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Hmmm seems the Mini Bridge, Kuler, CS Review etc. panels are only coming up blank for me, it’s not mentioned in the link in the post. Anyone else have issues with those panels showing up blank, but when you move them you can see the panel. The panel is still usable, but you can only see the contents once you move the panel by clicking and dragging, as soon as you let go the panel goes blank again?
I can tell you that all of those panels are behaving normally for me on Win 7 and Snow Leopard.
Thanks for letting me know, Bob. If I find a solution to this rare issue I will post it, and perhaps it may help someone. But if someone else finds a solution that would be great too.
I have a Indesign-CS4-file with textframes with an associated objetc style (this style includes rounded corners).
When I open this file in InDesign CS5, only the upper left corner is rounded and in the object style panel the associated object style has an additional plus-sign (info that there are changes).
Under CS5, other than under CS4, I can configure each corner – that’s new and OK.
But I expected, that CS5 took the information from the CS4-file that there is a style with rounded corners and stored for each corner the same value, in my example four times round corner.
For the object style CS5 did it in this way but additionally CS5 removed for every frame with this object style the rounding from the rights corners and the lower left corner.
I think, this is a bug in the import/convert part from cs4 to cs5.
I hope you understand what I mean, I’m not a native english speaker.
With greeting from Germany
Ralf
Ralf, I tried to duplicate your situation and couldn’t. InDesign CS5 honored the 4 corners I had rounded in the CS4 file. It made no difference if I used/applied an object style or not. (The CS5 version of the object style was exactly the same as the CS4 one, all 4 corners had a radius amount and there was no plus symbol.)
So, not sure what’s going on there.
Hi Anne-Marie,
thanks for your fast reply.
I created this file for somebody to show some features in CS4 and uploaded it into the cloud. You can find the files here:
https://www.file-upload.net/download-2493891/Layout.zip.html
Greeting from Germany,
Ralf
PS.: Did you see my notes to the obscure feature of the week to show 122?
For what it’s worth, I’ve experienced repeated crashes trying to drag and drop the “None” Master Page onto a document page (of a muti-page book) — I gave up and created one of my own, and I haven’t had any problems since.
Oh, and I’ve discovered that Background PDF Export apparently does not apply if you’re exporting a Book — which, while by no means a bug, is certainly a disappointment!
@BPearce: re: book exports.That is what’s known as a limitation. Hopefully the engineers will be able to get that included for CS6.
re:your crashing. I can’t duplicate that here.
Just reporting to Adobe that in the German version (online since today) the Return-key is reserved for closing a path.
In text context it creates a columne break.
Found out by InDesign User Group Munich.
The »Return key« bug (at least in the german version) is MacOS specific :(
Interestingly enough, now I can’t seem to duplicate my own bug, either! I tried in two different files (including the one that was giving me the headache yesterday), and now everything is better behaved.
So…ummmm…never mind!
I have one more »Return key issue« on the Mac (German CS5): When loading a file you often get 2 requesters telling you about changed color profiles. You could easily get behind them by 2x pressing Enter. Doesn’t work anymore: Choosing the blue shining OK-Button only works with RETURN. This is not even system conform.
I’ve got a question regarding indesign to swf esport. Indesign help doc says: ‘Choose Flash Classic Text to output searchable text that results in the smallest file size.’ but is it also selectable in a browser? I’d think yes, but when I try to do it myself it does not work. Here is what I did: create new doc for web, new text frame, fill with placeholder text, export to swf file, in the export dialog box advanced tab make sure that ‘flash classic text’ for text is chosen, then click ok, open file in browser and try to select the text – well, I couldn’t.
Could you please correct me if I’m assuming functionality which was not intended to be here, or maybe I’m doing something wrong?
Thanks
Lukasz
Another thing: designing for web/screen in indesign without pixel preview option… will I have to wait for cs6 for that?
I just switched from InDesign CS3 to CS5 and noticed that it is extremely slow ? to the point where I can’t use it anymore. And my machine is stacked; brand new Mac Book Pro with 8 GB ram, 500 GB hard drive and an i7 processor. What has Adobe done?! The only way I can fix it is to set my display performance to “Fast” but then I can’t see any of my images so what’s the point? I feel like I’m back in 1994. Anyone have suggestions?
Im having trouble finding the paragraph direction buttons in CS5. In CS4 its there in the paragraph palette, but its missing in CS5!?. I have to design in arabic quite often and need to switch back and forth for the paragraph direction.
I’ve looked all through the menu’s and other type palettes and just cannot find it?. Why would they remove it?
Any help please?
InDesign CS5 crash when moving tables created in CS4 containing placed pictures and text.
