InDesign CS3 - Photoshop CS5 conflict?

I want to upgrade Photoshop CS4 to  CS5, but am concerned by a report on the Luminous Landscape Forum where  a member claims that installing PS CS5 made his InDesign CS3 unusable.  He says, " The Photoshop CS5 changes some core type files in the Common  Files >  Adobe diectories, which totally prevent Indesign from even  starting."
The  LL forum discussion is at http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43396
Has anyone  else seen similar reports or had this experience?  I am working on a  project now where I'm required to use InDesign CS3 (and not a later  version), so can't take a chance that the new Photoshop will screw  things up with ID3.

You didn't mention your OS. I just installed the trial on my XP test station and did in fact get an AMT Subsystem Failure -- You Must Reinstall warning, and ID CS3 closed.
I downloaded and ran the Flexnet patch from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=3750&fileID=3528 and all is well.
I don't know what all this patch does, since ostensibly it is a reapir for Acrobat 8 running on Vista, but if memeory serves it's been reliable for fixing that particular error on all versions of Windows with any version of Acrobat.

Similar Messages

  • How can I restore proper PDF exports from InDesign CS3 or CS5 in Snow Leopard?

    I had no problems exporting PDFs from InDesign CS3 (on a Mac Pro running 10.6.4 Snow Leopard) until this past weekend, when all the fonts appeared bitmapped or thin and raggedy, and the images lost some color depth and contrast. When I copied the InDesign document to my MacBook Pro laptop, also running 10.6.4, the PDF emerged with its original quality. Calls to Adobe support referred me to documents concerning incompatibilities between InDesign and Snow Leopard. One of these documents was several pages long, but I could not print it from the Adobe website to my HP All-In-One Officejet, because one-third of the document was hidden under a white panel. This makes the document impractical for troubleshooting, because I don't have enough screen real estate (even on a 23-inch display) to keep the document open along with all the pages and dialogue boxes needed for reference. Back to phone and chat support, I was advised to upgrade my Creative Suite Premium CS3 to CS5 ($800!!!) and purchase the latest Acrobat Pro upgrade ($200), with no guarantee that this $1,000 cost would actually solve the problem. I did download the trial version of InDesign CS5, and it did NOT solve the problem. I'm also concerned that the problem did not exist until last weekend. Prior to that, my CS3 and Snow Leopard combination worked just fine. I then checked the forums and was dismayed at the variety of problems associated with PDF files, for which there seems to be no general fix. Meanwhile, I have hundreds of ads I'm supposed to be preparing and emailing as PDF proofs to businesses around the country. I have two books of 120 and 256 pages that need to be submitted to printers in PDF format with all kinds of fonts and image files belonging to my clients. The last time I submitted a book to a printer via email, the job went perfectly. This time, and next, it's obvious I won't be able to send PDFs at all! If that's the case, my 27-year-old directory business will be unable to absorb the expenses necessary to start all over with new computers and software, and I will be out of business. Period. So-- does anyone have a way to fix this? I would surely be grateful.
    David Henderson

