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  1. Make it possible to Redefine the current selected text to any existing Style

    In many cases a restyled text should not redifine the current style, but another (unused/old style) E.g. when creating a subheading from the Plain text style. If there was a Style called 'Subheading' already, it would be nice to let the selected modified plain text directly redifine that 'Subheading' style, in stead of creating a new one, find out the Subheading already exists, delete it etc.

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  2. Create an option to for non-sticky paragraph and character styles

    Paragraph and Character styles are great, but for new users or in environments where files frequently change hands, they can be hard to teach and manage due to them being 'sticky'. If you select a character style with no text selected, it stays selected and will then be applied to all future text, same for paragraph styles. For experts, this is a feature; for new users it is a bug. The layer panel has "ungroup remembers layers" which is a very obscure setting, could the styles panels please have "Styles are not sticky" added as an option to the fly…

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  3. I need a new tool in InDesign for Translation any Text to any other language, it will be more easy than get a copy and Translate it into any

    I need a new tool in InDesign for translating any Text to any other language, it will be easier than getting a copy and translating it into any

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  4. Feature Request: Adjustment Layers, Like AfterEffects Adjustment layers

    Add an Adjustment Layer feature with user-defined shapes such as rectangles, circles, and custom shapes. Similar to Adjustment Layers in Adobe After Effects, users could apply and control parameters such as blur, hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, and opacity within the defined area.

    This would give designers more flexibility to make localized image adjustments directly in InDesign, allowing them to align and fine-tune visuals within layouts without repeatedly switching to Photoshop for minor edits.

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  5. mp4 export – create social media post directly from Indesign

    In Indesign hat man alles um sinnvoll layouten zu können und sogar die Möglichkeit einfache Animationen einzubauen. Wieso wird der professionelle Workflow nicht verbessert und ein Mp4 Export direkt in Indesign integriert?
    Wieso soll ich auf Adobe Express oder Canva ausweichen oder Dritthersteller Workaround-Plugins verwenden, um einfache animierte Social Media Posts zu erstelllen. Animate und After Effects sind viel zu kompliziert um z.B. ein Balkendiagramm schnell zu animieren. Indesign kann es ja bereits nur der Export fehlt.

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  6. Excluding Nested Styles from Table of Contents

    Hi everyone Geometry Dash iSpyWithMyLittleEye

    I’m working on a course catalog with a table of contents, but the nested heading styles from the course descriptions are also appearing in the TOC. How can I exclude these nested styles while keeping the main course titles listed?

    Thank so much!

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  7. Align to the Top & Bottom of a Text Frame in InDesign [Smart Paragraph Styles]

    Hi everyone geometry vibes

    I’m working on an InDesign layout and want to align text precisely to the top or bottom of a text frame while keeping the formatting flexible.

    Does anyone have a good workflow for achieving this with Smart Paragraph Styles? I’m especially interested in a method that works consistently when the text length changes.

    Any tips, settings, or examples would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks in advance!

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  8. Type Menu - Change Case; would be wonderful if it could have Title Case with the option to not capitalize articles etc.

    Add a true Title Case option that follows standard publishing capitalization rules (e.g., Chicago), rather than capitalizing every word. Articles, coordinating conjunctions, and appropriate prepositions should remain lowercase, with first/last words and other required words capitalized.

    Current InDesign Title Case = Across The Ages
    Actual title case = Across the Ages

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  9. Hotkey change for space button [WIN] (Middle Mouse Button to pan around)

    Please, after years people demanding this, include a simple option to be able to change or modify the shortcuts for the Space Button (Pan). I for myself would love to add the middle mouse button, like it is in Illustrator to pan around.
    It's frustrating, that this company is absolutely not capable of unifying there basic stuff around all porgrams.

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  10. Allow Paragraph Borders and Shading to Inherit Text Color, Just Like Paragraph Rules

    InDesign already allows Paragraph Rules to use Text Color as their color source. I would like the same option to be available for Paragraph Borders and Paragraph Shading.

    At the moment, Paragraph Borders and Shading can only use a fixed swatch. This creates unnecessary manual work whenever the text color of individual paragraphs needs to vary while the same paragraph style is retained.

    For example, I am currently working on a publication in which many subheadings share the same typography, spacing, and border treatment, but the client wants different colors for different subheadings.

    Ideally, I should be able to use…

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  11. QR Code Pallet

    Qr Codes should have their own Workspace Pallet with at least the same options as the QR Monkey site.

    I used to use the PatternMaker plugin for InDesign, and it was so much more convenient to to have that pallet than it is to fumble through the menus every time I need a new one.