@Fingers: try disabling Immediate Redraw in the Preferences.
@Anil: an Arabic (RTL) text direction button? That was not there in CS4 either. Were you using CS4 ME?
Thanks Jongware!!
You’re right I am using CS4 ME. That solves that, thank you! I’m actually still using the 30day trial of CS5, so when I do upgrade I’ll make sure to get the ME version then too.
“Convert all URLs to Hyperlinks” is converting every text structure like uvwxyz.abcdef into a Hyperlink. Means: Never forget a blank from now after a full stop! ;) Better to convert so far step by step (part of the new feature).
I have PDF export bugs:
first screenshot is InDesign
https://snapplr.com/pppw
2nd the exported PDF
https://snapplr.com/s282
(smallest filesize but same in other export variants)
And I wish ID had a PDF export indicator like Lightroom. Now it’s in the background (cool) but I don’t see anything ? how long will it take, what does it do ?
@ Jongware: thanks, was slow here, too! Immediate redraw OFF did the trick!
I’m using the trial version on Windows XPPro. When I loaded my keyboard shortcuts file from CS4, things seemed to work as expected, except the Return/Enter key stopped working. In other words, if I place the cursor at the end of a paragraph and press Enter, instead of giving me a new blank paragraph, nothing happens. The cursor just sits there blinking at me.
I can, of course, recreate all the customized shortcuts in CS5, but I’d rather not have to.
@Phil: rather than recreate everything, it should be possible to edit your existing set. Remove whatever it says now for Paragraph Return, close dialog to save (just to be sure). Then re-open, change it to Return.
(How odd. I checked my default set, and there doesn’t appear to be any key assigned to “Insert Break Character: Paragraph Return” … It works, nevertheless.)
Additional: I noticed two functions “Paragraph Text” and “Partial Paragraph” in “Text & Tables”; no default keys. I wondered what these ought to do so I added a few keys for them. Now I know: they crash my InDesign.
Weird, to be able to assign keys to that.
@Jongware: ?Paragraph Text? and ?Partial Paragraph?: cross reference formats ?
@Malik:
Which Hidden Character before Euro?
Which Alignment?
@Phil:
I would not even TRY to import Shortcut Sets from older versions. There could be renamed functions. (At least in the german version there are a lot.) There are new functions. Think both could create some problems.
@Lukasz:
Is there any improvement after exporting to .idml and opening the .idml again?
@Malik Aziz
There’s a ‘Background Tasks’ palette in Window>Utilities.
@Jongware:
Thanks. That worked.
@Jochen:
It seems to be working at the moment, but I’ll beware. Thanks for the warning.
Presentation Screen Mode is problem for me! The “Escape” Key is not working there! It is not coming out of this mode! no way to came out of this mode and I am usually Quit and restart Indesign!
I can not select my Acrobat Distiller ppd anymore in InDesign CS5 when printing to Postscript. When importing the print preset from CS4 I get an error ‘cannot locate specified ppd’. In ID I get only the ppd’s of the installed printers.
I can select the Distiller ppd in Illustrator.
Does anyone have the same problem?
(Mac OS X 6.3)
CS5 is not all that well put together and has many issues. This is the worst software that Adobe has created thus far. CS3 was far superior. Export to PDF in CS5 does not work unless I save the InDesign Doc close it, open it again and then make a PDF. Where’s the progress bar? I want it back. Master pages do not update pages. Images placed on the pasteboard disappear when dragged to the page. What nonsense is this? The new additions are annoying, unnecessary and trying to please everyone. If Adobe wants to make software for everyone, it isn’t going to work. What we need out here is a print version like CS3 and a web version like this one isn’t. We also need a Flash alternative like HTML5 built into Dreamweaver since Apple doesn’t think it’s stable. I agree with them. It never was. CS5 is unstable, badly tested in the real world, takes longer to create anything and is no longer intuitive. I’m moving back to CS3 until this software is worthy. I will ask Adobe for a refund I think.
On a further note… In Bridge CS3, you could select your files and send them to InDesignCS3 to make a quick catalog. This feature does not exist in CS5. Now you have to “place” every image manually and cannot position anything intuitively like in CS3. As I go thru this software, I can see it’s really not well thought out.
Jay, You really didn’t spend much time looking at the new features did you? The reason you’re not seeing a progress bar is because InDesign now exports PDFs as a background process.
If you open the background tasks panel, you can watch the progress there (though I can’t imagine why you’d want to).
As for the rest of your issues, I’m not all that sure what’s going on but please have read through my top ten list (https://theindesignguy.com/cs5-thoughts.shtml) and perhaps you’ll find some answers.
