The frame highlighting only occurs when using the Direct or Select Tools. Switch to another tool and use the modifier keys (CTRL/CMD) to select frames... perhaps? I've found it more helpful than anything; and I don't really notice it at all when I'm working. ... View more

Yes - it makes sense really to have a Master colour for master pages. Or perhaps you could colour scheme your sections using Master colours per master page. ... View more

What version of InDesign? Have you updated the latest patches in Help>Updates? Have you reset indesign preferences? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990 ... View more

Well it was a hack, but it was just changing the header information in the inx file, surely something more solid could have been achieved, and I say surely with hesitation as I don't know what is involved. ... View more

Footnotes first - backsaving can take a back seat. ... View more

It costs me two cups of coffee a day... the price in the US and Europe are massively different YeH i'm not buying the money grab thingy either. I realise backsaving is obviously a difficult for Adobe to crack. But they can do it, remember the CS4 with IDML and INX export, there was only a matter of changing the header int he INX file. I'm not having a go or anything, and I don't want to open another debate on backsaving, but it's just one thing on my list of potentially 100 things I want in InDesign, again, the list is only to illustrate that there are many many many requests and wants and needs of indesign users. Certainly wasn't meant to open any debate of items on the list. ... View more

I've setup files like that in the past. And even more complex than that. The idea could be expanded to have colour schemes for each Master Page, then assign a paragraph style to each colour Master Page Options> "swatch" = heading 1 "swatch" = heading 2 "swatch" = "create new paragraph style" etc. It might even be an interesting way to use KULER panel or something? ... View more

Well the main point of the list is this - I could have written 100 things "I want" and as Peter so kindly responded with the Legend, proves that Peter does not want some of these features, wants some of them and isn't bothered about others. There are a lot of users of InDesign in the world. And "we" all want different things. So you can safely multiply that 100 things by a factor of a thousand to get "everyone's" wish list. Then you have to consider what is plausible and achieveable in the time scale to introduce, fix, update etc. True that we need indesign to do more - but there are infinite requests for InDesign. The only way to get your voice truly heard is on the Wishlist. I know it works - because I know CS4 had a serious problem importing Word files and when first heard it was announced it would not be fixed until CS5, a few internet campaigns popped up and low and behold in a dot release of CS4 update the issue was fixed. So it does work. But I bet there are hundreds of items added to the wishlist everyday. Some doable, some that need a lot of work, and some without enough people wanting it that it simply goes to the bottom of the list (I imagine) ... View more

Ben Frey wrote: <split> Eugene, nice list. I want to offer a suggestion for a way to deal with item 23 in a work-around fashion: use GREP styles. If you need more details on how you could manage this, let me know, but if you think about it for a bit I think you'll see where I'm going. Your idea would be must faster/easier, but it is possible to automate somewhat with GREP styles if you're just looking to change the text color, or willing to use Paragraph Rules in a fairly creative way! It's not a workaround - it's how it works. If you want to have say 10 sections in a magazine. And you want to colour each section differently. You have to create the Master Page - add the headers and folios and apply the colour to the folio and the header. Then say you want to have pull quotes in each section that are the same colour as that section. Ok you can go ahead and make umpteen different styles for your text. But I want to apply a colour from the Paragraph Style that says "Master Page Colour". Then in the Master Page you select a colour and that is applied to the text, folios etc. Let's take 2 sections with 2 styles, to make it simple. Master A Heading = char colour 376, 16/18 Arial Pull Quote = char colour 376, 14/16 Futura Master B Heading = char colour 299, 16/18 Arial (now you have a + in the style) Pull quote = char colour 299, 14/16 Futura (again a + in the style. Ok I could go ahead and make GREP styles, nested styles etc. but that's a lot of work say for 15 styles, over 10 sections (you're looking at 135 overrides) Rather than that Master Page A = 376 Heading = char colour "Master", 16/18 Pull Quote = char colour "Master", 14/16 Futura Master Page B  = 299 Heading = char colour "Master", 16/18 Pull Quote = char colour "Master", 14/16 Futura Now you won't have any overrides, as you're setting the Master Page to have the master colour. So whatever is used in the Master Page would be used in the Paragraph Style. To me, that's a very simple idea. ... View more

