InDesign CS4 - blue wavy underline won't go away

What the heck is the blue wavy underline beginning about half way through a story, continuing to the end. It's not an object, paragraph, or character style related thing. It's not a spelling, repeats, keeps, kerning or font thing. What could it be? Every character is underlined, regardless of its paragraph or character style. It's visible in layout or story editing mode.

To find out if you accidentally turned on conditional text, open the Conditional Text panel (Window > Type & Tables > Conditional Text).

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I have a standalone license for InDesign.
Good point on upgrading. Although, it really isn't what I wanted to hear.
I use InDesign at home for some freelance work, but it isn't my primary job. Uprading all my software every version would be a pretty big chunk of what I actually make on my freelance work, especially last year when the economy was in the tank.

No apps available to download in my desktop app. Only spinning blue circle that won't go away.

I can't seem to install any thing at all. The creative suite desktop app is installed and I can open it and see everything except under the apps tab. there is just a spinning blue circle and nothing to download at all. I have the Adobe download assistant installed as well and it starts up and opens but I can only choose from three programs and none of them are the one I want. What do I do? When I try to install from the website I get a page that says Adobe Illustrator is downloading and it just stays that way. nothing else happens. just the blue spinning wheel in the desktop app and no download happening anywhere. Where do I go from here? This shouldn't be this difficult.

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Indesign CS4 won't open or create new files. Why???

I'm using Indesign CS4 and all of a sudden it won't open old files or creat new ones. I've restarted
my machine and program and it still won't do anything. Any ideas?

What sort of recent changes have you made on the system?
What happens when you try to open files or create new ones? What OS? IS ID patched to 6.0.6?
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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.
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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.
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Mike Witherell in Florida

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Thanks Steve,
that link you gave me says 'Page no longer available. "
I installed this at work, and the disks are are there, so I was trying to get it up and running before the AM.
A couple of things I've found:
1. A while back, I shortened the name of the app to InDesign CS4 (as opposed to "Adobe InDesign CS4" I took off the "Adobe" in front of it so it would be shorter in the dock.) I'm wondering if the updater was looking for the exact match, which is whay I got a SECOND "Adobe InDesign CS4" app in my folder that was only 114mb as oppsed to the full 300mb...Funny, I did that same thing with After Effects (removed the "Adobe" in front of the name) and it's doing the same thing (not supported). All other apps in the Master Collection that might have been updated two days ago are fine. Do you think the updater is that picky, and it installed the update as a seperate, unusable file? I trashed the smaller, newer (the one I got when I updated) Adobe InDesign CS4 in hopes that the old full app would open up as it did before and re-update. That's when I got the "not supported" message.
Before I trashed the "smaller" app, nothing was happening at all when I tried to lauch either. At least now I'm getting the "Not supported" thing.
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Never had to do that before.
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RP
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Error while making an epub from InDesign CS4

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so the document won't open in Stanza. Although it will in Adobe Digital Editions and in calibre.
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I am having the exact same problem. When exporting a book from CS4 only the TOC and the first Chapter or section export correctly. Inside the epub file everything seems configured correctly but all the chapter or sections after the first are xhtml files without any content, just the initial structure of an ordinary xhtml file.
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Test: Using Crop marks in indesign CS4 with Epson 3800 Mac 10.5.7

