Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Sorting alphabetically (A-Z) and all other languages
This is very important feature for any application deal with text and books.
i think i don't need to mention that other applications like Ms word have that option.it is really important that InDesign should have sorting option for paragraphs/text and tables.
it is disappointed that in that time still sorting options is not exist in InDesign.
2 votes -
color labels onto style-groups
I would appreciate to have the possibility giving colors to style groups. Like the layer-labels in Photoshop. If you have many styles, you would have a better optical separation.
6 votes -
Add brackets and arcs as underline options
To signal a contraction of a word, or a relation between two words, it would be helpful to have brackets and arcs (like slurs in a musical sheet) as underline options. This would simplify the edition of dictionaries and musical text.
See the examples attached.3 votes -
Dragon by Nuance to dictate directly into InDesign
This is an ADA accessibility issue.
Allow Dragon by Nuance to dictate text directly into InDesign. (Mac, Dragon 6.0.7).
This is been a constant problem with compatibility between Dragon and InDesign. I've spoken with both companies help departments about this and each blames the other for not being compatible.
That is where things stood until for different problem I had to have Adobe help via remote access login as root and remove all Adobe installations and files.
After complete reinstall of Adobe products in design accepted dictation from Dragon for about three days. This to me indicates it is a…
6 votes -
OpenType-"O" on textframes: More a viewing-option than in preference
As an element on my image/text-frames I would expect this OpenType feature to turn on/off in the "Viewing-options » Extras" like corner-effects or link status, tho its an advanced input.
1 vote -
Export JPG with specific name and as a background task
Now that many users are using INDD to prepare web graphics INDD needs a feature to be able to name the page so when the pages are exported as JPGs or PNGs they are named properly.
I found a script to do this but it would be great to build this into the application. All that would be needed is a variable where we could add the name and INDD would look at that text frame to name the exported files.
This is important to do it this way so this can be a feature of data merge as well.…
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In some jurisdictions they may have to have line numbers, but not in Federal or any that I practice in.
In some jurisdictions they may have to have line numbers, but not in Federal or any that I practice in.
A TOA is a table containing the name of all cases, statutes and other authorities used in the document and the page reference.
One complex is that the reference in the table may be slighly different from that in the text.
The table entry may look liked
ABC v. XYZ, 123 F.3d 456 (12th Cir. 1992) .... 4, 5, 10, 16
The references in the text may look like
ABC v. XYZ, 123 F.3d 456, 460-461 (12th Cir. 1992) …
3 votes -
share for review improvement
Hi Adobe, share for review is an amazing feature. Three simple features I'm really missing
- A button where my client can officialy approve the design
- An option to show higher res pdf's
- Copy paste possibility from the review in Indesign: as a designer you need to copy new given texts from clients. Now I have to type everything with the possibility of mistakes. Moreover, a lot of designers are more visually focussed and sometimes even dyslectic. A must have and simple feature in my eyes.
18 votes -
Make XML tags and attributes export as "hidden text" in Word so that it can be reimported
Enable XML structure export to Word by formatting the exported tags and attributes in the same way that index entries are formatted. I need to preserve the XML when exporting to Word and then reimporting the updated Word file.
2 votes -
New Pdf notes, needs a tool to move them out of of the way when working. and needs to stop zooming out when you click on the note text.
With PDF notes in indesign, the comment icon covers the spot that you need to make the changes. they need to be waaaay smaller or transparent or easy to move. and when you click on the comments to work out which comments are for what note icon, it zooms out rather than just panning to the icon. That would be fine, but when you have lots of stuff in the doc, indesign takes ages to zoom in and out.
4 votes -
Add preflight flags for specific paragraph and character styles
The preflight panel is quite powerful and useful. I think it could be improved by adding the ability to flag specific font styles. For example, when working on a document, I use a character style to add highlight to text in need of revision. If the preflight panel could flag the text with that style applied, it would be easier to locate the items needing revision.
2 votes -
Select multiples image via Links pallet and set to "multiply"
I design auction catalogues with upwards of 350 images per catalogue. We often have auction lot numbers and text close to the image so I like to select images to Multiply so no text is accidentlly hidden. I manually have to do per each spread. It would be nice to do in one step by selecting all images in links palette and setting to Multiply.
2 votes -
Hyphenation
I'm working on a huge table and as far as I can see, there's no way to select every cell and just turn off hyphenation. For some reason half the options with editing text formatting just aren't available for text in tables. You can turn off hyphenation if you go one cell at a time, but this isn't really feasible all the time.
2 votes -
Windows within Pages Panel
When working on a long document, you may need to refer back to an earlier page for information or formatting consistency. An easy way to do this would be to allow for the Pages Panel to be subdivided into windows or views of the overall docuement. That way when you are at page 120 and need to look at 80, you could simply get 80 in one window and 120 and its adjacent pages in the other. You would then be able to toggle back and forth without having to scroll all the way up and down through the whole…
4 votes -
Jesus! I pay a frickin' fortune for this software, but I can only have support for Arabic if I have an African release of InDesign.
Just put in the frickin support for right to left text already. FFS you should hang your heads in shame Adobe
2 votes -
Add a note for paragraph and character styles
Add a text field (doesn't need to be really long, maybe 255 characters?) to allow users to make notes about their styles!
2 votes -
Use of Adobe Camera Raw (engine) on Stock Images or CC Libs
inDesign requires a way to incorporate the Adobe Camera Raw engine, because there is really NO need for a graphic designer to open an image into Photoshop to just adjust the lighting.
Right now, the process of adjusting the Colors of any image brought inside of inDesign (exception be made of the gray scale images that can be tinted), consists in opening the file inside Photoshop, editing, saving back to see the adjustments.
If the original was a .PSD, this is still a non destructive workflow.
Now, with a .JPG image I have 2 choices :
1. I only need…3 votes -
Make an option for "freezing" document window during searches
Currently, when executing a series of finds, a document with spreads will jump around within a window, even if view is set to "fit spread in window," as described in this post:
The expected behavior is that the page where the text is found should be centered on the page. That does not work with spreads. If panels are open on the side of the window, found text can frequently be hidden from view.
So I believe there is a bug with the expected behavior. But it would be even better than the expected behavior if there were a…
4 votes -
Automatic Type Stacking
A feature that automatically arranges and resizes stacked type in a text box, similar to the "Capitalise and Fit" feature in Adobe Spark.
2 votes -
Shading and Underline conflict
Some underline strokes become invisible when Paragraph Shading is applied.
If removed shading then strokes appear.
That's a bug, shading always must go bottom.
Two screenshots are from Indesign, with and without paragraph shading. The last screenshot is from Acrobat, i've deleted manually gray frames to reveal the hidden strokes.10 votes
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