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1. 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… more

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2. Harmonize size of curve handles and object handles as part of UI scaling

   The UI scaling is a nice add in 2022. Thank you! But the handles for curves are still tiny relative to the object handles. Can we harmonize?

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3. 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 text boxes.

   Thanks a lot!

   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… more

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4. 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 a movie, where the movie needs to be italicized), you keep the caption live until the end, then you have to convert 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… more

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5. 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

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6. 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 the pages palette, the spread would display [12,1]. See attached screenshot.

   The pages would display as spreads this way in the pages palette:
   [12,1]
   [2,11]
   [10,3]
   [4,9]
   [8,5]
   [6,7]

   How much easier would this be than if Adobe would build this option in to the Document Setup while creating a new document?

   I generally use printers spreads for about 75% of my documents and each time I have to spend so much time trying to set this up properly. It is frustrating.

   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… more

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7. 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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8. 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.)

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9. 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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10. Child object styles to inherit parent size and position

    Object Style 1 includes width and/or height specs.
    Object Style 2 is based on Object Style 1.
    When Object Style 1's width/height specs are changed, they are not reflected in Object Style 2.
    The only option seems to be 'Reset to base' in Object Style 2.

    Please make it so that child object styles also inherit Size and Position settings.

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11. 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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12. 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.

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13. 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.

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14. 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.

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15. 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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16. 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)

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17. 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.

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18. 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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19. For the love that all is good and right, please provide an option to disable the "missing fonts" dialogue box upon opening files.

    For those of us who have, for years, been opening InDesign files where we know there are missing fonts, we've literally wasted several weeks of our lives clicking the "skip" button. Can you please include a preference that allows us to turn-off this feature?

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20. lauge.rosendahl@arcanetinmen.com

    Let InDesign remember the last chosen size of the app window on screen.
    Like many people I work on a very large screen, and I have to refit the extend of the window every time I start InDesign. I think the problem is the same across most of your apps. Windows 10 btw.

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