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  1. Pressure Sensitive Brush Pen (Vector brush to use with pressure sensitive pens)

    Many professional artists use some sort of pressure sensitive pen like Wacom (Cintiq) or the much cheaper and equally good HUION tablets).

    InDesign has a vector pen tool, with which professionals can write, scribble, design and create personalised unique graphic images, with a freedom that no other text/font ever can proviude. But this vector pen tool does NOT support pressure sensitivity.

    Enabling pressure sensitivity (think of it as a simplified Brush Pen tool of illustrator) will allos professionals to directly in our most beloved favorite design program!

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  2. Ability to name pages and export individual pages as separate indesign files.

    How is it that illustrator is a better tool for creating mechanicals in 2022?

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  3. alignment and custom footnotes etc

    I would like to see some more feature as described below, so this powerful too will be a step ahead for an Advance Page Layout tool. Here are some of them:

    1. Some custom footnotes so can can add daggers and other symbols exactly like MSWord not the current features. This should be like first symbol, then 1, 2, 3 etc.

    2. Customizing Text box sequence so it will be more intuitive for numbering figures. Think about I've add 100 of figures numbering text box using numbering features, then at editing page need to rearrange/adding/remove some figures, in this it won't work…

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  4. CMD+CornerRotation unsed, idea: Rotate around anchorpoint

    While rotating an object with the default tool (not the rotation tool), the CMD-key is unused.

    shift+rotate = rotate in 45° steps
    alt+rotate = rotate and make duplicate
    shift+alt+rotate = rotate in 45° steps and make duplicate

    cmd+rotate => rotate around the anchored point
    cmd+alt+...
    cmd+shift+...
    cmd+alt+shift+...

    You get the idea.

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  5. Online publishing and interactivity needs importvments

    1- make it responsive so it will fill in the screen
    2- add navigation (TOC) on the side
    3- better way to mange multiple publications, possibly folders..
    4- Adding custom URL, for example: Comapnyname.com/issue 01
    5- Allow publishing from another adobe ID, this would be great for teams so the publication isn't tied to one person. Maybe the publishing can be directly in the dashboard, for example: user login into the dash board, select new publication or exciting one, the click publish to get indesign file to be uploaded or opened on the computer and automatically published. this way we…

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  6. Idea to create a simpler way to type on path with ellipse / circle

    I wish you could create a better and simpler way to type on path, especially on ellipses / circles. It's SUPER difficult when you have to work with multiple lines in a circle, like we used to on a CD for example.

    My pitch:
    What if we could treat typing on path like a text box? So you draw the ellipse / shape from the Type on Path menu, and the text automatically gets treated as if Typing on a line / shape?
    And when you press Return, it behaves like it would in a paragraph (text going to the…

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  7. Highlighting Currently Edited Document In Book

    on to Hello there,

    I edit two copies of a book open at once, each one a different format. If you look at the picture you will see what the two books look like in the books editor-kind of. I am migrating one copy of my book from A4 to ePub for Kindle (why don't you support the .mobi Kindle format or get Amazon to write a plugin for the purpose? I am forced to use Word to write a kindle book). The file are in two different folders. The files have the same name for each book.

    It would…

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  8. Regarding Parliamentary chart

    Can I expect the Parliamentary chart tool or script in Indesign? I have created script for Indesign and Illustraror of both... Its working fine.

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  9. possibility for replacing image frame

    I want the possibility to replace image frame with any other frame from my choice or my creation ( Ex : pen tool ) in InDesign

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  10. Flag Adobe fonts in document as "Mandatory: Use TypeKit"

    We have multiple versions of fonts available in our environment (Type1, TT, and access to TypeKit) so having the ability to indicate specific fonts as "Mandatory use from Adobe Fonts/Typekit" would be helpful. In essence, the user wouldn't have to manually activate/deactivate to achieve the correct combination of fonts.
    For example, the user may have Proxima Nova family Type 1 active, but the document correctly shows the TypeKit fonts as missing. They then activate their TT family, which also fails. They tend to not think of Typekit as it's not searchable in our font management tool.
    Using the Document Fonts…

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  11. An option to rotate multiple items around their individual centers

    I'd love to be able to use a modifier with the Rotate Tool and rotate multiple selected items around their individual anchor points.

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  12. Include 2 or 3 InCopy licenses in CC or InDesign subscriptions or MAKE IT FREE!

    InCopy is a great collaboration tool between two or more people.

    But the way Creative Cloud subscription is going, InDesign is a powerful tool to me, but InCopy is totally USELESS. As a designer (not writer), I never need to use InDesign and InCopy at same time. In fact, I never need to use InCopy myself at all. InDesign along with InCopy suppose at least two people working on same job. Most of time the writer, who could actually use InCopy, is my client. It makes no sense to include InDesign and InCopy expecting that the same person will use…

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  13. Ability to set Style Override Highlighter as "on" or "off" in preferences

    Currently the Style Override Highlighter [+] in the various styles panels functions as a toggle on a per app basis, not as an "on" or "off" preference setting. This means it can't be set on a document by document basis, as enabling it will actually toggle the setting to "off" if a user has the setting switched "on" in their copy of InDesign.

    Would greatly appreciate the ability to set this as a normal InDesign preference - ie one that can be set at application/document level, the same as almost every other setting in the program.

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  14. Show error when paragraph composer cannot render lines

    All too often, I run into text that doesn't render because of some feature of the text (unsure of all cases, but examples are words that exceed the line length, common in some languages and in URLs). I have a stable of techniques for dealing with these issues, but most usually I'm poking around in the dark: the lines I'm trying to fix are not visible in InDesign; I don't know what exactly is offensive (e.g., Chinese lines were usually things work, but sometimes they don't); and the offending text might have gremlins from the source text that are not…

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  15. Fix bugs when reviewing

    On the review end, When entering the password for the like, the "verify not human" pictograms pop up and repeats. Then the pin tool does not link to the comments.

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  16. Equation Editor for Mac OS version

    It is very sad that Adobe relies so heavily on third party developer to fix issues for services that we CC subscribers pay for already. It is very dissapppointing that I have to search the internet for an app or plugin to do something that should be built into a product such as Indesign. I should not have to purchase anything that creates a function that this software should provide based on the context of what it is supposed to do. Indesign is in all forms a layout and typeset application that for the steep cost should provide the ability…

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  17. Guide feature

    I think any feature of guiding new people who are using for the first time will be very helpful.

    You can also check this article - https://opencloudmanifesto.org/quickbooks-tool-hub/

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  18. A simple quick command for flipping and rotating objects

    I use the flip and rotate tool quick commands within illustrator all the time and am frustrated by all the clicking I have to do in indesign to do the same thing.

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  19. Update Hyperlinks after destination file rename

    Hi there and thanks for this wonderful tool!

    Usually I always find a way to do what I want thanks to ExtendScript which is just amazing.

    However in this case it seems that it's not possible (https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/target-the-source-hyperlink-destination-document-of-an-hyperlinks/m-p/11498930)

    I am now working on a very long document that we split in three .indd files and have dozens of hyperlinks in each file to jump from one file to another.

    Let's say they are called:

    P_EN_v1.0.indd
    Q_EN_v1.0.indd
    R_EN_v1.0.indd
    

    If we find things to update in those files then we would like to share new versions with attendants to our event…

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  20. Shutterstock watermark alert

    The Shutterstock plugin is a great tool for easy access to the image database. Drag and drop the desirable picture into the lay-out.
    It would help if watermark pictures would be detected while exporting to pdf.

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