    I'm on a local network, built on Apple's Airport Extreme. but I'm the only computer user on it. I use it for transferring files between the desktop computer (Apple Mac Pro) and laptop (Apple MacBook Pro) and, occasionally, to print from the laptop to a Xerox Phaser printer.
    About a year ago, I added an Apple Airport Express to the network, allowing me to play iTunes music from the laptop through a Panasonic BluRay player connected to a home theatre sound system. No problems of this nature appeared with that installation.
    About four months ago, we connected a DirecTV satellite receiver system to the D-Link router that carries wired network service from the desktop computer to the Xerox printer. The satellite TV system includes a series of modems that allows DVR recordings to be accessed and played from any of the TVs in the house. (As you would now perceive, I run my publishing business from my home). However, this set-up has been functioning for about four months, and I did not encounter the PDF problem until last weekend.
    Now -- about the fonts.
    Because of the many ads that I publish from various sponsors, it is possible that different versions of the same fonts have invaded my system. In the "missing font" alerts I get, InDesign frequently is seeking TT or T1 versions, which I replace with Adobe fonts when possible. Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium included a fairly large collection, which it keeps in one folder.  The Apple OS also includes a bunch in a separate font management folder; and there are carry-over fonts that came with the business when I acquired it 10 years ago. Some of those fonts may go back 25 years to the book's inception. However, in the past several years, I have generally rebuilt all the ads that appear in my publications, substituting newer versions of fonts. Hence, the preflight program has been able to locate and include all the necessary fonts in the packages that go to the printers.
    Once again, I have been able to export good PDF files for all the varieties of ads and books included in my system, until last weekend. One of the documents is built entirely with Helvetica Narrow, for which I have only one version.. Another document consists mainly of Times, and there are 3 or 4 versions of that font in the system; but the version contained in the document has not changed from when it exported properly.
    So... I guess the complexities involved in the network and/or fonts could be part of the problem, as you suggest, but golly -- I hope not. The last thing I want to do is disrupt and rebuild the network or font collections. The font situation especially would set back production for months if not years, because so many individual ads and off-site clients would be involved in the process.
    I'm sorry if I provided more details than you expected. I didn't mean to take so much of your time.
    Thank you.

  • Trouble Installing Photoshop CS5 (Conflicting Processes)?

    Hi, I downloaded the trial version of Photoshop CS5 but when I try to install it I get an error message afterward saying that it was unsuccessful. Then I installed the Adobe Support Advisor in hopes of finding a solution to the problem. And according to it, the problem is conflicting processes. I click on the link suggested to read the knowledge base article, but the solution is to "shut conflicting processes" without specifying what types of processes are considered as conflicting. How do I know which process/processes I need to end to get photoshop to successfully install? This is the description of the installation status that I get:
    Exit Code: 6
    -------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
    - 1 fatal error(s), 4 error(s), 2 warning(s)
    WARNING: The payload: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Core  {7DFEBBA4-81E1-425B-BBAA-06E9E5BBD97E} requires a UI parent with following specification:
    Family: Photoshop
    ProductName: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Core_x64
    This parent relationship is not satisfied, because this payload is not present in this session.
    WARNING: Payload cannot be installed due to dependent operation failure
    ERROR: Payload {1D830E80-28A4-11DF-A025-0024E8692489} has an action "repair" but no resultState
    ERROR: The following payload errors were found during install:
    ERROR:  - Adobe Photoshop CS5 Core: Failed due to Language Pack installation failure
    ERROR:  - Adobe Photoshop CS5 International English Language Pack_AdobePhotoshop12-en_GB: Install failed
    FATAL ERROR: Cannot create extract assets at 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\adobeTemp\{7DFEBBA4-81E1-425B-BBAA-06E9E5BBD97E}' from zip file 'C:\Users\john\Desktop\Adobe CS5\Photoshop\Adobe CS5\payloads\AdobePhotoshop12-Core\Assets1_1.zip'. Error 0
    Please help, this is seriously troubling me and I don't even what to do to fix this!
    Thank you in advance! I really appreciate your help!!

    OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
    Processor: AMD Athlon (tm) Dual Core Processor
    Language: English...?
    Just searched up adobe products and apparently the adobe CS5 elements like the Adobe Extension Manager CS5, Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CS5, Adobe Device Central CS5 were successfully installed. I also have installed Adobe Reader 8..

  • InDesign CS3 to CS5.5

    My workplace is looking to upgrade from CS3 to CS5.5. As far as opening documents that have been constructed in CS3 in CS5.5, I've heard that they have to be exported into CS4 first where some conversion would take place, and then it is exported into CS5.5 -  and it's also a case of using plug-ins as well.  Is this true and has anyone experience any such problems?
    Any help would be appreciated.
    PT

    You have that backwards. CS3 files should open fine in CS5.5. It’s going the other way that can be a problem.
    BTW, if you buy CS5.5 now you’ll get a free upgrade to CS6 when it ships.
    Bob

  • 'Paste remembers layers' between Indesign and Photoshop (CS5)?

