InDesign cs2 problem

I have cs2. Had to get a new computer so my CS2 discs won't install. Had to download from Adobe. Photoshop, Illustrator, working fine. But InDesign will not boot up. In fact it locks up the entire computer so that I have to force quite. Any suggestions?

The chances of getting it to work on anything later than XP are not good. I’m afraid you’re on your own.
CS2 is more than 10 years old. Time to upgrade or switch to different applications.

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Many unusual InDesign CS2 problems.

I am currently using InDesign CS2 (Mac OS X version 10.3.9) and am dealing with a variety of strange problems. A few months back random issues started occassionally and I figured they were flukes, but now the problems are continually growing and getting worse.
Here we go...
My measurements stopped defaulting one day to inches and returns to picas every time the program is restarted and randomly throughout the day with different and/or new files I'm working with?!
My start-up dialog boxes and print dialog boxes that you can opt to not show started showing up again. I uncheck the box so they are to no longer show, but whenever the program is restarted, they show up again?!
Occassional crashes, but that may be normal?!
Fonts... it will randomly tell me that fonts are missing when a file is open, but they are installed and by restarting the program the font is no longer missing and I am able to work with the file properly. More recently, however, the problem did not fix and an installed font will not work in the program, but the same font is present and functioning in Illustrator.
Placed images sometimes print low-rez when they are hi-rez and, when viewing, look hi-rez. When exporting to a pdf, the images become low-rez as well. I can place the same images in Illustrator or view them in Photoshop and they print hi-rez as they should?!
I am experiencing a lot of problems to say the least. I don't know if my software has gotten corrupt somehow? I'm considering reinstalling. Has anyone experienced this and/or do you have any suggestions on fixing the issue?
Thanks,
Megan

>My measurements stopped defaulting one day to inches and returns to picas every time the program is restarted and randomly throughout the day with different and/or new files I'm working with?!
Measurements are controlled on a per-document basis, so it will show the last thing used in that document. Your default units can be set by changing the Units prefs with no documents open.
>Fonts... it will randomly tell me that fonts are missing when a file is open, but they are installed and by restarting the program the font is no longer missing and I am able to work with the file properly. More recently, however, the problem did not fix and an installed font will not work in the program, but the same font is present and functioning in Illustrator.
Are you using third party font management software? That might be a cause of your issues with fonts. Also, if you can see the font correctly in Text Edit, but not certain Adobe apps, that is a good time to empty caches (see below) and possibly delete all AdobeFnt.lst files. (Search for files that begin with "adobefnt" and end with ".lst". Make sure not to throw away anything ends with .db!)
>Placed images sometimes print low-rez when they are hi-rez and, when viewing, look hi-rez. When exporting to a pdf, the images become low-rez as well. I can place the same images in Illustrator or view them in Photoshop and they print hi-rez as they should?!
Are all your links up-to-date?
Also, check your Graphics->Image settings in the Print dialog. Are they set to "Proxy" perhaps?
Additionally, for PDFs, what Export->Compression settings are you using?
If all else fails, do some general maintenance. Start out by resetting your preferences completely. Quit InDesign and relaunch with all the modifier keys mashed down (cmd-opt-control-shift). You should get a dialog asking if you want to reset the InDesign prefs.
If that doesn't work, try repairing permissions using Disk Utility.
If that doesn't work, try resetting all your caches using something like Onyx.

Install indesign CS2 Problem

I have my Adobe Creative Suite CS6 installed in my Mac, and would like to install the free version indesign CS2 at the same time. However, error comes out while installation is happening. How could I have both version of Indesign being installed?

There is no free version of InDesign CS2. What was posted was a means by which existing CS2 license holders could reinstall and activate their software.
Unless you specifically licensed CS2 yourself many years back, you are not legally entitled to install or activate this software. Also note that CS2-era software was never designed or tested on today's hardware and/or software configurations.
- Dov

Indesign cs2 problems

Hi!
When i try to start indesign cs program i got a message that says
the installer seems to written the wrong AUM application id
Indesign worked perfect untill now, so what do i do to correct this.
i´ve done a reinstalled of the whole creative suite 2 premium and i worked well until now.
I´ve also called the adobe support but the can´t help me becuse the program is so old..
I hope someone can help me here... pliise!
If you could post the answer to my email add, i would like that very much!

