InDesign 4.0.5 Update Posted
March 29th, 2007Written by Steve Werner
Adobe has posted the InDesign 4.0.5 update today for InDesign CS2. This includes a variety of bug fixes which are listed in the InDesign CS2 4.0.5 ReadMe file located in the InDesign folder after you install the updater.
This update also brings compatibility with InDesign CS3. This will be the version you’ll need to open INX (InDesign Interchange) files after exporting them from InDesign CS3. Backward compatibility for the INX files is only for InDesign CS2, and not for earlier versions of InDesign.
There are links here to the Adobe download page: For the Macintosh and Windows.
Steve, I have opened a CS3 INX in ID 4.0.4 with no problem.
And INX goes back to CS.
This update also updates InCopy to 4.0.5.
I hope that 4.0.5 can fix some bugs. The biggest one I have is that the only way I can open ID is to double click (or click then command-O) on an ID document. ID will crash after loading the key shortcuts (so fast I cannot read the window that pops up). The ID Updater 404 does the same thing, although there are no updater documents to open so I have been able to update my ID app. I am running a Mac Pro, 2 GB of ram, and lots of space on my 500 Geg hard drive.
Just to be accurate, there’s a separate updater for InCopy 4.0.5.
I ran the installer, but twice I got the error message: “A qualifying instance of InDesign CS2 was not detected” — despite that I have 4.04 running fine! And yes, it’s a legit install. So this is a rather annoying bug. I even tried to run the updater with ID CS2 running, in the hope it would “see” the app and make me close it and thus do the update, but no suck luck.
And I still can’t access Keyboard Shortcuts on my Intel iMac without crashing, before or after the update. Argh. I *REALLY* hope I find less of these scattered bugs around now that they’re using XCode. At least that weird number rounding problem is now TOTALLY licked (when it was just mostly licked before).
Gee it’s kinda sucky INX access won’t go back to CS1: I still have a client on it, and it’s been very convenient sending him my CS2 files that way.
If you want to know what’s in the 4.05 update, check out the PDF at this page: http://adobe.com/go/id405_readme
Is it possible to get further clarification on whether CS3 INX files -> CS1 work?
mg,
Saving backwards only works with one version: CS3 > CS2. You’d have to then save CS2 > CS1. And you’d lose a lot in the process, not a good idea!
My indesign 4.0.5 for mac os 10.4 print only page 1 for a data about 2 or more sheets. It process all page and print onli page one. My print is a konica Minolta 7450 PS.Can you help me about that?
My Konica Minolta 7450 is also only printing the first page of any document and also only the first tile of a tiled document. Does anybody know how to fix this?!? PLEASE! I’ve contacted konica support but no response yet… Thanks
Ian, I don’t mean to be obnoxious, but this is one of the weirdest and most irrelevant comments to our blog. Unfortunately, I don’t have any solutions for you, but perhaps you should try a printing forum, or Adobe forums or something? Good luck!