My MAC crashed and had to have a new hard drive installed. When I re-installed CS5, InDesign now gives me error messages. First one is LILO.IndesignPlugin is not currently available on the system. Next one is Hyphenation breaks may change if you edit the text in this document. The following hyphenation services are not installed on this system - Proximity (English: USA). I searched the forum and found a topic regarding finding and deleting the SavedData file and the Preferences file. I have been working on this since last night. Last night, the SavedData file was not showing up. I uninstalled the program and reinstalled it again, and now the Preferences file is gone. Seems like I saw something somewhere in the many hours of looking for a "fix" that said something about a "cleaner" program that would take all of the program off the computer so that it could be installed again like it had never been there. I don't know if that will fix it or not, but I am certainly ready to try! All of the menus are missing! I own a magazine and this is one of my designers computers. I really need to fix this issue by Monday! Help!!!! Any ideas on how to help would be greatly appreciated!
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CS5 Error Message On Open?
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How can I access ID subscription following 30-day trial
Hi
I'm hoping someone might be able to help end today's nightmare.
Background: I am a writer who has recently needed to use ID for a magazine project. I thought there was a chance I might be able to get all done in 30 days so I took advantage of the free trial for my Mac (OSX).
Due to external circumstances I needed ID longer than 30 days, so I committed to buy after the trial expired. That was today. Trial expired and I came across the subscription offer for £12 a month. I paid up and got an email from Adobe telling me to a) log in to my a/c, b) click to download and c) open ID, which would apparently 'recognise' that I was a subscriber.
What actually happened was, after downloading and installing it informed me that my trial has expired giving me the option to 'buy' or 'license'. Clicking license brings up a prompt for the serial key.
This is nowhere to be found in my Adobe email or invoice and nowhere on my products page on my Adobe account (although the product link and details are there).
I thought I might be able to solve by going over to my PC and downloading to Windows before transferring via memory stick, but the transfer process was taking hours. Now, I can open ID with no problem on my PC - presumably because I have never had a trial version on there.
I have now deleted everything Adobe-related I can find on my Mac and started downloading the product again, but I have a sneaky suspicion the Application Manager will still realise that there was an expired trial in place and deny me access.
In hindsight I probably should have thought that having a trial expire on a Saturday A.M. when my deadline is Monday is a bad move - no-one at Adobe to help me.
I've lost a day of work throught this - hopefully one of you bright sparks can save me from losing another.
Thanks
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Problem with nested styles
Relatively new user of InDesign is trying to follow instructions in the help files about creating nested styles, and something weird is happening that I can't figure out.
The objective: create a paragraph style for the first paragraph following a scene break in a novel with no indent and the first [defined number] of words in all caps.
I have the paragraph style and the character style formatted. Each style individually works as expected. But when I select Style Options>Drop Caps and Nested Styles>New Nested Style>choose the character style>through>4 words>OK, the paragraph begins with the first three words in normal case and the caps are applied to the next four words of the first line. Nothing I've tried puts the caps at the beginning of the paragraph and begins counting the number of words from there.
I'd appreciate any help to ease my frustration. Thanks.
Tosh
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kerning pair in a character style?
Greetings,
I'm using CS6 in OS10.7....
I've been trying to figure out how to making a kerning pair a character style, but it's not working at all. I've seen things that say that if you set the kerning between two characters, then highlight the first one and create a new character style that that is supposed to work. But nothing happens for me when I try that.
Is there any way to achieve this?
Thanks in advance!
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Is there a way to go back?
I'm an experinced user of Adobe products. Not professional in any way, but have set up a number of newsletters for others as well as many forms, business product, etc. I used to work for a couple of local printers and learned on the job. I have never had a problem with versions or platforms (working on both Mac and PC) with the exception of the change from CS2 to CS5 here at home. Not really a big problem for me. Now, I create a school newsletter and the school just purchased the Creative Suite for my office computer, the latest and greatest. I own CS5, the school owns CS5.5. You can probably guess the problem I'm having. I cannot open the CS5.5 file on my CS5 program at home.