This is the forum for discussing problems with the forums themselves, not individual applications.
Try the InDesign forum: http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign/indesign_general

Bizarre image load problem in InDesign CS2

Hi, I am having a problem with bringing in some images into InDesign CS2. I have a document file that has many images in place, and I just received some new images that are screenshots from video. They are saved as rgb jpgs. They are 2700x1963 pixels and 300dpi (so someone obviously did some conversion from screen res.)
When I try to bring them into an image box in InDesign, I do command D, then select the image. It acts like its loading it but then nothing is in the box. I thought perhaps the image was just hidden outside of the edge of the box but when I go to "fitting" under the "OBJECT" menu, all the options are greyed out as if there is no image there. It also shows no image linked in the links panel.
I tried opening in photoshop and resaving, and also tried resaving as another name. I tried changing it to cmyk and adjusting the levels and resaving as tif. I tried making a new photoshop file and copy-and=pasting the image into it and saving. Still, no image will load in the image box.
I feel like the images must have corrupted since they were sent to me as email attachments, but its so odd that they open in photoshop just fine. Any ideas?

nevermind, people.
my computer was having memory overload. on a whim I restarted the computer.
BAM...no issue.
You know what they always say, "When all else fails, restart your computer!"

Greek character rendering problem in InDesign CS2

Hi Experts,
I'm using InDesign CS2 for journal publication.
I have experienced a strange problem in Greek character rendering. We have used "Math_PI" font for greek characters and it display correctly in the story mode and not in the page mode in some places (in page mode it shows alphabet character instead of Greek). This problem identified in the particular place and not for entire article.
Please find the below screen shot for your quick reference. The highlighted character "f" should be greek "gamma" which rendered correctly in story mode but not in page view.

Are you sure the Character panel isn't hidden behind another panel (Window>Type&Tables>Character)? When you choose Type>Size>Other a dialog doesn't open, the size field in the Character panel gets selected:

InDesign CS2 Printing Problems

I teach in a Mac computer Lab (mac OS X) and InDesign CS2 is a huge headache for me; my students can't print their work half the time. I read online a lot of member posts about InDesign CS2 printing problems. Would a CS3 upgrade help?

CS3 upgrades are no longer available now that CS4 is out!
Perhaps if you described your particular problems, members of this forum could assist you. Note however, that CS2 was not supported on MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard).
- Dov

Arial Black font problems in InDesign CS2

Hi there,
I'm having a bit of a problem with the Arial Black font in InDesign CS2. I recently got a new computer running Windows XP. The computer has had MS Service Pack 3 installed. When I installed my old fonts onto the new computer and booted up InDesign, I noticed there was no Arial Black font, only Arial Black Italic. When I looked under the Arial group of fonts a Black version of the font was there, but on my old machine Arial Black is a separate font group. I've tried deleting the font cache and adding the fonts to the InDesign fonts folder as well, but it still doesn't register as a separate font family. I've also tried installing an older version of Arial Black (2.35 from 2004) and emptying the font cache but still no joy. The problem is I work on a newspaper and this font is quite common, and is used on our templates, so when I receive a page I need to change the font, which isn't ideal. Interestingly, the file name of the font is ariblk.ttf, but when you look at the icon it appears to be OpenType. The Arial Black Italic font is called ARBLI__.TTF and has a TrueType icon, and this appears as a separate font family in InDesign. Any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.

I'd give it a go anyway. And please keep in mind that CS2 is the earliest version eligible for upgrade pricing.
At some point, if the current policy holds, you'll be out of the upgrade loop and will have to pay full price.
Bob

Problem opening PM7 in PC Based InDesign CS2

Hello,
I am attempting to open MAC based Pagemaker 7 files in PC based InDesign CS2. I get the following error message: "Cannot open the file...Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug in that supports the file may be missing, or the file may be open in another application". It's not the latter as I can't open it in any other format. Interestingly a coworker working on Mac based InDesign CS2 is able to open the Pagemaker file within InDesign. But when I open that InDesign file on my PC and attempt to make a type change and save the file it crashes my InDesign and I get the following error message: InDesign.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." I am able to view and print this file but not make any changes. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

