Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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1. Description
2. Why is this valuable to you?
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Add "Align to guides" option in Align panel
It would be useful to add to the options already present in the Align panel (selection, page, margin, key object) also "align to guides": the selected object would be aligned to the first nearest guide, vertically or horizontally, depending on the button pressed (top, right, left, bottom).
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Ability to change the DEFAULT setting for Object Layer Options to 'Use PDF's Layer Visibility'
Offer a way (ideally in preferences) to change the default setting in Object Layer Options for "When Updating Link" to be set to either 'Keep Layer Visibility Overrides' OR 'Use PDF's Layer Visibility'.
At present it always defaults to 'Keep Layer Visibility Overrides,' and adjustments have to be made manually.
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Data Merge for double-sided prints
Description
Allow Data Merge to generate fronts and backs across facing pages (e.g., page 1 fronts, page 2 backs) for multiple records.Why valuable?
It would eliminate manual workarounds when producing double-sided personalized items like event badges, saving time and reducing errors.Why is this valuable for me?:
I want to create double-sided badges for participants of an event.
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New features for XML automation
Being able to insert instructions in an XML text to apply styles (object, paragraph, text) to the InDesign document or its parts when the XML file is loaded.
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Auto-size new option
It would also be useful for an anchored object to be able to set Auto-size to the width of the container object (e.g., in percentage), in a way similar to what is possible with CSS.
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Text Frame new options
It would be interesting if, in the Text Frame Options, there were an option to set a maximum size for both height and width. Thanks
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Adding new layers to a PSD shouldn’t reset all instances
I really hate it when I’m working with a layered PSD file in InDesign where I have different layers of the image turned on and off throughout a layout and then if I edit the PSD and add any new layers, when I come back to InDesign, instead of just updating the layers that were turned on, it resets every instance of that PSD and I have to manually go and turn all of the specific layers back on/off for each instance. Why can’t it be smart enough to keep the layers on that were on and just update like…
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Adding new layers to a PSD shouldn’t reset all instances in the layout
I really hate it when I’m working with a layered PSD file in InDesign where I have different layers of the image turned on and off throughout a layout and then if I edit the PSD and add any new layers, when I come back to InDesign, instead of just updating the layers that were turned on, it resets every instance of that PSD and I have to manually go and turn all of the specific layers back on/off for each instance. Why can’t it be smart enough to keep the layers on that were on and just update like…
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drop caps
Hi.
im editing books in hebrew and I'm trying to do a drop cap not for only one letter or more, but insted for one word.
so I think it will be great if you could add this feature that allowing to choose the option of one word.
also in the same subject, Indesign styling the drop cap by it self, its not letting you to change the size of the drop cap. so if you could add this one it will great for all the pepolr whom editing books in hebrew.1 vote -
Preview Checkbox for Polygon Tool
I'd love to see a preview checkbox added to the Polygon Tool.
When you click on your artboard with the Polygon Tool selected, some options come up to make adjustments to the shape. It's difficult to know how your changes to these settings is adjusting the resulting shape without a preview tool.
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Document resizing without layout adjust
For me, the "feature" Adjust layout is always seemingly active when I change the document size, even though I have turned it off (or rather, never turned it on); my content elements move around on the screen when I change the document size. Which has always annoyed me.
However, today I found an explanation, at least in part. It's only the elements that are placed outside the document area, on the pasteboard, that jump around. And they do so in relation to the pasteboard. Anything placed on the document area, wholly or in part, stays where it should be.
So,…
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Auto size headshots in frames based on a "key object" frame
Similar to how Photoshop has facial recognition, a lot of the time in my job I have to place many headshots in a grid of frames, etc. and they're not all the same resolution, crop or size. It would be awesome to have a feature that lets you select all of the frames with face photos, then click one of the frames like setting the "key object" and then InDesign will size the headshot images within the rest of the frames to match the cropping of the "key object" so everything looks consistent.
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Custom organization of links panel
Options within Links Panel to sort links not by name/page/location folder, but into custom folders or priority. Allow users to place links at the top that are changed or edited more frequently. Current issue is job requires me to change multiple logo files spread throughout document quickly. If multiple instances are grouped, sorting by layer does not work and layer will also sort by layer name and not top layer. Letting users set priority status to links or create & name custom folders within the links panel can help find things quickly.
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la fonction de contour d'illustrator qui permet d'avoir des lignes de plusieurs sortes serait trés utile dans indesign
le panneau contour dans illustrator serai incroyablement utile dans in design, pour éviter les aler -retours qui sont une incryable perte de temps
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Stop snapping to pixel or give us option to disable
Give us the option to not snap to pixel when the ruler is set to measure in pixels.
Fine to snap to pixels when drawing boxes and lines. But completely useless for text and anything with a curve.
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Autolayout
Have something similar to autolayout to push content when text-box is longer.
Indesign have so many potential and late on everything.1 vote -
Stack function, just like in Adobe Xd
This function is just too good, explained here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/xd/help/create-dynamic-designs-with-stacks.html
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Import PSDT
Add the ability to import .PSDT
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Generative Layout Cleanup
One of the most onerous, time-consuming tasks I deal with as a production designer is fixing layouts from designers who don't understand paragraph styles and efficient layout (No shade! They have other things to focus on and hey… that's why my job exists!)
I would like an AI that can recognize multiple separate type objects on a page, combine them into single text boxes with paragraph styles that control spacing.
In the screenshots, you first see a typical "designer" layout (again, no shade) with ten separate objects with formatting for each applied on top of the default Basic Paragraph style.
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Dimensioning Tool
Take the Dimensioning Tool in Illustrator and put it in InDesign.
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