CS 5 Indesign unstable

CS5 Indesign is unstable, slow and crashes constantly. I run a Mac Pro with 14 gb ram and I get a slower performance than CS3 on a G5.
Adobe should be ashamed to release such a piece of crap into the market, but what's worse is that its been out here for months and no fixes have been made available.
Adobe should be congratulated - Mac users can now get the Windows experience - constant crashes, unreliable software etc all at a huge price. What a rip off.

I do sympathise, although I'm on Windows and CS5 has never skipped a beat... or Windows for that matter. Anyway that isn't very helpful to you!
Are you fully updated? 7.0.3 is the latest. There are reports on here of it helping a bit. I take it you've found the other threads on disabling live preview and a few other methods? Thumbnails off in page panel for example...

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I am trying to finish a book in InDesign CS2 with another person. My old XP computer became unstable and I had to get a Windows 7 computer. I was able to install CS2 on the Virtual XP Machine on my Windows 7 computer, but I cannot register or activate it.

I am trying to finish a book in InDesign CS2 with another person. My old XP computer became unstable and I had to get a Windows 7 computer. I was able to install CS2 on the Virtual XP Machine on my Windows 7 computer, but I cannot register or activate it. Adobe no longer supports activation. Is there a way I can keep using CS2? I need to get files back and forth to my coauthor. I also have CS6. I understand that files can go form 2 to 6, but not backwards. Thanks Robert

you can download a new installer and serial number from Adobe at Adobe - CS2 Downloads

InDesign CS4 and CS5 scripting on Windows 7 unstable

Hello, have not found any solutions to our previous issues with RPC errors while scripting InDesign CS4 and CS5 on Windows 7.
Even more problematic, I just installed a trial version of InDesign CS5 on Windows 7, created a small JavaScript script that places a counter text from 1 to 10.000 in a one page, one frame document and found out this crashes when the counter is at around 4500 or so. This was the same issue with CS4, that's why I tried CS5.
These scripts run fine with CS4 on Windows XP and Vista. So what is the problem with scripting Indesign on Windows 7 ? Are there any settings that should be changed in Windows 7 to create a more stable situation ? Need to allocate more memory somehow ?
Anxious to know, for now I try avoiding Windows 7.
Roelof Janssen

Shouldn't be a problem but you should be aware that if you upgrade to CS5.5 now you'll get a free upgrade to CS6 when it ships.
Bob

Crashes in Indesign CS5 related to New Pages and Smart Reflow

Anyone else having problems with page related crashes (linked to the LAYOUT ADJUSTMENT.APLN module in ID CS5 on Windows 7 x64, according to the crash report). I get regular crashes when text or table overflows and a new page is created using Smart Reflow, or when manually adding new pages via the New button on the Pages panel. The latter seems to be linked to clicking the new page button repeatedly to create several new pages.
I am working on a document created in CS4, so this might be the cause. I tried to recreate the crash in a new CS5 document, but was not able to, although I could not get Smart Reflow to work either when Limit to Master Text Frames is unchecked.
J

I have the same, several files created in CS4 (with texts imported from Word). The files crashed in CS4, and CS5. CS4 Windows and Mac, CS5 Windows 7. It definitely has to do with adding pages and overflowing text, exactly as stated. I was not happy to buy from my own money this very expensive software to have it crash 20 times the first day I used it. And at least a 100 times on the third day. That felt like Windows 3.1 to me. You have to know exactly what to do not to let the program crash. I spend 9 hours on figuring out how to get all the hundreds of hours of work back from my crashing Indesign. I managed to get from completely unstable (crash every minute) to workable stable (10-20 crashes a day). I could now write a manual on workarounds "how not to crash CS5", yet cannot prevent all crashes (yet). Expensive software like this should definitely be better at preventing crashes. I still am sorry I didn't keep to MS Word! It works and crashes less than 5% of the time that Adobe does. Has less features, yet does basic features better (like footnotes, autonumbering etc). I have a very serious deadline and Adobe keeps on crashing.
Oh, and YES of course I export to IDML. Spent more money on OT fonts because I didn't trust my TT fonts. Googled like a madman for solutions. The went back to Zen and not sleeping just to get my book to the printer.
Do I sound frustrated? ;-)

