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What do you want to see in InDesign CS4?

InDesignCS4.com has a simple question:

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What do you want to see in InDesign CS4?

I’m a simple man. I actually wouldn’t mind seeing less features. As well as, of course, stability and reliability.

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17 Responses to “What do you want to see in InDesign CS4?”

  1. Dan VL Says:
    March 14th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Just give me a stable program that is compatible with the latest Apple OS. CS3 has been an absolute nightmare.

  2. Juliet Says:
    April 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    A tool like the paintbrush in Word, which I can use to highlight a formatted word or stretch of text and then apply to an unformatted bit of text and have it adopt that exact same formatting. Sometimes applying an entire style–paragraph or character–can be way too cumbersome.

  3. Graham Woods Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    Its time to move on - I have been waiting for Adobe to produce templates for custom folders, envelopes and simple packaging, surely it’s simple enough for a programmer to write:

    Surface 1 depth_width_?
    Surface 2 depth_ width_?
    Card weight_?
    ta dah! a perfect piece of packaging, complete with bleed, glue tabs & a cutter guide.

    But no…I just have to slog on drawing it all manually in Adobe illustrator layers.

  4. michael Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 8:58 am

    i would like to see a core setting tool, that allows me to control the cpu power (mac) with indesign. (ex. 2 cores work with indesign, one with ps and finally the rest with other apps). than i would like to see a special toolbox for textdesign, but with effects like distort perspectively and so on…

  5. Peter Says:
    April 25th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    Book indexing that works.

  6. Sebastian Says:
    April 26th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    - multiple page sizes in one document
    - integrate an improved version of illustrator into indesign ;-)

  7. Corinne Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 12:00 am

    Right on, Dan VL! Get CS3 working right with Leopard NOW. The problems with InDesign CS3, actually the whole CS3 suite, have been reported for over 7 months and still no fix. Unacceptable.

    Going back to my old G4 with Tiger & CS2.

  8. Mark Says:
    May 29th, 2008 at 8:35 am

    a program that doesn’t freeze every five minutes (and usually in even less time than that) ..

  9. Aleks Says:
    June 2nd, 2008 at 10:58 am

    i would like to see better work with tables and table style!

  10. Casey Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 2:59 am

    On April 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm, Juliet said:

    “A tool like the paintbrush in Word, which I can use to highlight a formatted word or stretch of text and then apply to an unformatted bit of text and have it adopt that exact same formatting. Sometimes applying an entire style–paragraph or character–can be way too cumbersome.”

    Check out the eyedropper tool for what you’re looking for…

  11. Aleksandar Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    Support for serbian language.

  12. cmac Says:
    June 14th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

    Would love to see export to xhtml that actually resembles the look in Indesign. Fireworks is getting close… but ID to XHTML would be great.

    C-

  13. Dary Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

    - Connection to Database for scripting & dynamic contents. (such as Spreadsheets, Access, SQL, ODBC,..)
    - More Easy working with XML.

  14. Daniel Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Swatches palette similar to that of Illustrator CS3 or the same as well as a similar system of layering, what a novel concept. Opacity masks, booklet feature like that of CS2, using linked indesign files. The ability to center text in a text frame vertically that has rounded corners. I could go on and on, these are just a few off of the top of my head.

  15. nat case Says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    PDF export that uses frames to crop to visible artwork… You can export EPS and Distill it now, but that’s a silly extra step.

  16. Zeljko Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    - Indexing of names and words on the way that InDesign can automaticly capture first few letters of the word I wish to put into index
    - Replacing fonts through all documents in book (not only one by one document)
    - Braking cells in tables that can’t stand on one page
    - Converting all text in document to outlines (not only page by page)
    - Brush strokes from Illustrator to be in InDesign
    - Support for dual core computers (e. with fisicaly two “quad” cores)
    - Vertical justification also in frames with rounded corners
    - Possibility to save all InDesign preferences, not only keyboard shortcuts

  17. Alice Quint Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm

    I’d like to see an application that worked without crashing 5 times a day. That would be new and different.

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