    Hello,
    Is it possible to preserve layers from Indesign to Photoshop and copy them all in one copy/paste rather than copying each layer individually?
    Thanks in advance for any help on this.
    Cheers,
    Leah =)

    Not as far as I know.
    Should no one else have better info and if the task is a frequent one you may want to look into Scripting for automating it.

  • Programatically determine installation location for InDesign CS3, CS4, CS5, AND CS5.5 (Windows)

    We build plug-ins for all versions of InDesign from CS3 and later, for Windows and Mac.
    To deploy our plug-in(s) on Windows, we use InstallShield, which has a somewhat complicated mechanism to locate InDesign.exe and determine its version so we know which plug-in(s) to install, but basically, the location is determined (via the RegLocator table in InstallShield) based on this registry setting:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\InDesign.exe
    This has been working fine for all versions of InDesign since CS2.  However, that location is apparently no longer set by the InDesign CS5.5 installer.  So, we need to find some other way of programatically locating InDesign CS5.5 with our installer.
    I've searched the registry of a machine with InDesign CS5.5  installed, and there are other registry entries related to InDesign, but those  entries are not set by earlier versions of the InDesign installer.  Ideally, there would be a registry setting, or some other reliable marker we can use to locate the InDesign installation, which is consistent across all versions of InDesign (at least back to CS3).
    Using the registry setting is something we came up with on our own via  trial-and-error, since, as far as I know, there is no documented way to  locate the InDesign  installation folder.  (Our Mac installer uses a simpler mechanism to locate InDesign by the application name and version number.)
    I find the apparent lack of documentation on this a bit ironic, since just about every other aspect of the SDK and the methods for creating InDesign plug-ins is extremely well documented, expect for the last final bit one needs to know to get to the promised land of actually deploying a carefully crafted plug-in to customers' machines.  (This seems to be true of the Acrobat SDK as well.)  However, I could have just missed the relevant documentation, in which case, please point me to it.
    So, is there a recommended way to programatically  locate the InDesign installation location on Windows?  How are other people doing this in their installers?

    Hi Dan,
    this is the InDesign plugins SDK forum, you need the installer forum....
    Just kidding. I use a really hacky piece of VB to install my plugins while I'm developing...
    here's the bit which works out the folder depending on which version I'm compiling for.
    That gives you the gist anyway, and I imagine that most installers are going to do more or less the same thing, except they'll have short cuts ways of getting it.
    There's probably a better way, but this works for me...
        Private Function DiscoverApplicationFolderFromName(ByRef strApplicationName As String) As String
            Dim strApplicationSignature As String
            Dim strDefaultPath As String
            If (g_strCreativeSuiteVersion = CREATIVE_SUITE_5) Then
                ' special case for CS5, because a debug machine might have CS5 or CS5.5 or both installed.
                ' plugins built with the SDK for 5.5 will not run in CS5 apps
                strApplicationSignature = strApplicationName + ".Application." + CREATIVE_SUITE_55
                Dim strInCopyPath = DiscoverApplicationFolderFromSignature(strApplicationSignature, "")
                If (strInCopyPath <> "") Then
                    g_strCreativeSuiteVersion = CREATIVE_SUITE_55
                    Return strInCopyPath
                End If
            End If
            strApplicationSignature = strApplicationName + ".Application." + g_strCreativeSuiteVersion
            strDefaultPath = "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe " + strApplicationName + " " + g_strCreativeSuiteVersion + "\" + strApplicationName + ".exe"
            Return DiscoverApplicationFolderFromSignature(strApplicationSignature, strDefaultPath)
        End Function
        Private Function DiscoverApplicationFolderFromSignature(ByRef strApplicationSignature As String, ByRef strDefaultPath As String) As String
            Dim strApplicationPath As String = DiscoverApplicationPathFromCLSID(strApplicationSignature, strDefaultPath)
            If (strApplicationPath = "") Then
                Return ""
            End If
            Dim strDirectory As String = Path.GetDirectoryName(strApplicationPath)
            ' Get rid of the trailing Debug because this depends on whether we install the Debug or Release version first or second.
            ' It will be added on again if we're using a Debug Configuration
            Dim strDebugTag As String = " Debug"
            If strDirectory.EndsWith(" Debug") Then
                strDirectory = strDirectory.Substring(0, strDirectory.Length - strDebugTag.Length)
            End If
            Return strDirectory
        End Function
        Private Function DiscoverApplicationPathFromCLSID(ByRef strApplicationSignature As String, ByRef strDefaultPath As String) As String
            Dim strApplicationPath As String = strDefaultPath
            Try
                Dim strKey As String = strApplicationSignature + "\CLSID"
                Dim regKey As RegistryKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(strKey)
                Dim strGUID As String = regKey.GetValue("")
                regKey.Close()
                If IsRegistryVirualized() Then
                    strKey = "Wow6432Node\CLSID\" + strGUID + "\LocalServer32"
                Else
                    strKey = "CLSID\" + strGUID + "\LocalServer32"
                End If
                regKey = Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(strKey)
                strApplicationPath = regKey.GetValue("")
                regKey.Close()
            Catch ex As Exception
                LogMessage("FAILED DiscoverApplicationPathFromCLSID: " + strApplicationSignature)
                strApplicationPath = strDefaultPath
            End Try
            Return strApplicationPath
        End Function