InDesign's auto-handling of parallel texts in parallel columns

Everyone I have asked this question of says -- "I am not exactly sure what you are trying to do ..." So PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.
I was told that Indesign could handle this easily. Adobe's East Indian support had no idea what I was talking about. Their U.S. office failed to respond.
When you develop a book length project (400 pages or so) of 4 parallel texts, there is NO REASON whatsover why you would want EVEN pages to wrap over to ODD pages. You typically have 2 columns holding 2 *different* texts on the left (even) page, and you also have 2 totally different columns holding another 2 totally *different* texts on the (odd) right pages. So in facing page mode, you see 4 different texts ALL in parallel with each other.
The consequences of this seems SO hard for most people to understand. It means the 2 columns of texts on the LEFT (even) page will ALWAYS stay on the left page, no matter which page of the book you turn to, and the 2 columns of texts on the right page will ALWAYS stay on the right pages.
There is NO WRAPPING from even pages onto odd pages, and vice versa. What is in column 1 of the even page ALWAYS stays in column 1 of every even page in the book. When you turn the pages of the book, everything aligns perfectly -- the left 2 texts are in parallel with the right 2 texts.
I can't see why people have so much problem understanding this SIMPLE book layout, of 4 parallel texts spread across 2 facing pages -- which is VERY common in scholarly texts. Nevertheless, they do. So if you don't see what I am asking for, please re-read the above until you do. Now, I was told that Indesign can do this easily, but Adobe staff have failed to respond. So let me ask you Indesign experts in this forum the crucial question --
If you set up a 4 page layout, where the 2 columns in the left (even) page of page 2 wraps down to the left (even) page of page 4 (no, not page 3) -- and the 2 columns in the right (odd) page of say page 3 wraps down to page 5 (no, not page 4) -- can you get the program to make this layout persist over 400 pages without the user having to laboriously link, page by page, every even page to the next even page, and every odd page to the next odd page?
More specifically, if I have 4 columns spread across 2 facing pages, and I tell Indesign that page 2 columns wrap to page 4 columns (no, not to page 3 columns), and I link page 3 columns to page 5 columns (no, not page 4 columns) -- CAN INDESIGN realize this is a pattern that repeats throughout the entire book, and do it automatically for me??? My people are simply NOT going to understand how to link odd to odd pages and even to even.
i.e. I need to set up a 4 page layout, which gives the even-to-even linking, and the odd-to-odd linking, and after that the PROGRAM ITSELF needs to be smart enough to realize that this is the layout that you want for 4 parallel columns .... and it replicates it on all pages, until you tell it otherwise.
So the question is -- can Indesign do this or not?? It is a simple YES / NO answer. Either Indesign can recongize the layout for 4 pages (i.e. two facing pages replicated to the next 2 facing pages) and keep this layout going for the length of the book -- or it cannot. It is either one or the other.
If I have to laboriously link EVERY odd page frame in the book to every odd page, over 400 pages, and I have to link every even page frame in the book to every subsequent even page -- then we have a serious mental gap with the developers of the program. Anyone who has worked with multiple parallel texts knows that this is the NORM for multiple parallel book texts. The problem I am having is finding a program whose developers comprehend this.
Please realize, I have gone through about 30 programs, and YES, I am frustrated. If Indesign can do this easily without me having to mindlessly create 400 repetitive page-frame to page-frame links that should be obvious to the program (and its developers) then please say: "YES it can do this for you."
Thank you for your knowledgeable help -- without getting upset that I have struggled over the past 2 months to make people realize this simple need.

