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1. Continuous numbering of footnotes and endnotes; endnotes to separate chapter

   PLEASE add these features to the footnote and endnote functionality of InDesign:
   - Continuous numbering of footnotes and endnotes throughout the various indd files within a book document
   - Ability to put the endnotes of the different indd files within a book document in a separate .indd file at the end of the book; numbering continuous OR per chapter.

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2. Footnotes in Separate Detached Frame.

   It is a very important feature to be able to customise the layout of footnotes with full control. Currently footnotes in InDesign are attached to the main text frame, & you have no control over it.

   We suggest being able to have footnotes in a separate fully customisable text frame, while still being linked to the main frame!

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3. Place a video from a URL with https

   The window for "Place a video from a URL" will not accept a safe HTTPS link (only http). Thus when I publish it, the browser throws a warning asking if I trust the content. Extremely silly bug in this age of security issues.

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4. Paragraph Border Controls when Split across Columns or Frames

   There needs to be a control that "If paragraph breaks between columns or frames" restricts the paragraph border to: "baseline" , "cap-height" and perhaps a value offset for this. At the very least there needs to be the "clip to frame" option for paragraph border like there is for paragraph shading. However, the controls for baseline and cap-height would be ideal.

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5. Facing Pages for Spiral Binding

   Having the ability to see multiple pages together, without them connected in the center would be helpful for creating things like spiral bound books. This would allow bleeds for each page, while still being able to see the pages together for layouts. This feature would come in handy for more than just spiral bound projects. It would be handy any time you need to see two pages together, while still having bleeds for each page.

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6. Enhance the new Suffix feature for exporting single Pages or single Spreads as PDF

   The new Suffix feature allows three parameters: ^#, ^P and ^S. So far so good.
   To make the feature complete I would suggest a couple of other parameters:

   ^N for page names
   Page names like i, ii, iii or a, b, c or 001, 002, 003 would be possible.
   Also names like 200 for the first page in a document that starts with 200 for page one.

   ^X for section prefixes ( max. of 8 characters )

   ^A for names of Alternate Layouts

   ^W for width of page

   ^H for height of page

   ^Pt , ^mm, ^In etc.pp. for unit ( unit conversion from actual ruler units to desired ones )

   That would make exported names possible like that:
   DocumentName150 mm x 297 mm01.pdf

   even if the rulers show different units.

   Prefix string would be:
   ^H ^mm x ^W ^mm^#

   In addition to all that: Please double or tripple the width of the Suffix editing field. That would be convenient for typing longer strings.

   Thanks for consideration!

   Uwe Laubender
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   The new Suffix feature allows three parameters: ^#, ^P and ^S. So far so good.
   To make the feature complete I would suggest a couple of other parameters:

   ^N for page names
   Page names like i, ii, iii or a, b, c or 001, 002, 003 would be possible.
   Also names like 200 for the first page in a document that starts with 200 for page one.

   ^X for section prefixes ( max. of 8 characters )

   ^A for names of Alternate Layouts

   ^W for width of page

   ^H for height of page

   ^Pt , ^mm, ^In etc.pp. for unit… more

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7. disable "live-update" of cross-references

   we are working on large document (about 600 pages) with many cross-references (over 3000).
   This leads to a very slow performance and makes working with the document a real test of patience.
   It would be great to have an option to temporarily disable the "live-update" of the cross-references!

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8. Make InDesign be able to import/Export comments from/to PDF

   I want to be able to get the comments from PDF into InDesign so that I can easily incorporate/respond on the comments from people.

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   Closed: Fixed  ·  AdminAbhinav Agarwal (Sr. Product Manager, Adobe InDesign) responded

   Dear All,

   This feature is now available in latest InDesign CC version. Please upgrade to the latest release.

   Thanks
   Abhinav Agarwal

9. script action

   Make a scripting easier by record functions in an action like photoshop

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10. [ID-4253523] InDesign has to be "Force quit" if background task(Export to PDF/IDML) hangs

    In all the years that we've had background tasks, I've almost never been able to cancel one successfully. Whenever a task hangs up for unknown reasons, and I hit cancel, it just hangs on the 'cancelling' step and the only way to stop it is to force-quit InDesign, which can equal lost work and damaged files.

    I would like to see a more assertive way to force shut down of a background task that isn't cooperating.

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    FIXED  ·  AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

    The fix of the issue is now available in the latest InDesign 2026(v21.0.0.192). We recommend you upgrade to the latest version for the fix.

    If you are unable to see the update, go to the Creative Cloud application, click on the context menu on the top right, and click on Check for App Updates.

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    Adobe InDesign Team

11. Wavy line needs customize option!

    We need “Wavy line” customize option, such as:
    (1) weight (2) wave height (3) wavelength (4) single/double line selection
    (see fig1.png and fig2.png)

    Current wavy line design is not good for professional.
    When we change weight, the wavy size is automatically changed. We can’t control the size of wave.
    When we need to control the size and shape of wavy line, we have to create appropriate one by Illustrator, then link them. This takes lots of times of us.
    "Wavy line" customize option will definitely help us a lot.
    Japanese clients often designate to use wavy lines to underline.
    With current feature, we can not customize wavy lines.
    To make clients satisfy, we are always struggling against wavy lines!

