Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests
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Please fix text boxes after accepting a PDF comment
When importing PDF comments and accepting the markup/comment, the text box becomes unresponsive until you click off and back on multiple times. This has been an unaddressed bug for years. I am working on a catalogue with over 1,000 comments, this is going to double the time it takes to work on each page. Please fix this bug
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Add Basque - Euskera Dictionary in Indesign default Dictionaries
Add Basque - Euskera Dictionary in Indesign default Dictionaries, There are a lot of user manually doing Hypen.
We have the Hunspell Dictionary and we have been using it adding the .aff and .dic files that have worked until the 2020 version of Adobe Indesign but are no longer valid in later versions. Please share how to add hunspell dictionaries in new versions or add basque to indesgn´s default dictionaries. Thanks,.2 votes -
Button to uniform Master page(s) margins to the whole Document margins
In the Layout/Margins and Coloumns window menu when I have selected a Master Page, I find no way to re-uniform the margins to the original margins set for the entire document. This would be a useful feature: when I changed the format adding 4mm to my 17x24 cm to be 17x24,4cm as the standard used by Amazon kdp for paper format, I would like to preserve the preceding paging by adding 2 mm to the inferior and superior margins. I did it in the menu File/set document for the whole document, but I saw my pages did not update since…
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Check GenAI Images in Preflight
Add GenAI images to Preflight profiles. This is especially important since GenAI images default to saving to the user's computer, which is not ideal in a collaborative environment where other users will see broken links.
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Color Swatch Info
Please add the Color Swatch Info creation feature from Illustrator to InDesign. Not sure why this wasn't added along with the Illustrator one? It would be extremely useful in both apps, since InDesign is also used to create styleguides.
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Folder coloring in styles (paragraph, character, table)
It would be nice if InDesign had the ability to colorize paragraph, table, character style folders like Photoshop has in layers.
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Colorizing folders in paragraph, charakters, table styles
It would be nice if InDesign had the ability to colorize paragraph and character style folders like Photoshop has in layers.
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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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Regarding the InDesign file font pointing confusion: Wish Adobe would provide 3 options.
Regarding the InDesign file font pointing confusion:
Wish Adobe would provide 3 options.
I receive InDesign files from a lot of different people when I'm actually working.
Although they are all packaged and given to me later, they also copy all the fonts into the Documents Fonts directory.
However, when I open them, some of the fonts in the files do not point to Documents Fonts, but to the “C:windows\fonts” directory, and the fonts have changed and become different from the previous one, and sometimes they are not even prompted.Some of the fonts I have on my computer may…
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Non-Linear History and Undos - By page
Much like paste, paste into, paste in place, undos should be able to have some added features. Photoshop has non-linear history, which feels confusing to undo a brush from 10 steps ago. However, InDesign would greatly benefit from current page specific history, undos, searching, text, edits etc.
An example, my workflow for placing graphics and prepping captions in a document, is to do one task at a time page by page. I also use transform again individually to apply things like rotation to existing graphics, or frame fitting if I'm placing a graphic somewhere. When placing a graphic into an…
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Search features for Paragrapch and Character Style Sheets
I work with very large publications, and sometimes will get them from a previous designer. When making design changes, it's essential to be able to find the old styles throughout the book to make adjustments instead of deleting an entire style and have it reflow everything.
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add a notes column to book
In the Books panel it would be nice to have a column to enter comments.
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Enhancements Needed for InDesign's Font and Shortcut Menus
- Search Functionality in Keyboard Shortcut Settings
In Photoshop, the keyboard shortcut settings include a search function that facilitates quick navigation through extensive menus. Implementing a similar feature in InDesign would streamline workflow efficiency.
- Improved Font Menu Navigation
The current font dropdown menu displays a limited number of typefaces, necessitating extensive scrolling. Expanding the dropdown to utilize the full screen height would allow more fonts to be visible simultaneously, reducing the need for excessive scrolling.
Additionally, when searching for a font, the cursor defaults to the top of the menu, highlighting the last used font. Positioning the cursor directly at the…
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Improving InDesign for Enhanced Efficiency
- Customizable Shortcuts: Personalize keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation and improved workflow.
2.Enhanced Collaboration: Strengthen real-time collaboration tools to allow multiple users to work on documents simultaneously.
3.Performance Optimization: Focus on improving InDesign’s performance for handling large files and complex layouts with ease.
Integration with Other Tools: Improve compatibility with other Adobe Suite programs and third-party apps for a seamless design process.
Incorporating Example Work: If you see an example on InDesign, vist here :https://thoresta.se/ to explore real-world applications and gain inspiration for your own designs.
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Layer options
If you delete a layer, can you include an option to place all it's contents into another layer.
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Export Selected Objects to PDF.
Hello. I need to export selected objects to PDF in Indesign as we do for PNG. This is possible in Illustrator but not in Indesign. It would be good if it could work with object styles. Export all objects in a style to PDF one by one.
I am working for education technology. I am writing content in Indesign and after using this content to prepare different books. So I need to split each question or content.
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make option to deactivate swatch sync when synchronizing paragraph/character styles
In InDesign 19.5.:
"Swatches synchronize when object, paragraph, or character styles are selected in the Synchronize Options dialog."However, working with a book document with different color shemes in each chapter, this is a huge inconvinience for me.
I want to be able to sync my settings without syncing the colors, as they are deliberatly different in each chapter.
This change would cause the need to make a character/paragraph/object style for each chapter, causing the number of styles to be hard to manage.
Otherwise, I would have to change the colors after every sync or won't be able to use…2 votes -
Dimensioning Tool
Take the Dimensioning Tool in Illustrator and put it in InDesign.
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Add a tab feature that automatically sets even spacing between words or blocks of text
When creating forms, I often have a line of text where I need to break the line into individual words or groups of words, similar to placing them in columns, but it's done using tab stops. It would be great to have a tab feature that lets you automatically set the tab distance between each word group so that the spacing between each word group is consistent. Right now it has to be done manually setting multiple tab stops on each line, which is time-consuming.
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Global Edit
It would be extremely helpful to have a global edit feature like Illustrator. For example, I created a 2 layer text "graphic" to use as an indicator multiple times across a 12 page document. Once it printed, I realized the opacity was too high so it wasn't legible. Now I have to go and edit each individual instance of the exact same item or edit, and paste/duplicate it all over again. If Global Edit was a feature, I could select the object, select Global Edit, and make changes 1 time applying it to ever other instance automatically.
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