InDesign CS5 bugs!

I was working in inDesign on my Mac this morning without a problem, then suddenly it started to give me several errors at once. When I tried to save my new file, it gave me error code: 0 and said "cannot save under a new name. The file (lots of numbers and letters) is damaged."
I tried resetting the preferences in the applications folder manually and it still doesn't work. I opened a new document to try to save a blank page (in case my file that was corrupted) and it gave me the same error message. I reset all the preferences by holding down CMD + option + contrl + shift immediately after launching indesign, and that didn't work either. I uninstalled CS5 completely, reinstalled everything, it worked for about 5 minutes and then started giving me the same problem.
The program is also not always exporting files properly, giving me an error message in background tasks when I try to save as either a PDF or downsave to IDML. I deleted the INDD file that I thought was causing all the problems but it is still happening.
I've spent all day trying to fix this and still have not found a solution that works. Any help you can provide is much appreciated! This is very frustrating.
Thank you in advance!

Hi Peter,
Turns out I figured out the problem, I was trying to save my INDD file into a folder that was "locked" by the previous owner, so no files could be added, modified, or removed from it. I guess when I tried to save my file in that locked folder the program went a little crazy, but as soon as I saved the file in a new folder that was not locked everything worked smoothly and all problems disappeared.
Have you seen this happen before? This is my best guess as to what could have gone wrong, it is the only thing that was different from my usual day-to-day routine. Everything else is automatically updated and I don't have any third party plug-ins or font managers.

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Anyone else experiencing these InDesign CS5 bugs?

1. First bug: hitting Return results in an invisible character being inserted in to a field in the current dialog box instead of hitting the default button like "OK" or "Save"
2. Unable to set the transform point of objects by clicking anywhere in the art board/page while using a transform (i.e. Scale, Rotate, Shear) tool. If you click with the option key, you can do it, but then get the annoying "Transform by number" dialog box to dismiss. I hate this new "feechur" (being a lack of the old feature).
3. Magic Mouse scrolling is insane. I constantly have to bring my document back onto the screen with Command-Option-0 or the like. My pages zip all over the place, scrolling up/down, zooming in/out according to the slightest gesture on my mouse top. And there is absolutely no way to control it. I tried using a special MagicPrefs setup for InDesign, which seems to have no effect in InDesign CS5.

thinkingmanhawaii wrote:
1. First bug: hitting Return results in an invisible character being inserted in to a field in the current dialog box instead of hitting the default button like "OK" or "Save"
2. Unable to set the transform point of objects by clicking anywhere in the art board/page while using a transform (i.e. Scale, Rotate, Shear) tool. If you click with the option key, you can do it, but then get the annoying "Transform by number" dialog box to dismiss. I hate this new "feechur" (being a lack of the old feature).
3. Magic Mouse scrolling is insane. I constantly have to bring my document back onto the screen with Command-Option-0 or the like. My pages zip all over the place, scrolling up/down, zooming in/out according to the slightest gesture on my mouse top. And there is absolutely no way to control it. I tried using a special MagicPrefs setup for InDesign, which seems to have no effect in InDesign CS5.
1. Nope - that doesn't happen for me. Never has. Try resetting your preferences (see the main forum page links at the top)
2. This isn't a bug - but for some reason this behaviour was changed. I know it's annoying, but you can submit a request to the Adobe Bug/Feature Request for it to return, I suggest you use the Feature Request button, because it's not a bug - https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
3. I wonder if you turn off Gestures in InDesign preferences would it give you better results? I've not got a Mac so I can't comment on the Magic Mouse? But I did read in other places about certain settings, but I don't remember what they were .

InDesign CS5.5 to CS6 bug involving Tables

Hello
I am having issues when editing files that were created in InDesign CS5.5 with CS6, most specifically with Tables.
When I open a file created in CS5.5 with CS6 some of the tables are corrupted. When I try to edit the content in the corrupt tables or even resize the text frame, the table and all content below become overset. Even adding a single character causes overset. (the text frame and table cells are large enough to accommodate the changes)
I can edit the file in CS5.5 without any issues.
Saving the file as .idml doesn't fix the problem. When I do this and open the .idml in CS6 the corrupted tables have already shifted and caused an overset before I make any edits.
I've also tried:
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- pasting the content into a new file
The only way that fixed the problem was merging the table rows, but with the content we have this is definitely not ideal. The file is a multi page application form and we have more than one hundred similar files.
Any guidance on this would be greatly appreciated.
-kvan

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Indesign CS5 fails to package all links into the links folder, is this a bug? Is there a fix?

Indesign packaging leaves out some links, even though files are linked correctly prior to packaging. I am currently working on Indesign CS5, Mac 0S X, Version 10.5.8.