As for your Bridge ID Contact Sheet comment. Have a look at the gridify tools and the new step and repeat features. It’s a piece of cake to layout a contact sheet with the new tools.
when I place an pdf file in indesigncs3 or copying from illustrator it became blurry. I tried to repair the program and all adobe programs didn’t work. pls help me.
@Neda: Is that a “Known Issue in CS5”?!
… Simply set your Display Performance to High Quality. No more “blurry” pictures.
I can’t use the return key on my wireless keyboard for my mac now to choose the blue “ok” option in Indesign CS5. I can on mouse over it and click to select “ok”. Anyone have a “workaround”.
Robin, is that a German or Swedish version? If so, this should be the answer: https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4703
@Robin: What dialog box are you trying to do this in? I have had no problem with my wireless keyboard Enter key.
@Jay: I don’t know what could be causing all those problems for you. I suggest rebuilding your preferences or something. Most other people are not having problems like that with CS5.
The missing bridge-to-indesign contact sheet thing happened in CS4, not CS5. See these two posts for suggestions:
https://creativepro.com/missing-the-indesign-contact-sheet-bridge-to-the-rescue.php
and
https://creativepro.com/bridge-to-indesign-contact-sheet-script-now-available-for-cs4.php
Don’t know if that’s still available. Hm.
How do I save InDesign CS5 files as CS4? Is CS5 backwards compatible at all? Or is it that I just can’t find out how to do it?
@TK: Export to IDML and open that in CS4. Don’t expect miracles. New features such as multiple page sizes and span/split/balanced columns will be lost.
It would be awesome to be able to have some kind of backward combatibility with CS5 I do not have CS4 to open the IDML file- Is there another thing that I can do?
@Shelly: No, not really. How far back to do you need to go?
As I noted above, there’s a lot of room for damage when saving back.
Hello to anyone who can help! I’m working on an interactive catalog. When I export the file, all the buttons and page transitions work but the animations new in cs5 dont play in Acrobat 9 they preview great but don’t show when they’re exported…I was told to export the animations to swf then reimport…when I did you have to click the animation for it to work, no bueno…Anybody know how to make an animation in indesign cs5 work in Acrobat 9.3? Thanks so much.
@Ryan: Yeah, the animation stuff is tricky when it comes to exporting Interactive PDF. In most cases, the animations work best for SWF export, not PDF. PDF allows embedded SWFs, but you can’t “get inside” that swf to trigger individual animations. Sounds like we need a blog post to describe some of this.
Hi, I am running Indesign CS4 at the moment and own CS5 – but have not installed it as yet.
I have worrying issues about the upgrade and was wondering if anyone out there using CS5 has any info that may help.
My main problem in with the pre-press stage. Once I’ve finished with design and finished art I then need to pass my files onto a printers pre-press department for them to do their ‘magic’. Problem is that they are ALL running CS4. (I’m talking about 10 different printers here). Most likely they wont upgrade for quite some time.
Now I know I can supply art as PDF and I usually do, but there are times (quite a few actually) when supplying an Indesign file is necessary. In these cases, it appears from what I’ve read, that Indesign CS5 doesn’t save back to CS4 very well. Obviously I’m not willing to check over entire documents once exported to CS4 to make sure everything is in its right place.
Surely I’m not the only designer with this worry?
No version of InDesign has ever saved back well enough to send to a printer. If you need to send a CS4 file you’ll need to continue to work in CS4.
@Decoy and Bob: I mostly, but not entirely agree. Exporting an IDML from CS5 and opening that in CS4 can work very well, as long as you haven’t used the new CS5 features (things like span/split columns and such). If the file is going to be opened and “fixed/magicked” by other prepress people, it might be just fine. I would rather not rely on that workflow, but it is not a horrible workflow in some cases — the translation is pretty good.
It may be me, but the ordinals feature of Open Type seems to be nearly completely trashed. I just installed CS5 and am in the process of testing it with work files from previous projects.
In one book project, the body text is in Adobe Garamond Pro, with ordinals turned on. In CS3, this works great, with the superscripts for first, second, third, etc., exactly where they need to be. But importing the file into CS5 and the text suddenly looks like it was set by a serial killer. More text is superscripted than not, with a few odd subscripts thrown in for good measure. The same weirdness persists if the font is changed, more often than not. Garamond Premiere Pro, always an ordinal problem, isn’t as bad, but not useable. Adobe Text (the new font) is just as bad. The old Adobe Garamond is okay, but a rare exception. Warnock Pro, no good.
With CS3, open type ordinals were a problem with only a few fonts. The problem is orders of magnitude worse with CS5. At this point, the ordinals feature is useless with all but a handful of very old fonts.
