Alan Gilbertson

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  1. PLEASE!!!! The most powerful design app in the world, and after all these years STILL no HSB in the color picker.

    98 votes
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    16 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Colors/Swatches  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  2. Select objects with similar stroke and/or fill color

    11 votes
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  3. Give icons in the Corner Options dialogue their proper orientation

    15 votes
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  4. Please add an Ink Manager indicator in Swatches panel

    13 votes
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  5. Shared files in Dropbox should alert other file users if the file is open

    10 votes
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  6. Outline Stroke

    18 votes
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  7. Properties Panel - make it customisable

    21 votes
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  8. Export PDF comments

    16 votes
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    2 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » PDF Export  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  9. select similar

    45 votes
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  10. Would like to be able to include fonts and links from linked Illustrator files when packaging an InDesign file for print

    47 votes
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    3 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Print/Packaging  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  11. Copy GREP styles from one Paragraph Style to another

    20 votes
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    3 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » UI  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Alan Gilbertson commented  · 

    There are times when a paragraph style can't be "Based on..." the one that has the needed GREP style. It's relatively rare, but it does happen.

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  12. Forced line breaks within text variables introduces an unavoidable letter space

    51 votes
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    6 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Text and Type  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  13. Anchored Objects need be able to apply a text wrap when placed before their anchor point in text

    109 votes
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    6 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Layout/Graphics etc  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  14. Allow more formatting of running heads

    26 votes
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    9 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Long Document Features  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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    Alan Gilbertson commented  · 

    Meanwhile, you could try using two frames on the master page, one for each variable.
    The current problem with all text variables is that what's actually inserted in the frame is a single hidden character that references the text in the document, not the text itself. Being a single character, it can't have two character styles applied to diferent parts, nested styles don't apply, and GREP styles don't see text, just that hidden character. That's also why text variables can only sit on a single line, and if that is too long for the frame it gets squished.
    I don't know what the engineering would have to be to change this behavior, but I'm guessing it's not trivial. For the moment, these problems are inherent in the basic architecture of the function. Hopefully, understanding the limitations might help with ideas for working around them.

  15. Make it obvious in the Page palette when a page dimension has been changed with the Page tool

    25 votes
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    5 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Document/Pages  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  16. Save Preferences

    165 votes
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    10 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » UI  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  17. Eliminate document size limits

    5 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Document/Pages  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Alan Gilbertson commented  · 

    Working to scale in InDesign is no different than working to scale in Photoshop. I do highway billboards in InDesign (38'x14' and similar sizes), and the process is easier and faster than doing the same thing in Photoshop. Besides, the document size limitation is built into Acrobat/Distiller/PDF, so it would be of no value to make InDesign's document size larger.

    Don't work full scale on oversize grande format projects. You're wasting immense amounts of time for no added value.

  18. Display line number for each line in InDesign document

    35 votes
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    10 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Layout/Graphics etc  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    Alan Gilbertson commented  · 

    This is a critically important item in long document/book publishing. When a draft layout is sent for proofing, corrections can be referenced by page and line number to make the correction cycle quick and accurate. I have even done these changes live while on a call with the client on a hot deadline. The current workaround is to set up line numbers on their own layer on the master pages, but this is a multi-step process and awkward by comparison.

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  19. Make text variables/live captions breakable like normal text

    255 votes
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    39 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Long Document Features  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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  20. Repeat last action feature

    40 votes
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    19 comments  ·  Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests » Scripting  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
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