  • Cintiq 21 / Photoshop CS5 conflict

    Hi All,
    Can anyone make any suggestions? 
    I  have a new (fast) laptop, CS5, connected to a Cintiq 21.  It works fine----for a while. Then---inexplicably---Photoshop will crash and when it is reopened the pen will noticeably lag (2 seconds?)  on non-memory intensive tasks that it normally handles fine.  The Cintiq stylus continues to work fine for other programs like Painter, etc. This is occuring only in Photoshop.
    Couple days will go by, I'll be on the phone to tech support---and it will start working fine again . . .  (!!!! WTF?)  
    I'm guessing it has something to do with the order in which the cintiq is connected/turned on etc. as it appears something has to be "reset" but I'm only getting this fixed through seemingly random connections.  I can't seem to replicate the problem or solution, but the problem will persist usually for a few days through reboots, disconnections, etc. then will suddenly be normal again. 
    Anyone?!?
    Thanks in advance.
    John

    You didn't mention your OS. I just installed the trial on my XP test station and did in fact get an AMT Subsystem Failure -- You Must Reinstall warning, and ID CS3 closed.
    I downloaded and ran the Flexnet patch from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=3750&fileID=3528 and all is well.
    I don't know what all this patch does, since ostensibly it is a reapir for Acrobat 8 running on Vista, but if memeory serves it's been reliable for fixing that particular error on all versions of Windows with any version of Acrobat.

  • Can you Nudge Layers in InDesign like Photoshop CS5?

    Hello,
    I have been trying to find ways to nudge the InDesign layers by selecting the specific layer/layers in the layers pallete. At the moment, the only way I know to move the layers, is by selecting and clicking on the layer on the document itself. The issue was, that when I duplicate a group of layers, I could not just select the duplicated layers, but I had to select every component of the duplicated layers on top of the original layer, so I could not simply drag and drop a selection cursor.
    But the point being, is there any way to nudge the InDesign layers by selecting the specific layer/layers in the layers palette.
    Thanks

    Not exactly. You can't nudge the layers, but you can select all the objects on them (on a spread-by-spread basis) and move them all together. To do that click the small square to the right of the layer name, or Alt/Opt click the layer name itself.
    Layer in ID are more similar to layers in Illustrator than they are to Photoshop.

  • Upgrade from Indesign CS3 to CS5...

