Comments on: Two more CS4 Bugs: The Reluctant Book Panel & Swatches By Name

By: Philip Kadner

Philip Kadner — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:20:04 +0000

Hi folks

I think I have found a bug concerning text anchors with buttons.
Text anchors which link to text with apostrophies or quotation marks in it will not work. Other special characters like brackets, commas, line breaks don’t seem to be a problem.
The workaround is quite simple of course, just highlight text without the mentioned characters when creating the anchor. Just a thing to be aware of…

By: Florin

Florin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:46:19 +0000

I have the same not so small annoyance with InDesign CS4 as Botond Fazakas noticed. Not so small because I use Alt+Scroll quite often, maybe hundreds a day.
This misbehavior is also present in Photoshp CS4.
I’m on Windows 7 Ultimate edition, if that matters for a possible solution…

By: Botond Fazakas

Botond Fazakas — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:51:27 +0000

i’m also having a small annoyance with indesgn cs4
after zooming (Alt+Scroll) the menu stays active so i have to press Alt again to be able to dot anything
i would like it to work as in cs3 or illustrator cs4
is there maybe a setting? or a fix?

By: Kathleen McGuinness

Kathleen McGuinness — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:42:23 +0000

black circle ? marks mean “No preflight information available.”

By: Kathleen McGuinness

Kathleen McGuinness — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:16:36 +0000

When preflighting from book panel I get black circle ? marks on all idcs4 files though the report gives me the correct path for all doc.

By: Pamela Swanson

Pamela Swanson — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:10:10 +0000

Has Adobe admitted to Indesign CS4 having problems.
When I send an Indd file to a Fiery server (level 3 ps) the file prints out blank. Nothing on the paper! If I send the same file from a pc, it is fine. I am going crazy!

By: Yeager

Yeager — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:46:30 +0000

James Gura -

I’m having the exact same problem. I just called Adobe, and they said it is a known bug, and should be corrected “soon”.

By: Sam T

Sam T — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:08:10 +0000

I have a problem with indesign CS4 too,
don’t know if i am doing something wrong

but when i convert to PDF, i am missing my background images of every page… the first one appears half and the rest is just… no where!

i used a gradient filter on them

so probably it’s something with gradient filter and export to PDF?

By: James Gura

James Gura — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:59:42 +0000

Has anyone else had this problem in InDesign CS4…
The landscape page orientation looks correct on the print window, but when it is printed to my imagesetter the page is reversed horizontally & vertically. This only happens for landscape pages on my Mac. It is correct on my PC. Anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix for it?
Thanks,
Jim

By: Kenn Römer-Bruhn

Kenn Römer-Bruhn — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:12:14 +0000

How about these bugs in InDesign CS4:

1)
Smart Guides
If you have several objects on your page, and drag – let’s say a grafik box – and holding the SHIFT-key down while dragging, the smart guide will take control over your SHIFT-drag and will NOT drag in a strait move!

2)
Changing textframes
I found that sometimes when I want a textframe to be smaller, and am using the selection tool to make – lets say the bottom less tall – the textframe would change and be wider???

3)
Placed graphic
When I’m making screendumps by copying to the clipboard and placing them directly on a page, the colors change mysterious. A zoom in and out again solves the problem.

4)
Text Wrap
When I’m working with text wrap on a picture, the text wrap will do so, but changing the target from the container to the content. So one will get confused: Is the text wrap now on the container or the content ???

5)
Drag a copy
Yet another error: If you hold the ALT-key (Option) down while dragging an object (to make a copy), and the object has some objectstyle applied, the styling will be deleted. The same happens when you drag a textframe with eg. a paragraphstyle applied – the styling will go away …

6)
Exporting a book as a pdf-file from the book panel
I just took my 19 chapters and converted them to CS4 from CS3 – no problem. BUT … When I then export all the chapters within the book, everything goes wrong. The book panel did export until the very last page was generated. The the whole application then quited!!! OK, I then tried to remove the last chapter (since it seemed to be the document that had an error). But now the book panel did the same error, and quited the app. after the new last page was generated. Removing the chapters one by one didn’t solve the problem.
So I did an export from each chapter (document) instead, taking a very long time. Now the pdf’s could be putted together in Acrobat. BUT: Now all the frontpages from ALL the chapters disapears. Both colors and text, and it even displayed some of the pages (inside the chapters) with som replaced fonts, telling that Myriad Pro has an error. What is going one?????
The solution was to make INX files from CS4 back to CS3 and then do the whole exporting once again – this time with NO ERROR AT ALL … My god !!!

- Kenn