Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Paragraph Styles / shading transparency options
I would love to see the paragraph styles / shading have transparency options (multiply, darken, etc.)
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Repair Print Booklet please
Anyone finding this post will have the same question: why is it so hard to create an imposed .pdf in InDesign? Is it due to license wars?
I know, there is a workaround via .ps and distiller, but this fails, since there is no flexible generic ppd available. If your home printer only prints A4, you are not able to create an A3 .pdf to print at a printshop. Insane.
Please, Adobe, bring (back) this functionality to create imposed .pdf's at any size with the Print Booklet function, even when no printer is available.
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Scaling Text in InDesign
I would like to suggest an improvement to how InDesign handles text scaling. Currently, when I scale an object containing text, the visual size of the text changes, but InDesign still shows the original size in the text panel, displayed in parentheses. This forces users to go through several complicated steps to make the scaled text size permanent without showing the parentheses.
It would be incredibly useful if Adobe could implement a simple feature where the scaled text size is automatically updated to a permanent size, without needing to create outlines or perform manual recalculations. This would streamline workflows and…
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Search features for Paragrapch and Character Style Sheets
I work with very large publications, and sometimes will get them from a previous designer. When making design changes, it's essential to be able to find the old styles throughout the book to make adjustments instead of deleting an entire style and have it reflow everything.
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Ability to set a layer to high res preview permanently
It would be great to be able to set a layer to high res preview permanently. So that everytime you opened a document it remembered that Layer 2 for example needs to be high res preview.
Reason for this: I work with a lot of dies in packaging, and when I link to them they always lose the high res view, but I need the high res view for the die so I can precisely design.
Yes, I'm aware I can copy and paste the die from illustrator into InDesign, but when you are working with numerous files, it's best…
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Calendar Wizard!
So this is a cry for help! I've been using the Calendar Wizard script but when I go to populate the calendar, I'm unable to access some controls because the window that pops up does not give me access to the options at the bottom (save, etc). I can expand the screen to full-size and the options do not appear. I even had my computer service remote-in and look and they said it's likely a programming error. Can anyone help?
This last time I used it, I manually added 4 custom calendars and the window re-tiled to the right and…
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Update Hyperlinks after destination file rename
Hi there and thanks for this wonderful tool!
Usually I always find a way to do what I want thanks to ExtendScript which is just amazing.
However in this case it seems that it's not possible (https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/target-the-source-hyperlink-destination-document-of-an-hyperlinks/m-p/11498930)
I am now working on a very long document that we split in three .indd files and have dozens of hyperlinks in each file to jump from one file to another.
Let's say they are called:
P_EN_v1.0.indd Q_EN_v1.0.indd R_EN_v1.0.inddIf we find things to update in those files then we would like to share new versions with attendants to our event…
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Autolayout
Have something similar to autolayout to push content when text-box is longer.
Indesign have so many potential and late on everything.1 vote -
Stack function, just like in Adobe Xd
This function is just too good, explained here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/xd/help/create-dynamic-designs-with-stacks.html
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Make Edit Original available with Adobe Experience Manager
Hello, we recently implemented Adobe Experience Manager as our DAM and since then we lost the EDIT ORIGINAL option for our links in InDesign which is a heavily used feature for us given that some of our designers are spending a lot more time having to open different tools to edit each link. Anyway we can get that back?
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add a notes column to book
In the Books panel it would be nice to have a column to enter comments.
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Improving InDesign for Enhanced Efficiency
- Customizable Shortcuts: Personalize keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation and improved workflow.
2.Enhanced Collaboration: Strengthen real-time collaboration tools to allow multiple users to work on documents simultaneously.
3.Performance Optimization: Focus on improving InDesign’s performance for handling large files and complex layouts with ease.
Integration with Other Tools: Improve compatibility with other Adobe Suite programs and third-party apps for a seamless design process.
Incorporating Example Work: If you see an example on InDesign, vist here :https://thoresta.se/ to explore real-world applications and gain inspiration for your own designs.
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Import PSDT
Add the ability to import .PSDT
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Option to unobfuscate text and add a background when exporting EPUBS
Option to unobfuscate text and add a background when exporting EPUBS
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Flat PDF made of JPGs
It would be useful to have an option to export PDF in which every page is an image file (JPG or Tiff or...). I would appreciate this because I usually send some draft to my customers and they simply open the file with some PDF editor (or Illustrator) and make changes by themselves.
To prevent this, I just export in JPG format (instead of PDF) from Indesign and then I drop the images into Acrobat and send the PDF as a draft.We could bypass this step having this option as "Flat PDF export".
Thanks.
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insert "current date" like MS Word does.
insert "current date" like MS Word does.
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Typesetting by Prompts
In the current technology improvements especially on Gen AI, like to integrate an option in InDesign on handling various tasks including the layout adjustments with simple customized prompts, say to move the figure to top of current page, adjust the spacing headings above and so on
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Generative Layout Cleanup
One of the most onerous, time-consuming tasks I deal with as a production designer is fixing layouts from designers who don't understand paragraph styles and efficient layout (No shade! They have other things to focus on and hey… that's why my job exists!)
I would like an AI that can recognize multiple separate type objects on a page, combine them into single text boxes with paragraph styles that control spacing.
In the screenshots, you first see a typical "designer" layout (again, no shade) with ten separate objects with formatting for each applied on top of the default Basic Paragraph style.
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