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Manual Document Layout

People repeatedly hand-format and re-layout multi-page documents, slides, and print materials because templates, text flow, and branding break with every change.

In their words

I could potentially delegate this to a nondesigner, and I myself can focus more on design.

r/indesign on Reddit

We have thousands of product variations, each with multiple component combinations, and right now I have to manually update every document.

r/indesign on Reddit

The problem dealing with the 4000 pages of existing content.

r/technicalwriting on Reddit

I need to make printed docs look compliant with the newest branding guidelines. Since I’m not a designer, I don’t want to design the whole look from scratch.

r/technicalwriting on Reddit

The real pain started when I had to tweak something across hundreds of cards or get everything ready for print.

r/tabletopgamedesign on Reddit

checking slides against our actual company template, not just a set of general design rules

r/powerpoint on Reddit

Are there any shortcuts I can use to make this go faster?

r/graphic_design on Reddit

mine are in canva, they take 4 hours each and they all look the same

r/b2bmarketing on Reddit

exported documents contain a lot of extra formatting to make them look like craft do

r/CraftDocs on Reddit

until we hit "Send", all we see is the placeholder. If (when) the platform decides to ignore its own formatting guidelines, we look completely incompetent

r/recruitinghell on Reddit

the ppt thing is a frequent issue so we do always use Arial for that

r/graphic_design on Reddit

For a group of fifteen it somehow turns into most of an afternoon, and I'm doing it after a full day of actually running the session.

r/smallbusiness on Reddit

render a 100+ page document in an interactive WYSIWYG editor using a single stroke font

Hacker News

I often run into headaches where line numbers are different between the two and content ends up on different pages

Hacker News

Designers, publishers, document authors

Where they talk

  • r/indesign
  • r/powerpoint
  • r/graphic_design
  • r/MicrosoftWord
  • r/KDP
  • r/technicalwriting
  • r/ObsidianMD
  • r/typst

Tools they use today

  • InDesign
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Canva
  • LaTeX
  • Excel
  • Affinity
  • Google Slides

Why those fall short

  • no styles, parent pages or linked text boxes in inherited files
  • corporate requires identical sheets across all stores
  • no automation for placing and restyling charts and text
  • Affinity too complex, Scribus UI painful, PowerPoint and Word lack publishing features
  • InDesign leaves invisible characters; photos vary in crop and resolution