InDesign CS3 Server - Enterprise Solution Options

Does InDesign CS3 Server offer an option to run several, separate instances on multiple, dedicated servers - each configured with an unique IP & port number?
Basically - has InDesign CS3 Server built-in capabilities (mode/configuration options) to distribute and handle server requests to multiple server nodes (external, physical boxes)?

There is currently no built-in support for distributing server requests across multiple server nodes.

Similar Messages

[IDS CS3]A Bug of InDesign CS3 Server?

Hi, all
I'm using SOAP to run InDesign CS3 Server scripts, and I found TestClient doesn't work with option "-server". When I want to run a file on the server machine, it always returns an error number 44 to me.
My same tests on InDesign CS2 Server work fine, so I think it maybe a bug of InDesign CS3 server.
Anybody also working on InDesign CS3 Server? Thanks very much!
Nicole

I am using InDesign CS3 Server and testclient.
I can use -server parameter with testclient, it works fine.
I don't know why you cannot.

Error Installing InDesign CS3 Server on Windows Server 2008 R2 64BIT

Hello there-
I'm trying to install InDesign CS3 Server on Windows Server 2008 R2 64BIT (x64) Edition, however, we get a failure indication on the installer. Before, we have installed it properly on Windows Server 2008 R2 32BIT (x32) but some how we cannot proceed on a x64 box.
Is there any limitation on this sense? Any documentation about it?
Thanks and appreciate your answers.
Regards,
Gustavo Ortega
Software Engineer

Hello,
Have you followed these recommendations from the installation guide ( Installation Guide u2013 SAP Content Server on Windows 2008 ) :
Note: In the IIS 7.0/7.5, all the roles are not selected during the installation by default,
Please make sure all the below roles are included and IIS 7.0/7.5 is installed.
Roles needed in IIS 7.0/IIS 7.5.
Common HTTP Features
Static Content
Default Document
Directory Browsing
HTTP Errors
HTTP Redirection
Application Development
ISAPI Extensions
ISAPI Filters
Health and Diagnostics
HTTP Logging
Logging Tools
Request Monitor
Tracing
Custom Logging
ODBC Logging
Security
Basic Authentication
Windows Authentication
Request Filtering
Note : Anonymous Authentication should be enabled.
Performance
Static content Compression
Dynamic Content Compression
Management Tools
IIS Management Console
IIS Management Scripts and Tools
Management Service
IIS 6 Management Compatibility
IIS 6 Metabase compatibility
IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
IIS 6 Scripting Tools
IIS 6 Management Console
Note: There is a File Upload limitation in IIS 7 on Windows 2008 Server, IIS will reject any file that is
larger than 30 MB. This is a default limitation of IIS. You can increase the maximum file size by
setting the parameter maxAllowedContentLength in the file ApplicationHost.config.
The following command can be used to set the parameter from the command prompt, please
change the directory to Windows\System32\inetserv and then execute the command.
appcmd setconfig /section:requestFiltering/requestLimits.maxAllowedContentLength:150000000
The value is only an example, in this case the upload limit is set to 150MB.Server has to be restarted
after execution of this command.
Also, are you using Maxdb to store the files or is it a "flat files" content server ?
HTH.
Steve.

InDesign CS3 Server - Support for Standard ECMA-357, ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification

Does InDesign CS3 Server fully support the XML standards outlined by ECMA in 'Standard ECMA-357 ECMAScript for XML (E4X) Specification'?
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm

Thanks Michael, for your prompt reply.
I can see that some of the XML library/functions are available in the ExtendScript Editor - but I just wanted to make sure that I'm not missing something.
Thanks again,
Carl

How to download latest InDesign CS3 Server Installer?

Hi there,
Anyone can help me point to the right direction, how to download the latest InDesign CS3 Server Installer (without the error).?
been looking for couple of days in this adobe site, but nothing found.
Thank you.
Regards
Jimmy Harjadi

I would guess you'll need to contact customer service. CS3 products are no longer posted as demo downloads. InDesign server is a licensed product, and presumably if you bought the license you were given media or a link at that time. If you've lost that, Customer service would be th only ones who can help.

