InDesign CS4 and Mac 10.6

Why is InDesign CS4 so sluggish and disfunctional with Mac 10.6? Hasn't Adobe optimized it to work with this OS?

I disagree and would bet that this is indeed the reason. 10.5 to 10.6 was the only in place upgrade I ever did and I wound up with the same situation as the OP. Uninstalling CS4 did nothing to fix it.
I wound up wiping the drive and reinstalling 10.6 then the apps. I swore off O/S upgrades after that and will forever recommend against them. Clean installs are the only safe way to install and operating system whether it was designed in Redmond or Cupertino.

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Is it possible to have Indesign CS4 and CS5.5 both installed on the same Mac? 10.6.8

We have a bunch of recent Intel macs at our corporation. Currently they should all have 10.6.8. They were all imaged from a base image that has Adobe CS4 embedded in it.
We are now using a packaging software part of the JAMF Casper suite and AAMIE to push CS5.5 to the end users.
The problem is that we want to keep CS4 on the end user's computers in case of issues. That way the end users can try Indesign 5.5 and see if it does everything they need to do and still have Indesign for backwards compatiblity.
So we created a CS5.5 install package using the AAMIE tool which works fine. We then use Casper to spam the package out to a Mac.
The issue that arises is that a few Plugin errors occur during the lauch of Indesign CS5.5 such as:
Adobe inDesign does not recognize InCopy Bridge UI.InDesignPlugin as a valid plug-in.
Adobe InDesign does not recognize InCopyExport.InDesignPlugin as a valid plug-in.
Adobe InDesign does not recognize InCopyExportUI.InDesignPlugin as a valid plug-in.
Adobe InDesign does not recognize InCopyImport.InDesignPlugin as a valid plug-in.
There was one more plugin error that occured before the first one but I forgot to write it down.
If we click okay to them, the application launches okay but when you quit and relaunch it, you still get one of the errors.
Is this because both applications are installed at the same time?
Is it offically okay as per Adobe to have Indesign CS4 and CS5.5 installed on the same Macintosh?
What else should we be considering what to do?

Well currently, I'm just testing this issue. I just installed the trial version of Adobe CS4 suite on my mac and then deployed the CS5.5 package on top off it The resulting errors that I listed above are the same ones that occur when the end user has a licensed volume license install of CS4 and CS5.5.
So I'm still back to square 1 where when I deploy cs5.5 on an end user's mac, they get those plugin errors when they launch Indesign CS5.5.
I am not sure about the licensing restrictions, I asked my Director and he is going to check with our VAR.

Bought InDesign CS4 for Mac and now need to move it to a PC. Help!

Bought InDesign CS4 for Mac and now need to move it to a PC. Help!

Most Adobe software is written for one of two platforms, Mac or PC. In order to switch platforms you need to be using the most current version, so CS4 would not be supported for making this switch. Here is a link to a page that explains the requirements for switching platforms....
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/order-product-platform-language-swap.htm l

[Ann] QR Code for InDesign CS4 and up

Ever needed to create a QR code? There are literally hundreds of free QR code generators on the web, but they all have the same drawbacks:
1. They typically deliver a PNG, either 'click here to download', or you have to drag it somewhere yourself.
2. It's typically an RGB image, so the cautious designer will start up Photoshop to convert it to a monochrome image.
3. .. so you get a file to store somewhere ..
4. ... and after seeing four of them you cannot remember which QR code said what ...
5. .... and, you cannot use such site in a batched environment (well, maybe some people can by building a proper URL, call the website, wait for a response, etc. I bet it's difficult for your average scripter.)
So I had a go on converting one of the existing Javascript solutions -- Patrick Wied's, in case you're curious -- into a construction fit for InDesign. All you have to do is download the zip: http://www.jongware.com/binaries/jw_qrcode.zip -- unpack it, and save the file "QRCode.jsxbin" in your local User Script folder. It ought to be compatible with InDesign CS4 and upwards, for both Mac and Windows.
When it appears in your Script Panel, you can double-click to run and
1. with nothing selected, it prompts for text and error recovery settings, and will place a proper monochrome TIFF bitmap of (approximately) a useful dimension in the center of your current page.
2. with an empty rectangle selected, the new QR code will be placed inside it.
3. with some text selected, the text field will be pre-filled with this.
4. With a QR Code selected which you created earlier using this same tool, the text field will contain the original text, and the quality setting will be retrieved. You can cancel the dialog if you only wanted to know what it said, or change the text or quality.
5. You can call this script from another script to perform batch operations. It accepts two required arguments, and one optional, in this order: text, Error Correction level (1-4), and optionally a destination rectangle to place it in:
app.doScript(new File(app.activeScript.path+'/qrcode.jsxbin'), ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, ["hello", 1, app.selection[0]], UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Call QR Code");
6. Since it's a monochrome bitmap TIFF with enough resolution (at its default size it's 200 dpi), you can use the swatches palette to change the white or black parts to another color, or even make one transparent.
7. It's just a small file, and so I decided to always have it automatically embed. That way you can never loose it. The image first has to be created in a temporary file (default location: (Temp)/qrcode.tiff, where (Temp) is your local Temporary Files folder). If this fails for some of you (there always seem to be overly prudent IT professionals who seem to despise users storing files willy-nilly), I'll have to think of something else.
Note: this version only supports plain text mode, not numeric, alphanumeric, or Kanji. Text is converted to UTF-8; for the most common purpose -- web pages -- it should work normally.
Enjoy!
Based entirely on Patrick Wied's implementation of a basic QR Code generator. Patrick Wied dutifully notes
I do not guarantee any resulting QR code generations or detections, use this application at your own risk! - this project is just a study project (non commercial).
and so I advise to always check your generated code using a good QR Code reader.