CS2 and earlier will not open PM files on any machine running XP SP3, Vista or Win 7.
If you recently added SP3 to your XP machine and you have to open PM files you'll either have to roll back to SP2 or upgrade to CS5.
Worth noting is the fact that CS2 is the earliest version eligible for upgrade pricing.
Bob

InDesign Threading Problem CS2

I am getting a strange error in InDesign CS2. I am at the end of a long document (100+ pages). When I click on the last page 109, and then right mouse click to Insert Page, a new page with my A master is added.
Here's where the problem comes into play. When I manually thread the page, click on 108, select the out port, and then click on page 109, everything seems to work. When I start typing, and text spills over onto page 109 - all of a sudden the active page highlighted is my A master page.
I've tried various permutations of this and still get the same result. How on earth did I get the last page linked/threaded to the master pages?
Thanks,
Erik

I remember a bug like this with long documents where the text would
start spilling to the master but I thought that was only when placing
the text itself.
That said, are you fully patched to 4.0.5?
Bob

Illustrator CS2 and InDesign CS2 not starting - here is how it was solved.

This document is merely a compilation of information found at the sources named at the bottom of this document.
Basically running older Adobe CS2 Software on a MacBook Pro 10.6.x Snow Leopard - probably like many of you that either can't afford the upgrade to CS3, CS4 or CS5, or maybe don't see the need to do so. It's running good but it is slow since it is using Rosetta, but it does work - well, used to work.
Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, Photoshop CS2, etc. were all running fine after the upgrade to Snow Leopard (under 10.6, 10.6.1 and 10.6.2). Then the update to 10.6.3 was installed. At the same time a bunch of other updates - including the Acrobat 8.2 update - were installed. Not really sure what did it, but all of a sudden Illustrator CS2 stopped responding at the start up screen - no longer started up and InDesign CS2 popped the registration/licensing screen. When trying to enter license info on first key press the application quit entirely.
So maybe the 10.6.3 update was the culprit. Never even thought that it could be the Acrobat 8.2/8.2.1 updates. Then I found this thread here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/613287?tstart=0 (good reading)
Which ultimately pointed me the the instructions here:
>start quote from http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/534/cpsid_53468.html
Replace the corresponding files present in the “ /Library/Application Support/Adobe/TypeSpt/Unicode/Mappings/” folder with the one attached to this document.
Download the attached Mac.dmg (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/534/cpsid_53468/attachments/Mac.dmg) file to a machine where the issue is seen.
Close all Adobe applications
Double Click the Mac.dmg file to mount it.
Copy Mac folder from mounted image. Paste it to /Library/ApplicationSupport/Adobe/TypeSpt/Unicode/Mappings/.
A message appears to confirm to replace the existing 'Mac' folder. Replace the 'Mac' folder.
Launch Illustrator or InDesign CS or CS 2.
The Mac folder attached to this KB document already has the correct permissions set, so it should not be necessary to complete the steps below. However there may be cases where the permissions for the Mac folder get overwritten. In such a case, the original issue can reoccur. To solve this issue, complete the steps below:
Follow Solution 1 and make sure that all Adobe applications are closed.
Right or Control click and select 'Get Info' on the Mac folder in “ /Library/Application Support/Adobe/TypeSpt/Unicode/Mappings/”, which you have copied from the .dmg file attached to this document.
Verify that under 'Sharing and Permissions' all users listed have no write access
If a change is required, click the padlock symbol and provide your Administrator credentials
Select the user which has Write access and change it to 'Read Only'.
Ensure the user 'Everyone' is set to 'No Access.
To check if the issue has been solved, launch Acrobat 8.2 and then Illustrator or InDesign CS or CS 2.
< end quote
Even after following the instructions still "no love" from Illustrator CS2 or InDesign CS2. InDesign did no longer show the registration screen, but it didn't continue launching, and Illustrator progressed further along in the start up sequence but also never finished launching.
Then I found another article on the adobe site. I am just quoting the part performed and which ultimately did the trick.
>start quote from http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/326/326388.html
Steps 1 and 2 are not relevant so no need to do them
3. At the Finder, choose File > Find.
4. TypeAdobeFnt10.lst (Illustrator CS2), select the system drive, and then press Return.
5. Delete all AdobeFnt10.lst files found.
6. Restart the computer.
7. Restart Illustrator. Illustrator creates a new Adobefnt10.lst or AdobeFnt07.lst file.
< end quote
So, this solved the problems at least for the time being. Hope this helps someone else a bit.
Download files:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/534/cpsid_53468/attachments/Mac.dmg
Sources:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/613287?tstart=0
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/534/cpsid_53468.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/326/326388.html