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Crop marks using indesign CS4 with Epson 3800 Mac 10.5.7
My crop marks and pages are printing larger than my document sizes. My paper size is 13x19, so I should have crop marks at the exact corners of the page sizes. But indesign is printing the entire document larger. So my document which is 11x14.75 is now printing 11.25x15.5. All my settings are correct. So, is anyone else using an Epson 3800 with CS4 indesign having issues such as the above? And can I ask (beg) a few of you to do a test print with crop marks and let me know the results?
My workflow has been completely stalled because I can't get my pages to print the right sizes with the crop marks at the right measurements. I'm printing a photo portfolio on the Lumijet double sided paper and "when" it did work awhile back sometime several months ago, the finals looked great. I've already reinstalled both the Epson 3800 driver and the Indesign CS4 software, but the results are still the same.
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Setup: Paper size: Super A3/B13x19, scale 100% width & height, page position Centered
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If anyone could run through a similar process using indesign with a photo layout and setting up the printer settings for both the Epson 3800 and in the indesign program and let me know their results, I would value your conclusions very much. You don't even have to waste paper or ink. Finally, after wasting so many pages of paper and of ink. I deleted the photos from the page, and printed it blank with only the crop marks for me to measure if it was coming out right or not.
Thank you for any response. And feel free to call me if you want to vent about Epson 3800's or about Indesign CS4 anytime! I'm up late.... 646 256 8853.
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I specified the paper size as strictly 13x19, no boarderless, no retain size. Same problem. I also did as you suggested below. The pdf document does remain true to the document. As a pdf doc. I changed the color mgmt to Adobe rgb 1998. It looks okay, but not as lively as I get when printing correctly with my color mgmt working and in sync.
Your final question about simply using photoshop. Well... I might go back to it and give up on Indesign if this is the case that it won't simply crop my documents to the sizes that I input them to be cropped as. But, I am using Indesign so that I can create a page layout that I can't do in Photoshop. My folio is about 25 or more pages with double page spreads. I am printing on a two-sided Lumijet paper and my folio was custom designed to be cut out at 11x14.75. If and when it is printed correctly, I am printing on both sides of the paper and trimming it to exact size.
It sounds as if you have exhausted the potential problems and don't have a clear explanation for why the doc isn't printing correctly in Indesign either with the color mgmt. or the document sizes. I'll try one more print using a different color profile similar enough to get at minimum, an okay print. If it doesn't print at least okay, then it isn't most likely my profile..... Okay done. Crazy. The color is inaccurate, but for some reason or another, the document size printed correctly. It measured exactly 11x14.75. What I have done during this period of time is:
First) I did as you suggested and turned the Print to Adobe PDF 9 and created a print there. I measured it and it did measure correctly. I didn't love the color, but... at least it is measuring correctly.
Second) I turned the Printer back to Epson 3800 (I'm beginning to think that this simple gesture was what caused the printer to print correctly) I didn't change any settings, but I did make sure that they were set correctly as before. The paper size was set to 13x19. When I make sure this setting is right in the "printer" dialogue for the Epson 3800, and then switch back to ID, the printer dialogue in Id changes to "Define by Printer." But I changed nothing, other than the profile to an older one that I used before. The color is still inaccurate, but at least for two prints just now back to back, the measurements were correct. What to do? Lol.
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InDesign CS4 - Index no longer lists entries

First off, it's been a while since I've posted here! I feel all giddy =)
Second, thanks for taking time to look at this one....
I'm on XP using InDesign CS4. We've created and updated many book files over the years starting with CS1 and have not run into this situation before. I'm hoping someone out there can help shed some light as to why, if not a fix. This particular project is a chapter based book file that was originally made several years earlier using InDesign CS1. There are 11 chapters, plus Table of Contents, Index, and technical matter up front. Since the original production, information has changed so we have set out to make an update.
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- Figure edits/addition (all externally linked to .AI files)
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OK!
Old Chapter 5 is now new Chapter 1 and required reinsertion into the book document. This was the same for most of the other chapters as well. Upon all updates, the page numbering, sequences, etc., all checked out. I updated the ToC withgout issue. I then attempted to update the Index. This is when I noticed that the "Update Index" option was greyed out (Windows/Type & Tables/Index Shift+F8). Odd, but Ok, so I tried to generate a new index. No luck there either as it only created a empty text field with the title "Index" but with no entries. I then checked the Index Preview list and noticed that all but perhaps 5% of my entries were missing.
So this is where I am. Yes, content was edited, but not to the extent that would have deleted so many indexed entries throughout the book. Has anyone had experience with index errors during conversion from CS1 to a newer version? Or perhaps by renaming and reinserting chapter files into the master book document? I always assumed that the Index entries were held within the chapter file they were created in, until running the book-based Index generation. Perhaps I'm wrong. Could renaming/reimporting chapters have wiped my entries?
I do have the old Index.ind file with all old entries as well as several prints for reference should I need to comb the ENTIRE book replacing each Index entry. I hope that is not my only option! I hope hoping that one of you might offer some sound advice that I'm overlooking here before I head down that road. Please help me, Obi-won. You're my only hope. Any takers?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions. It's much appreciated!
- Noel.