BTW, I have CS5 on a Windows 7, 64 bit machine with an Intel Core i7 860, 8 gigs of memory and 1tb hard drive.
Mitch: are you applying Opentype ordinals to your entire text? This feature is really meant to be applied to actual ordinals only — just the ‘rd’ in “3rd”, for example.
(On further thinking: that ought to look the same in CS4 … Perhaps it is a new bug. If you, we’ll name it after you.)
Jongware: I was applying ordinals with the paragraph style. It ought to be able to recognize where ordinals are appropriate, otherwise, its inclusion in the paragraph style dialog box is meaningless. For the time being, I’ve turned it off and am using a GREP find/change query to apply ordinals as a character style exactly as you said. The query is very rough needs refining, but solved the immediate problem.
Word has been able to handle ordinals for years, and CS3 did just fine with most open type fonts. In this particular instance, CS5 is a huge step backward.
It ought to be able to recognize where ordinals are appropriate ..
Ah yes. I had to look it up, but the official definition states it should only be active on lowercases after a number.
.. am using a GREP find/change query to apply ordinals as a character style ..
You’re on CS5! This would much better be done with a GREP style. As for the GREP expression, all it takes is (?<=\d)\l+ — this mimicks the exact OTF specification.
You mentioned different fonts under different circumstances doing different things in different documents. If you can name a single font that works different in CS4 than in CS5 — then you did find a bug, and you should notify Adobe.
Thanks, CS5 very useful resource!!
@Eugene: There was a problem with the Flash panels during the prerelease testing that involved International English as the selected app language: the Flash panels were working in the US English setup but not with International English. I thought that had been addressed prior to shipping, but that may be the problem.
@Jay: 10 to 1 your “disappearing images” problem is caused by a new function in the CS5 UI that selects the contents of a graphics frame automatically if you click on the little grey target that shows up when you mouse over it. If, like me, you work rapidly, and you’re used to just grabbing images and dragging them, this will drive you slightly insane until/unless you get used to the fact that you have to grab the image somewhere other than the middle to move the whole frame. Except for the unusual case of working with items that are grouped, and not much even then, this is probably the least useful new UI feature in CS5. So far it’s a negative on workflow speed, because I’m having to slow down to be sure I don’t accidentally target the contents of the frame.
For fast placement of images, the new workflow is to select a bunch of them and use the loaded place cursor with automagical scaling, alignment and spacing that’s built into CS4 and CS5. A lot of us missed the InDesign Contact Sheet from CS3, since the “replacements” are far less useful.
@Jongware: the ordinals silliness came in with CS4, if I recall correctly. Mitch is correct. It’s crazy that ID can’t do something that simple when every word processor out there has been handling it with aplomb for years.
I just collided with a really obscure one. In a book I’m working on, I have a grep style to set OpenType All Small Caps for BC and AD in dates (Jenson Pro, a serious OTF). When I added this same grep style to another paragraph style in one of these book documents, nothing happened. Not only was the character style not applied at all, but when I then applied it manually nothing changed either. The character style panel showed that the style was applied, but the text remained stubbornly unaltered. Then I noticed that all the figures in these paragraphs were Tabular Lining instead of Proportional Oldstyle, which was set in the OpenType options.
Exporting to IDML and reimporting to CS5 didn’t help. Deleting the preferences file didn’t help. Everyone thoroughly mystified yet? I was too!
Digging in further (it’s the beta tester mentality, I suppose) I found that somehow in the “Advanced Character Formats” section of the paragraph style, the Language was set to “Chinese (Simplified)”. Where that came from is anyone’s guess, but that setting was silently blocking all OpenType options. When I changed it to US English, everything was immediately as it should be.
I’ve reported this one. It it was a feature instead of a bug, it would qualify for the “Obscure ID Feature of the Week,” I think. :-)
David, you might recall (cast your mind back — no, further than that…) I brought this up when CS4 was released. Here it is again, in CS5. I create a new text frame, type some text, Esc out and I can’t adjust the point size or leading or font using the up/down arrows in the Character panel, but I can in the same places in the Control Panel. What’s up with that? Didn’t it come up at all in the beta? (I was on Photoshop only this time around. Didn’t see ID.)
All together now: we need a Place command on the context menu in Bridge. I tried real hard during this last round, but may feature request was marked was “deferred.” Hrmph… It’s supposed to be about making more efficient workflows, dammit.
Perhaps our illustrious co-hosts/contributors could put in a plethora of words about this one. It seems so stupid simple, yet it would be so very useful. I’m at the point where I have the feature request in a text file to copy and paste. :-(
Alan, it might be the Opentype Small Caps is not linked in the font file to all languages, but just to the Latin script (or even just to English).
