Dear Adobe,
I was up all stinking night arguing with InDesign. The indexing feature is just a pitiful waste of code. Granted it was a 950 page book, with 4000 (plus or minus) index entries, but taking 35 seconds to remove a dash from an index entry? Really?
Please, Adobe, should you read this, take this into account:
1. Please give the option to default the range settings to whatever was last used (Current Page, To Next Use of Style, etc).
2. Allow me to copy index entries, preferably groups of them, but even one at a time would be nice. I do not understand why this is not already possible.
3. How about an auto-fill feature in the heading fields while I’m dreaming? That would be super awesome.
4. What is up with the algorithm?!? 35 seconds to update a single entry? A full minute to delete 5 entries? That should have been 1 second, and 5 seconds, at most. I cannot conceive of the implementation that would give such horrible performance, no matter the size of the document.
5. Your tech support guys are wonderful. Give them raises. They couldn’t help me, but they really tried.
Thank you,
Jonesling Central