Help Make Adobe Products Better with UserVoice!

Recently, Adobe has totally changed the way it handles feature requests and bug reports. They used to seemingly go into a black hole at Adobe, never to be be spoken of again. Even on the pre-release forums they were difficult to find. The engineers would say that few people gave them feedback, and the users who did provide feedback complained that Adobe was ignoring them.

But good news! Adobe has now made the feature requests and bug reports open to the public! You can easily search through other people's feature requests, add comments, and VOTE!

Here is an example of a feature request. Notice that there is a comment from one of the Adobe engineers, who has assigned a status to the feature. Notice that there are also 13 comments, and 18 votes. Once you vote for a feature request, you are given the option to subscribe to the topic and be notified whenever there is a new comment on the topic.

So I've compiled links to the feature requests of my favorite InDesign features (which I personally think are extremely neglected). Would you please take a few moments and VOTE for this features?

I will update this list as I see more features that I'm really passionate about.

InDesign Notes

• Story Editor and Notes Panel font preference and display
• Add option To Find/Change dialog box to search within notes and conditional text
• Add Sticky Notes to Incopy like in Acrobat
• Get text corrections from Acrobat DC back into indesign (kinda like incopy does)
• Make InDesign be able to import/Export comments from/to PDF
• Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Sharing-Reviewing-Workflow

InDesign Conditional Text

• Add the Ability to turn off hover scrolling
• Add option To Find/Change dialog box to search within notes and conditional text
• Improved Find/Change with Conditional Text
• Allow manual reordering of Conditions
• Condition Sets: Show overrides when the set has a +
• Create the condition from a list of paragraphs/character styles
• Easier Conditional Text in Tables
• Make the color of the hidden conditional text indicator match the color assigned to the condition

Acrobat Commenting

• Customize Comment Pane
• Draw Shapes - add a no fill option
• Use the Drawing Tools to highlight objects
• Enable a keyboard shortcut to add a checkmark to a comment
• Right-click > Mark as Checked
• Provide option to customize keyboard shortcuts
• Comments and Annotations need marching ants
• Comment UI was better in former version
• Comment list takes too long to load
• Ability to undock the comments list
• Comments 'check boxes' saving/showing for other users viewing PDF file
• Auto refresh the sort by list when one of the properties changes
• Make sort by groups collapsed as the default behavior
• Add option to make comment pane open automatically if there are comments
• Comments pane window is too short and cuts off comments
• Make comment color in sidebar match the color of the comment

I love how Adobe is proactively seeking our feedback, and is providing a useful platform to do so. It is my understanding the David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion (from InDesign Secrets) pioneered the idea of using User Voice for InDesign feature requests.

Please consider visiting the InDesign UserVoice site where you become an active part of making InDesign better. You can also visit the Acrobat UserVoice site here.

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