option
Provide a dropdown: Fallback alignment with the classic vertical choices: Top, Center, Bottom.Notes / Suggested defaults
…Default Content fill threshold: 90% (editable).2 votes -
Replacing a page within an existing PDF file using InDesign export options
It would be great if you could export a page from InDesign to an existing pdf file with add or replace options.
2 votes -
Farbfelddialog InDesign
Liebe Entwickler, liebe InDesign-Gemeinde,
ich habe einen kleinen Erweiterungswunsch, der aber die Arbeit erleichtern würde. Fügt bitte in den Farbdialog zwei Pfeile ein mit denen man zwischen allen angelegten Farben hin- und herschalten kann. Da brauche ich bei Änderungen nicht immer den Dialog verlassen und per Doppelklick in die nächste Farben gehen.
Viele Grüße
Stefan
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Arched Text similar to Illustrators Envelope.
I would love to see your team make an envelope “arching text” type of option similar to how Illustrator does it, especially if it could maintain its text editing capabilities. This would be very helpful because there are times when I am doing a Banner or Plaque or some other type of layout and the client requests arched text for the individuals names, and this can sometimes number in the range of 50-75 names. And having the arched text feature would allow me to create a master page for the general design template, and link the text boxes so the names could simply be pasted in, and take on the arched effect. I would still need to go back and adjust some of them but it would be faster than having to arch them all in Illustrator and then link them to my template in In-Design. Sorry so wordy. :)
I would love to see your team make an envelope “arching text” type of option similar to how Illustrator does it, especially if it could maintain its text editing capabilities. This would be very helpful because there are times when I am doing a Banner or Plaque or some other type of layout and the client requests arched text for the individuals names, and this can sometimes number in the range of 50-75 names. And having the arched text feature would allow me to create a master page for the general design template, and link the text boxes so the…
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Snap Frame to Letterforms
Please add an option to align text frames by the actual letterforms instead of the font’s bounding box.
InDesign currently uses the em-box and sidebearings, which means misaligned text when trying to align separate text boxes that contain different styles or type sizes. This makes precise alignment for headings/subheads really frustrating.
Illustrator already allows bounding boxes that hug glyphs more tightly, so it feels like a big gap in InDesign.
Proposed solution: Add a toggle or context menu option (e.g. “Snap Bounding Box to Text” or “Align to Glyph Edges”) so users can switch between:
Align to Frame (current behavior)
Align to Glyph Edges (new option)
This would save huge amounts of time and eliminate clunky workarounds like converting text to outlines, using proxy rectangles, or constantly drawing new guides and nudging objects.
Please add an option to align text frames by the actual letterforms instead of the font’s bounding box.
InDesign currently uses the em-box and sidebearings, which means misaligned text when trying to align separate text boxes that contain different styles or type sizes. This makes precise alignment for headings/subheads really frustrating.
Illustrator already allows bounding boxes that hug glyphs more tightly, so it feels like a big gap in InDesign.
Proposed solution: Add a toggle or context menu option (e.g. “Snap Bounding Box to Text” or “Align to Glyph Edges”) so users can switch between:
Align to Frame (current behavior)
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QR Code Indesign - Business Tittle
Hi there, I was happy to create a QR Code in InDesign, but I encountered 2 issues:
The Title doesn't display above the name in the .vcf file. Instead displays the email which you can find later below in the email section. Can anyone help me in How can this be fixed?
There is no option to include a Logo. It would be great to have this option.
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Make Hyperlink Accessibility Alt Text Scriptable
You can create hyperlinks using an InDesign script, but you can't set the hyperlink's alt text. So I can create hundreds of hyperlinks in minutes with a script, but I still have to edit each one manually to set the alt text, and that takes hours.
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Right-click "remove hyperlink"
Why can't Adobe do this yet? It is 2025 for God's sake. Removing a hyperlink is a multi-step process. It should be a simple right click. And I am talking about the actual hyperlink, not the character style. I already have a script that will remove unwanted styles with no active hyperlink beneath them. I just want a FAST, EASY way to remove unwanted hyperlinks that clients ALWAYS seem to insert, even though they know they don't want them included.
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Add an “Empty Output” Option for Text Variables (Urgent Request)
Dear Adobe InDesign team,
As a professional typesetter/designer, I heavily rely on the text variables feature to automate running headers, footers, and other dynamic text in my documents. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to specify an empty or null output when a text variable evaluates to nothing. Instead, InDesign inserts the last used value or some default text. This forces me to manually adjust the layout or apply complex GREP styles to hide unwanted characters when the variable is empty.