I had a problem with links on the master pages not being packaged. I found this and did the 7.0.3 Adobe update but no success.
I tried a few more web searches and found this
http://indesignsecrets.com/packaging-graphics-on-the-pasteboard.php
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The gist is to enlarge the slug area to the max (152.4mm or whatever that is in your preferred units). It seems that package ignores anything that has part of it on the pasteboard.
This is a pain when you only want to collect the active items but I expect someone at Adobe will sort this out in due course.
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Unable to debug indesign cs5 plugin in windows

Hi, again. Originaly posted here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/766469?tstart=0
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BreakStrToDebugger
ASSERT_FUNC
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0, ntkrnlpa.exe!KiDeliverApc+0xb3
1, ntkrnlpa.exe!ZwYieldExecution+0x19ae
2, ntkrnlpa.exe!NtWaitForSingleObject+0x9a
3, ntkrnlpa.exe!KeReleaseInStackQueuedSpinLockFromDpcLevel+0xb14
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As we cant get any debug information out we don really know what the problem is, making it rather hard to debug. We have triple checked the build and linking options. Studied the plugin exports. Inserted an ridiculous amount of trace statements in the code, doesn't work in the debug version but anyway.
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What happens in the indesign startup process, what does the “Registering plug-ins” actually do? It's not executing any plugin functions and the the initialization of the plugins doesn't happen until later.

You are correct in that none pf the plug-in code is executed during the "Registering ### plug-ins" phase. What is done here is simply loading the plugins by reading from their resource definitions. For example, if you try to load a CS4 plug-in in InDesign CS5 or if you try to load a release plug-in in debug version you will get errors and popups here and your plugin will not load and be available (these are just example errors and may not be relevant to your case). As far as I know InDesign should not crash just because there is a problem with your plugin, but there could be bugs.
I would recommend:
1. Remove your plugins and verify that InDesign debug starts properly without any 3rd party extensions.
2. Compile one of the SDK sample plugins (debug target) and make sure that InDesign still starts properly.
3. Create a new project using DollyXs, compile it and make sure it loads in InDesign.
4. Remove the template files and add your own source files except the basic .fr file and make sure it still loads in InDesign.
5. Keep changing things one at a time in your .fr file and verify it still loads until it looks exactly like your original .fr file.
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Bug? Something I'm overlooking?
Entire source of Untitled-1.xhtml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<p class="basic-paragraph" xml:lang='en-us'><span class="no-style-override"><a href="#anchor-anchor">‚Äústory one‚Äù</a></span></p>
</div>
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</body>
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And the explanation that Teus Dejong gives indicates it's not going to be that helpful: "we have found that only the links in documents split by the CS5 exporter will be fixed. For books the script does only work for references to earlier documents in the book, not for forward references. This means in practice that for most books the script will not repair the links and should be seen as a means to add the year only. At the moment I see no way to repair this, because the book epub output of InDesign does not contain sufficient information to repair links referencing forward to others documents in a book."
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How do I get InDesign CS5 to stop changing my font to Minion Pro?

With no document open, the font says Times New Roman, so that should be the default. However, pasting text into a text box from another program like Open Office Writer and then adding a carriage return (normal Enter, not Shift+Enter) causes the font to suddenly change to Minion Pro, so anything I type or paste in at that point is in Minion Pro. I'm getting tired of constantly opting out of InDesign's favorite font. What do I have to do to get InDesign CS5 to accept that I use Times New Roman and not Minion Pro?

Let's see if we can explain this better...
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I have a question I've been asking myself for months, and finally made an account here for the Adobe Forums, which seems to be pretty much the only place with useful information about ePubs.
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Hi,
Maybe somebody knows what is going out
I have WORD 2010 document with LINKED MathType equations saved as EPS files.
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thx

Peter Spier wrote:
Hi Robert, we haven't seen you here for a while. Welcome back.
Thx
I know Jongware complains bitterly that Word import can be really flakey. Did you try daving as plain .doc, too? Seems like MathType equations are also the subject of a fair number of posts, too, but I'm not sure they are really a similar problem. I don't suppose there's any way for you to convert the eqations to .ai or PDF and still use them as links in Word, or to embed rather than link?
I'm working on big tool to automatic mass processing big number of Word files. One of the steps is to prepare Word files with MathType equations for further manual processing. I have a macro (for Word2010) to automatically export all equations to EPS files. The next step is to reImport EPS files back to Word - so they will be imported into InDesign as linked files and then they could be automatically correctly positioned withing the text.
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I'm experiencing a weird problem with a client project. I'm setting a book in New Caledonia LT Std version 1.040 using InDesign CS5.5 ME. In one line, InDesign is hyphenating the word "Littérature" between the "t"s. It looks fine on screen, but when I PDF it, a semicolon overstrikes the hyphen. The hyphen prints correctly out of InDesign. When I change the font to the Type 1 version of New Caledonia, it PDFs and prints correctly.
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Peter Spier wrote:
Hi Robert, we haven't seen you here for a while. Welcome back.
Thx
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The problem is - I've done reImport step in Word2000 - as 2nd macro - and it works perfectly fine for DOC files saved from Word2000.
Of course I can do this in InDesign - but I think it would be faster in Word.
I think missing import of the linked files for DOCX files is a BIG bug ...

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Is it a bug or maybe just me not understanding things correctly in the help section...?
Any input is appreciated so knock yourselves out. :-)

Hey again!
I figured it out. Just made a complete new document and tried again.
This time everything works as it's supposed to.
I assume the problem has something to do with the fact that I overtook the job I am currently working on from a colleague and thus there was some form for corruption or similar.
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