Better customizeable placeholder text for InDesign?

[btrhodes]

I'm looking for a better, smarter way to insert placeholder text into my indesign documents than the tired and true methods of copy/paste from an external source or utilizing my own placeholder.txt doc.

I'd like to be able to simply insert my cursor anywhere in my text box/frame (which may already have text in it) and be able 'insert placeholder text' and specify character, word or paragraph count'

Or possibly leverage AI integration directly in app where I can select an certain length of text and have it 'edit' to a specific word/character/paragraph count?

Anyone know of any plugins that would allow this?
Seems like this feature has sat idle for many years and could benefit from being a little more capable and intelligent inside the application.

TIA

[Lukas Engqvist]

Interesting idea. Why not add this as a feature request in User Voice. https://indesign.uservoice.com/ Please link to the feature request so others that read your post can help to vote vote for it!

[btrhodes · Accepted solution]

thanks for the tip/referral. added to an existing request from someone else here:
Not sure how much Adobe will pay attention... that previous request is 5 years old!

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/35479975-de...

[Markus van der Westhuizen]

I normally use lipsum.com when I need to insert a specific number of words. It would be great if you could just set that in IND. You could use the Info Panel to check the word and character count if you already have text placed down.

[Loic.Aigon]

Have you seen this: https://github.com/twardoch/lorem-chatum-for-indesign

Quite likely that you can ask for all of this.

[Lukas Engqvist]

Cool… and dangerous