    (Translated to Japanese)
    タイトル：波線のカスタマイズ機能を追加（太さ／波の高さ・幅・／一重・二重線）

    内容：
    現在の波線機能は、線の太さを変更すると、自動的に波の形状が変わってしまい、
    思い通りの波線にするには、イラストレーターなどで作成し、リンクするなど、
    とても面倒な作業が必要になり、時間も手間もかかります。
    日本では下線に波線を使うことが多いため、「波線カスタマイズ機能」が追加されれば、とても便利になり、時間の節約にもなります。

    We need “Wavy line” customize option, such as:
    (1) weight (2) wave height (3) wavelength (4) single/double line selection
    (see fig1.png and fig2.png)

    Current wavy line design is not good for professional.
    When we change weight, the wavy size is automatically changed. We can’t control the size of wave.
    When we need to control the size and shape of wavy line, we have to create appropriate one by Illustrator, then link them. This takes lots of times of us.
    "Wavy line" customize option will definitely help us a lot.
    Japanese clients often designate to use wavy lines to underline.
    With… more

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12. Relative Link Paths for InDesign

    At this company we work in teams on many project simultaneously along with a massive server of shared assets. Talking to my colleagues in other companies this is quite a common thing these days. We mostly work off of InDesign for the majority of our projects. As InDesign uses linked files for composition/layout, we keep our server organized. All IDD files are worked from directly off of our server, no files are stored on any person's computer locally.

    We don't need to package everything (only rarely, for sharing to external entities) because all of the content already exists on the server.

    The problem we're seeing continually is this: the absolute file path on the server starts off with a person's login to the server, then the file path itself. When someone else opens up the same InDesign file, links are broken because their login to the server is different from the other persons, yet the files have not moved at all.

    Relative file paths would solve this since our file organization does not change.

    Since this type of work environment is happening across major companies that use your app, we believe this isn't an isolated request. It needs to happen ASAP.

    It can be as simple as a setting under general preferences so a person can choose to set up a file with relative or absolute link paths.

    At this company we work in teams on many project simultaneously along with a massive server of shared assets. Talking to my colleagues in other companies this is quite a common thing these days. We mostly work off of InDesign for the majority of our projects. As InDesign uses linked files for composition/layout, we keep our server organized. All IDD files are worked from directly off of our server, no files are stored on any person's computer locally.

    We don't need to package everything (only rarely, for sharing to external entities) because all of the content already exists on the… more

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13. Add support for Case Transformation in GREP Change to field

    GREP Case Transformations in "Change To"

    Add support for case transformation in the replace patterns "Change to" for changing the case of the original text when using subpattern
    replacements.

    \u Make the next character uppercase
    \U Make all following characters uppercase until reaching another case specifier (\u, \L, \l ) or \E
    \l Make the next character lowercase
    \L Make all following characters lowercase until reaching another case specifier (\u, \U, \l ) or \E
    \E End case transformation opened by \U or \L

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    Completed  ·  AdminSanyam Talwar (Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe InDesign) responded

    Hi everyone,

    You can easily change text cases with just a few clicks, ensuring consistency across your designs. This feature streamlines text editing, saving you time and effort. Enhance your workflow by adjusting text case quickly from the Text or GREP tabs of the Find/Change panel. The feature is now available in the latest InDesign 2024(v19.5.0.084) 

    Helpx article - https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/using/whats-new/2024-3.html#change-case

    Please let us know your feedback in the comments.

    —

    Sanyam Talwar(he/him)

14. [ID-4258038] Change the Eyedropper Tool back to default on the tool bar instead of the Color Theme Tool.

    The standard Eyedropper Tool used to be the default option on the Tool bar. This was convenient for sampling colors as well as text styles. Now, there is no way to change the default from the Color Theme Tool to the Eyedropper. The Color Theme Tool has its place in Illustrator, but as InDesign is mostly used for text, it is crucial that the Eyedropper Tool is quickly accessible. In my career, I have barely used the Color Theme Tool in InDesign, whereas I use the Eyedropper daily. It is frustrating for my coworkers and I to now change it every time we open the program, when it was the default for so many years.

    The standard Eyedropper Tool used to be the default option on the Tool bar. This was convenient for sampling colors as well as text styles. Now, there is no way to change the default from the Color Theme Tool to the Eyedropper. The Color Theme Tool has its place in Illustrator, but as InDesign is mostly used for text, it is crucial that the Eyedropper Tool is quickly accessible. In my career, I have barely used the Color Theme Tool in InDesign, whereas I use the Eyedropper daily. It is frustrating for my coworkers and I to now change it… more

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15. Please allow placed PSD layer blend modes to carry over into InDesign

    We build 2-layer Photoshop files for product images. Top layer is product image set to NORMAL blend mode. Bottom layer is shadow of product set to MULTIPLY blend mode. When placed in InDesign the shadow layer does not carry over multiply blending. It knocks out anything under it in InDesign file. Our work around is placing two copies of the PSD file on top of each other. We then have to set the bottom image to Multiply with top layer turned off in Object Layer Options. Then the top image needs to have shadow layer turned off in Object Layer Options. Both are then grouped together. If InDesign would just carry over the multiply properties of the layers, it would greatly reduce amount of work, InDesign file size and potential for errors when updating PSD file link. Please make this happen for the good of mankind.