I just don't have the money to upgrade at this time. The problem for me is that I store the file on a thumb drive and transport it back and forth from Home to Work. If I forget to export, I can't do any work at home and get behind.
Is there an aftermarket fix? Can I go back a version at work? How about a script that does it automatically when I save? Looking for any suggestions. I just hate to rely on my mind to remember everytime, esp. when I have to save often in a busy office environment.
Thanks
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fonts missing in package folder
When I open an InDesign document in Bridge, I see the list of fonts used. When I package the file in InDesign, and look in the fonts folder, some of the fonts are missing (although there were no problems with the fonts in the package report). Why are they missing in the fonts folder created by packaging?
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newbie question
how resolution affects the size of images in importing into indesign
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Need to create pdf with thumbnail pages from InDesign
How can I create a pdf with multiple InDesign pages on each sheet (thumbnails)? I have snow leopard, cs6. Thank you.
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ID CS6 Crash exporting to Print PDF in Windows
Hi there,
I am having trouble exporting my indesign file to a high quality pdf document for printing. I am using Windows 7 64-bit.
Current file size of the document is 234 MB, most of the images are linked. But when I try and do an export, it crashes with this error:
(This is in german. It shows the standard error and closing message of windows 7. Adobe Indesign CS6 has stopped working... blahblah)
So I have tried exporting it into other various files (for testing purposes).
- Downscaled graphics to 72dpi is crashing.
- IDML is crashing.
- I have also tried it on another laptop with windows 7, still crashing.
- Exporting it without most of the graphics (using a copy I made a few days ago) is working. The filesize of the copy was 13 MB. Fonts and everything else looking good. After this copy I started putting in the graphics.
- Interactive PDF (with obviously downscaled graphics) is working.
So any tips on how to get this done? Thanks in advance.
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CS6, Font embedding and iBooks
Hi,
It seems that there is a bug with embedded fonts in an ePub.
Embedded fonts in an ePub created with InDesign CS6 do not show in iBooks. The "com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml" file is included.
If I use Sigil to obfuscate the fonts with the IDPF method, the ePub is working in iBooks.
The Test files can get downloaded under the following link: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9429870/CS6FontEmbedding.zip
(Hopefully there is an update with these lots of bugfixes coming soon)
Kind regards
Yves
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Indesign Margins for Lefties
i am using a Wacom Cintiq and am left-handed. Is there any way to change the margin sliders to the left hand side. My hand totally covers the text I am trying to search. I can do this in MS Word and Firefox.
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Why do I get SharedContent plugin error?
My indd document was created in iD CS5.5. On opening in iD CS5, there is a popup which says that SharedContent plugin was used in the creation of the file. The popup then provides the option to proceed anyway. Will I be safe doing that, or is there a workflow for installing the plugin in CS5?
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Associate .indd file extension with CS6
I have not been able to associate the file extension with CS6 in Windows Vista. The .indd extension is already taken by another application, yet when I try to change it, it does not save.
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Creating sequential, non-consecutive Numbered Lists throughout doc
Ok, I know someone is going to tell me there's already a discusson on this topic so I'm telling you right now, I have searched the Forum every which-way on this question and came up blank. So thank you for bearing with me ...
I am sure this is a very simple remedy but for some reason I just cannot figure it out/find the solution. Needless to say, I am very frustrated!
I have a long document with several different areas where there are numbered lists, each beginning with the number 1:
1. text here
2. more text here
Another paragraph or 2 here. Then another numbered list:
1. blah blah
2. blah blah blah
3. and so on
I have the first batch of numbered items (1-5) formatted and styled. No problem. When I apply the style to the next batch of numbered items (a few paragrahs down), it begins with #6. When I go into Bullets & Numbering and choose Mode: "Start at ... 1" ALL the numbers display as 1, including those further up in the document.
What's the secret here??
HELP?! 
Thank you!!
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Is it possible to set the cell height in a cell style?
In the attached screenshot, the cell height is set to exactly 0.125. I put my cursor in the cell, then opened the cell styles panel and created a new cell style based on this cell. But when I apply the cell style to other cells, it does not apply the cell height. There were no overrides or other styles applied to the other cells. I also opened up the cell style definition from the cell styles panel, but don't see anywhere to set the cell height there either. Is there another way to do this that I am missing?
