Indd CS4 save/export Dialog Boxes are so small :(

I have a 24" iMac and now have installed Indesign CS4. The save/place/export dialog boxes are so small. I have dragged them larger and that is great.
But it does not stay that way across the program or even the same document...
I don't know if I did something different on CS3 but once I set it, it seemed to always remember the setting even on new documents.

I can't help but I can confirm I'm getting the same problems in the CS4 apps, not just InDesign (with Leopard 10.5.5). I hope a fix for this comes out eventually. As Mike says, it happens with Save, Save As, Print To Postscript etc so I encounter it at least a hundred times a day. Very frustrating.

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I am having severe problems with InDesign CS2 and Leopard, and before anyone says "upgrade to CS3", we can't.
Almost every time I go to place a graphic or export a PDF, the system hangs for a few seconds with the wheel spinning, then InDesign just quits.
I also notice that part of the dialog boxes get cut off near the top.
Anyone have similar problems?

Even upgrading won't eliminate all the Leopard incompatibilities. If you
upgraded to Leopard from Tiger the best advice is to go back.
Have a look around this forum and the Creative Suite forum for plenty of
conversation.
Bob

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Er, uninstall the font?
Installing a new font should not do that to Dreamweaver. It sounds as though you have overwritten a system font.

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So I haven't used INDB files in awhile in InDesign, and today was the first time I attempted to adjust an old INDB (created originally with CS5). For every operation of adjusting the book file, such as updating page/section number or adding/removing an INDD file I get a Save As dialog box for each constiuent INDD file. This is quite annoying since the book has lots of INDDs, and I have to click through the tedious save as with each. I previously worked with INDBs in CS5, and never encountered this, there was no need to save each INDD in the book just to update the page numbers. I tried creating a new INDB in CS5.5 thinking that maybe it was because I was working from a file created with an older version of InDesign. Does anyone know if there is a way to suppress the Save As dialog? Another thing I noticed that is supremely frustrating is that this new build of InDesign doesn't default to saving the file in its original location, and I have unwittingly ended up saving files in other places, only to later realize it. I am using InDesign CS5.5 Ver. 7.5.2 on Mac OSX 10.7.3 Any help is greatly appreciated.

It will only happen once (and frankly, what you are doing is a very bad idea).
When you open the old book in CS5, you are converting to the new format. All of the legacy files also need to be converted, even if added to a new book in CS5.5, hence the Save As since ID will not overwrite the old versions until you tell it to (and that's the bad idea). I strongly recommend (though it's too late for any books you've already updated and overwritten) that you either continue to edit in the old version, or that you take the time to open each file in the original version if it's older than CS5, then export to interchange format (.inx or .idml, depending on version), open those files in CS5.5, save with new names so you don't overwrite anything, then add to a new book and proceed.
One of the reasons I recommend this seemingly time-consuming approach is that there are too many reports (another one yesterday) of some sort of problem that pops up late in the editing cycle when converting legacy files to CS5/5.5 by opening them directly and saving. This is a belt and suspenders insurance approach, and is far less labor intensive than starting over, which might end up being your other option down the road if something goes wrong.

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What's up with the new feature that changes the name of the file you're saving... or exporting... to the name of the file you click on in the Save or Export dialog box?
It's a terrible feature that causes more problems.
One mis-click and you're saving over a file that you accidently clicked on while moving to a folder to save that file.
This feature doesn't make sense. How is it useful?
Anyway to turn that feature off?

" That's been available for years. It's in every OS I can remember using for around 10 years (including Windows)."
I'm pretty sure that for Mac people, this renaming behaviour was introduced in 10.3, and I agree - it is idiotic because of its potential to be destructive. You do get presented with a dialogue asking if you really want to overwrite the existing file, but the default in many apps is to "Replace". What's worse is that, at least in "Panther", the trend was that the default was different depending on whether you were using a Carbon or Cocoa app so sometimes, hitting "Return" cancelled, while other times, it overwrote the file. So you had to be sure to read every dialogue carefully because of the absence of consistency, thereby reducing productivity.
Even without overwriting the file, the "feature" is destructive in the sense that the filename that a user may have manually typed will be irrevocably wiped out by a single mouse click, and have to be retyped. The only app I have come across for which an "undo" is available is "SimpleText.app" (compiled from the source in XCode tools).
Thanks to this new "feature", it takes more time and concentration to navigate the "Save" dialogue because there is no easy way to switch focus from the "Name" field to the browser field - it requires either multiple tabs, or various function keys, and using the mouse, one must be careful to aim for a folder, or whitespace if the file only contains a small number of items. You can't even click on the scroll bar or column headers - elements that are a part of the file browser portion - to switch the focus there.
This is clearly an example of a feature being added without thinking things through. The reason the feature works in Windows or Linux, etc. is that they sort their file lists with folders always at the top of the list - if you always aim for the top item in the list, odds are you will hit a folder and won't accidentally rename the item. Since the Mac has always sorted files and folders together alphabetically (making keyboard selection easier), applying the click and rename behaviour is obviously going to cause problems, any time you have a large number of files sorting to the top of the list such that the first folder isn't immediately visible.
All they had to do was introduce the feature where renaming happens with a modifier-click, and I would be thinking "wow, great feature". I think it's sad that we had to sacrifice the elegance of Mac OS in the transition to the stability and power of OS X, when with a little direction and enforcement of GUI guidelines, we could have had it all...
Edit: Feedback here - they didn't listen in the Panther to Tiger transition, but one can always hope for Leopard...
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

How can I add form field value to the file name in save as dialog box

I do not want the form to be saved automatically, just want the form to auto populate the "file name" only.
A little background on the forms I want to use: My company has 70 retail outlets, I'll use one of our pdf forms called an "Incident Report" as an example. I would like for a store manager to be able to complete the form, then email the form to the main office (I already have javascript to add field values and form name to the email subject line), once the main office receives it, I want for them to be able to file the pdf electronically on our server. We have mutliple forms that we use so I do not want any of the forms to automatically save anywhere, (at this time anyway) I just want the office personnel to be able to click "save as" (or whatever they will need to click) and the form automatically add certain field values from the pdf they have received, of which will be different each time the form is sent to the office (Date, store #, employee name etc.) in addition to the name of the form in the "File name" of the "Save As" dialog box. The main office employees will decide into which server file the pdf should be saved.
I'm using Acrobat 8 professional, the stores and office personnel use Adobe reader.
One little note: We currently print and file a lot of paper on a daily bases, as soon as I can get this to work, we are going green.
Me and a lot of trees in this will really apprecitate any help you can give with this! :-)

You might want to take a look at the document "Developing Acrobat Applications Using JavaScript" (js_developer_guide.pdf) which is part of the Adobe Acrobat SDK, which can be downloaded here. Read the "Privileged versus non-privileged context" (p. 45ff.). You will find an example for "Executing privileged methods in a non-privileged context". Should be almost exactly what you are looking for.
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Blair,
I followed your suggestions above....reset IE ...clean boot. Didn't solve the problem. (had trouble making that MSCONFIG window bigger !? <wink>)
Problem still exists. And to be clear, here is the problem(s) ...I believe they are all interrelated.
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#2. Open MS Word. Type a few letters. Select File/Save. Most icons under Favorites are white. Trying clicking more than one, but system hangs for ten seconds until icons fill in.
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Great machine and fast for over a year, and now this started FYI.
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Dell System XPS L321X
x64-based PC
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2467M CPU @ 1.60GHz, 1601 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
4 gb Ram
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