InDesign CS4 and InCopy CS4 Updates (6.01) Released
Last night, Adobe released the “6.01″ updater for InCopy and InDesign CS4, which were officially at version 6.0.
You can download and install the updaters by starting up any CS4 program and choosing Help > Updates. That forces the Adobe Updater utility to start up and retrieve a list of updates to your CS4 program, among which you’ll find InDesign CS4 6.01 (and InCopy CS4 6.01, if you have it installed). You can have it install all the CS4 updates it finds automatically, or open a detailed view of what it found and click the checkboxes next to the ones you want installed.
I just ran the Adobe updater, and didn’t see any updates for Photoshop or Illustrator CS4, but there were minor ones for Flash, Camera Raw, Bridge, and Reader 9 in addition to the ID and IC 6.01 updates. And hallelujah, it didn’t make me quit my browser to install 6.01 updates! (Note: If you run the Reader or Flash updates, you’ll get the prompt to close out of your browsers, otherwise they can’t be installed. It’s probably a good idea to just close out of all CS apps and any open web browsers before installing Adobe updates.)
Normally, you can also download InDesign updates from Adobe’s downloads section, but I just checked and they’re not available yet. Nor are the 6.01 release notes, which should appear on the Release Notes page. I’m sure these pages will be updated shortly.
In the meantime, according to Adobe CS evangelist Rufus Deuchler, a few of the 6.0 issues that 6.01 fixes include:
- Master Page Items from a placed InDesign document are dropped when previewed in High Quality Display or when exporting to PDF.
- InDesign CS3 documents converted to InDesign CS4 reflow unexpectedly due to hyphenation limits.
- When exporting a document to .SWF, “mailto:” hyperlinks have “http://” appended to them, making them inoperable.
Cool, thanks! But I sure had to close InDesign while updating — anything else would be a minor software miracle, like a brain surgeon fixing his own brain.
Yeah … I’m sure you’re right. I tweaked the post a little about it.
Whoo hoo!!!
The mailto links for SWF files are fixed!!!
Whoo hoo!!!
Release Notes are online (thanks to Drienko (Germany).
It’s interesting reading the release notes, because they don’t always explain the whole situation. For example, it says this is fixed: “InDesign unexpectedly quits when user clicks in the Links panel.” Well, I’ve never had IDcs4 crash when I click in the Links panel. But it must have been some kind of repeatable crash in certain rare circumstances. I’m glad it’s fixed… just in case.
Of course, there are still plenty of little bugs that remain. Sigh. So shall it always be, I suppose. For example, that weird one that Boaz pointed out where an anchored objects in a table header disappear.
>Of course, there are still plenty of little bugs that remain.
The direct to PDF in DataMerge bug is STILL there!
(If you have a template and use text variables like ‘header on page is first paragraph style’, and you directly export to PDF – wich isa new option in CS4 – all headers are the same on every page as the first textvariable. If you create a merged document first all is OK)
This bug has been reported even before the final release…
@ David:
“For example, that weird one that Boaz pointed out where an anchored objects in a table header disappear.”
I have tested this yesterday (6.0). I could not repeat it. So may be also rare circumstances …
Inset of cell was 0-0-0-0, Base Line fixed to Zero, vert. alignment down, content clipped (?, translation from german version). No problem.
BTW: Version number is 6.0>.<1
On a sidenote: there’s also a Photoshop 11.0.1 update available now.
Installation under Parallels (Win XP SP2) failed in parts: Everything went well, only InDesign 6.0.1 stopped because of “Failure” (no further informations)
I was about to add that there’s an update for Photoshop CS4 too (for both the 32 and 64 bit versions) but just noticed someone’d already posted about that
Re the Photoshop updates, you’re right. They must have just added those to the mix though. I ran the updater again and it found the Photoshop updates (and only the Photoshop updates, since everything else was installed the previous time I ran it.)
Nothing for Illustrator yet, though. Maybe tomorrow.
“InDesign CS4 may unexpectedly quit when using the Place, Save, Save As or Export commands using either the OS or Adobe dialog boxes.”
Really? And Adobe expects us to upgrade to this? Reading these release notes I’m suddenly finding CS2 and CS3 really, really attractive.
@ Kevin: Those notes are describing the problems, which are resolved
I hope Adobe fixed the update installer for Vista 64. Last time I ran it, it trashed all my applications and I had to reinstall to restore functionality.
-mt
Michael, I’m on XP x32 and Vista x64 — and both the ID and PS update installers worked fine for me.
