CS3: Inner Shadow crashes InDesign

When placing images in large documents (1745 x 995 mm) and using the effect Inner Shadow on the image, InDesign crashes when exporting to PDF.
This is a real puzzle cause when I use the same image with that effect in a smaller document (A4) I have NO problem in exporting the document. Why is that? Is there a work-around, some settings I've missed or an upgrade that fixes this problem (I have IND CS3 5.0.3).

I've isolated the problem. Took me about 15 InDesign restarts.
The problem has nothing to do with PDF settings (I tried all the defaults with or without transparency. High-res and Low-res. RGB and CMYK). InDesign crashes when it's trying to download the image with the effect. It doesn't really get to making the PDF.
The problem is...The file size! I tried it with different kind of file-types (jpg, tif, psd - 8 bit, RGB and CMYK with or without icc-profiles)No matter what kind of file InDesign crashes when handling the effect on the image (120 MB). When I used another smaller image (only 20 MB) or the same image downsampled, InDesign made the PDF. So it seems to be the amount of pixels in the image that has an effect on InDesign handling the effects.
Has this something to do with my hardware (PC, 4 GB RAM, 8*3158 MHz processors, Virtual memory: 3 GB) or is it the software?

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Scripting ladies and gentlemen,
I'm working on this event script that searches for linked PDF files and
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crashes InDesign no matter what I do. This is also the case with
beforeClose. It appears that my function cnvrtPDFlnk is causing the crash
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the cnvrtPDFLnk(myDocument)).
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main();
function main() {
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Best regards,
Rasmus

Hi Rasmus,
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I have a script which works fine in CS3 but when I set it up in CS2 I found it was crashing InDesign. I've tried to cut it down to the minimum and set the 2 parts as functions.
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Not as an effect. You can accomplish the look by:
 
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 4. Select both objects and select "Object>Clipping mask>Make (Cmd-7)
 5. Select just the mask object (the back object) and fill it with the intended shadow color.
 
 
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Inner Shadow missing feature?

I'm looking for a better alternative to my current vector graphic applications, mostly to create modern web and application UI's.
So I downloaded the trial version of Illustrator CC, to see if I should make the jump to Illustrator for vector work.
After using about half a day to learn the applicaiton and do some experimentation, I was going to apply an Inner shadow to some text on a button, to make it look indented, and was like "What the.....where's the Inner Shadow Effect?".
I could see the Drop Shadow feature, and there's an Inner Glow feature (can't be offset), but that doesn't solve the problem of making shapes and text look indented.
If anyone doesn't know what I mean, just browse 'Inner Shadow' on google, it's such a fundamental feature.
Photoshop has it.
InDesign has it.
Fireworks has it.
Even Sketch, the app for Mac has it. And Acorn has it as well.
Hell, I can even write it in CSS3:
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http://vectorboom.com/load/effects/innershadow/3-1-0-257
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http://www.webdesign.org/raster-graphics/fireworks/mastering-shadows-in-photoshop-illustra tor-and-fireworks-who-s-the-winner.19730.html
Sorry, but when you are used to applying something so fundamental as Inner Shadow, to make your shapes and texts look indented with a single click (and easily adjust it live and experiment), then it's hard to get used to Illustrator.
And when something so basic is missing, then you can only fear what else will also hinder you, as you continue to learn the application and try to make the switch.
Looking at the forum and others who have requested the same thing, and for so long, it sadly also says something about how much adobe listens to the community.
Sorry but this is a deal breaker for me, and my trial stops here.
I'm sure Illustrator can do a lot of other fancy things, but since it still havent figured out the fundamentals (shadow and indented), I'm not buying.

Yeah Photoshop, and most other vector applications I've tried (even CSS3 stylesheet has it!).
I searched the web and found out this feature has been much requested and needed for many many years.
What I get from that, is that Adobe is not a developer that listens to it's community. And that's what I get from just using the Trial version of their latest software, Illustrator CC...there is no excuse for not having inner shadow in a vector graphics application, especially not one that's this expensive, just makes it embarrising.
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I have check fills of the Inner shadow box in InDesign, to make sure it is not overprinting.
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Please can you add effects readily available in other Adobe CC apps like InDesign, Photoshop, Fireworks, etc. It would be a really simply coding to get it right, as we can already do it with a very long method of cropping, masking and other work-arounds.
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I was wondering if someone could assist me.
In PSE 9, I opened a photo>selected it>created a new layer and applied an inner shadow without a problem. However, when I selected the TEXT tool and wrote some text in a new layer on top of the photo and dropped a shadow and/or bevel on the text, the text appears blurry and the shadow effect doesn't look right. I tried the same effects on the text wihtout adding an inner shadow to the photo underneath and the text looked great. Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?
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Try right clicking on the T symbol in the tool box and choose Horizontal Type Mask Tool.
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When designing, things appear correctly (note background is CMYK magenta, but will change once this issue is resolved):
When outputting in the Press format, with everything left as defaults, then two issues are seen, firstly is the Yucky Box Problem, the second is the drop shadow has lost it's colour, and looks as it does if I choose Normal for the shadow type. Note the PDF viewer is Apple Preview in Lion:
If I embed the CMYK colour profile I'm using (Coated FOGRA39), then the YBP goes away, but the colour of the shadow is still wrong:
Finally, if I force the transparency to be flattened, it appears correctly but with a thin white line (note profiles are not being embedded in this case):
Case 1
Case 2
Case 3
Case 4
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That seems to have resolved the problem. Interestingly, the 'Yucky Box Problem' doesnt seem to occur regardless of whether I'm importing the profile or not, I guess Adobe Reader is doing it's own stuff with the colour space which Preview isn't. Thanks again for your help!

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I am facing a unique problem for all my plugins under CS5, which are create from Scratch or which are ported. If I try to save my document after i create a new frame on the document or move or resize the existing frame on the document it crashes InDesign.
Initially I thought it might be my mistake and I might not be passing the proper commands. But later I tried on a sample plugin, which created a new frame with Layout helper and tried to do Save / SaveAs document using LayoutHelper. It still crashed.
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Regards
Farzana.

Hi,
I am trying on Released version of InDesign.
Thanks
Regards
Farzana.

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Is it possible for a single textframe to be somehow "corrupted"? Otherwise any ideas on how this type of thing could happen? Anything at this point would help. Every other document processes fine without crashing InDesign. Ultimately it might be a matter of simply laying it out from scratch...
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3) If I duplicate the textframe, its duplicate behaves "normally" in the sense I can move it around or remove it without experiencing a crash, however even with a duplicate attempts to remove the original crash the application.
4) Checked if the textframe was anchored... it's not.

Ok, ho capito dove è il problema. Cambia i dizionari in Proximity, e togli Hunspell. Ero quasi certo fosse un problema di dizionario.. ed in effetti è quello.
Ne approfitto per ricordarti che esiste anche un gruppo italiano di InDesign..
https://www.facebook.com/groups/indesignusergroupit/
Leonardo Agosti
AdobeGuru
PS.. for the english people reading this conversation, the problem is in the HUNSPELL dictionary. Changing it in the preferences and choosing the old (and wise) Proximity, InDesign doesn't crash.

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