Hi community members,As users of InDesign and other lay-outing tools, I want to ask you some questions:What is new in the world of document layouting? Something innovative? For example: Gridifying based on page dimensionsWhat problems are faced in the domain of typography that you think must be solved? For example: #Fontphoria: Adobe MAX 2018 (Sneak Peek) | Adobe Creative Cloud - YouTubeAny smart solutions or workflows you want in the product that can ease work? For example: replacing all missing glyphs in a document in one clickAnything out of the box workflows? For example: Automatically applying fonts to a document based on context...Anything which you feel sounds cool and amazing and is useful?Something which other tools do but not InDesign? For example: Messages in iOS 10: How to Use Emoji Replacement and Prediction - MacRumors Above are just pointers i can think of right now. Would love to hear more such ideas, hurdles and other opinions... I also found one such innovative idea here: Dynamic baseline related unit of measurement – Adobe InDesign FeedbackFYI: The idea is not define the InDesign roadmap or mention bugs. We have a seperate page for that: Adobe InDesign Feedback .The sole purpose of asking this here, is to gain understanding and knowledge regarding what concerns are facing our customers and knowing the innovations they want in the product. (something like InDesign CC 2019 new feature - Content-Aware Fit - YouTube )Please feel free to express your idea even if it is totally weird at its core Thanks,Aman

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Hi community members,

As users of InDesign and other lay-outing tools, I want to ask you some questions:

What is new in the world of document layouting? Something innovative? For example: Gridifying based on page dimensions
What problems are faced in the domain of typography that you think must be solved? For example: #Fontphoria: Adobe MAX 2018 (Sneak Peek) | Adobe Creative Cloud - YouTube
Any smart solutions or workflows you want in the product that can ease work? For example: replacing all missing glyphs in a document in one click
Anything out of the box workflows? For example: Automatically applying fonts to a document based on context...
Anything which you feel sounds cool and amazing and is useful?
Something which other tools do but not InDesign? For example: Messages in iOS 10: How to Use Emoji Replacement and Prediction - MacRumors

Above are just pointers i can think of right now. Would love to hear more such ideas, hurdles and other opinions... I also found one such innovative idea here: Dynamic baseline related unit of measurement – Adobe InDesign Feedback

FYI: The idea is not define the InDesign roadmap or mention bugs. We have a seperate page for that: Adobe InDesign Feedback .

The sole purpose of asking this here, is to gain understanding and knowledge regarding what concerns are facing our customers and knowing the innovations they want in the product. (something like InDesign CC 2019 new feature - Content-Aware Fit - YouTube )

Please feel free to express your idea even if it is totally weird at its core

Thanks,

Aman

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Work on improving the text layout engine.

When working with span/split columns it creaks. Really slow.

When working with balanced columns, it creaks.

A lot of anchored objects in a document also slow things to a crawl.

How about removing the limitation that anchored objects can't cause text wrap to text that comes before them, only to text that comes after? That would be useful!

How about inline/anchored objects that "float"? Meaning that if there is not enough space for them on one page, they will appear on the next page, and meanwhile the text will flow to fill the gap on the previous page...

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Easier changing and creating InDesign documents via API (.NET Core).

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JamieMcKee

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What problems are faced in the domain of typography that you think must be solved?

User-defined font mapping. For instance, the font Frutiger's italic isn't called "Italic", it's called "56 Italic". InDesign should be smart enough to know...or we should be allowed to map to the italic version of the font. So if I set my "Italic" Character Style to italic and apply it to Times, I get Times Italic, but if I apply it to Frutiger, I don't get pink boxes, I get Frutiger 56 Italic. Same as if I'm using a Semibold or Display style of a font such as Arno Pro so that if I apply my "Italic" Character Style to a word set with Arno Display, I don't get pink boxes, I get Arno Display Italic.

Haeme Ulrich

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In my field of activity, the integration of InDesign into multi-channel workflows is very important. This is because print is no longer the most important output channel for most of our customers. So there is less budget for print. Print must become cheaper. By far the most important would be a connection to standard Web CMS such as WordPress and Drupal.

We are also eagerly awaiting InDesign in the cloud