So, in this case, InDesign does exactly what the font designer put in … (No help — I know.)
The interesting thing is that the language setting turns off (disables, but silently) ALL OpenType settings, not just the small caps. Discretionary ligatures, Oldstyle Figures, you name it. I’d expect to at least see these grayed out, or some sort of error trapping that would throw up a message.
The ordinal problem goes back to CS2. In the archives here, see https://creativepro.com/why-is-my-punctuation-floating-high.php
That’s Sept. 2007. It appears Open Type in InDesign is still not ready for prime time. Here’s the thing – if you can’t turn the ordinal feature on reliably, and can only safely use it as an applied character style, why have it in the paragraph style dialog at all?
Jong: Thanks for the GREP suggestion. I am still a rank newby when it comes to GREP, but that’s going to change.
Per Jongware’s suggestions, I’ve created a GREP style to deal with my situation on ordinals – I have clients who use them a lot. I made a small change to Jong’s GREP. (?<=\d)([dhnrst]{2})
Not all letters that follow a digit should be superscripted. For example metric measurements such as mm or cm. The above only finds the first two letters from the set which makes up st, rd, nd and th. The GREP style applies the character style Ordinals, to those two letters.
@Alan: You wrote “we need a Place command on the context menu in Bridge.”
Seems to me that is what Mini-Bridge in CS5 is for! It’s a wonderful addition (though it’s a little annoying that Bridge has to be running in the background for it to work).
@Mitch: Yes, your GREP is more robust. You can even catch just ‘st’, ‘nd, ‘rd, and ‘th’:
(?
— where the finishing \> ensures nothing else may follow.
.. metric measurements such as mm or cm ..
Nah — these should always have a space after the number, per SI specification.
:'( Gremlins Ate My Grep!
(?<=\d)(st|nd|rd|th)\>
(In the forum you have to watch out for the Backslash Backlash; here, it’s the More-or-Less where both More and Less get Less.)
@David: Yes, Mini Bridge is a good thing. Doesn’t change the fact that I can’t select a couple or three images and right-click in Bridge proper to place them. After four years I still try it instinctively at least twice a day. It’s too logical, obvious and (would be) convenient. Mini Bridge is too small and cramped for much of the work I do. Besides, I have Bridge open all the time on my second monitor, so MB isn’t as useful as it might be on a single-screen setup.
Is anyone else experiencing issues when opening InDesign files from a network drive? I get a permissions/document may already be open error message when I attempt to open a CS3 ID file or a newly created CS5 ID file. I’ve checked all my permissions with my IT support and should be fine. I’m also the sole InDesign user at my firm. Opening the file as a copy does open the document but I can only view a screen shot and cannot touch the document. The only fix I have now is copy a file to my desktop, working on it in CS5 and saving over the old file on the network. I have no issues when opening network files in CS3. Illustrator and Photoshop files have no issues opening in CS5 from the network. I called Adobe support and the have no known solutions. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Has anyone had an issue that when you open a CS4 file with CS5, half of my images become invisible. You can see them on screen but when I export they disappear. It’s probably something insanely simple but any suggestions would be really appreciated.
I haven’t run across that one, Jim, nor heard of it. Is there anything unusual about how you have your layers configured? What are you exporting to?
Beware rounded corners! Well, perhaps not that dramatic, but it seems that a new bug has been introduced in CS5 whereby “Fit Frame to Content” does not work correctly in text frames with rounded corners and vertical alignment in the text frame options set to “Center.” At least one line of text becomes overset as the frame shrinks too far.
I don’t recall having encountered this with CS4, and don’t have the time to go back and check right now.
I have had InDesign CS5 (CS4 did it too sometimes) crash on me when using the contextual menu on the Mac. When I click the right button of my mouse the beach ball starts turning and the only way to return to work on ID is to force quit.
Shame, that Mac users suffer from the fight between Apple and Adobe. I am sure, that Adobe has made Mac version CS5 with slower code. They could make it even more better and faster.
You feel, that your Mac is not good enough anymore, but this is not true.
Here’s a strange new one. PDFs exported from InDesign CS5 look like they only have two pages when viewed in Bridge. Where did that come from? I can’t believe nobody noticed it in prerelease testing, if it was there.
@Alan: I don’t see that. Do you mean in the Preview panel in Bridge? I can see all the pages just fine. Perhaps you accidentally selected an INDD file (rather than PDF). Bridge does, by default, see (and can display preview of) the first two pages of INDD files. That is controlled by the File Handling pane of the Preferences dialog box in InDesign.
