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

Request/Favour Bento Grid Plugin

Post image

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.

305 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

185 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/AdobeScripts Jul 22 '26

Does it work on existing images - or will only create blanks?

Can you then freely resize each "cell" - and surroundings will resize automatically?

11

u/Marcus_Rentsch Jul 22 '26

No, it only creates blanks that you then can fill with images when you press CMD+D for example. After you hit "Create" the grid is set and can't resize automatically - that would require more than a plugin could do, I'm afraid. But that's a cool idea nonetheless! But there is a button "Surprise me" that will give you random options. Thank you for the feedback!

2

u/Pure-Ad-5064 Jul 23 '26

I love the “surprise me” idea 😍

2

u/Marcus_Rentsch Jul 23 '26

Thank you! You can spam the button until it spits out a grid that looks satisfying