Please add an “Empty Output” option to the text variables feature that allows the variable to output nothing at all when it has no value. This would be extremely useful for workflows where certain sections of a document may not always require a running header, chapter title, or other dynamically generated text. It would also reduce the need for tedious manual cleanup or workarounds using nested styles.
An “Empty Output” option would make text variables much more flexible and improve the quality and efficiency of our layouts. Thank you for considering this feature request. Given how critical text variables are for long document workflows, I hope you will prioritise this enhancement.
Best regards,
TalhaDear Adobe InDesign team,
As a professional typesetter/designer, I heavily rely on the text variables feature to automate running headers, footers, and other dynamic text in my documents. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to specify an empty or null output when a text variable evaluates to nothing. Instead, InDesign inserts the last used value or some default text. This forces me to manually adjust the layout or apply complex GREP styles to hide unwanted characters when the variable is empty.
Please add an “Empty Output” option to the text variables feature that allows the variable to output nothing at…
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custom page numbering
When you want to number the pages differently than the standard correlative, for example with a date system, weekly, monthly... There is no automatic option for the pages to be numbered by day of the week. If in addition to the options 1, 2, 3... 01, 02, 03... a, b, c... i, ii, iii... you add a "custom" with a popup to a list of... for example 20 custom fields (for months, weeks, work groups, jobs...) would be perfect.
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pages rounded corners
There is no way to predict how a project with rounded corners will look, be it a book, business card, flyer... We can create boxes with rounded corners, but we don't have the option to do the same with pages, choose the type, radius...
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Scroll through placed multi-page PDFs or InDesign documents within InDesign
Essentially, make the Show Import Options Preview panel directly accessible inside InDesign.
This would save me a considerable amount of time.
2 votes -
Auto delete imported remarks after accepting them
When importing a pdf with remark/correctionss , its impossible to delete multiple remarks after accepting them. It would be great to have an option that deletes the remark after accepting it. I often have 700 pages books with 3000+ remarks. Indesign becomes soooo slow.
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Convert Page Guides to Spread Guides
I would like to suggest a small but highly useful improvement for a future update of InDesign.
Currently, when guides are placed within a single page, there is no built-in way to convert them into spread guides (guides that span across the entire spread), unless they are re-created manually while holding Ctrl/Cmd during placement. This becomes especially frustrating when a layout contains a large number of precisely positioned guides that need to be extended to the full spread — for example, after a reorganization of pages or when switching from single-page to spread layout.
Feature suggestion:
Please consider adding an option to convert selected page guides into spread guides directly — either via right-click context menu (Convert to Spread Guide) or through a menu item under Layout > Guides.This small addition would greatly improve workflow efficiency and reduce repetitive manual adjustments in guide-heavy documents, particularly for designers working on magazines, catalogs, or editorial layouts.
Thank you for your continued development of InDesign and for listening to user feedback.
Kind regards
I would like to suggest a small but highly useful improvement for a future update of InDesign.
Currently, when guides are placed within a single page, there is no built-in way to convert them into spread guides (guides that span across the entire spread), unless they are re-created manually while holding Ctrl/Cmd during placement. This becomes especially frustrating when a layout contains a large number of precisely positioned guides that need to be extended to the full spread — for example, after a reorganization of pages or when switching from single-page to spread layout.
Feature suggestion:
Please consider adding an…2 votes -
Integrate Optical Margin Alignment into Paragraph tab / Properties Panel
The Optical Margin Alignment sits as a standalone checkbox in the Story Window. It would make much more sense to have this in the Paragraph Widow, and in the Properties Panel. Hyphenation is a check box here, why not have the same thing for hanging punctuation / optical margin alignment?
2 votes -
An options to place InDesign files into a document as spreads
Scenario: I have a a load of menus, A3 double sided folded in half, designed in two double page spreads. Client wants wide format prints of each menu ganged up on one sheet.
It would save quite some time if I could place the menu files into another document as spreads rather single pages.
2 votes -
Delete images from the links window directly or delete/select all images in the links window
I want to be able to select all the images in the links window - and delete them all at once instead of having to go through each page and d
2 votes -
Add "Align to guides" option in Align panel
It would be useful to add to the options already present in the Align panel (selection, page, margin, key object) also "align to guides": the selected object would be aligned to the first nearest guide, vertically or horizontally, depending on the button pressed (top, right, left, bottom).
2 votes -
Ability to change the DEFAULT setting for Object Layer Options to 'Use PDF's Layer Visibility'
Offer a way (ideally in preferences) to change the default setting in Object Layer Options for "When Updating Link" to be set to either 'Keep Layer Visibility Overrides' OR 'Use PDF's Layer Visibility'.
At present it always defaults to 'Keep Layer Visibility Overrides,' and adjustments have to be made manually.
2 votes
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