Problem in running Indesign CS3 Server..............

Hi,
I Have windows server 2003 Ent. Edition. with sp2. & Dot net 2.0.i have installed Indesign CS3 Server & its installed completely but when i run indesignserver.exe it shows error that "indesign server not configured properly".& if i start indesign server service this shows error ...."indesign server service not run on Local computer"......
then i found that indesign server service needs Dot Net 2.0 SP1 so i haev installed that too but the same problem found.
plzz help me out to run indesign server. i need this as soon as possible.....
Thanks

As you know CORBA is all about distributed architectures. So your approach should work. We put the notes in the documentation because we did not test the configuration you are using. Though there shouldn't be any problems, we just didn't feel comfortable claiming support for this configuration without testing against it.

Using InDesign CS3 Server / Flex / AIR / SOAP

Hi All,
I want to build a user interface for InDesign Server with FlexBuilder. I have built a test project that works well if InDesign Server and the Flex program are located on the same machine. I press a button in the UI and then via the RunScript command a JavaScript on InDesign Server is started.
But when I try to run the same on two different machines the Flex project returns with an error, so as if InDesign Server isn't there at all. For SOAP I use the IDSP.wsdl from the SDK. I have changed the address localhost to 10.0.0.33, but that seems not to be enough to make SOAP work. Maybe there are other keys in the IDSP.wsdl that must be edited. Does someone have an idea or an example ?
Wolfgang

I am having success across machines using http:
var ws:WebService = new WebService();
ws.loadWSDL("http://123.45.67.890:12345/service?wsdl");
ws.endpointURI = "http://123.45.67.890:12345";
ws.RunScript(params);
Note that I have to explicitly set the endpointURI to override the "localhost" default contained in the http version of the WSDL.
Also note that the port number is required.
In addition, you may need to change security settings:
Assuming your swf is local, set your swf's sandbox type to "localTrusted" by setting security permissions for your swf:
Use Global Securtiy Settings Panel, and add your IDS machine to the list of trusted URLs
OR, add a config file to FlashPlayerTrust on the local machine.
Here's a great article:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_8_security.pdf
Hope this helps,
Susan

How to download InDesign CS3 Debug (non-Server version)

I have downloaded and installed the InDesign CS3 SDK and can generate a Release build of a plug-in and get it to load and work in InDesign CS3, but as indicated in the doc, building the Debug configuration of a plug-in and trying to get it to work in the Release version of InDesign CS3 does not work. So, of course, I want to download and install InDesign CS3 Debug so that I can load and run the Debug configuration of plug-ins. But I cannot find a way to download InDesign CS3 Debug anywhere. I find a link for downloading InDesign CS3 Server Debug but not InDesign CS3 Debug (non-server version).
Can someone point me to the InDesign CS3 Debug download?
Thanks

The last official statement was here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/notesfrommnr/2005/08/heres_how_to_ge.html
The ASN membership details and site have changed since that writing, if you have problems following the instructions ask MNR for an update.
Hth,
Dirk