Hallo. I have problems with my old chinese TrueType-Fonts. I work with a Mac (Intel, OS X 10.6.3) and a CS5 (english version). I use these fonts since 10 years and they don’t make any problems (from PageMaker to CS3). But now in the CS5-Suite i can’t use these fonts. The fonts are not shown in the font-menu. On the same machine with CS3 i have no problems with this fonts! The fonts are installed in the Apple Font Book with no problems. Have somebody similar problems?
Thanks!
Hey Pamela,
We are having the same problem opening Indesign CS5 files off a server. The only solution we found was to shorten the title to 15 characters or less and it opens fine off the network . It’s really odd because cs4 opens them fine. It makes it a little difficult because you can save a file out of cs5 on a network with a long name but it won’t let you reopen the same file off the network. Hope there is a fix soon. We’ve been holding off using cs5 until there is a fix because it effects our work flow.
I have (IT has) resolved the Blank Panel for Mini Bridge, CS Review, et al Window>Extension panels.
In Mini Bridge – there is Settings>Appearance , I turned off Colour Manage Panel and they all work now as expected.
Wahooooo
This is the culprit
https://img529.imageshack.us/img529/4269/coloursettinsj.jpg
It works fine on a colleauges computer with the exact same monitor.
I loaded in the original ICC profile for the monitor and I still have the issue.
But unticking this box in the options fixes all the panels that weren’t working.
If the new option which creates a “target” that automatically selects the content in graphic frames when it is clicked is bothersome, you can shut it off by selecting “Hide Content Grabber” from the “Extras” submenu in the “View” menu. Personally, I don’t like the content grabber. Triple clicking anywhere in the graphics frame selects the content, and with the Content Grabber hidden, I never accidentally move the content within a graphics frame.
Hi!
Printing issues in InDesign CS5:
Printing Either A4 or A3 in landscape is not working, it comes out as if i’ve choosed the portrait setting in the print dialogue. Anyone else having the same problem? Exporting the document to PDF and printing from Acrobat is no problem.
Can it be the printer driver. I’m using a Xerox DocuColor 250 printer.
Brand new iMac (the top end model) and CS5 performance is crippled by the span columns feature. With fast display set and live drawing off in preferences, having my top headers spanning two columns made everything unbearably slow (hiccups after each letter typed). Change the paragraph styles to remove that and ID goes back to its normal, delightful self. Bug in there somewhere.
Ralf / Anne-Marie:
About the rounded corner issue in opening CS4 documents in CS5.
The bug seems to appear when you use rounded corner effects (with or without an object style) on an inline/anchored object.
Frustrated with CS5. I’ve installed CS5 on 5 computers Two run without issues. Two photoshop crashes when launching – I’ve determined that its a 64-bit/font issue, if I launch in 32-bit no problems. I’m in contact with Adobe engineers regarding this. Apparently there is a dot upgrade coming in the next few days. The third issue Indesign will not launch. Crashes as soon as it starts.
Keyboard shortcutsWin XP
just move my CD4 to CS5 install, now my return key has stopped working altogether in CS5 and if I edit any shortcuts it telll sme there are illegal characters in the file. Works IN CS4 no problem.
Anyone come across this, or have a nifty script which will parse the XML and fix it???
John, did you copy the KBSC file from CS4 to CS5? If so, that would likely be the reason.
@John: Right… and the Return key problem was fixed (for languages that had that problem, such as German) in 7.0.1
David, I’ve read a few reports of people trying to copy the KBSC files and having this happen even with unaffected language versions.
Bob,
I *did* copy the indk file across…
I have the International English version.
When you look at the shortcuts in CS5 things like Delete one word to left in the Type menu, it shows a box in the shortcut editor.
The same indk file has also been copied to a mac version of CS5 and shows Cmd + Delete correctly
If I look at the indk in an XML editor on the PC it correctly shows the delete character inside the XML, but it seems to be read incorrectly by the shortcuts editor.
Looks like a bug to me. Surely there should be a way for InDesign to correctly parse a file from a previous version. Why??, because I haven’t kept a little notebook with all the changes, but as these are the shortcuts I now have muscle memory for these ARE the ones I would like to use.
Can’t be called a bug since it’s not something you’re supposed to be doing. It would certainly be nice, but right now, the only suggestion I can make is to trash your prefs if you can’t go back to the default kbsc set.
Hmmm.
Back to my first point then. Must be a task in XML scripting to make a copy of the default settings file, THEN parse through to see if any value in a previous indk file to see if it is different, then apply the new (old) setting into the copy file.