    Plus, PatternMaker placed the QR Code into an existing image box, so I didn't have to cut/paste the newly made code into the text flow of my 1000 page catalog.

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  12. PoL crash uploading Publish On Line


    Translated Report (Full Report Below)

    Process: Adobe InDesign 2026 [2581]
    Path: /Applications/Adobe InDesign 2026/Adobe InDesign 2026.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe InDesign 2026
    Identifier: com.adobe.InDesign
    Version: 21.5.1.73 (21510)
    Code Type: ARM-64 (Native)
    Role: Foreground
    Parent Process: launchd [1]
    Coalition: com.adobe.InDesign [1915]
    User ID: 504

    Date/Time: 2026-08-14 17:56:06.8707 +0200
    Launch Time: 2026-08-14 17:37:12.8783 +0200
    Hardware Model: Mac14,13
    OS Version: macOS 26.5.2 (25F84)
    Release Type: User

    Crash Reporter Key: 56F6B1D3-5CE5-6991-A450-81923B99E974
    Incident Identifier: 19575058-C83F-4521-8996-2A363AEBEB2D

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  13. InDesign language management needs improvement

    Dear Adobe Team,

    I am a long-time Adobe InDesign user and I would like to express my frustration regarding language management within the application.

    Despite having Creative Cloud configured in Italian, InDesign frequently switches back to English after updates. The only reliable solution appears to be uninstalling and reinstalling the application, which is extremely time-consuming and disruptive.

    Considering that InDesign is a professional product used worldwide, it is surprising that there is still no simple built-in option allowing users to switch the application interface language without reinstalling the software.

    Users working in international environments often need to switch between English…

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  14. Centering Logos Without Considering the ® Symbol

    It’s a small detail, but when a logo has a ® or ™ that makes its overall frame wider, I usually crop out the trademark, center the actual logo, and then undo the crop. I know the difference is negligible, but that’s just how I prefer to align things. Since Adobe keeps adding AI tools to InDesign, it would be nice to have an option that automatically ignores ® and ™ symbols when aligning a logo.

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  15. Edit Webp Option to have Photoshop

    For some reason when using the 'edit in' feature from the links panel or right click there is no option for photoshop for webp files. Even if you select the photoshop application on mac, it just opens the app file not allowing you to select photoshop.

    But you can edit webp files in photoshop, so this adds the step to right clicking revel in finder and then opening the image in photoshop from finder to edit it.

    Please fix

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  16. Streaming/Downloading Files from Cloud providors should be a non-blocking background event

    I imagine both MacOS and Windows provide some information about whether files are available locally or remotely. In either case, it would be beneficial for performance if InDesign did not block the interface while it was trying to open files that are not returned within a specific frame window (under 100ms seems reasonable).

    When a delay is encountered, draw the proxy or frame shape (if no proxy is available) and overlay a cloud or disk icon and some indication of loading progress. This would go a long way to directly communicate that InDesign has not crashed or otherwise failed in…

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  17. hyperlink

    Currently if we embed URL link- hyperlink highlighting the word within a hidden text box, the link does not work. We have to create a multi-step setup using the Object States panel so the box appears before the link can be clicked. We have to create the text box for the hyperlink, having to match the line and indentation is a painful process when you decide to edit the main text box. There are few other steps to enabling this hyperlink box work, creating a trigger button etc. This seems quite inefficient and was hoping Adobe could enable users to…

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  18. Enable Interactive PDF as online view

    When we export the file as interactive PDF, we have to open it via Adobe APP for all the interactive features to work.. is there anyway to make all the interactive features to work when we open the file as an online PDF view?

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  19. Allow users to move the colours and colour groups up and down the list under the drop-down menu at the top of the page

    Hi there,

    Please could anyone tell me if there is a way to (or why we cannot) reorder the colours in the drop-down colour palette…?

    I have created several colour groups and swatches (lower down the list than shown in the image below), but there doesn’t seem any easy way to simply reorder it so the colours and groups I use most are on the top… It would be so much easier if I could just move my favourite / regular colours by clicking on the line and moving it up or down the list. This would seem an easy…

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  20. Avoid repeated line beginnings and endings in Paragraph Composer

    Avoid repeated line beginnings and endings in Paragraph Composer

    In professional book typesetting, repeated beginnings or endings on consecutive lines can create distracting visual patterns. For example, several consecutive lines may begin with the same short word (“de”, “the”, “of”, etc.) or end with the same letters, syllables, words, or word endings.

    There are third-party tools that can detect some of these repetitions after the text has already been composed, but correcting them manually is extremely time-consuming. Fixing one occurrence may also recompose the paragraph and create another repetition a few lines later.

    InDesign already evaluates alternative line breaks, hyphenation…

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