Illustrator CS2 stopped working for me on Snow Leopard as well. What it all boiled down to was not to update to 12.0.1. Not sure which release of Snow Leopard I was on when I figured that out but I keep up-to-date, am now at 10.6.6 and CS2 still works fine. I keep getting prompted to update to 12.0.1 from time to time but just cancel it.
I'm fairly sure I was at 12.0.1 already when I moved from Leopard to Snow Leopard and it was that, not a Snow Leopard update, that "broke" CS2 12.0.1. If I remember correctly, if you now try to apply the update, it won't go through with it anyway.

Error message reads, " Wizard Interuppted before InDesign CS2 was comletely installed" when removing

Adobe Tech Support no longer supports CS2 since the release of CS4 and has referred me to knowledgebase and the forum for help.
This is my original problem:
When you try to start Adobe InDesign CS2, or Adobe InCopy CS2, the application returns one of the following error messages:
-- "Could not personalize your copy of [application] because of missing or invalid personalization information."
-- "Please personalize your copy of [application] to continue the setup process."
-- "The serial number you provided is not valid. Please check your serial number and re-enter it"
I was referred to:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=331649
The instructions for all methods require that I remove InDesign, but I get an error message that says "Wizard Interuppted before InDesign CS2 was completely installed" when removing.
My OS is Windows XP. Any help is highly appreciated.
Thank you!

Step one is to back up your computer in case anything goes wrong.
Once you've done that, look at http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=331300 which lists all the folder locations for the creative suite along with the registry keys. It says you should uninstall using ad/remove, but if this doesn't work it should be OK to remove things manually and edit the registry, then run the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility.
At that point you should reboot and you should be able to try installing again.

Suddenly getting "Missing Plug-Ins" errors when opening .indd files in InDesign CS2

I have a PC running Windows 7 and InDesign CS2. The laptop's installation of Windows was corrupted and I had to re-install the OS. I backed up all files, reinstalled the OS, and then reinstalled applications. One of those applications was InDesign CS2. However, after the installation of CS2 on the fresh copy of Windows, I noticed that I have trouble opening most, but not all, of the InDesign files on my hard drive.
When I try to open a .indd file I see an error message pop up that says "Missing Plug-ins. LILO.APLN, DYNAMICDOCUMENTS.RPLN, CONDITIONALTEXT.RPLN" and three more. Under that list of missing plugins is the warning "This document uses one or more plug-ins which are not currently available on your system. Do you want to open anyway?" If I click "okay" I then am met with another dialog box that says "Cannot open file. TEXT.RPLN, LAYER.RPLN" and on and on for about 60 more items.
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING! I've searched around concerning this issue and it appears the consensus is that the file was opened by a newer version of InDesign. That possibility is, in fact, an impossibility. Never have I used a newer version of InDesign. The files that I am working on were backed up, stored on local storage and not touched once before reinstalling the OS and reinstalling InDesign CS2.
I also noticed that not all InDesign file formats were associated with InDesign in "Windows Programs and Defaults." I changed those to look to InDesign. I've also uninstalled InDesign CS2 and re-installed.
Not all InDesign CS2 files are exhibiting this behavior. So far, it appears more than half are, but some can be opened with no problems. There seems to be no correlation between which ones are able to be opened and which ones can't be opened.
What could have happened to these files and is there any possibility of opened them again? Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

[Jongware] wrote:
Nonapeptide wrote:
... an error message pop up that says "Missing Plug-ins. LILO.APLN, DYNAMICDOCUMENTS.RPLN, CONDITIONALTEXT.RPLN" and three more. ...
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING! I've searched around concerning this issue and it appears the consensus is that the file was opened by a newer version of InDesign. That possibility is, in fact, an impossibility.
Conditional Text was a new feature in CS4. I'm thinking, can you explain how your old CS2 documents became aware of it?
Not exactly sure myself. Abiogenesis?
[Edit]
Almost forgot. I wrote a script to unequivocally determine the InDesign version a document was last saved as:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4071273
I'll give that a try today. Even an affirmative judgement that the files are newer than CS2 would not impress me however. The fact remains, the files were copied off one hard drive over to another, the plug was pulled on the hard drive, the PC was re-imaged, CS2 was reinstalled, the files were copied back over... and whammo.