My database experience imagines this to be possible, if not exactly simple….
Frustrating when the source is so close at hand
@John: I’ve talked with the folks at dtptools.com about making a conversion utility for shortcuts… you’re not alone in wanting this. But it’s not as much of a “slam dunk” as you’d expect.
David, thanks…
I have no illusions that it will be complex, so if they can than that would be brilliant.
I am very intrigued to know what the illegal characters that it thinks are there….
Simpler(??) alternative would be to compare the ‘default’ settings with a new version and spit out a list of changes, additions alterations so that it would be possible to go into the new version and re-input new values…..
I have a quick and dirty longhand solution to creating a new set of shortcuts
I opened CS4 and under the shortcuts panel clicked view, this creates a TXT file of the current (new) shortcuts.
Save it and then do the same with the default set.
Then I opened them both in Notepad++, free text editor on PC/Linux which includes a compare module.
This then highlights each line where the two are different.
Open CS5 and then go through each one of the items highlighted to change to new set of values.
Slightly slow and dull, but I now have a CS5 version of what I know and love that is all clean and lovely.
Oh yes, dont forget to save durign the process *otherwise* you might have to do it all twice. Doh!
Printing toa Xerox Doc 250 from indesign CS5.
Same issues – prints as if I’m choosing letter.
I have to export it back to CS4 and print it. But, CS4, does not print the correct seps to our platesetter, so I have to have 2 print files.
I’m guessing it is as InDesign issue with Xerox print driver since my other programs print fine.
Tammy
Regarding printing to a Xerox 240/250 machines and InDesign CS5.
Xerox Level 2 tech support says as a work around, you need to print from Acrobat. (exporting to CS4 also works)
Since they are considered older machines, there won’t be any new drivers released that will patch these issues.
Fun, Fun.
Tammy
CS5 offers an option to export text when creating a SWF file by choosing the ‘Flash Classic Text option to output searchable text’. Does anyone know if this means that search engines, such as Google, will now be able to ‘read’ these SWF files on a website and finally allow the contents to appear in search results?
I have a problem that came with CS5:
I want to hide/show buttons on page 2 in the document when I click on a button on page 1.
In ID CS4 I can choose to Hide/Show ALL interactive buttons in the document ? on any page.
In ID CS5 I can only hide/show the buttons that are on the same page.
Am I missing something or is this a bug? Can you help me?
@Martin: I think Adobe changed the Buttons panel behavior in CS5. I don’t know of any way around that problem.
@Martin, Admittedly I don’t do a lot of this but I can’t really see a lot of difference between CS4 and CS5 behavior.
I just tried it in both and I can easily select all of the buttons in the document for Hide/Show Button behavior.
Strange, Bob. I can confirm the behavior that Martin reports. Could it be Mac only?
When you choose the Hide/Show button action for a selected button, do you see a list of all the buttons in the document or just the ones on that page? I tested the same file in CS4 and CS5 — and in CS4, all the buttons in the doc are listed; in CS5, only the other buttons on the same page as the selected one are listed.
Ack! You’re right.
I had some buttons on a master page and that’s what I was seeing. This seems like a bug…or very poor judgment.
@David: As regards 2-page-only PDF previews in Bridge, I’ve reported this as a bug. It’s quite consistent. And no, I wasn’t looking at an INDD by mistake! It may also be that it’s a Bridge CS5 bug that only appears with documents created by ID CS5.
A PDF created from CS4 or earlier shows all the pages in Bridge, and they can be paged through in the preview panel. The same document exported from CS5 has a preview that Bridge is convinced has exactly two pages. (Also true for a 1-page document!) This is visible on a workstation and on a MacBook Pro (both running Win7 x64).
I have experienced the same the 2-page PDF problem on documents created in IndesignCS5 when viewed in BridgeCS5. My machine is also Windows 7×64 so maybe it’s a Windows or a 64 bit problem?
BTW, the same CS5-created PDFs are displayed correctly in BridgeCS3, which is still installed on my laptop, so I would hazard that the problem is in BridgeCS5.
ID CS5 seems to have big issues with legacy files. Yesterday, I was editing a file converted from CS4 and I think it was my most frustrating experience with a piece of Adobe software: cut & paste: crash; move pages: crash; contextual menu: crash.
After an hour of deleting prefs & workspaces, I decided to cut my losses and rebuild the file in CS4. Same file, same assets: not a single crash.
@David, Unfortunately you’re not the only one I’ve seen report this type of thing. One thing you might want to try is to export the CS4 file to IDML from CS5 and then work on that.
From what I’ve read this seems to clear out whatever is causing the problems.
