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October 15, 2025
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Radial Menu for InDesign

  • October 15, 2025
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Development is still ongoing, but if you're a beginner, or perhaps someone who tends to remember birthdays rather than keyboard shortcuts, this might be for you. Pay attention! This powerful tool is in early development and always creates a "Radial Menu" around your cursor, giving you much faster access to all your tools, for instance.
The radial menu isn't just for tools—you can launch anything through it: your favorite InDesign scripts, open frequently used folders, create and place custom library elements into a document, launch your favorite playlist, open 10 tabs in Chrome, scrape text from a website, translate selected text in InDesign and paste it directly into the document in the desired language... essentially, anything you can think of.
It's possible to create profiles, menu designs, custom sounds, submenus and many other settings.
I am not the original author of the Radial Menu; I am creating a modification of it for practical use within InDesign.
 
Contribution Welcome
The menu design consists only of PNG files in specific sizes. If anyone is interested in helping me create a unique design, I would be happy to collaborate. If anyone would like to contribute ideas and modifications for what the menu could contain, I welcome anyone who wants to participate.
WINDOWS ONLY – The final version will also be available for free.
 

Radial Menu for InDesign – Status Update

Implemented Features:

  • Script Category: Contains several popular user scripts.

  • Menu Scripts Category: Invokes specific menus from InDesign (not custom scripts).

  • Quick Access Category: Offers essential steps and functions for working with documents.

  • Mouse Gestures Category (In Progress): Provides various functions triggered by mouse movement combined with a key press. For example:

    • Holding the WIN key and moving the mouse to the left will decrease the size of the selected object by 1 mm.

    • Holding the WIN key and moving the mouse up will move the selected objects to the top layer. Moving the mouse down will move them one layer below.


Development & Design:

I write the scripts myself. The radial menu's design has been harmonized with the darker GUI version of InDesign.

Nothing is set in stone, and the radial menu is still under active development. Its final form is yet to be determined. I would welcome anyone who is interested in collaborating on this project with me.

The script includes many other features, such as undo/redo steps, automatic export to a PDF folder next to the InDesign document, and many more functions that will be detailed in the documentation. I am also preparing a dedicated YouTube video with a thorough description of the entire radial menu.

A Question for the Adobe Team:

Don't you think a Radial Menu (or "Pie Menu") would be a useful tool that should be an integral part of InDesign? (Similar to applications like Blender, Unity, and many others.)


Try It Out:

Screenshots are attached below. The project is already in its alpha version and available for testing.


Once again, this is Windows only.

Thank you.

 
Let's make InDesign even more user-friendly with this great tool.

1 reply

Abhishek Rao
Community Manager
Abhishek RaoCommunity Manager
Community Manager
October 15, 2025

Hi @DTPtutorialyCZ-L.Zalesky,

 

I understand that this functionality is important to you, and I apologize for its unavailability at this time. Would you mind creating a UserVoice for this feature request here: Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests and adding your comments there? Doing this will help us prioritize the request, and you'll be notified of any updates.

Feel free to reach out if you have more questions or need any assistance. We'd be happy to help.

 

Thanks,
Abhishek

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