First time user - missing features

Today I tried Muse. Actually not to develop a website but to prototype a website.
First of all, I was impressed how fast and easy it is to build a website prototype with Muse. As a designer Muse will help a great deal to provide better layouts to clients as well as developers.
But I also came across some severe limitations:
1
It is not possible to use all installed open type fonts on the computer.
I see a high potential for designers to use Muse for prototyping.
Designers want to use the corporate fonts of their clients.
There has to be a way to incorporate all fonts installed on the system.
Also it should be possible to render with all fonts installed.
To create an image out of installed fonts should be an extra when publishing a site but it should be possible to use all available fonts. In my particular case the Foundry Form Sans Open Type Fonts did not work!
Also, people use webfonts that are not available at typekit. There are many more foundries.
In addition to my comment above it should be possible to use any webfont.
2
Responsive Design
That's definitely missing
3
Embedding videos
I was shocked that one cannot embed videos.
There should be widgets for that available. Ready to go in Muse.
4
Baseline Grid
Yes, I am an old school Designer. I design Websites in InDesign because I have all control over typography. Therefore Photoshop and Illustrator seemed always weak to me. Muse could change this. First, I would need access to all my fonts and second I want to have a baseline grid!
5
Guides
Like in InDesign I wish there would be to possiblilty to duplicate and insert with an offset! Then I can create quickly additional grids with guides without placing guide by guide...
I really hope someone in charge is going to read this and these suggestions will find their way into the product. I am sure, Muse can also be a wonderful prototyping software.

I'll let someone with more experience respond to the details, but in general, the challenges you're facing aren't so much limitations of Muse, but limitations of web design overall. Websites don't yet have the ability for such detail as in the print world. Take for example your request for a baseline grid. The challenges involved in displaying webpages "accurately" across so many factors, including browser choice, monitor resolution, page size, window resizing, page zooming... not even starting with all the mobile devices out there... but all these factors make such precision nearly impossible at this stage of the game. So, something like baseline grid, may line up easily on YOUR monitor during the design and creation, but there is virtually no way to ensure that the design will look anything like that across all other possible media. (Unless you create something for print, PDF it, and embed THAT on the page.)
Designing for the web is a much different animal. Hopefully ONE day it will be more standardized as print has become over the hundreds of years. Until then, Muse does a pretty darn good job, in my opinion. The fact that they've translated web design terminology into print terminology (line-height vs leading) is a great first step!
That said...
I'd love a step and repeat!!  Good suggestion on that one! ;-)
Responsive Design is also in the works, I believe.
You CAN embed videos from youtube and vimeo. There is a widget in the widget library > social for either of those services. If you go to the Adobe Muse Exchange (there is a link on the Library tab inside Muse), there are more video widget options to download and install.
Lastly, regarding fonts, many of the adobe type kit fonts are available, but you should also have access to your own system fonts. Not sure why they wouldn't show up for you? But Muse will render as images any text containers using non-web fonts.
Hope this helps...

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