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My newspaper just went to InDesign as our pagination software, switching over from Quark, and we love it. However, there is one nagging issue with it that we cannot seem to figure out, so I thought I'd toss it out here.
There are times, of course, when you want to minimize your page into the dock to tend to business in other application windows on your desktop. However, when you minimize an InDesign page/document, after a certain period of time, the window will spontaneously maximize back up onto the desktop.
Basically, we'd like to know how to keep an InDesign page/document minimized until we want it to be maximized. We don't want it to bounce back up of its own volition, we want it to maximize when we decide it should be maximized.
We are running Mac OS X 10.6.4.
Thanks in advance for any help.

This happens to us, too. Drives me nuts.
In my case, it doesn't happen spontaneously or randomly, but when I have one or more pages minimized in the dock and open a NEW page to work on, the last page I was working on opens first. I don't want that one! If I did, I'd open it. I want to work on the NEW one.
Why does InDesign do this?
Does anyone have an answer?
Roshana

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