Hey Joel, nice post, thank you. If you look for scratchyboy or "scrathcyboy" on the web, you will see I am a hardware and M$ software guru. There is almost nothing about windows I can't fix or tear to pieces. But why windows would destruct on installing SP2 -- I have never figured that out yet !!
"It sounds like the the CS4 functionality and AFP will work well for you; do you have a second computer to use as a testbed?"
I have a network of 10 computers, each dedicated to special functions. I thought of Win7 on one, but decided not to, because of no efficiency advantage (see the best XP-W7 comparison -- http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/Windows_7/Q_2525764 2.html).
"In your shoes, I might try to do it more cheaply"
THANK YOU for sugesting this, it was on my mind since this morning. Between monitor and software, we are pusing $2000 here, and since my ORG is non-profit, I probably won't recover that outlay. So let me ask you -- and EVERYONE ELSE too -- something that has been bugging me ....
Why can't a Word Processor do this?? I know this is an InDesign forum, but you guys are the sharpest I have met, so let me lay it out for you .. and hold your breath !! The first parallel column book I ever produced was written in WORDSTAR for DOS ( ... Gasp !!! ....) and with Wordstar's DOT commands, hell, I could do anything I wanted ... font kerning, multi-column layout, even odd pages wrapping to odd pages, and even to even.
This, as it turns out is the achilles heel of all modern word processors. The developers (yes they are to blame for lack of experience) NEVER conceived of parallel columns, and since they did not understand parallel texts, they never realized this obvious -- "hey if you have 2 different parallel texts on the even pages and 2 other ones on the odd pages -- then suddenly the page wrap model changes -- it then becomes illogical to wrap even to odd pages.
So I have tried just about every word processor but PageMaker (never liked it, maybe you guys can help here??) -- the only two WPs that attempt to grasp parallel columns are Lotus WordPro, and Corel Wordperfect (which I found unstable and unusable for long texts of more than 15 pages or so).
If you look at my layout above, it is really quite basic -- 2 parallel "discussions" on the left page, aligned with 2 parallel texts on the right page. There is nothing here a word processor should not be able to handle ... except for their ONE achilles heel -- they all seem to insist on forcing every even page to wrap to the next odd page number ... blindly NEVER considering a 4-parallel-column layout spread across facing pages, as ALL books display.
So how about PageMaker 7? Can it do this? I have bought and acquired so much Adobe software (I was an early beta tester for Photoshop) that I have never used ... I sure would like to make some use of it, even if years old. All I need is a WP that can do 4 columns split 2 on the left, 2 to right. It is really that simple, and all the WP has to do is realize if the left page texts differ from the right, you do NOT wrap even to odd, only even to even.
So HOW ABOUT IT GUYS??? If you can't figure this out, hell, there is no group of people I know who can figure it out. So LAY ON McDUFF ....

"Waiting on Bridge" problem in Indesign

Just started having this problem after I loaded OSX Maverick on my Imac.
I searched the forums and saw the recommendations for removing the "SwitchBridge" from the preference folder. For some reason, when I go the the Library/preferences/adobe folder, SwitchBridge is not in there. From what I have read, that doesn't always solve the problem anyway.
This problem is driving me nuts because it is intermittent. Some folders open very quickly and some takes 10 to 15 seconds for the thumbnails to pop up. One folder I was trying to open was still spinning after about 30 minutes (I took a lunchbreak). Sometimes I can click on another folder and the thumbnails will show and then go back to the previous folder and the thumbnails pop up immediately.
Mostly it is driving me nuts and slowing me down.
I am running the CC suite of software (mainly Indesign, Photoshop & Illustrator) and I depend heavily on Mini Bridge because it makes my workflow smoother and faster.
Any suggestions?

Never heard of Switch Bridge before, you probably mean SwitchBoard which is in the system library app support folder and in earlier versions has been acting a bit unstable but to my knowledge this is fixed. However, I would not recommend to remove this.
Be sure to run Check Disk and Check and repair permissions on your Mac (which you already should have done also before upgrading to Mavericks) and bite the bullet: dump the Cache folder for Bridge from your user library (Not on Mavericks yet but from 10.7 they have hidden the user library, use menu Go with option to reveal).
Go to the Cache folder:
User / library / Caches/ Adobe/ Bridge CC and inhere move both plug in and cache folder (can grow very large) outside the user library. restart Bridge Holding down option key and choose reset preferences also.
If this is not enough also refresh prefs for ID. You will have to rebuild the cache again ( use main folder and menu view / show items from subfolders and let Bridge do it's job. Depending on amount and size of files this can take a while, best use it overnight or end of the day.
You also will have to reset custom preferences because bot prefs and cache have been reset to empty and new (factory default) settings when restarted Bridge.

How to run InDesign in background?

I mean to make InDesign application invisible while processing my script?