    I'm wondering if there are any 'problems' with CS5 that I should be wary of...
    What about big pluses?...any advice?
    I'm on OS 10.6.8, maybe one day 10.7 but not for the immediate future...my main computer these days is a three year old macbook pro with 4gb of ram if that matters...
    the main reason to upgrade, adobe's new upgrade policy...would do this before the end of the year to save the 20 percent...if it weren't for this I wouldn't upgrade, CS3 has been fine for me so far...
    I've got similar questions I'm gonna ask on the illustrator forum...have CS3 and wonder if CS5 is a worthwhile upgrade, but i use this program so infrequently I'll probably let it pass...
    thanks for any help
    M

    Peter Spier wrote:
    You might find a reseller someplace who still has CS5 upgrade disks, but it's not very likely. For print workflows, there's not a lot of difference between CS5 and CS5.5, but if you think you might be interested in any sort of ePub or online publishing, 5.5 is the better choice.
    As far as what would make it a good idea? I like the new selection behaviors, smart guides, Illustrator-style layers panel, Live Preflight (though that can casue some trouble for some users -- mostly on userpowered systems, I think), Grid in Step and Repeat, link info in the links panel, and that's just off the top of my head things that increased my productivity without really looking at new features like GREP styles and Line styles. I think Bob probably still has pages devoted to what's new for CS5 and 5.5, and maybe for CS4, at his site, http://theindesignguy.com/tips.shtml
    thanks for the link Peter...that is helpful...kinda like a concise list of reasons to upgrade, or not...

  • InDesign and Photoshop CS5 - so long

    Hi,
    I am try to download the trails of both photosho and indesign CS5. It is taking an age and says 14hrs but hasn't changed in 3hrs.....
    What can I do to speed things up??? I am using a MacBook pro 500GB etc.... there is nothing on it I bought it yesterday.
    Help.
    x

    Reduce the traffic on your network and don't download any large files over the network while it is downloading.  Beyond that it will depend on your connection to the Internet and your Internet Service Provider.

  • How to open InDesign CS3 or CS5 files in CS6?

    I know I should be able to open earlier versions in CS6 but when I try, it opens and the InDesign pages are blank. I also have idml files that will not open as showing anything in 6. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you!

    Ask in the ID forum and provide more info on what you actually have on the pages, system info and all that.
    Mylenium

  • Upgrading Indesign from 'Design Premium' CS3 to CS5 - compatibility

    I work in-house in marketing; we're looking at upgrading two of our Adobe Design Premium CS3 suites to the CS5 version. We have four or five CS3 suite licenses but can only afford to upgrade two of them at present.
    My question is about the InDesign element - do we need to have the CS4 version in order to be able to effectively save down to a version that can be used between InDesign CS3 and CS5?
    I'm worried about compatibility internally and externally - we use a lot of freelance designers who mostly use CS5 - this is already causing issues as we cannot open the files they send.
    Any tips/hints you can give would be gratefully received!

    The ONLY way to get a file from CS5 to open in CS3 is to export from CS5 to.idml, open that in CS4, export from there to .inx, and open that in CS3. Ther esults won't look a whole lot like the original CS5 file, especially if any features were added in CS4 or CS5 have been used, and there may be noticable changes in text flow due to text engine differences between versions.
    Working in collaboration across different versions is a lousy workflow.

  • Rasterization of complex postscript-file crashes in 64-bit Photoshop CS5

    Rasterization of complex PS-file crashes in 64-bit Photoshop CS5
    I have a variety of complex postscript files that were created in Adobe InDesign CS3 and CS5 through "print to postscript file". I try to rasterize these files in Photoshop CS5 (64 bit on Macintosh) and it crashes Photoshop even before the dialog box comes where one has to specify the dpi for rasterizing. If I use Photoshop CS3 or Photoshop CS5 with 32 Bit opening, it does not crash; and in this case I can rasterize a 100cm x 160cm format with 300 dpi.
    If I reduce the complexity to near triviality it works with the 64 bit version.
    A major reason why I bought CS5 was because I thought that with the 64 bit version I can handle rasterization of large files better: there are a few minor artifacts created by rasterization in Photoshop 32 bit version which are presumably due to some memory problems; I thought the 64 bit version can solve it. But now it turns out that the 64 bit version cannot handle complex files at all.
    If I use Distiller to convert the postscript-File into a pdf file, then the 64-bit version does the rasterization, but there are some reasons why I prefer the rasterization directly from the postscript file.
    Is that a bug of the 64 version?
    V.S.

