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JBA_personal
JBA_personal
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October 30, 2023
Question

Please add "Screen" Intent Category for New Document

  • October 30, 2023
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I'd like to request a new Intent option called "Screen" as a choice when creating a new INDD file.  The current choices are: Print, Web, and Mobile, but I create a lot of backgrounds for PPT slide shows as well as stills and lower thirds for our video team. The page sizes that would be helpful are 1366 x 768, 720p, 1080p, and possibly 3840 x 2160 for 4K.

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rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 30, 2023

For example this Document can be saved (and loaded) as a preset:

 

From File>Document Presets... you can export or load .dcst preset files. This is the above preset:

 

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/d06d3ecc-c083-44d6-484a-8334ed5adde1

 

 

 

rob day
Community Expert
rob dayCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 30, 2023

Hi @JBA_personal , All the Intent does is set the initial colors & Swatch modes, and Transparency Blend Space to RGB, with the Ruler Units set to Pixels, so Web and Mobile are effectively the same.

 

If you want a document set to a specific pixel dimension, with the starting swatches as RGB, it would just be a matter of creating a Document Preset.

    JBA_personal
    JBA_personalAuthor
    Participant
    October 30, 2023

    Hi Rob, thank you for your explaination and illustration. I do understand all that and had presets made. Don't be fooled by my "community beginner" status - I've been a user from the start. Would just like a time saver and developers to acknowledge there is more intended usage than just Print, Web, and Mobile. Also, I lost those presets during a crash and don't want to recreate them (all about saving time). Thanks.

    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    Legend
    October 30, 2023

    I have to agree with the bleachers crowd here. Using ID to design for "screens" is a niche use, I think, and is fully supported by its features, and is enabled to a good starting point by the 'web' and 'mobile' presets. Taking a full minute to create a preset for a specific screen size, and save it, is... minimal time well spent if you do such work and in that size.

     

    Understand, I'm not knocking anything here except cluttering ID with yet another not-quite-feature that is both a trivial task and not used by many.

    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 30, 2023

    You should post your request on the InDesign User Voice website. There it can be seen by product managers and engineers. Other user can add comment and promote your idea:

     

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

    JBA_personal
    JBA_personalAuthor
    Participant
    October 30, 2023

    Thanks for the reminder Steve - I did just that.

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