Which might be a reason to find a different method than indesign.
This kind of Policy produces 2 things:
First: They push Mediumsized companys to work illigal or not with indesign at all if they have some special needs which will be only legal by an indesign server.
Second: They prohibit some external Developments or releases because it would be illigal tu use it.
Theres no way to start indesign in Background with its own api (this is not 100% for shure but 95% :-)
It might be Possible but not by VBA or Java, there are some workarounds with VB and c++ but this is a complete different animal.
However maybe it would be legal using somekind of passive server. Means a timejob on one Computer working a set of data in some directory or Database down. It would not be a real server since the jobs starting itself on the Workstation and not by command from another application.
Or Make a script which runs in a loop with a time break. In case 1 you have to make your own Atomic.
But im really not shure how legal that would be. Anyway how legal the split client and Server in the policies by adobe is another animal too.
Its hard to determine whats a server whats not in many cases.
lets say you send the data directly to an automated workstation to work on it - is it an Server?
if the workstation needs a pressing button thing is it or not? In that case you can use a macro keyboard to do this - is it then a server ?
again i dont not understand this policies since you cannot start a multhithread on indesing workstation anyway it would be unuseable for real server applications. you cannot make a hing like a webservice because its simply to slow and unstable.
didnt solve our problems but to be honest, im shure bevore a customer with lets say 8 or 9 employes buys a server for 30k he will work illigal (so are back to my beginning post)
The Question is if indesign is really needed. today i see many prints going out by pdf... so there could be easier ways
take a look on some report generators like crystal reports. for many needs absoloutly enough

Photoshop crashes at the "import pdf" dialog, and causes the OS to be unstable.

After using InDesign and Photoshop for some time... Photoshop crashes at the "import pdf" dialog, and causes the entire system to be slow and unstable.
I have recently upgraded to CS6 from CS3. I'm using the current version of OSX Mountain Lion on an early 2008 Mac Pro.

An application cannot bring down the operating system on Mac or Windows unless something is very, very wrong with the system.
If you did an upgrade install of Mountain Lion my first suggestion would be to back up your data, deactivate your applications and then do a clean install.
Bob

Multi-page tables crashing in InDesign

Could anyone please provide some general advice about working with multi-page tables in InDesign, which appear to be very unstable.
Over the past year or so, my team and I have worked with InDesign 5 and 5.5 on both Mac (10.6) and Windows (XP and 7) machines. In that time we have found if there’s one thing that will cause InDesign to crash it’s a table that runs over several pages and particularly (though not exclusively) if it’s got merged cells. Add that extra row, merge that extra cell, even just insert your text cursor as you prepare to change some text and InDesign seems to reach a point where the “straw breaks the donkey’s back” and it falls over. At least it usually has the courtesy to reopen at exactly the point where the crash occurs with all the other changes that have been made still in place, whether they have been manually saved or not.
The really weird thing is that sometimes the same file will crash on all the machines at the same point (as you would expect) but sometimes the files which crash on Windows machines will work fine on Macs and the files which crash on Macs will work fine on Windows machines. There doesn’t appear to be much of a consistent pattern to what’s going on.
However, the solutions are always the same. First, unmerge any merged cells and adjust the border/fill commands to hide the fact they are now unmerged and then, if that doesn’t work, split the table up into separate chunks and put them into a separate text box on each page - that always seems to fix the problem, although the benefits of linked text boxes are now lost.
I’ve had a scoot round the web and on these forums and whilst I can find quite a lot of material on this topic, there doesn’t appear to be anything that relates to our issue directly. I realise that I haven’t given specific information on what happens to us because it’s just something that happens every so often and we’re usually working so fast that there’s no time to carry out a detailed analysis of what’s going on, we just fix it and carry on. I’d be grateful if anyone could offer a general overview of what’s happening and maybe suggest some preventative measures we could take to reduce/eliminate the chances of this happening in the future.
As always, thanks in advance for any and all advice offered.

Hi folks,
I have a similar problem with several dokuments running tables over 20 to 30 pages. Since InDesign CS5 I have crashes on random times and issues. I have built up the whole Document from scratch, because I thought saving them from older versions might cause the problem. I have started with a new document editing a table that runs over 5 pages with no merged cells in it which I had before. Now InDesign starts to crash again.
– It crashes when I type more text than fits in the table cell
– It crashes when I try to apply the standard paragraph style
– It crashes altough I have saved an .idml-File to clean it
– The problem appears in CS6 and CC also
– I have tried copy/paste to a new document, which worked until I copied a particular table row. Then it started to crash again.
Something weird I recognized is that all umlauts (I'm writing german text) are shown with wrong symbols in Story Editor (Textmodus) but not in the table itself. Maybe there lies the main problem?