yn wrote:
First off, it's been a while since I've posted here! I feel all giddy =)
Second, thanks for taking time to look at this one....
I'm on XP using InDesign CS4. We've created and updated many book files over the years starting with CS1 and have not run into this situation before. I'm hoping someone out there can help shed some light as to why, if not a fix. This particular project is a chapter based book file that was originally made several years earlier using InDesign CS1. There are 11 chapters, plus Table of Contents, Index, and technical matter up front. Since the original production, information has changed so we have set out to make an update.
Updates included:
- Figure edits/addition (all externally linked to .AI files)
- Layout changes (i.e., page shifts due to additional graphics, some text content added, some removed, but nothing heavy)
- Conversion from CS1 to CS4
- Chapter Title updates (we are not using any scripts that name internal content based on file name)
- Chapter sequence has changed so that old Chapter 5 is now new Chapter 1 and all following chapters shifted up by one. This literally changed all file names of the individual InD chapter files used to comprise the book document.
OK!
Old Chapter 5 is now new Chapter 1 and required reinsertion into the book document. This was the same for most of the other chapters as well. Upon all updates, the page numbering, sequences, etc., all checked out. I updated the ToC withgout issue. I then attempted to update the Index. This is when I noticed that the "Update Index" option was greyed out (Windows/Type & Tables/Index Shift+F8). Odd, but Ok, so I tried to generate a new index. No luck there either as it only created a empty text field with the title "Index" but with no entries. I then checked the Index Preview list and noticed that all but perhaps 5% of my entries were missing.
So this is where I am. Yes, content was edited, but not to the extent that would have deleted so many indexed entries throughout the book. Has anyone had experience with index errors during conversion from CS1 to a newer version? Or perhaps by renaming and reinserting chapter files into the master book document? I always assumed that the Index entries were held within the chapter file they were created in, until running the book-based Index generation. Perhaps I'm wrong. Could renaming/reimporting chapters have wiped my entries?
I do have the old Index.ind file with all old entries as well as several prints for reference should I need to comb the ENTIRE book replacing each Index entry. I hope that is not my only option! I hope hoping that one of you might offer some sound advice that I'm overlooking here before I head down that road. Please help me, Obi-won. You're my only hope. Any takers?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions. It's much appreciated!
- Noel.
Please forgive my weird sense of humor, but, it looks like you've found a perfect way to delete 95% of your index markers in a book.
Seriously, I'm not certain how this could happen, but I do have a couple of ideas on how to troubleshoot that I learned from some years as a trainer and tech-support guy.
* Go back to the beginning of your process. Open a copy of an old file in CS1, if you still have it, and if it runs on a workstation that's compatible with it. Generate an index; the original index markers should work. If you don't have CS1, open a copy in whatever release you used to convert your old files, and generate an index. Compare the two indexes, if you have been able to make one for the file with CS1. If no CS1, compare the index entries in the newer version's index with the complete CS1 index. If any original-index entries from the test file aren't present in the newer-version index, here's where things went bad. If nothing's lost, this likely isn't the trouble spot.
What could go bad here? The obvious suspect is the conversion from CS1 to CS4. I can't remember how CS1 worked. If it had an export-to-inx, and you opened that inx file in CS4, and the CS4 file is missing index markers, try opening a copy of the CS1 file directly in CS4. Or, if you opened the CS1 file directly in CS4 and lost index markers, try exporting from CS1 to inx and opening that file. If both methods lose index markers, then this is the problem spot; perhaps someone has a suggestion to fix this problem.
* If the file conversion doesn't lose index markers, then the book feature is the next place to look. Create a new book in CS4 and add the files in the old order and generate an index. Compare it to the original. No loss, then push it harder, and rearrange the order of documents in the book, and regenerate the index. If this fails, generate a brand-new index. If both index generation approaches fail, then you've found the problem. Perhaps someone can suggest a fix.
* If all's OK so far, try more stuff, like rearranging chapter files, generating the index.
* If rearranging files works, test each succeeding step in the process until you find the failure.
* If you can't find a fix for the problem you uncover as the cause, one possible help in re-marking content for a new CS4 index would be to export the original book file set from CS1 to PDF with index entries set to create hyperlinks. Then work through that PDF index by clicking the page references to find their sources, and create new markers in the new files.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
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Copying and pasting Arabic text in InDesign CS4 ME

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We have turned on the arabic keyboard and that didnt help either.
Well, why should it. Unless you are typing Arabic, that won't do anything at all. Copy-and-paste is not typing.
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If you still get pink squares, it's more likely the text in the PDF is not encoded properly, and in that case no-one can't help you -- but it ought to work directly from Word.

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