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Live Corner Radius Controls like in Illustrator

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
March 21, 2025
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Hi Adobe team,

I'd love to request a feature for InDesign that already works beautifully in Illustrator:
the ability to round rectangle corners directly by dragging the corner widgets inside the shape.

In Illustrator, this feature is extremely intuitive — just grab the small circle in the corner and drag it inward to round the edges. It's fast, visual, and allows for fluid design work.

Currently in InDesign, adjusting corner radius feels clunky and hidden in menus. Bringing the same interactive corner control from Illustrator to InDesign would massively improve workflow for layout designers who often work with rounded shapes.

Thanks for considering this upgrade — it would make a big difference!

Daniel

Feature request

Correct answer Eugene Tyson

The Yellow Dot - click it

Drag one corner to move all

Hold down shift - then click and drag the node

Is this what you're looking for?

Let us know - thanks

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Eugene Tyson

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Community Expert

The Yellow Dot - click it

Drag one corner to move all

Hold down shift - then click and drag the node

Is this what you're looking for?

Let us know - thanks

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The only downside is that as soon as you apply a transformation to the object — even just scaling up or down — the corners get converted to curves and can’t be edited anymore.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

You're right – I double-checked and the live corners don’t disappear just because of a transformation. I initially thought that was the cause, so thanks for pointing it out.

What actually causes it is when you click on the shape with the Direct Selection Tool (the white arrow). As soon as you do that, InDesign converts the rectangle into a regular path with anchor points, and the live corner handles disappear. It's a bit sneaky, because it happens instantly and can go unnoticed.

So the transformation wasn't the problem – it was me editing the shape directly with the white arrow.

Maybe it could be reversed with a script... need to explore that one.

For rounded corner elements that are pristine - you could do it with Object Styles

Then if you lose your corner editing, convert the shape back to a rectangle and apply the Object Style.

How often are you losing your rounded corners? What's the context here? Is it a bigger issue?

Love to know more why this is becoming an issue for you, maybe something else can be done.

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