Cs4PSD InDesign Epson SP1400/PM-G4500 Benq G2400w Colorsync Huey

Situation: printing a 30pg book from indesign onto my Epson printer.
Problem: colors are do not match screen, while printing from Ps and Id
Possible reasons:
1. non-postscript printer
2. monitor uncalibrated
3. settings in colorsync
4. settings in psd
5. huey is not insufficient as a monitor calibrator. need another color management hardware: screen-to-papaer matching, thingy???
6. maybe i need to create new profiles: monitor profile, paper profile
What i know/ What I have been told/ What I've already performed:
printing from epson desktop printer:
1. keep images at RGB
2. save as eps8bit-but this is for outsourcing to a printer company
3. if all else fails, when colors don't match, print in illustrator or acrobat
4. printer head and alignment has been performed numerous times
5. ink has been changed every 2 -weeks
6. settings in psd:
Adobe RGB (1998)
U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2
7. test printed on epson super fine paper in CS4 PSD
"document: Epson sRGB" also "document: Adobe RGB (1998)"
"photoshop determine color"
"SP 1400 1410 PQIJ"
Results: prints still look bad
What i don't know:
1. i'm guessing this printer isn't post-script, does it need to be in order to match what i see on screen and on paper
2. how to create new profiles, do i need to???
3. CS4 still unstable with epson 1400/ pm-g4500
4. huey: after calibration in a dark room, creates a monitor profile that has more red tint. is this right?
Hardware:
Japan Epson PM-G4500 (U.S. epson Stylus Photo 1400)
using the epson driver: 12571.dmg -(u.s. driver, i can't read the japanese version), so im using their paper profiles are shown in PSD
Benq G2400w
5 default settings: using the sRGB setting: un-edited
Huey Monitor Calibrator
??? 1.0.4 software update, sometimes appears on the desktop menu bar, sometimes not. somewhere it is said i might need to extract files and place into preferences, don't know details, so can't perform this task
OSx: 10.5.6
SystemPreferences/Displays/Color/DisplayProfile/ D65 G1.8 A??? turned off Huey and Calibrated by eye
then applied Huey. it came out to d65 G2.2 A0.00. cannot be edited---Huey GAVE MY MONITOR A MORE RED Tint
CS4 Psd 11.0.1
CS4 Indesign 6.0.1
Colorsync:checking a total of 82 profiles 13 bad files??? don't know if this is relevant to the problem
when opening file:
Embedded: Epson sRGB, so I Discard and use Adobe RGB (1998)
saved as tiff, jpeg, psd
PSD settings:
RGB: Adobe (1998)
CMYK: U.S. SWOP
Color Management:
Document (Profile: Adobe RGB (1998)
Photoshop Manages Colors
Printer Profile: SP14001410 PQJI ("super fine paper")
people have mentioned to turn of colorsync to improve color matching. cannot turn of colorsync in psd. it is grayed out and is autmatically selected.
so, i opened the "preview" software:
file/print/colormatching/ the option to choose color sync or epson is there. but i have to select one.
Suggestions, anyone
1. Do i need a rips software: ex. Colorbyte's product, "Imageprint" my epson is only a sp 1400/pm g-4500, so is this necessary?
2. Get a different monitor?
3. Buy a different monitor calibrator?
4. Do i need to trash/replace anything in the preferences?
i know i have a monitor calibration problem, but i also have a printer problem. What should I do? I've seen test screens available on the internet, but I don't want to make corrections just by eyesight. Is this my only option left?