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When Data merging from an Excel file How to keep the text formating?
Hi Everybody,
It is probable that this problem was posted before but can't find the answer (lack the vocabulary maybe, englsh not my language), so please forgive me if this is the hundred time you see this.
I have to create a huge catalogue for one of my client. He send me Excel File and all pictures already crop. I thought it was about to be an easy job. Just have to use data merge after having link the picture inside the Excel file.
The excel file is divided in different categories, one of which being the spec of the product which look like a list of feature.In the excel file, in one cell there is several ligne which correspond to one bullet point in the catalog (don't know if I am clear).
Each time I am trying to merge this cell, it just catch the first line and it mess with the next entry in the catalogue.
The only thing I can do so far is to put all the feature following each other without going to the line by pressing enter. and then i have to rearrange the text again in indesign once merge. I am ok to do so with 20/30 item, but I have about 2500 item in this catalog (they don't call it the bible for nothing) . How could I merge the cell from excel without modifying it and avoid extra work?
Thanks for you help.
Alex
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Import XML is Grayed Out
My eBook is long since completed in Word.docx, which exports to XML, yet neither of these otherwise ubiquitous formats are adequately supported on any digital publishing platform available today.
So I downloaded the trial version of InDesign CS6, created a library and created a new empty eBook within that library. My next step would have been to import the XML into the new empty eBook but that option is grayed out.
Am I on the right track? Do I have to type my 500-page document into InDesign and spend the next 6 months reapplying all of the fonts, layout and cross-reference hyperlinks that I've already applied within the source document, just hoping all along that I'll be able to use the result, or has InDesign CS6 brought an easier way to the table?
Thanks for your help!
Dave
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Creating page curls in a PDF
I've got CS6 on Windows 7 64 bit. Trying to create a PDF with page curls for our catalog. Found this video: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/csinsider-design/indesign-creating-interacti ve-pdfs-with-page-turn-and-flash-animations/ and though great! - this is exactly what I want to do. Well l can't get it to work. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I'm just trying to do what he did in the first half of this video with the page curl. Not concerned about the animation. Is something different in CS6 compared to CS5.5 he's using? I don't have Flash installed, not sure if that matters, but the options of a .swf file is available under Export and that's what I chose. Thanks.
Mark
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Anyone having issues with InDesign (CS5) and Suitcase Fusion 3 (Mac)?
I've run into a problem that I think might be caused by Suitcase Fusion 3 [Version 14.2.0 (319)], but I'm wondering if anyone here is having any issues with InDesign and Suitcase Fusion like I am?
Just about every time I launch an InDesign document or an Illustrator document (don't seem to have the issue in Photoshop, strangely enough) it pretty much crashes to the point where it's a force quit. Before anyone asks the question, this is what I've done - I've reformatted my hard disk (even writing 0s!), done a clean install of Lion (10.7.3), clean install of Creative Suite 5 (and updates), clean install of Suitcase (and updates)...you get the idea. I'm still ending up with crashing just about every time I open a document in these two apps.
As an experiment I downloaded a (fully functioning) trial version of FontAgent Pro (which I didn't like, btw) and didn't encounter any crashing at all in either application.
I've opened a ticket with Adobe to see if they have any details as to whether this is a known conflict or whatever (though I don't hold much hope for getting help from them since it's looking more like a Suitcase issue than a Creative Suite one).
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what I can do to try and resolve this?
I'm in the middle of producing two magazines and I really really don't need this! Lol
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Data Merge in newest version of InDesign
Hi all,
Was wondering if anyone can point me to the improvments to Data Merge in the newest version of InDesign (assuming there are some). We are specifically looking for a way to output single PDFs (500 page Data Merged InDesign Document saves as 500 PDF files for example) and each PDF being named using a column from the attached Excel file. I realise that it will be possible to have the javascripted, but was kind of hoping to avoid this with the newest InDesgn.
Thanks,
Graham
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