InDesign CS4 Server serialisation

Hi guys,
I'm installing a InDesign CS4 Server on Windows 2003 Server for Small Business Server, Service Pack 2. 4Gb available on C:drive,Intel Xeon 3.2Ghz, 4Gb Ram
The machine had InDesign CS3 Server installed previously.
1. Uninstalled InDesign CS3 Server
2. Rebooted Machine.
3. Installed CS4 Server
4. Installed latest Rapid Release
5. Setup Win Service
and wondered why I wasn't prompted for the serial number at start of install. (ok, I hear you... should have read the read-me file first to see if anything in the installation process had changed...).
So I stopped the ID-Service and then ran the command-line serialisation at this point.
Checked in TaskManager no ID Server was running.
However the serialisation hangs after:
<pre>
08/26/09 10:15:05 INFO [server] Server Runnin/g
</pre>
And the serialisation process seems to launch two processes at this stage: InDesignServer.com and InDesignServer.exe.
Which is right before this step... which is repeated twice and then the cursor just sits there... (doing nothing).
<pre>
[javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adob
e InDesign CS4 Server\Scripts\Export As XHTML\XHTMLExportMenuItem.jsxbin
</pre>
Before back-tracking fully and doing a complete uninstall and reinstall (and this time serialising after step 3), I thought I'd check if anyone had come across this and has a possible clue as to what's going in. Any help appreciated.
At this stage I'm scheduling a full uninstall/reinstall for Thursday if things aren't resolved today (Wednesday).
Thanks,
Cari
Snr Solutions Consultant,
Typefi Systems.
Here's what I see in the cmd console:
<pre>
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4 Server>indesignserver -serialnumber xx
xx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
================================================================================
. Version 6.0.4
. Adobe, the Adobe logo, InDesign, and InCopy are either registered trademarks
. or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other
. etc.
================================================================================
08/26/09 10:14:58 INFO [server] Initialising
08/26/09 10:14:58 INFO [server] Loading the application
08/26/09 10:14:58 INFO [server] Restoring Object Model
08/26/09 10:14:58 INFO [server] Scanning for plug-ins
08/26/09 10:14:58 INFO [server] Initialising plug-ins
08/26/09 10:14:58 INFO [server] Starting up Service Registry
08/26/09 10:15:03 INFO [server] Executing startup services
08/26/09 10:15:03 INFO [server] Using configuration configuration_noport
08/26/09 10:15:05 INFO [server] Initialising the SING gaiji system
08/26/09 10:15:05 INFO [server] Initialising Application
08/26/09 10:15:05 INFO [server] Completing Initialisation
08/26/09 10:15:05 INFO [server] Image previews are off
08/26/09 10:15:05 INFO [server] Server Running
08/26/09 10:15:05 INFO [javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adob
e InDesign CS4 Server\Scripts\Export As XHTML\startup scripts\XHTMLExportMenuIte
mLoader.jsx
08/26/09 10:15:05 INFO [javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adob
e InDesign CS4 Server\Scripts\Export As XHTML\XHTMLExportMenuItem.jsxbin
</pre>

That looks correct - InDesignServer is up & running, waiting for commands, or a control-c to quit.
InDesignServer.com is a shell app which launches InDesignServer.exe, so having both processes active is correct.
Once you have successfully serialized (as it appears you have), you should be able to restart either via the Windows service or at the command line without the '-serialnumber' parameter.
-Brendan O'Shea
InDesignServer Engineering

How to run Indesign CS3 as a Service with Port number

Hello all,
I would like to run the InDesign CS3 Server as a service on Windows. It seems that after installing the Server it automatically installs as a service. But where can I assign the port number. If under Services properties of InDesign Server under Parameters I mention -port 1050 on Ok button it removes the parameter information.
I am doing right or is there some other way to start the Server as Service with Port number.
Thank you all in advance.
Regards
Farzana.

Hi Sascha,
have you tried to remove the service and install it manually?
\"Path to IDS"\InDesignServerService /install /u
\"Path to IDS"\InDesignServerService /install
I guess you've tried to start the instance in the console already (successfully?).
Regards
Ingo
Am 05.07.2011 um 12:18 schrieb 1000grad_Sascha:
Hi Ingo,
I've installed the Snap-In and configured one instance. Maybe it's worth mentioning that there are some instances running at the same time, which have been started using the console. Hope that's not interfering. However, the MMC-configured instance uses a different port.
I tried to start the service with a huge range of users having all imaginable privileges. The common way of using either "LocalService" or the Local System Account (which has admin rights for me) doesn't do the job.
cheers,
Sascha
>

InDesign CS3 replaces unavailable Fonts

Hi,
we have InDesign CS3 server running. The server renders Preflight PDF. If a layout uses a font that the InDesign Server doesn't know, the InDesign server replaces the unknon font with one he knows.
Is there a way to tell the InDesign CS3 server which font to for replacing an unknown font?
Thanx for ur kind help.