Rich....answers below you questions.
--agree, i think the monitor [i have] is for purely gaming. big mistake on my part. i will try to pick-up a huey pro. if i recall correctly, huey pro allows you to edit the profiles. i could be wrong. are there any monitors you suggest, IPS??? i think that's what they're called? i just found a name-drop on the apple web store;p --"eizo"
If you are serious about color matching, start with a monitor profiling package. Your monitor may be more than good enough, so save the money. You'll need a monitor profiling package anyway, so start there. Then, if that doesn't cut it, get a new monitor. Unless you are doing high end work and have money to burn, you probably don't need an Eizo. Nice, but expensive.
Second, you need an accurate printer profile for your printer/paper/ink combination, and you need to print with the correct settings and profiles.
-- to tell you the truth, for this project, i will be using non-epson paper. i will research these vendors for their paper profile, if available- Kokuyo. yes, its non-epson, but their are some cool papers out there that are "dying" to be used by someone.
Profiles provided by paper and/or ink manufacturers vary tremendously. Even the good ones are only good for printers that closely adhere to the "standard" used to generate the profile. If your printer happens to be coincide with the standard, great. But, even then, some profiles are well made and others are not. Try them and see how they work. If they work great, fantastic, but you still need to compare your results to a properly calibrated and profiled monitor, otherwise, forget it.
...ambient lighting and viewing lights will also affect your perception of the viewed print, so they need to be controlled.
--I'm using 2 flourescent lights. one, close to the screen to the left and the other a ceiling type for the entire room. i've tried huey both at night and during the day. checking the monitor, colors, and prints, i preferably, do during the day.
You probably have bigger fish to fry, so save the lighting for later. If you can, look at your prints using filtered daylight (e.g., soft, indirect light from a north facing window, with the sun in the south. Don't hold the print next to a green or red wall, bright yellow curtains, etc). Filtered daylight will give you fairly accurate representation of the colors in your print. When ready for viewing lights, we can talk again.
...then you will need a postscript RIP, but that seems unnecessary, especially at this level.
--i'm trying to stay "low-brow" as long as possible. Is messing with the curves the best work around, so far. the work ahead of me looks daunting. ;p
Don't get a RIP, especially at this point. Get the basics handled and it is highly unlikely you will need a RIP.
I don't have a Huey, but I have heard mixed reviews on them.
--are there any that you suggest?
i1 Display is a decent, cost effective package. Check with www.Chromix.com and see what they suggest. This package will ONLY profile monitors, not printers. If you want to generate your own printer profiles, be prepared to spend a lot more money.
other questions:
1. are you using color sync throughout your workflow? No...I am working on a PC, which doesn't have colorsync.
2. there were 19 damaged profiles out of 39 in my color sync. is it important i fix these? Not even sure what this means. Check with a Mac person.
3. from what i understand so far, there are profiles for the following:
a. epson paper
b. monitor
c. photoshop/ and illus.
Am i missing the concept here?
If all the files in this book were created with an embedded EpsonRGB, theoretically I should print to epson with the printer profile set as: EpsonRGB. its one straight line, but i'm guessing this is one way. i have yet to test it. the other way of course, is to zero out all variables, use working profile when opening in psd and then print... that's what i've got to work out still.
I am guessing EpsonRGB is probably their captive name for sRGB, but I don't know. You really need to understand the concepts before getting hung up on details. Real World Color Management is the place to start. Typically, you will be dealing with three types of profiles....Monitor profiles so your images display accurately, printer profiles (inkjet, press, etc) which will make sure your colors print accurately, and working space profiles (sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB, etc). They all tie together, using a device independent, mathematical model of human vision as the universal translator. Get the book.
4. i presume printing the book as a pdf on acrobat is one "work-around" solution.
It depends what you mean by work-around. Yes, you can output to PDF, but you still need to make sure you are not screwing up the color by improperly implementing color management. The principles still apply. You can hose the color in a PDF too if you don't handle it properly.
5. from what it sounds like creating a post-script is not necessary, so i'll focus more on the pdf printing in acrobat
If you are talking about sending a job to a printing press, I'd send InDesign or PDF files to your printer (or Illustrator for simple layouts). The commercial printer will RIP the file and create plates for the press. So, you don't have to create postscript yourself. For simple inkjet prints, you normally don't need a postscript RIP.
6. come to think of it, i've had problems with printing on cs3, using the above mentioned monitor.
a. is this right? 1. calibrate the screen first.but how do i tell psd to tell the monitor that its too red: a.) color sync? b.) soft proofing
Again....Read Real World Color Management. You need to understand the principles first. Asking detailed questions without having a solid understanding of principles is the long, hard way. A monitor profiling package will calibrate and profile your monitor, bringing it back to standard benchmark. You want consistency and accuracy.