    I did a lot of testing in the meantime since we have often the task to printout large charts with complex content on plotters of medium size printing companies who need tiffs since they cannot handle pdfs with complex contents.
    It turns out that for large charts with complex content the method to export from Indesign to pdf with PDF/X-1a profile and subsequent rasterization in photoshop to create the tiffs sometimes produces a few minor artifacts; mainly very thin white lines that you see in the printout. Also it is not good if your file contains graphics for which PDF/X-1a profile sometimes does not yield the desired high quality. (In addition the pdf file has a lot of display artifacts visible on screen but not manifesting in the rasterized photoshop file.)
    The use of the "High Quality Print" profile (instead of PDF/X-1a profile) makes it worse since sometimes semi-transparent objects are printed as 100 percent solid. The solution in this case is to change the Acrobat 5 compatibility of the "High Quality Print" profile to Acrobat 4 compatibility, this solves the semi-transparent problem, I don't understand why, but it does.
    On Macintosh one can print to pdf (instead of export to pdf), this solves all problems with artifacts as far as I can judge; however  "print to pdf" has PDF/X-1a profile and I don't see any direct way how to change it to "High Quality Print" profile. Presumably I would have to locate somewhere in the Library > Adobe Application Support > Adobe (on Mac) the presets for "print to pdf" and change it if possible.
    The easiest way on Macintosh that gives no artifacts is for large charts with complex content to "print to postscript" (with Adobe PDF 9.0 PPD), then use distiller with any suitable profile, like "PDF/X-1a-2001" profile or "High Quality Print" profile, to produce a pdf. This pdf looks fine on screen and simultaneously when rasterized with Photoshop (for example the 64 bit version of CS5) gives you a good photoshop file.
    You may be right that the workflow
    Indesign > print to postscript > pdf via distiller > rasterize to photoshop file
    is outdated for simple and medium complex projects, but for those really complex large charts this is the only viable way to my knowledge; I also know that some of my colleagues use this sometimes for complex projects when export to pdf creates artifacts.
    V.S.

  • Converting In Design CS3 to CS5

    We recently upgraded from InDesign CS3 to CS5. We have a bunch of templates created in CS3 but wanted to convert to CS5. Is there a certain way to do this or do we just save as in CS5?

    In theory, just opening is fine, but in practice there are quite a few reports of problems that can crop up late in editing with converted CS3 files and I highly recommend that you export the template to.inx, then open that instead (you can resave as a new CS5 template if you like).
    Something else that affects templates in particular is the change in locking behavior. By default a locked item in CS5 cannot be selected. As a side effect this also means that you cannot place content into a placeholder frame that you have locked for position. You can get back the ability to place into a locked frame by changing the behavior in the application preferences.

  • Photoshop CS5 - InDesign CS3 conflict?

    I want to upgrade Photoshop CS4 to CS5, but am concerned by a report on the Luminous Landscape Forum where a member claims that installing PS CS5 made his InDesign CS3 unusable. He says, " The Photoshop CS5 changes some core type files in the Common Files >  Adobe diectories, which totally prevent Indesign from even starting."
    The LL forum discussion is at http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=43396
    Has anyone else seen similar reports or had this experience?  I am working on a project now where I'm required to use InDesign CS3 (and not a later version), so can't take a chance that the new Photoshop will screw things up with ID3.

    Not that Mac users need any more reasons to think they have a better OS, but apparently the problem is with some Windows configurations. : )
    I asked the same question on the InDesign forum and an expert there was able to both replicate the problem and offer a probable solution.

Maybe you are looking for