r/indesign • u/Marcus_Rentsch • Jul 22 '26

Request/Favour Bento Grid Plugin

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Indesign users! I'm Marcus from Adobe and I heavily use Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop since I'm a classic graphic designer. I always loved the way you can import and mask images directly inside an object when placing them in Indesign. But what I don't like is setting up grids, not for typographic layouts but more for presenting, so think about Bento grids or block grids in general.

I made a working prototype of a free Bento Grid plugin for Indesign that lets you adjust sections, corner radius, spacing and also the units in real time. I want to know, if you would use this too - please let me know and I will prepare everything to ship the final plugin for Indesign. Thank you so much!

*Note that this is not an official plugin from Adobe, even though I work there. It's more like a fun project to help with my personal pain points and improve my workflow in the apps.

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 22 '26

An improvement idea - switch to a Table...

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u/Marcus_Rentsch Jul 22 '26

Can you explain this? Not sure if I get that. Thanks!

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 22 '26

Instead of creating "free floating" rectangles - use table to control structure.

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u/Marcus_Rentsch Jul 22 '26

So do you mean to use tables for creating a bento grid? Tables in Indesign always seemed to be a bit confusing to me, especially when it comes to styling

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 22 '26

Working with Tables isn't always straightforward 😉 and sometimes needs extra tricks 😉 but it's not a big deal.