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This article is from January 13, 2009, and is no longer current.
InDesign Hiding Issue Fixed with Leopard 10.5.6
Michael Ninness, the Senior Product Manager for InDesign and all around good guy, just e-mailed us some great news. Adobe has confirmed that the frustrating issue of InDesign not being able to be hidden (or not being able to come back after it was hidden successfully without a painful Force Quit) no longer exists when running under the latest release of Apple’s OS, Leopard 10.5.6. Woo-hoo! (This was such a pain.)
In case you need some documentation to show to your IT department, the official Adobe Technote on the issue is here: https://www.adobe.com/go/kb402895.
If you’re on a Mac, and you’re not sure which version of the OS you’re running, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu at the upper left of your monitor. The version number appears right under the “Mac OS X” headline. Here’s mine, which is still at 10.5.5:
Choose Software Update from the same Apple menu to have OS X download the latest updates. Which is what I’m off to do right now!
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This is excellent news indeed!
Actually, if you can stand the pain of a ~600mb download, I would recommend using the combo updaters when doing system updates. There’s generally less chance of weirdness creeping into the equation that way.
(I’ll let iTunes etc update via SW Updater; it’s only the system ones I try and do manually still.)
Wow… that took Apple/Adobe/whatever nondescript programmer it was long enough. We were just discussing how annoying this was just this morning while preparing for the A’dam IDUG meeting.
The part about not hiding was annoying, but the not coming back was a REAL pain.
Well, I’ll open up a beer to that one!
Sweet! I’ll second the beer.
Hurra!
Hurrah!
I would say that that eliminates almost the last reason for Mac InDesign users to upgrade to Leopard. (I think there are still a handful of people who are having printing problems, but I think that’s a very small number.)
I have Leopard installed on both of my production Macintoshes (one a MacBook Pro, one a G5 iMac), and I’ve found it to be an exceedingly stable operating system.
all i have to say is ‘about time’.
Excellent news. Thanks for the heads up.
Fingers crossed and in another 14 months Apple will fix all the Spaces problems too :-P
10.5.6 fixed that issue but now my Apple wireless keyboard doesn’t work any more! I actually wished I stuck with 10.5.5 which was near perfect buy you can’t use it with the new iLife and iWork.
I have an Apple wireless keyboard that works fine with 10.5.6. How did you do your upgrade? You might try downloading the 10.5.6 Combo Update. Sometimes downloading the larger combo update fixes problems unresolved with the smaller update file:
https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/macosx_updates/macosx1056comboupdate.html
My issues with indesign and only indesign (CS3) began when i upgraded to 10.5.6. Now i have the following frustrating issues.
1. Export to pdf takes 8 minutes to start, but only 9 times out of 10.
2. Packaging has the same 8 minute delay
I am on a 24 inch imac rammed up etc.
Other imacs in the office do not have these problems and they are NOT upgraded to 10.5.6, but still on 10.5.5 with no problems at all.