Acrobat 7, Leopard InDesign CS2, printing but with poor results

I know there are issues with Leopard and Acrobat, I'm just trying to see if my problem falls into that category or if it is something else.
I am running Leopard 10.5.1 on a MacBook Pro with CS2. In general, I am able to print with my PDF printer and get good results from several programs but NOT from InDesign (CS2, 4.0.5). I've got a two page document with lots of small text and graphics, which used to print just beautiful as a PDF (for my students to download from a course website). Now, however, the fonts in the PDF have terrible resolution and look awful! But, I can still generate beautiful PDFs with terrific looking fonts from Mellel (a word processing program I use for Hebrew). This is using the same settings in Distiller and in my Adobe PDF printer.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Karyn

I know there are issues with Leopard and Acrobat, I'm just trying to see if my problem falls into that category or if it is something else.
I am running Leopard 10.5.1 on a MacBook Pro with CS2. In general, I am able to print with my PDF printer and get good results from several programs but NOT from InDesign (CS2, 4.0.5). I've got a two page document with lots of small text and graphics, which used to print just beautiful as a PDF (for my students to download from a course website). Now, however, the fonts in the PDF have terrible resolution and look awful! But, I can still generate beautiful PDFs with terrific looking fonts from Mellel (a word processing program I use for Hebrew). This is using the same settings in Distiller and in my Adobe PDF printer.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Karyn

Printing graphics from InDesign CS2 to an HP 4000 PS Laserjet

My HP 4000 Laserjet will not print InDesign CS2 documents that have pictures, other graphics, or objects created in InDesign with either a drop shadow or feathered.
I have an HP Laserjet 4000 which I previously used with Pagemaker 6.5. I could set the screen lpi and angle values for exactly as it needed to be using the Acrobat Distiller PPD and print documents (with pictures and graphics) to the post script printer with no problem. Now I am using Adobe InDesign CS2 and I don't seem to have same the printing options and control that I had with Pagemaker. But mainly, in Pagemaker, when I printed a document I could select the HP 4000 PS printer in the Print Document box and it listed Acrobat Distiller in the PPD box which is what I used.
Now with InDesign CS2, when I select the HP 4000 PS printer it only shows the HP 4000 PS series ppd (and this may be correct). Although I can still set the values for screening (lpi) and screen angles and screened objects that are created in InDesign will print to whatever screen values I selected, the document will not print when pictures and other graphics are placed into the document or if an object created in InDesign has a drop shadow or is feathered. When I remove the graphics and drop shadow, it will print, however, another problem is that it will not print certain fonts properly (leaving out certain letters in certain words - for instance the "l" in "floor".)
Is this a compatibility issue between this older Laserjet and InDesign -- is there another driver that I need -- or am I overlooking something that's obvious? I'd appreciate someone's help who may know what the problem is so I won't be doing the trial and error thing.
Thanks,
Cliff Stone

Thanks everyone for their input. As far as the memory shortage, I'm pretty sure that's not the problem. I can create a document in Pagemaker of only 200KB that prints fine and the convert the same document to ID and it fails to print.
I think Dov is right about the 4000 because I remember when the printer was new, there were some incompatibility issues with Pagemaker that I had to work around. The Adobe people told me back then that Pagemaker and HP postscript printers didn't get along very well.
I'll check with HP again (I've already written to them twice with no response) and see if the firmware upgrade Dov mentioned is still available, however, even though this 4000 has been very durable and a real workhorse for me, it may be time to put it out to pasture and invest in a new Postscript laserjet.
Any recommendations?
Thanks again for everyone's help.

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