I’m on WinXP and after updating I’m finding ID is very sluggish upon start, for about a minute or two. I can hear the hard drive crunching away so there must be parts of the program that haven’t started up yet that cause things to be laggy. I also find my shortcuts are switched to default, even after I re-save my workspace, each time I open the program. That must be a new feature. It also seems a lot more crash prone, yuck.
Now that I review my ignorant thoughts, I had a doc open each time I had to re-set my Keyboard shortcuts. I just now set my preset shortcuts with no doc open, and all is fine. And duh, workspaces don’t do shortcuts, but they should!
It is still laggy upon opening, that parts right!
I too am using x64 Vista (Business) and have had no problems whatsoever getting CS4 installed or updated. In fact, I’ve found now to be the perfect time to “upgrade” to it as hardware is cheap and there are compatible drivers for nearly everything.
The only thing the PC upgrade – which included going from a 2.4GHz dual to a 2.8GHz quad core CPU, a brand new GPU and adding another 4GB of RAM – didn’t fix is the sluggish start-up of InDesign CS4. Before the application can be used everything’s grey and has to load in, almost like a bad game where everything pops in as you’re walking/driving along…
Photoshop, Bridge, Illustrator and even stupid tasks like printing are faster now, but the program I use throughout most of the day hasn’t seen any improvements at all
I haven’t looked for my Mac “applications” folder recently, because I have most of what I use everyday in the dock. But this morning I did, and… duh! Where’s it gone?
A quick Google suggests that this has been known to happen with Mac OS 10.5. But just in case it has anything to do with upgrading to ID 6.0.1, has anyone else noticed this?
It sure feels lonely without it…
Wait — panic over — all I had to do to get it back was re-check a checkbox in Finder Preferences (Sidebar). All the same, Google suggests that others haven’t had quite as easy a time of it.
Roland, try using an SSD as your boot & application drive. I have one, an admittedly not-top-of-the-line OCZ, and it’s pure joy — InDesign CS4 cold-starts in less than three seconds, ditto for PS, AI, etc. The near-zero seek times of SSDs and fast read times are what makes this work so well on app starts, so it doesn’t matter that SSDs (at least the affordable ones) currently have a bit sluggish write speeds. SSD is the future — and it’s here now!
My self-built desktop is described here: http://www.klausnordby.com/ego/desktop.html
One happy addition to the list of things fixed is that ID/Vista now doesn’t default to “slightly too large” when it opens in windowed mode. Before the update the screen size was incorrectly calculated, and the bottom of the ID window would be behind the taskbar — a seriously annoying glitch, since they forgot the top resize handle in the UI, meaning there was no way to shorten the window without hiding the taskbar first.
On first opening, though, neither the Character panel nor the options bar would let me change anything in either dialog except by explicitly typing in values. This cleared up as mysteriously as it had appeared, and now seems fine.
(David: I’ll let you know about that weirdness with the character panel we discussed before. Maybe it’s fixed now.)
Jeremy – cmd-shift-A will open the apps folder from Finder too. cmd-shift-U for apps/utilities subfolder…
Klaus, I might do that when it’s time to upgrade again, but for now my computer runs quite smoothly as it is, with the exception of the initial start-up of InDesign. Everything else starts up nice and fast, making booting into XP for some settings a huge pain in the rear.
and the InDesign 6.01 update restores the apps ability to crash, stall, and simply stop working to levels unseen since the early days of CS3 .. at least in the Windows version .. and I’d quite gotten used to Cs4’s only crashing perhaps 10 times a day, now it’s back to at least 10 times an hour .. and more if I’ve just done something it doesn’t like, which seems to be nearly everything ..
I’ve reinstalled version 6 ..
Hi. Just start to shift from QXpress. Can someone tell me how to do the numbering of pages?
Thx.
Mark, that’s horrible! Definitely something wrong with your install … 10 times a day is awful too. I run ID 6.01 on Windows and haven’t seen a crash yet.
Shirleye, the online help has full instructions. Choose Help > InDesign Help. But basically you do it the same as in QXP except the special character for current page number is different. Choose Type >Insert Special Character > Markers > Current Page Number.
@shirleyc
Go to Type>Insert Special character>Markers>Current Page number
Or press ALT+Shift+CTRL(CMD)+N
If you’re just moving to InDesign from quark you should check out David Blatners Quark Migration video tutorials.
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/indesign/articles/indcs3at_quarkmigration.html
Dang, Anne-Marie got there before me
Thx to both of you: Anne-Marie & Eugene.
Just got the ‘Quarkmigration’ from a friend.
But am too lazy sometimes to read!!
Hope you’ll help me next time. THX.