Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Make Paragraph Styles Apply Parent Pages and Section Starts
- Would like to have an option to apply a Parent page based on the Paragraph style. Similar to Mastermatic, but in the Paragraph style dialogue.
- Would like the option to have a Paragraph Style set a section start. As it is, if, for example, you set page 22 as a section start, but later need to delete pages 20 and 21, the page numbering now goes 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24 etc. For this reason I don’t use section starts and thus don’t use the TOC function. But I would like to use the TOC function and…
15 votes -
Zoom possible in presentation mode
When I set the page to be too long, enabling the presentation mode will show the full content, which makes the page too narrow in the screen to see the details, I want to add the zoom function in the presentation mode.
4 votes -
Auto resize text
When overset text is encountered, have the option to resize the text to fit the frame.
5 votes -
Make panel contextual menus accessible from Properties panel
I really love the new Properties menu - it does a great job of saving monitor real estate. It looks like the April 2019 update has fixed a few of the initial teething troubles but one thing still bugs me. If I want to access any of the contextual menu options, I can't do it via Properties. It means, unless I know every shortcut, or want to go through the menu bar I still need to keep panels such as Paragraph open all the time, just in case I need to get to one of those options.
It'd be great…
3 votes -
Show Masterpages overrides.
There's no way you can tell that someone did alter or remove MasterPage-items on a document page. You should add a little + sign next to the page icon in the Pages panel. Just like altered Paragraph Styles.
57 votes -
Link to a Specific Page in external PDF File
I am building a 700-page pdf manual in InDesign. I can program a link to open a specific external pdf but I would like to be able to control what page in the pdf it opens to.
2 votes -
Automatically assign left and right page
It would be great to have a button that automatically assigns pages alternately as left and right page in a document. I work with documents that have 50 pages or more and they are separated in left and right page. When one page in the middle has to be deleted, it's always a struggle to shift them by hand.
1 vote -
Viewing bleeds on two-page spread
Would be nice if any objects that bleed off the binding edge would be cropped to the page edge when viewed as a two-page spread.
1 vote -
Soft version of "Update Table of Contents"
If there is a Table of Content, with some correction in it (for example line breaks) and after that, there is a small correction in the content area, which followed by loosing one page. Therefore it would be great, to just update the Page-numbers, instead updating the whole ToC.
(sorry for bad english)
168 votesThanks a lot everyone for the feedback. I am moving this under review.
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Conditional Text to Control Master Page Application
Enable the use of Conditional Text to trigger automatic switching or application of specific Master Pages. In complex layouts, this would streamline the process of dynamically changing page templates based on content variations or project stages.
2 votes -
Dual numbering system for Indesign using page numbering
@Adobe: Current up-to-date InDesign has only one sequential page-numbering function.
By giving it more flexibility in creating Dual numbering system would be useful, rather then manually adding in numbers.
It will be hectic and time consuming creating design flow like example: Creating a calendar document with dual numbering or more per page.
2 votes -
Add an option to show Master Page data in the links palette
Add options for showing Master Page info to the long list of item in the Links Palette options. Should definitely include "Master Page Prefix" and "Master Page Name", might as well include "Based On" and "Number of pages" while you're at it.
2 votes -
Thousands separator in page number
Add option to include thousands separator in page numbers for long documents.
1 vote -
text box with columns of different widths.
i would like to have the possibility of having a text box with columns of different widths.
11 votes -
Table of Contents
Table of Contents styles should be able to take a selected page range, and generate a TOC based on only that page range.
Many books have multiple TOCs these days — a master TOC up front, and TOCs at the beginning of each chapter or section, and often a hidden TOC that is used to generate PDF bookmarks.
Being able to limit page ranges would mean less manually edited of generated TOCs, faster TOC generation, and needing to use fewer paragraph/character styles to handle them!
91 votes -
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.
2 votes -
add absolute last page number as text variable
I cannot get a document with multiple sections, or a book with documents that contain sections, to display the absolute last page number as a text variable. They will only display the last page number of the section when using "last page" text variable. I want and "absolute last page number" text variable that would choose the absolute last page in a single document with multiple sections, and the absolute last page in a book with documents that contain sections. I want to be able to say "page 1 of 35, page 2 of 35", etc, where "35"…
1 vote -
Single Page Send for Review
Very excited for the Send for Review feature. We've been using Acrobat to do this, so having it baked into is a game changer. Is there a way to review the document as single pages instead of spreads? It helps our writers and copy editors read easier with single pages. Thank you for your help!
5 votes -
Stop flashing when changing next, previous page.
When pressing navigation (arrow keys) publishonline is flashing or clearing the page. Please stop that and just display the next page!
1 vote -
Make "split column" widths flexible
I use split-and-span columns frequently in my work. Often, with lists of names, I'll have that one name in a column that is just too long and wants to wrap. If I could adjust the column width after using the split-columns, that would be very helpful. As it is, I either have to decrease the type size or increase the right side margin, which messes with the body text width. I don't want to create a separate text frame as this is too common an occurrence in my work, and I'd have to be dragging and anchoring all over…
1 vote
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