I am having this same problem with the Windings font and CS3, the bullet (opt-8) does not show properly. The Bullet in Windings looks like a "Target" instead all I get is a rectangle box that is highlighted pink (highlighted pink like when a font is missing..)
The file looks fine in CS2 but doesn't when opened in CS3 on the same computer with the same fonts loaded at the same time (i.e. document is open in CS2 & CS3 side by side).
I can get the character to display properly if I use it as a Bullet (Type-Bulleted & Numbered List.)
The character doesn't display in the window but if you manually ad it as a character then it will display in the document properly where used as a Bullet but still will not display properly if used in just straight typing.
I also removed as many fonts from my system as posable, Windings was the only font activated in Extensis Suitcase Fusion v. 12.1.6. Turning Suitcase off made no difference either...
I did notice that Adobe InDesign CS3 loads fonts from this location when it starts (Library-Application Support-Adobe-fonts), if these fonts are not managed what keeps them from having a font ID conflict with another font? I did remove as many of these fonts as posable and it still made no difference with this problem though.
I had a problem like this with another font but I can't remember now what one. Thought it was a bad font at the time, although the file worked fine in CS2.

How to restore broken links after server migration in Indesign CS3???

Hi All,
I have used my google skills to no avail and everything I have read here has been a dead end for me. I can't be the only person in this situation, so hopefully someone can help!
My marketing department has reached the storage limits of our shared network drive. Located on this drive is our (HUGE) image library which acts as a single central respository serving up our indesign links (read here: we don't package files - to conserve space). We have decided that in an effort to create a true archive and have more space for our image library we need to migrate the library to a new 16 terabit Drobo (yay!).
The problem is that every INDD file that links to the current library will now suffer from broken links. We literally have hundreds of INDD files and thousands of links. The good news is...the file structure isn't changing at all! Just the server location is changing. Is there any way to to a batch update of the links that tells INDD to look for the exact same file path on a different drive?
In short:
current image library (old server): marketing/image library/photos/products/multiple product folders
new image library (new server): drobo/image library/photos/products/multiple product folders
I want to point InDesign to the new server and have it pick up the file path without having to navigate to each and every file individually. Voila!
Is this even possible? Is there any 3rd party software to help? Other architechture solutions that might be suggested?
Thanks so much for the help!
Alex