To give back to community, here is the script to generate QR codes for business cards created by data merge
It reads text frames starting with MECARD:, empties them and places QRcode rotated 15 degrees counterclockwise. Enjoy!
var _d = app.documents[0];
var _allStories = _d.stories;
for(var nx=_allStories.length-1;nx>=0;nx--){
    var _storyAllTextFrames = _allStories[nx].textContainers;
    for(var mx=_storyAllTextFrames.length-1;mx>=0;mx--){
         _storyAllTextFrames[mx].select(); // change page
         if(_storyAllTextFrames[mx].contents.indexOf('MECARD:')==0){
             var obj = app.doScript(new File(app.activeScript.path+'/qrcode.jsxbin'), ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, [_storyAllTextFrames[mx].contents]);
             _storyAllTextFrames[mx].contents = "";
            var myScaleMatrix = app.transformationMatrices.add({horizontalScaleFactor:.7,
                verticalScaleFactor:.7,counterclockwiseRotationAngle:15});
            obj.transform(CoordinateSpaces.pasteboardCoordinates,AnchorPoint.centerAnchor, myScaleMatrix);
             //obj.move ([_x,_y]);
here is a MECARD template for you:
MECARD:
N:<<Last>>,<<First>>;
TEL:<<Direct>>;
TEL:<<Mobile>>;
EMAIL:<<E-mail>>;
NOTE:<<Position>> at <<Company>>;
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/service/developer/make/content/barcode/function/applica tion/addressbook/index.html

Indesign CS4 in Mac 10.6.8, sometimes won't show files, sometimes won't show tools

Indesign CS4 in Mac 10.6.8, sometimes won't show files, sometimes won't show tools. Like I click to open a file from the finder, and Indesign makes that temporary file in the finder, but won't display the pages. At other times I can have the pages displayed but I can't open the tools such as the colour swatches or the paragraphy styles. This all happens at random, although I suspect it is more likely to happen if I have been working in some other program such as Typestyler or Aperture, and come back to Indesign. Kind of like Indesign gets snooty at me working in another program.
I've done the thing of dicing the preferences, but so far the only workaround that has worked so far is quitting and restarting the program. I don't remember this happening so much until recently, in other words the problem seems to be getting more frequent.
But I am wondering if this has happened with anyone else and if there are any other suggestions for avoiding it.
Back in the good old days you would reinstall PageMaker and that would settle things for a while. But now I don't know if a program like Indesign CS4 actually gets corrupted and if it does I don't know what to do. Does the program get corrupted? And should you reinstall a fresh copy? If it's a good idea to reinstall the program how do you do that? Is it possible to download a fresh copy? And if I do, what happens when the fresh copy phones home? I've tangled with the Adobe Microsoft corporation before when Indesign phoned home and got a crossed line.

