Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Collaborate files in the start "Workspace" (quick shortcut)
In the Workspace "start' you can show your indesign files from de cloud. Called CC-Files. I like this feature. It works fine, but don't work with shared (collaborate) folder.
I see al my cc-documents in the cloud, except the files in the shared (collaborate) folder.Please make it possible. Otherwise, the idea of the cloud does not work.
Thanks
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Make the start/end of a stroke highlight when you choose an arrowhead for the start/end in the Stroke panel
It is very frustrating when applying an arrowhead to a stroke when you don't know what InDesign calls the start or end of that stroke. It's not so bad when you've drawn a straight line but a number of times, we edit shapes to create complex lines. Then it's a case of trial and error as to which end you place the arrow (and most of the time, typically, you end up choosing the wrong end. I know there is the ability to swap these but it would be useful if when you hover over either the start or end drop down boxes it would highlight which end of the line you're going to apply the style to.
It is very frustrating when applying an arrowhead to a stroke when you don't know what InDesign calls the start or end of that stroke. It's not so bad when you've drawn a straight line but a number of times, we edit shapes to create complex lines. Then it's a case of trial and error as to which end you place the arrow (and most of the time, typically, you end up choosing the wrong end. I know there is the ability to swap these but it would be useful if when you hover over either the start or end…
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Shadow-Effect for Text
Please make it possible to give only seperate words a Drop-Shadow
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Keyboard Shortcut for Adopting Paragraph Style Sheets
Using the text tool, click in a paragraph.
Hold Option & Shift, then click a Style Sheet formatted paragraph
The paragraph that had the text tool in it is now formatted to the [Option/Shift] clicked paragraph's Style Sheet.
This is one of the most time saving keyboard shortcuts from Quark Xpress.
This saves countless hours for anyone formatting text, albeit a tri-fold, or a 1,000 page catalog.
PS: If you're going to mention Command/Return to bring up Style Sheets, this is not time saving. The user still has to scroll the curser around to select the Paragraph/Character Style Sheet, removing the time saving Keyboard Shortcut feature altogether.
Using the text tool, click in a paragraph.
Hold Option & Shift, then click a Style Sheet formatted paragraph
The paragraph that had the text tool in it is now formatted to the [Option/Shift] clicked paragraph's Style Sheet.
This is one of the most time saving keyboard shortcuts from Quark Xpress.
This saves countless hours for anyone formatting text, albeit a tri-fold, or a 1,000 page catalog.
PS: If you're going to mention Command/Return to bring up Style Sheets, this is not time saving. The user still has to scroll the curser around to select the Paragraph/Character Style Sheet, removing…
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Autmatic High of Textframes and Tabel-Cells in steps/on grid
If a textframe has an automatic high, is dos not fit on the grid. it would be nice, when there would be the option "fit on grid" or/and "in steps of XX mm". The same probelm is in Tabels, when in one cell the text get lmultiline.
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A archive/backup save feature
I recently was working on a highly important document. InDesign crashed AT THE SAME TIME as it was in the process of saving the file. I do regular saves, but because of how it crashed I couldn't revert to an earlier saved version of my file. My new workflow is to regularly save my work and I use sequential numbers e.g. filename-v01, filenam- v02. I also sometimes will use save as and create a new file called filename-backup and then I will have to do another save as to revert the document back to filename.indd. What would suit my workflow is I continue to save my file using my standard filename but I can create a 'backup' file at any time called 'filename-copy-day-time'. The extra details in the filename would be automatically added by InDesign. This would also not affect my ability to save my working file as filename.indd.
I recently was working on a highly important document. InDesign crashed AT THE SAME TIME as it was in the process of saving the file. I do regular saves, but because of how it crashed I couldn't revert to an earlier saved version of my file. My new workflow is to regularly save my work and I use sequential numbers e.g. filename-v01, filenam- v02. I also sometimes will use save as and create a new file called filename-backup and then I will have to do another save as to revert the document back to filename.indd. What would suit my workflow…
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Mimic Text Box
For Example: If you have a list of people and you create a text box for each person that has a number in the text box.
Further in the document you would have a map that also has the numbers showing which person is situated where.
What would be very helpful is to have those 2 numbers (1 and 1, 2 and 2, etc.) be able to auto update the other.
So when someone is removed from the list, the person numbered 10 originally now becomes 9, which also auto updates on the map
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Merge mulitple pages together to create one page. Clients design each panel as the same size rather than having a short fold in panel
Would like to be able to combine pages into one page. Clients are sending files (such as a 3 fold brochure) where each panel is the same size, not taking into account that the fold-in panel should be shorter. Seems difficult to make a shorter page as the page seems to be off and its not an easy fix.