I wrote several scripts to solve this problem, here is one of them.
// Change paths of links.jsx
// Script for InDesign CS3 and CS4 -- changes the path of each link in the active document.
// Version 1.0
// May 13 2010
// Written by Kasyan Servetsky
// http://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua
// e-mail: [email protected]
var gScriptName = "Change paths of links";
var gScriptVer = 1;
var gOsIsMac = (File.fs == "Macintosh") ? true : false;
var gSet = GetSettings();
if (app.documents.length == 0) {
     ErrorExit("No open document. Please open a document and try again.", true);
var gDoc = app.activeDocument;
var gLinks = gDoc.links;
var gCounter = 0;
if (gLinks.length == 0) {
     ErrorExit("This document doesn't contain any links.", true);
CreateDialog();
//======================= FUNCTIONS =============================
function CreateDialog() {
     var dialog = new Window("dialog", gScriptName);
     dialog.orientation = "column";
     dialog.alignChildren = "fill";
     var panel = dialog.add("panel", undefined, "Settings");
     panel.orientation = "column";
     panel.alignChildren = "right";
     var group1 = panel.add("group");
     group1.orientation = "row";
     var findWhatStTxt = group1.add("statictext", undefined, "Find what:");
     var findWhatEdTxt = group1.add("edittext", undefined, gSet.findWhatEdTxt);
     findWhatEdTxt.minimumSize.width = 300;
     var group2 = panel.add("group");
     group2.orientation = "row";
     var changeToStTxt = group2.add("statictext", undefined, "Change to:");
     var changeToEdTxt = group2.add("edittext", undefined, gSet.changeToEdTxt);
     changeToEdTxt.minimumSize.width = 300;
     var btnGroup = dialog.add("group");
     btnGroup.orientation = "row";
     btnGroup.alignment = "center";
     var okBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "Ok");
     var cancelBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "Cancel");
     var showDialog = dialog.show();
     if (showDialog== 1) {
          gSet.findWhatEdTxt = findWhatEdTxt.text;
          gSet.changeToEdTxt = changeToEdTxt.text;
          app.insertLabel("Kas_" + gScriptName + "_ver_" + gScriptVer, gSet.toSource());
          Main();
function Main() {
     WriteToFile("\r--------------------- Script started -- " + GetDate() + " ---------------------\n");
     for (var i = gLinks.length-1; i >= 0 ; i--) {
          var currentLink = gLinks[i];
          var oldPath = currentLink.filePath;
          oldPath = oldPath.replace(/:|\\/g, "\/");
          oldPath = oldPath.toLowerCase();
          gSet.findWhatEdTxt = gSet.findWhatEdTxt.replace(/:|\\/g, "\/");
          gSet.changeToEdTxt = gSet.changeToEdTxt.replace(/:|\\/g, "\/");
          gSet.findWhatEdTxt = gSet.findWhatEdTxt.replace(/([A-Z])(\/\/)/i, "/$1/");
          gSet.changeToEdTxt = gSet.changeToEdTxt.replace(/([A-Z])(\/\/)/i, "/$1/");
          gSet.findWhatEdTxt = gSet.findWhatEdTxt.toLowerCase();
          gSet.changeToEdTxt = gSet.changeToEdTxt.toLowerCase();
          if (File.fs == "Windows") oldPath = oldPath.replace(/([A-Z])(\/\/)/i, "/$1/");
          var newPath = oldPath.replace(gSet.findWhatEdTxt, gSet.changeToEdTxt);
          if (File.fs == "Windows") {
               newPath = newPath.replace(/([A-Z])(\/\/)/, "/$1/");
          else if (File.fs == "Macintosh") {
               newPath = "/Volumes/" + newPath;
          var newFile = new File(newPath);
          if (newFile.exists) {
               currentLink.relink(newFile);
               gCounter++;
               WriteToFile("Relinked \"" + newPath + "\"\n");
          else {
               WriteToFile("Can't relink \"" + newPath + "\" because the file doesn't exist\n");
     WriteToFile("\r--------------------- Script finished -- " + GetDate() + " ---------------------\r\r");
     if (gCounter == 1) {
          alert("One file has been relinked.", "Finished");
     else if (gCounter > 1) {
          alert(gCounter + " files have been relinked.", "Finished");
     else {
          alert("Nothing has been relinked.", "Finished");
function GetSettings() {
     var settings = eval(app.extractLabel("Kas_" + gScriptName + "_ver_" + gScriptVer));
     if (settings == undefined) {
          if (gOsIsMac) {
               settings = { findWhatEdTxt:"//ServerName/ShareName/FolderName", changeToEdTxt:"ShareName:FolderName" };
          else {
               settings = { findWhatEdTxt:"ShareName:FolderName", changeToEdTxt:"//ServerName/ShareName/FolderName" };
     return settings;
function ErrorExit(myMessage, myIcon) {
     alert(myMessage, gScriptName, myIcon);
     exit();
function WriteToFile(myText) {
     var myFile = new File("~/Desktop/" + gScriptName + ".txt");
     if ( myFile.exists ) {
          myFile.open("e");
          myFile.seek(0, 2);
     else {
          myFile.open("w");
     myFile.write(myText);
     myFile.close();
function GetDate() {
     var myDate = new Date();
     if ((myDate.getYear() - 100) < 10) {
          var myYear = "0" + new String((myDate.getYear() - 100));
     } else {
          var myYear = new String ((myDate.getYear() - 100));
     var myDateString = (myDate.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + myDate.getDate() + "/" + myYear + " " + myDate.getHours() + ":" + myDate.getMinutes() + ":" + myDate.getSeconds();
     return myDateString;
You can specify a platform-specific path name, or a path in a platform-independent format known as universal resource identifier (URI) notation, or Mac OS 9 path name (for Mac).
For example any of the following notations are valid:
Windows
c:\dir\file (Windows path name)
/c/dir/file (URI path name)
//10.44.54.70/Test/images (uniform naming convention (UNC) path name of the form //servername/sharename)
//Apple/Test/images
\\10.44.54.70\Test\images (Windows path name)
\\Apple\Test\images (Windows path name)
where 10.44.54.70 IP address of the server, Apple -- DNS name of the server, Test -- share name
Mac
The following examples assume that the startup volume is MacOSX, and that there is a mounted volume Remote.
/dir/file (Mac OS X path name)
/MacOSX/dir/file (URI path name)
MacOSX:dir:file (Mac OS 9 path name)
/Remote/dir/file (URI path name)
Remote:dir:file (Mac OS 9 path name)
Remote/dir/file (Mac OS X path name)
You can just copy a part of the path in Links panel and paste it to the script's dialog. In CS4, make sure to choose "Copy Platform Style Path" in context menu.
The case of the characters doesn’t matter: you can type both in upper and lowercase in the script's dialog. For example — Test, test, TEST, TeSt — are all the same for the script.
Regards,
Kasyan