Thanks for the advice Bob. I’ll give that a go.
Three major issues in CS5 for me as of this date: (1) Return key in dialog boxes merely inserts an invisible space character, rather than pressing OK or whatever default button (minor but highly irritating when trying to be ultraproductive). (2) No more “click to set origin”?in CS4 you could easily set the origin of a transform by clicking somewhere on the pasteboard. No more. Now you much click with the option key, and cancel the dialog box that comes up to use custom transform point. Another productivity killer. (3) Magic Mouse scrolling: This is insane and seemingly unfixable, since there are no controls to adjust this. I use MightyPrefs, and it makes no difference in InDesign.
Running In Design CS5 on Win 7 Ultimate, 64 bit. Worked fine for a couple of months then yesterday the windows, Page, Layers, Preflight, etc, went dead. For example, with a document open, I open the Pages window and click on a page and nothing happens. the slide bar doesn’t work and I can’t select a master from the upper window. I can select between Pages and Effects from the top bar and the bottom bar’s selections, add page, delete, add page size are ok. I see similar problems with all other windows.
I tried several different documents and even set up a new one with the same results. I ran repair in the Windows Uninstall with no change. I then uninstalled In Design and downloaded a new copy from My Account at Adobe.com. After the install, same problem.
Am I overlooking a switch somewhere, or is there something wrong?
Thanks
@Richard, that type of behavior is indicative of corrupt preferences. Even reinstalling the software won’t help.
Read about it here: https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences.php
Thanks for the quick response. I tried the fix. That didn’t work it and now the lower bar on the Pages window is also inactive. I’m getting real nervous now- I have a deadline.
@Richard, have set up Windows with any custom font size or resolution? That’s been known to cause display problems in InDesign.
And the Problem Was:
Okay I got it.
Yesterday I changed one of my monitors so I would have two identical ones. That way I could have identical resolution on both.
When I did that I reset the print size, at 100% I had to scoot up to the monitor to read it. Tried 125 % and it was an improvement, but I liked 150% even better.
I remember somewhere seeing that InDesign would only run properly at very high resolution. So I changed text size (in Win 7 Control Panel) to 100% and the problem went away. I also tried 150% and that works also.
So, Problem solved.
Thanks for you attentiveness.
I have several issues with document exported from cs5 to pdf, in indesign and illustrator. When i check doc in the acrobat, repot that have type 1, ttf and otf fonts embeded, commonly a have this with all document. When i try to make plate for ctp after rip system, (i have Metadimension 6.2 but try on Harlequin 8 and other rips) font is replaced with squares, absolutely unusable, that is happened before when you have screen font but you don’t have printer font (pfb and pfa if somebody remember) but now font is ttf and otf and don’t have separate parts for screen and print. I must note that i set rip to abort job when font missing but i don’t receive any info about font replacement and imposition work with jt (without changing original pdf). Another case happened when is font partially included in pdf, on some character position type is replaced with some character that not belong there, absolutely miracle, i suspect that all character not include in document and then pdf mix with character that have ?! Any suggestion??
Folks, when you have a problem that you need help with, I suggest you click on Forum to go to indesignsecrets.com/forum (that way more people will see it, I think).
@dejan: Does it help if you change the subset fonts to zero percent instead of 100%?
Hi,
We’re having problems with the “Export to SWF” feature – not sure whether it’s a bug or not?
The documentation seems to suggest that when exporting as SWF, any additional media files (e.g. other SWF or MP3) used in the INDD are included in the SWF, but that for FLA files, it creates a resources folder which it puts the media files into. We’re finding that it is creating the folder for SWF exports as well, but then when we load the SWF and it’s folder onto the web, it isn’t playing the additional media files (which are in the directory).
It works locally OK, but as soon as we load it up, it’s almost as if the links are breaking somehow …
Have we mis-understood the docs? Or are we missing something with the export?
Thanks in anticipation!
Cath
Hello! So, every time I open the character window, and try to select a font from that menu, InDesign crashes unexpectedly. Using a imac i5, with SL 10.6.4… if I use a different font menu it works, but slowly. anyone else have that issue? Im sick of restarting indesign! i should of just stayed with cs4, the only reason i changed is because im a student and my school uses cs5 now and i was trying to keep compatibility issues to a minimum
@Cath: That sounds like a good question for the forums. Yes, ID does create a resources folder for SWFs, too. Not sure why it’s not finding them.
@Todd: I suggest rebuilding your preferences. You may need to delete your font caches, too (there are utilities to do that).
I’m closing the comments on this post… if people have particular questions, concerns, or problems they need help with, look at the comment above, and if you don’t see an answer, then head over to the forums.