Dear Adobe,<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
Please, Adobe, should you read this, take this into account:<\/p>\n
1. Please give the option to default the range settings to whatever was last used (Current Page, To Next Use of Style, etc).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
3. How about an auto-fill feature in the heading fields while I’m dreaming? That would be super awesome.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
5. Your tech support guys are wonderful. Give them raises. They couldn’t help me, but they really tried.<\/p>\n
Thank you,<\/p>\n
Jonesling Central<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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