Other things to try:
Examine your specific version of Optima by going to Type menu > Find Font, clicking on the Optima font and choosing More Info (I think) and find the specific version number. See if you can uninstall the font and reinstall another Optima font with a different, preferably newer version number. There has (historically) been a bad version of Optima floating around for years. Maybe you have it.
Use a free utility like FontNuke or FontFinagler to get your Mac OS to reset its font plists. Sometimes that makes the OS feel better.
Use the built-in Disk Utility to repair file permissions. You never know.
Export your old document out to IDML and reopen that resulting idml file back into a new freshly written INDD file. This might remove internal database corruptions.
All these are chicken-soup things to try and they might be good for you.
Best,
Mike Witherell in Florida

InDesign CS4 and CS5 scripting on Windows 7 unstable

Hello, have not found any solutions to our previous issues with RPC errors while scripting InDesign CS4 and CS5 on Windows 7.
Even more problematic, I just installed a trial version of InDesign CS5 on Windows 7, created a small JavaScript script that places a counter text from 1 to 10.000 in a one page, one frame document and found out this crashes when the counter is at around 4500 or so. This was the same issue with CS4, that's why I tried CS5.
These scripts run fine with CS4 on Windows XP and Vista. So what is the problem with scripting Indesign on Windows 7 ? Are there any settings that should be changed in Windows 7 to create a more stable situation ? Need to allocate more memory somehow ?
Anxious to know, for now I try avoiding Windows 7.
Roelof Janssen

Shouldn't be a problem but you should be aware that if you upgrade to CS5.5 now you'll get a free upgrade to CS6 when it ships.
Bob

Will Adobe inDesign CS4 and Photoshop CS4 run on Yosemite?

Will Adobe inDesign CS4 and Photoshop CS4 run on Yosemite?

Roaring Apps web site.
http://roaringapps.com/apps?index=a
InDesign has Issues.
Photoshop appears to be OK but a re-installation may be necessary. Run the CS Cleaner Tools below and PS uninstaller before attempting to re-install PS CS4.
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html
Nancy O.

Do you have hindi fonts for InDesign CS4 and if so how much are they?

Do you have hindi fonts for InDesign CS4 and if so how much are they?

Adobe does offer a few Unicode fonts that support Hindi I'd expect that you'd be asking for Devanagari fonts, though. Have you ever done any Hindi typesetting? I mean, when we typeset English we don't do it in "English fonts" but in "Latin-script fonts."
There are two main classes of Devanagari fonts - the more common, older fonts where someone took a Latin-script font, erased the characters, and replaced them with Devanagari glyphs, versus contemporary Unicode fonts. The first class are wonky, hard to use, and quite common. If you're in-country you will find lots of ways to buy those kinds of fonts. You also can use them in InDesign without needing any scripts or plugins to turn on the World-Ready Composer. I find Unicode fonts to be much easier to use, to automatically compose according to proper rules regarding behavior of glyphs - but to use them in CS4, you'd need something like World Tools or IndicPlus. I'm a World Tools user myself but if you're going to be doing only Hindi work in CS4, I'd suggest that you look at IndicPlus first.
In short - it's deeper than it looks. If you want to tell us more about what you're trying to do, we might be able to give you better advice.

INDESIGN CS4 AND WINDOWS 8

I have a new windows 8 laptop which has no dvd drive, I have a copy of Indesign CS4 and would like to use it on my new laptop. How can i transfer it as it is on a DVD. Also is it compatable with windows 8.
Christine

Use this:
Direct Download Links for Adobe Software
Ask for specific compatibility issues in teh ID forum. Generally it should work, but there may be some specifics involved...
Mylenium

Printing PDF with Acrobat 9.0 for CS4 and Mac OSx10.6.2 not working properly.

I downloaded the CS4 for MAC Trial before purchasing. I work on a MacBook Pro OSx10.6.2. The download and installation was successful.
However, upon launching the Adobe Acrobat 9.0 software, I received the following message: "REPAIR SETUP: Acrobat has detected that there are missing components that require repair. Select the optional components you would like to repair and click continue." My choices were: 1) Adobe PDF Printer, and 2) Adobe PDF View Safari Plugin. I chose Continue. When I am in another program (like Quark 7.5), and try to Print to the Adobe 9.0 Printer, the document spools, as if printing, but I do not get prompted to save the PDF anywhere, and when it is done "printing" there is not a document saved anywhere. It appears to be getting stuck in the distilled, although I don't really know. I tried un-installing the entire CS4 software and re-installing and had the same exact thing happen again. Can anyone help?

