Hi
I have just spent 1.5 hours on a chat with your team re using a thesaurus function in InDesign (which there isn't one)
In design is a great product and amazingly intuitive with (almost) all the functions you need to create great documents however to use a simple function like a thesaurus I need to export to a .icml thingy which creates individual files for every chapter or section (filling up my files). Then you have to open each section individually in InCopy, which then creates a document that looks more like a 80' dot-matrix print out with no formatting or font detail etc, do you thesaurus work then hope the changes don't ***** up your formatting in the indesign document when it relinks.

Could I suggest adobe just add a thesaurus tab in InDesign. I can't see it being that difficult, I mean even microsoft has managed to have it in 'word'

Note it is actually easier to just copy text into word, use thesaurus, then copy it back than go through the pain of InCopy

Please just add thesaurus

Thanks
Pete

Hi

I've recently upgraded to a Dell UP2720Q 4K monitor.
Since the upgrade i've notices that inDesign has become nearly unusable, Its slow when selecting objects, editing text, moving things around...

When moving Indesign to my second monitor (eizo s2433w) the problem goes away.

The only fix I have found is to change the display profile to "Apple RGB" in the display settings. This fixes the problem immediately, but now the colours look horrible...

I've also notices this problem with other Adobe apps like, illustrator and photoshop. But Indesign seems to have the worst of it.

1. Version of Adobe InDesign, InCopy or InDesign Server :
   Indesign 15.0.2 on a MAC PRO 2013 macOS 10.15.4




2. Steps to reproduce the issues:
   Using a 4K monitor (Dell UP2720Q)




3. Expected result:
   Normal performance




4. Actual result:
   Slow & stuttering performance

ps; My colleugue has the same DELL Monitor, using it on a Imac 2019. But he has no problems.

When pasting a group of layers from one document to another it would be great of InDesign would honor the sort order when the layers land in the receiving document. Also if the layer colors can stay the same.

I often paste between documents and it is not fun having the manual sort the layers. How about a sort selected layer by "X' as an option. Typically I number these direct mail layers in numerical order.

This is very important with direct mail clients with variable data. The printers prefer all versions for the different branch offices in a 2-page front and back INDD file for both digital and traditional printing as well.

Files can randomly corrupt when using a shared server? Every respectable business uses a shared server! We can't put confidential info on employee desktops as is recommended by Adobe because they can't support a shared server! At minmum if you can't support a shared server then make back up files which can be accessed if a file is corrupt. And no, your recovery option doesn't work when a back up file is corrupt. I've just missed a deadline, spent a ton of money on lost work and need to recreat all the lost work. Thanks Adobe........for nothing!!! Adapt to your users needs, don't ask your users to adapt to yours!!!

Since I've moved to working remotely entirely, I've noticed how quickly using several Adobe programs burns through my laptop battery. I'm running a brand new 16" Macbook Pro with the latest MacOS Catalina version, and I'm lucky if I get an hour and a half of battery life while running InDesign and Illustrator at the same time. When I review what is using the most battery life, my Mac lists InDesign, Illustrator, and Core Sync as the main culprits.

Now, I understand that these programs at times are fairly graphically intensive, but the battery life I'm getting is absymal, and I'm not even currently working on artwork that is using a lot of complex effects; we're talking basic shape and stroke icons and simple text and shape layouts.

Can you please work on optimizing the programs to prevent excessive battery draining? Core Sync in particular is really confusing; what exactly is it doing? I've even paused file syncing, but that hasn't seemed to do anything.

Before updating to the latest version of ID, I would get an error each time I tried to use the <cs> tag to format a cross-reference. It wouldn't let me save the data.

Now it lets me save the data, but it just strips the tag out.

I have a character setting called Bold.

I defined a cross-reference format as:
<cs style="Bold"><fullPara /></cs> on page <pageNum />

I save it, and I click OK. Then I reopen the format page, and it says the following:
<fullPara /> on page <pageNum />

It's like the tag never existed. No matter what I try, the tag never saves. I can apply a character style to the entire cross-reference, but not half of it. It is all or nothing. I can make text changes to the tag like adding quotes without a problem.