InDesign CS5 Stability Issues

I got really fed up today.
Trying to resize a magazine, all the articles are individual documents compiled in a book. So each "chapter" is at least 3 pages and at most 15.
I adore the spanning columns feature, I've got sevral articles that this is very handy to setup. But I find the whole program is completely unstable when using this feature.
I started removing the anchored text frames and applying the spanning columns for the headers, with a paragraph rule above for the background colour.
But if I click around too quickly the whole program freezes and won't budge. I could be selecting an anchored frame to remove it. Or changing paragraph style, or simply opening another panel.
I checked the Task Manager and watched for 15 minutes as InDesign consumed more and more memory - going from 150k to 650k in about 10 minutes.
This happened a bunch of times. I restarted, reset my prefs, exported to idml, and all the other nick nack fixes.
Indesign just keeps bombing out. At which point i have to end the process and then restart indesign and I lose a tiny bit of work.
So frustrated today - over seemingly simple tasks, like selecting something, and the program crashes. This behaviour does not happen when I am not using Span Columns.
Is anyone else having stability issues with CS5 and Spanned Columns?

Thanks Bob
I thought myself that there was a lot going on. And I appreciate that. But thinking about it, the only addition here is the spanning of columns and balanced columns.
I was at one stage incorpartaing detect edges on an image and had to give up on it because there was a 3 minute delay on simple things like cutting the image (as a test).
I just feel that perhaps more could be done in speeding up InDesign.
I've had a hard enough time updating the software, upgrading the hardware is going to be tough.
I don't think Indesign CS5 minimum specs included a supercomputer either?
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Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
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Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
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1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
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1.6GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
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1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
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DVD-ROM drive
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Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files
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Broadband Internet connection required for online services*
Far too slow, far too unstable.