3. This would only in the file that you make then export to PDF - I can see the potential danger if sending to a vendor the acutal indesign files. 5. If you make a paragraph rule, say to highlight a heading, if you have other headings that are over 2 lines, then the Paragraph Rule doesn't cover both lines. I'd much prefer a "percentage" where it would cover 100% of the paragraph and not just a set unit of measurement, like "pts". 6. I understand the issues with Backsaving, but I can absolute legitimate reasons for this. E.g., if you are starting up a company and you are likely to buy CS5 Master. Then you land a client working on CS2 or CS3. You wouldn't know that files can't be opened back in CS2 or CS3 (unless you look up but who knows to look it up?) Think about it, there are versions, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5 and eventually CS6, CS7 and so on. Perhaps a Back Save option is too literal here - but perhaps a way to turn on only features available in a previous version. Perhaps a CS3 mode, or CS2 mode, where only the things native to those programs are accessible in CS5, CS6 etc. Then some way to save it to CS3 or an inx file. That would mean the onus would be on you to make sure the file is accurate going to the client. Just an idea I dreamt up one day and I'm not sure how plausible it is. 7. The use of actual Chapter Numbers in a single document - using ^H 9. I often have to use tables and would like a way to include a calculation, when I update figures it would total it for me. I'm sure it has it's mertis. I see your link to DTP tools. 10. Fills, Strokes, etc. would be retained. The cell splits over a frame or column or whatever, and naturally there would be no stroke where it spits as it runs on. Insets etc. should be retained. 22. I'm not familiar with Framemaker - but it sounds like the ticket. ... View more

ukdesign1 wrote: I thought to myself today... Are adobe running out of real features to add? Footnotes spaning columns Variables that can run-on multiple lines Variable dates that you can increase by +1 or +2, like if you editing in March and sending for print, but it won't be done until April, you should be able to have a variable date increase so there is no need to update constantly. Sync Footnote Options through book panel Percentages for Paragraph Rule Above and Rule Below, i.e., instead of 10pt you insert 110% meaning that now matter how many lines the paragraph is that the rule is always 5% above and 5% below (or offset if you want) Saving back more than 1 version Allow chapters in a single file (not through sections so that you can use the Chapter feature instead of having to split small files into multiple files and use the book feature) Allow selecting of non-adjoing text (like Word can for so many years) Calculations in Tables. Table cells that split over frames, columns Scaling an image gives you the Actual and Effective PPI when Smart Guides are on (instead of percentage of scale or xy coords) Make the Background Tasks more accessible (there is an icon on the Menu Bar that flashes but you can't do anything with it?) Object>Clipping Path>Options for more than 1 photo (I often have up to 20 image with clipping paths and it's time consuming to go through the "Show Options" for each object (Jongware wrote me a script to fix this) Allow printing of Tracked Changes When you use the page tool to resize a page it becomes detached from the page adjacent Inside bleeds (it can be done manually or with a script but it can be time consuming) Spreads Option in File>Export>PDF (Interactive) Option for turning on and off frame edge highlighting Smaller target for Content Grabber Transparency Icon for Pages Panel should be on by default (it's not) Action Panel (record actions) Smart Bullets (so that the first bullet Keeps with the next line and the last bullet keeps with the Previous bullet) Master Colours for sections (so that I can set a colour say Pantone 376 to the master page of a section, then I can set the Paragraph Style to use the master colour. That way I can use Multiple Master Pages, and whatever page that is applied to I can change the Master Page colour to change the colour in the paragraph style. Currently I have to create a master page, add the colours, styles etc. for each heading and folio, and then duplicate the master page and make the options again. Much handier to set the Master Page colour to Pantone 376, in the Paragraph Style choose Master Page colour. Then when I apply that master page to a page whatever Paragraph Style has that "Master Colour" selected in Character Colour, then it uses the colour I set up on the master page. Ok it's home time now - but I'll keep working on this list (I'm aware some of this is already accomplished with scripts etc.) ... View more

In fact - you can type in any measurement anywhere Say if you are using inches as you're ruler and you want to move the X Co-ord a fraction of an inch. You can simply type into the X Cords in the top right which will read say 4 in - after this type in "+1p" Which will move the selected item 0.166 of an inch, your new coord will be 4.166 And you can do that with loads of things in indesign, simply add, substract, divide using "+", "-", "*", "/" anywhere where a numerical meaurement is used, and use any measurement available. ... View more

You can leave your document as Pica for the measurement. When you create a new documeent simply type in 8.5 inches 10 inches and it will convert to the pica equivalent. That's fine. You can then use Picas as the ruler. I used to do all my measurements in picas but I found that others couldn't use them so I reverted to millimeters. ... View more