Missing features Other users noted the lack of effective long-document features designed for book publishers. InDesign product manager David Evans said Adobe didn't have time to include the book-publishing features. But we also knew that we had to fix some important feature shortcomings in 1.0, and we had to do it very quickly. Its lack of support for non-PostScript printers. We will do everything we can do to respond in kind.
Some users have more-specific wish list items.
Tremblay said it is still difficult to find embedded images in InDesign because the files are not included in the Link palette. Another feature that did not materialize in version 1.5 is the ability to globally convert unnamed colors to swatch colors, Tremblay said. Olav Martin Kvern, an independent developer who wrote InDesign's sample scripts, said the company will post scripts on the InDesign Web site, perhaps as early as next month. Friendlier service providers Early InDesign 1.0 users were bewildered by the lack of support from digital imaging services, many of which flatly refused to accept InDesign files. However, vendors are reporting only a trickle of InDesign projects from customers.