    We build 2-layer Photoshop files for product images. Top layer is product image set to NORMAL blend mode. Bottom layer is shadow of product set to MULTIPLY blend mode. When placed in InDesign the shadow layer does not carry over multiply blending. It knocks out anything under it in InDesign file. Our work around is placing two copies of the PSD file on top of each other. We then have to set the bottom image to Multiply with top layer turned off in Object Layer Options. Then the top image needs to have shadow layer turned off in Object Layer… more

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16. Would like to be able to include fonts and links from linked Illustrator files when packaging an InDesign file for print

    would like to be able to collect fonts and links in linked AI and PS files when packaging an ID file for print.

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17. Form Field Calculations in InDesign

    With InDesign's form tools, we're missing the ability to add calculations to form fields in InDesign, and that task must be done manually in Acrobat.

    To start, I'd like to be able to build simple calcs into my InDesign forms. Example:

    And expense report has a form field for each day of the week, and then a total for all of the days. Would like a simple summation calc that I could use for rows of fields or columns of fields. Or both!

    Another example: multiplication of quantity times price. Or multiplication of 5% sales tax on an amount field.

    These are very common tasks that must currently be done in Acrobat, which is slow! Plus, in a regular workflow, the designer ends up redoing these manual tasks over and over in Acrobat as the form goes through multiple reviews and approvals.

    If i could do these in InDesign, they'd be done once and then every PDF would have them already built in.

    With InDesign's form tools, we're missing the ability to add calculations to form fields in InDesign, and that task must be done manually in Acrobat.

    To start, I'd like to be able to build simple calcs into my InDesign forms. Example:

    And expense report has a form field for each day of the week, and then a total for all of the days. Would like a simple summation calc that I could use for rows of fields or columns of fields. Or both!

    Another example: multiplication of quantity times price. Or multiplication of 5% sales tax on an amount… more

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18. Opacity of a cell fill

    There needs to be an option to control the opacity of a cell fill.
    The only option now is to go to cell options > Strokes & Fill and change the tint, but the effect is not the same as opacity (that will apply only the fill and not the text in the cell).
    Thank you

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19. Create advanced graphs and charts inside Indesign

    We really need a good and advanced tool for creating graphs and charts inside InDesign. A tool where we can edit what the X and Y axis contain and the ability to custom design of every part of the graph/chart. Maybe also make it work and link with illustrator, because the Illustrator graphs and charts tools REALLY needs updating. It's like these features have been completely neglected for years.

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20. Managing Multiple Sets of Endnotes In a Document AND allowing Endnotes to refer to a separate INDD Document

    Issue #1:
    Here's my first dilemma: I am building a book with several hundred pages. This book will be printed (won't be an eBook/iBook). I'm keeping each chapter as its own document that I will then collect together as a larger Book at the end. The last chapter will be just for all the book's endnotes. In previous versions of InDesign, I would import the Word document, delete the endnotes out of the "Chapter x" document, and pop them back into the "Endnotes chapter" without affecting the superscripts referencing the endnotes throughout the text. Easy. Now, in cc 2018 if I delete the endnotes out of the "Chapter X" document, the reference superscripts throughout the text get deleted as well. I don't want this. Is there any way to disconnect the superscripts in the text from the endnotes? If I must, I can leave the endnotes in a text frame off the page if InDesign MUST have a reference. Which leads me to my next problem:

    Issue #2:
    Each chapter I'm working on has multiple sets of endnotes, i.e. multiple side bars with their own set of endnotes that need to be kept exclusive from the general chapter endnotes. In the previous version, before Indesign could recognize endnotes, it would allow me to have multiple sets of endnotes that don't interact. Now, it's one big run-on list of end notes. Example: I have 10 paragraphs of chapter text, with endnotes #1-5 in it. Then, I have a sidebar that gets inserted after that. At the end of the first sentence in the sidebar, there is an #1 endnote that refers to the sidebar endnotes. However, Indesign converts it to #6, because it's the endnote that falls after #5 in the general chapter.

    Is there a way to fix this so I can restart the numbers for each sidebar? Can this be done with style sheets?

    Issue #1:
    Here's my first dilemma: I am building a book with several hundred pages. This book will be printed (won't be an eBook/iBook). I'm keeping each chapter as its own document that I will then collect together as a larger Book at the end. The last chapter will be just for all the book's endnotes. In previous versions of InDesign, I would import the Word document, delete the endnotes out of the "Chapter x" document, and pop them back into the "Endnotes chapter" without affecting the superscripts referencing the endnotes throughout the text. Easy. Now, in cc 2018 if… more

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