SmartStream crashes InDesign CS6

The SmartStream Designer plugin crashes InDesign every other time I use it. Here is the bug report:
Process:
Adobe InDesign CS6 [382]
Path:
/Applications/Adobe InDesign CS6/Adobe InDesign CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe InDesign CS6
Identifier:
com.adobe.InDesign
Version:
8.0.0.370 (8000)
Code Type:
X86 (Native)
Parent Process:
??? [1]
Responsible:
Adobe InDesign CS6 [382]
Date/Time:
2014-12-22 14:20:54.756 -0700
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.10.1 (14B25)
Report Version:
11
Time Awake Since Boot: 470 seconds
Crashed Thread:
0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type:
EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:
KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000003
VM Regions Near 0x3:
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__TEXT
0000000000001000-0000000000005000 [   16K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Adobe InDesign CS6/Adobe InDesign CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe InDesign CS6
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.applescript
0x10589e99 CreateStyleMapFromLegacyData(STElement**) + 99
1   com.apple.applescript
0x10589dce TASDialect::SetStyleMapObsolete(STElement**) + 24
2   com.apple.applescript
0x105866fd ASSetSourceStylesLocal(STElement**) + 32
3   com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore    0x97091983 callComponent_4 + 18
4   com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore    0x9707f062 CallComponentFunction + 42
5   com.apple.applescript
0x1057d1d6 AppleScriptComponent + 728
6   com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore    0x96fee848 CallComponent + 190
7   com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore    0x96fee89c CallComponentDispatch + 29
8   com.apple.openscripting
0x90fa39fc OSASetDefaultScriptingComponent + 43
9   com.apple.openscripting
0x90f9b4b3 OSADoIt(short, ComponentInstanceRecord*, FSRef const*, unsigned long, unsigned long, long, unsigned long*, AEDesc*, unsigned char*) + 2772
10 com.apple.openscripting
0x90f9bacf OSALoadFile + 79
11 com.adobe.InDesign.Support for AppleScript    0x17ad17cf 0x17ac5000 + 51151
12 com.adobe.InDesign.Support for AppleScript    0x17ad2fd4 0x17ac5000 + 57300
13 com.adobe.InDesign.Merger.sdk     0x1bcb085b YTDDMEUtils::RunAppleScriptGetMyDocumentsPath() + 939
14 com.adobe.InDesign.Merger.sdk     0x1bcb0b2b YTDDMEUtils::GetMyDocumentsPath(PMString, PMString) + 43
15 com.adobe.InDesign.Merger.sdk     0x1bcab216 YTDDMEUtils::GetSmartStreamUserDataPath(PMString, PMString) + 166
16 com.adobe.InDesign.Merger.sdk     0x1bcae4db YTDDMEUtils::GetImpositionUserPresetsFolderPath(PMString) + 171
17 com.adobe.InDesign.Imposition UI.sdk    0x1bfb4bb5 YTDImpUtils::getImpUserTemplatesPath(PMString&) + 133
18 com.adobe.InDesign.Imposition UI.sdk    0x1bf7c091 YTDImpGlobal::buildTemplatesVec() + 209
19 com.adobe.InDesign.Imposition UI.sdk    0x1bf7c97d YTDImpGlobal::initImpGlobal() + 269
20 com.adobe.InDesign.Imposition UI.sdk    0x1bf6ac05 YTImpositionDialogController::InitializeDialogFields(IActiveContext*) + 37
21 WidgetBinLib.dylib
0x00034b4d CDialogController::InitializeDialog(IActiveContext*) + 61
22 com.adobe.InDesign.Widgets
0x158a560d 0x1588e000 + 95757
23 com.adobe.InDesign.Widgets
0x158a4c4e 0x1588e000 + 93262
24 com.adobe.InDesign.Imposition UI.sdk    0x1bf68313 YTDImpActionComponent::DoImpositionDialog() + 387
25 com.adobe.InDesign.Actions
0x1a859bc4 GetPlugIn + 19908
26 com.adobe.InDesign.Actions
0x1a85e7b2 GetPlugIn + 39346
27 com.adobe.InDesign.AppFramework    0x11620614 0x11610000 + 67092
28 com.apple.HIToolbox
0x9401d5d4 _InvokeEventHandlerUPP(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*, long (*)(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*)) + 36
29 com.apple.HIToolbox
0x93e67501 DispatchEventToHandlers(EventTargetRec*, OpaqueEventRef*, HandlerCallRec*) + 2291
30 com.apple.HIToolbox
0x93e664dc SendEventToEventTargetInternal(OpaqueEventRef*, OpaqueEventTargetRef*, HandlerCallRec*) + 402
31 com.apple.HIToolbox
0x93e79d25 SendEventToEventTarget + 88
32 com.adobe.InDesign.AppFramework    0x1161ee21 0x11610000 + 60961
33 com.adobe.InDesign.AppFramework    0x1163d327 GetPlugIn + 12007
34 com.adobe.InDesign
0x00001ec5 main + 341
35 com.adobe.InDesign
0x00001d55 start + 53
That is just the first chunk of text that seemed relevant to the crash. If more is needed I can easily recreate the scenario and get the whole report.
I initially tried using the latest release of Indesign CS6 (8.0.2) with the same results. I thought that going to a previous version would help. If anyone can make sense of the text above, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan

Hi Danariotti,
My workmate and I are having the same problem here, with the same report you are getting with Indesign CS6.
This started with the upgrade to Yosemite, so we trialled the latest update to Smartstream with Adobe Indesign CC 2014 but this caused the programme to shutdown as soon as you start running indesign. I am hesitant to fully upgrade our Smartstream, as it is expensive for an unstable plug-in. The problem we are having is Adobe blame HP Smartstream and they blame Apple and back around again, we don't seem to get much support. Can you tell me if you get an answer to this please.
Cheers Tony

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I thought myself that there was a lot going on. And I appreciate that. But thinking about it, the only addition here is the spanning of columns and balanced columns.
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Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
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Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
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1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)
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1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
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DVD-ROM drive
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Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software required to export SWF files
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Broadband Internet connection required for online services*
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Hi,
My company recently upgraded their workstations to Windows 7 with Adobe CS5 standard and acrobat X. Now we installed Blacklining from http://www.blacklining.com/. My problem lies on the vertical line (sidebar) that the Acrobat distiller is producing.
So the procedure is lets say Our client sent us a indesign file. Then we open it using inDesign CS5 with blacklining. and print it to using postcript file as printer and adobe pdf as PPD. with blacklining settings of marks: visible , deletion: caret and use sidebar is checked.
Then we have it Distilled using Adobe Distiller. So the output file is pdf.
My question and problem is how can we set the sidebar to always appear on the left side. instead on odd pages its on the right and on even pages on the left.
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try to correct settings in Blacklining Preference
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Hope it helps.
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