Do as I do on some items. Install a utility called TypeIt4Me the go to the announcement. Copy the link. choose add clipping give it a name put / or \ at the end so it you type the same words normally it don't trigger the typeIt4Me entry. then when you need to type the words (code used) and wait for TypeIt4Me enter it. the item highlighted in my attachment is this:
http://indesignsecrets.com/acrobats-adobe-pdf-printer-replaced-in-snow-leopard.php
which is the link to the InDesign article about snow leopard and creating Adobe quality PDF's

Printing from InDesign CS4 on Mac Snow Leopard to HP officejet pro K5400

I recently started using a Mac Snow Leopard with InDesign CS4; for awhile it printed fine. Then, dealing with a book mss, I had to get InDesign to convert the document to a PDF, and since that time, the Officejet Pro k5400 will only print in what appears to be the best quality, even when I tell it to print in fast draft, and even set that as a preset. Anybody had that problem? Anybody have any suggestions as to what is going on here? How can I get the printer to print in fast draft? Thanks for any help,
Knob Man

Hi kajuntwin,
I understand that you are having and issue after updating your desktop. I am referring you to this post by MBJustice who is currently working with other customers on this issue.
I hope this helps,
Thank you.
I worked on behalf of HP.

InDesign CS4 - New Mac Book Pro.. Middle 2014

Hey out there...
Just got a new MacBookPro this week and tried to Install InDesign Cs4... but can't get it started... Somebody has the same problems? Photoshop works perfect!
Thanks!
Florian

reset your preferences, http://indesignsecrets.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences.php
if that fails, uninstall, clean and then reinstall using the adobe installer. ie, do not migrate etc adobe programs.
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Acrobat: XI, X | 9,8 | 9 standard
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Indesign CS4 and Indesign CS5 on new imac TOGETHER!

Hi,
I am purchasing a brand new imac (27in., quad core i5) which comes with the Apple Snow Leopard OS.
I am also purchasing the CS5 master collection.
A company that I freelance for is still using CS4 and wants me to create print layouts for them with indesign CS4 (they don't trust the .inx route).
Will I be able to run the entire CS5 master collection AND just indesign CS4 on my new imac?
Are there any issues or difficulties that I should be aware of?
Thanks!!!

Yes, you will be able to, but make sure you install CS4 first, get that going how you want it, (i.e. at least make sure it's working!) and then install CS5. If you ever have to uninstall and reinstall CS4 you're in for a bit of fun unfortunately, the only clean way to do it would be to uninstall the whole Master collection first... Having said that heaps of people do exactly what you're describing with no problems.
On thing to be aware of is that once you have installed CS5 all your CS4 Indesign files will automatically open in CS5 not CS4. You will not be warned about this until you have worked on it (Murphys law states that this will be for a long time) and go to save, upon which it will ask you for a new save location. The icons are slightly different so you could rely on that to alert you, and just use File > Open from CS4 or drag the files into CS4, or you could look at Soxy, which is a far more elegant solution, but IMHO is still not perfect, although apparently it's better on a Mac than on Windows.

Indesign CS4 and SVG export (or lack of)

I normally do documents in Indesign and then export to pdf (for web and print). I've had a special client request to convert a few of those Indesign document to SVG format.
This was an option in CS3 that has been taken off CS4.
What's the best way to produce this? Is there a quick option to do this? The only option I can see is by exporting the Indesign file into eps, opening that into Ilustrator and then saving as SVG. The file could potentially have a lot of pages - so it could be pretty time consuming opening each eps file produced into Illustrator and then saving as individual SVG files. Maybe I can't see the wood for the trees?
Any help on a better and more efficient way of doing this would be brill.
Is there a plug in/extension available that makes up for this now redundant option in Indesign CS4?
Moll O' Moon

Hi MoMo,
I noticed this issue right now too. At work I have IDCS3 and here at home CS4. Damn...what a crap! I'd bet that this is just a (stupid) product-strategical decision to take all options fromthe user so that he must chose between Adobe's proprietary Formats and "everything" stays within the Adobe ecosystem.However, thanks to Inkscape I finally got it done.
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PageMaker InDesign CS4 in Mac OS X?

A client has asked me to convert a PageMaker 6.5 document to PDF that I last worked on in 1999! That document was split into 5 files. I have been able to successfully open 4 of the 5 files in InDesign CS4. However, InDesign crashes each time I try to open the 5th file, which at 2.5 MB is by far the largest and contains the most links to external image files.
Prior to the crash I'm warned that one or more of the links is broken and advised to repair them in PageMaker before continuing, which of course I cannot do because PageMaker was removed from my page composition arsenal years ago. InDesign then valiantly works for 15 seconds or so to open the file before crashing. Any suggestions?

You should be able to distill a PDF, but no conversion to ID. But the point of the exercise is to get the file into condition where it can be opened into ID directly, not to do any major work in PM.
There are some problems with opeing PM docs in ID in vista, though, with CS2 (I think). Later versions should work.

InDesign CS4 and Mac 10.6

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