InDesign templates on Adobe Stock need refining
Hey Adobe Stock,
I so love the idea of browsing Adobe Stock for InDesign templates.
Many of the templates are just beautiful.
I imagine the great time savings I am about to enjoy.
But then I begin to deal with paragraph and character styles in a state of confused overrides.
Individual styles are defined in ways that they shouldn't.
Layers are not employed in a consistent, usable way.
Color-block frames are rotated 90 degrees for no reason.
Parent pages disagree with document setups.
Grid and guides need consistency. Frames don't cooperate with grids.
A well-made template might also have notes that warn about the language the template was built in, the color model, the document preference settings, among other things.
Two things are equally important in a template:
The beautiful artistry of the layout and also the efficiency of the fundamental building blocks of long-document needs.
Otherwise, it can lead a user to take longer to produce a finished piece.
And that tends to nullify a principal reason to acquire a template from Adobe Stock in the first place, no?

