Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Needed Features for Adobe InDesign
Welcome! Share your ideas for new features or improvements in Adobe InDesign here. Describe your request clearly and explain how it would help. Engage with other users’ suggestions and let’s enhance InDesign together
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Paste items on multiple layers at once
It would really speed up my workflow if I had the option of selecting a number of layers and be able to ‘Past in place’ on all of them at the same time. I often have to change country ratings (esp. PEGI) on my projects and it would be great if I could select 7-8 layers at a time and switch them out together. Clients also require third-party logos and legal lines to be added and it would really speed up my routines.
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Linked text frames inside text threads keep links
When a linked text frame is placed on the page, it updates its contents when the parent linked text frame changes. But if one copies that text frame and pastes it inside a text thread, it appears to have a link icon, but the link is actually broken and will not update with the parent text any more.
I am trying to use this to have a callout box for a construction procedure that is duplicated is several places in my document. I want them to be inline of my text as other instruction steps will change, and reflow the…1 vote -
Paragraph Style Options: Export Tagging: PDF: Tag
In latest version of InDesign styleExportTagMaps-->exportTag only have these tags available [P, H,H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6] manually or by script.
Please provide option to add additional exportTags tags in upcoming /recent version.
Screen shot attached for supported tag, require user can add more tag so complete accessibility PDF can be generated directly from InDesign.
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Please add new options in table/document for changing decimal and thousand separators globally
Add some features in InDesign for changing the decimal and thousand separator globally. This will be very useful who work on multiple languages.
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Please enable pinch zoom in and zoom out using a touchpad on Window 10 in Adobe InDesign 2024
My Surface laptop does not enable me to pinch zoom in and zoom out using a touchpad on Window 10 in Adobe InDesign. I was previously using a mac with a magic trackpad and had no issues zooming in and out in Adobe programs. I realize I can use work-arounds like CTRL + / -, but this takes more time and I have less control.
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Group/Organize Parent Pages
It would be very helpful for larger documents if I had the ability to group/organize the parent pages in their panel. I am currently working on an urban planning document where each section of the master plan (parks, housing, wastewater, etc...) has a different colored footer and chapter page, so I have 8 different footer parent pages and 8 different chapter pages, on top of the 10 or so general layout parent pages I create for our urban planners to use as templates. Consequently, navigating the parents panel requires a LOT of scrolling. If I could just group all my…
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Set Solidity of Spot colors
We have HP Indigo's that can print white ink. For example, printing white ink on a golden paper, it looks great, and if you have a picture, just slab some white ink below it and it looks good.
However in InDesign, if you set the colors accordingly (Paper color to gold, and add a white spot color), and you enable overprint preview, the white ink just disappears. This means, we're desining with paper set to white and white ink set to Cyan to see what we're doing. Tbh we'd like to see what we'll eventually get.
We need the ability…
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You may remove Dutch: Old rules
You may remove Dutch: Old rules. the new spelling dates from 2005, so that's been 20 years from now.
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Share for review for organisation
Compared to Adobe Illustrator, InDesign does not have the option for internal approval within the organization ("Everyone at your organization can comment").
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508 compliance PDF
Add in “Preflight Profiles” for 508c Color Contrast Analyzer (CCA) error check mark.
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Cloning à la Illustrator Repeat or Symbol Tool for x-up Printing?
I've quickly grown to love Illustrator's Repeat feature, especially the ability to edit any instance of the repeated object. A feature akin to this for InDesign, or a "Live Repeat"/"Clone" would be a massive improvement for x-up layout!
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Fontmetrics/TextMetrics data to be included in Info panel
I would like these information to be available in info panel of Indesign. It really helps. Select a character and then it should show following information:
Script Alert
Points: MM:Point Size: 12.000 4.2864
Baseline: 12.138 4.3356936
Ascender: 8.736 3.1204992
Descender: 2.525 0.90193
Cap Height: 8.590 3.068348
x-Height: 6.223 2.22285561 vote -
Devnagri Script Numerals in Numbered Lists and Foot notes etc.... have been waiting for ages
It is very important and sometimes indispensable to have page numbers (auto) and Number list and Footnotes in Devnagri script numerals and not roman... but Indesign doesn't offer me any solution
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Restore several links to a Library
Create a function to update the links in the Libraries in the same way as for a local folder.
I had to move my libraries to a new Cloud following a change of plan. All the links no longer work. Even if I give the path to a link, INDD isn't able to restore the other links in the same library as it can in a local folder. I have thousands of links to restore manually!1 vote -
AI-powered design assistance
To improve Adobe InDesign for <a href="https://www.cubix.co/mobile-app-development"> mobile app development </a> design, we could integrate AI-powered design assistance that suggests layout enhancements, color schemes, and typography adjustments in real-time, tailored specifically for mobile interfaces. Additionally, introducing robust real-time collaborative editing features would allow multiple designers and developers to work on the same project simultaneously with version control and live feedback options. Moreover, developing an advanced asset management system with cloud integration, AI-driven tagging, and easy retrieval of graphics, fonts, and templates would streamline the mobile app design process significantly.
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Indesign CJK Version Request : Standard Vertical Roman Alignment
Please add the simple feature of standard vertical roman alignment in adobe indesign CJK version as well.
In all the other versions of Indesign, and also in other basic applications like the photoshop or illustrator, there is an option to vertically align roman alphabets. However, in the CJK version, the vertical writing tool only provides the option to typeset the roman alphabets and numbers in a 90 degree rotated way.
If I wanted to write them vertically without having to rotate it, I have to manually do so in Character settings, but that is not a good option since the…
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Hi everyone, help me
Hi everyone, I work shift work and am often in places without internet. Does anyone know a convenient service for downloading YouTube videos to watch them offline?
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UX improvement: When changing color on selected Text Fields, Text Color should be changed over textfields background color
It happens so often that I select a textfield, quickly pick a color from the color swatches and the entire text field gets a background color - although I obviously wanted to change the text color.
I have to manually go in and switch from text field background color to font color. I think this could be avoided.1 vote -
Highlight Box Behind Text
This is so commonly used in design, that it even exists in Adobe Express, yet for some reason has never been introduced to InDesign. Instead we have had to create underlines and adjust them, which then needs to be adjusted every time font size is changed.
I imagine this is not a difficult thing to introduce, and it would be a huge help to so many people within publication design
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