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Open pages of a pdf file in a single InDesign file
I always face this problem where I need to open a single page of a pdf. file to do amendment. It’s difficulty when my client doesn’t have the working file (indd). I hope adobe is allowing me to open all pages of a pdf. file in a single InDesign.
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Native AI support.
Using links within AI to keep source files small is useless if INDD is a part of the workflow because INDD will not place AI files unless PDF compatibility is turned on. Turning on PDF compatibility in AI when saving embeds all links so linking files instead of embedding them makes no difference.
Please make INDD able to place AI files that have not been saved with PDF compatibility turned on.
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Condition Sets: Show overrides when the set has a +
In every other panel, when there is a style override, resulting in a + symbol, if you hover over the symbol, it will tell you specifically what the overrides are. For example, a different type size, or font family or leading or something along those lines.
But in the Condition Sets dropdown, all you get is that there are overrides. And you can either clear them or redefine the set. But if I choose to clear the overrides, I have no way of knowing what the result will be.
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Restore the page overlay display in the print dialog.
I previous version of InDesign and the initial releases of InDesign 2017, you could see quite clearly what would print on the selected sheet size. In the latest update as of Aug 2017, if I change a sheet from letter to legal that has been printed previously, letter is still selected in the dialog, but due to the preview sheet being legal and cannot see that there is a size mismatch without going through the individual dialogs. For reference, the portion of the document that would not be within the printable region showed as a different shade of grey, whereas the entire preview now shows white.
I previous version of InDesign and the initial releases of InDesign 2017, you could see quite clearly what would print on the selected sheet size. In the latest update as of Aug 2017, if I change a sheet from letter to legal that has been printed previously, letter is still selected in the dialog, but due to the preview sheet being legal and cannot see that there is a size mismatch without going through the individual dialogs. For reference, the portion of the document that would not be within the printable region showed as a different shade of grey, whereas…
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When you highlight text - then select something else - it would be really cool if the same text was selected when you went back to it
When you highlight a block of text - then select a different element - it would be really cool if the text was highlighted when you went back to the text box and selected it.
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Design lines and frame edges.
There should be a way to design lines and frame edges. The few alternatives we have now (single line, double line, dotted line etc) are not enough. I want to easily give the edge of a picture or a solid frame different design effects like torn paper, charcoal, grunge etc without having to switch to Illustrator or Photoshop. It would be so nice to have a palette of ”edge effects”. I have been waiting for this since Indesign 1.0 so I think it's about time!
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Add Australian English to the language dictionary
Can you please add Australian English or UK English to the language dictionary. Incredibly challenging to perform spell check on long documents where many words are flagged as wrong.
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Please, have the ability to select the same appearance, but split it into shapes and text, then further by text size, etc.
Please, have the ability to select the same appearance, but split it into shapes and text, then further by text size, shape, text color, font, etc. For instance, it would be great to have the ability to select only the text that is 14 point.
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Smart version detection: open .indd files with the InDesign version that created them (or the newest installed version)
When multiple InDesign versions are installed side by side (e.g., InDesign 2024 and 2026), double-clicking a .indd file always launches whichever version the OS has registered as the default app. This frequently causes version mismatches triggering the "convert file?" dialog, even though the correct version is installed and running on the same machine.
Proposed feature: When a .indd file is opened with a version older than the one that created it, and a suitable newer version is installed locally, InDesign should automatically hand the file off to that version instead of showing the conversion warning.
Optionally, offer a preference:
Always open with the version that created the file (if installed),
Always open with the newest installed version,
Keep current behavior (ask every time).Since InDesign already reads the internal version number of the document, the installed versions could be checked before opening and the file routed accordingly. This would eliminate a very common source of accidental conversions and broken backward compatibility in mixed-version workflows.
When multiple InDesign versions are installed side by side (e.g., InDesign 2024 and 2026), double-clicking a .indd file always launches whichever version the OS has registered as the default app. This frequently causes version mismatches triggering the "convert file?" dialog, even though the correct version is installed and running on the same machine.
Proposed feature: When a .indd file is opened with a version older than the one that created it, and a suitable newer version is installed locally, InDesign should automatically hand the file off to that version instead of showing the conversion warning.
Optionally, offer a preference:
Always…1 vote -
Annoying tooltips in PDF comments panel
This tooltip is completely useless and usually appears right on the top of the comment's text, so the user can't even decide that applying it will be a good thing or not (see screenshot).
Please get rid of this absolute nonsense, or at least provide an option to disable it!1 vote -
preflight: errors open expanded
Preflight: option to show errors expanded so we don't have to click on an arrow to open a category and click on another arrow to open the errors in that category and see the page of the error to go to it.
1 vote -
Enable Variable Font in Composite Fonts
It's unable to select variable fonts in composite font editor menu. The problem was not mentioned in helpx session.
1 vote
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