Indesign CS3 & 10.6.2 server: file corruption

Hi All,
I'm having problems with one of our customer's setup. They're experiencing some sort of file corruption on Indesign CS3 files. These files are worked on by students in classrooms. At random, files won't open anymore in Indesign CS3 (or in CS4),so they need to start all over again. At first, file corruption occured seldom, but in the last few days I get too many reports. So I definately think something is at hand here.
The students log in to their network home folders. Client and server(s) are mac os x 10.6.2.
Clients / servers are fresh installed last x-mas. 2 fileservers (1 classroom, 1 homedirectory), 1 dedicated od server, 700 students, 45 classes. Both fileservers are new iron.
Before this, I had the same setup in 10.4.11, and this worked flawlessly for almost two years. So I know I can work with this setup over a network.
Before I start suspecting (and swapping) hardware, does anyone have pointers where to look or tests I could do?
Much appreciated.
Edgar

Well, going back to 10.4 is not an option. The previous servers (PPC G5 xserves) running the 10.4 setup have been sold. Current hardware was delivered with only 10.6 software so that rules out switching back to 10.5 as well.
You mention ACL's. I could dive into that. Since 10.5 Apple introduced default ACL's for the spotlight indexing process. The share is rather simple, it uses mainly posix permissions because it contains the homedirectories. In that perspective, the only change (besides a new afp stack) is the spotlight ACL. I could remove it, spotlight isn't running on that share.
I don't think I can switch to SMB for the user homedir stuff. If it was a normal data share it wouldn't be a problem.
Seems I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place..

Solutions/Options for 100% uptime with Application Server

what are the solutions/options available for 100% uptime with Oracle DB and application server as one of the business area requires 100% uptime of the application system and DB.
Is there any cost effective options available to achieve the above stated requirement or else might to have to go for stand alone system?
Thanks in advance for help.

Hi,
I would recommend you to take a look at the Oracle Application Server Enterprise Deployment Guide and Oracle Application Server High Availability Guide. Both are avaliable at http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_15/index.htm.
Regards,
Mathias

Text Wrap options not showing in InDesign CS3

Using InDesign CS3 on a Mac 10.4. I've had this problem for a couple of months now and it's getting past the point of annoying. When I open my text wrap options pallete it's blank even when I expand options. I can see the text wrap icons in my header panel, but I no longer have options to change the right/left/top/bottom margins. Just a general "add wrap" and "remove wrap". Is there any way I can get my pallete back? I've tried defaulting my tools, but still it does not show up. I don't know what to do to get it back.

Did you try resetting preferences? While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control, start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files. If you don't get the message about deleting preferences, you weren't fast enough.
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f86173837510 01ea8cb3f-6d1e.html
Ken

InDesign CS3 Server - Enterprise Solution Options

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for