InDesign 'LITE'

Sure like to see an Indesign 'lite' version - a basic version for users that don't use all the fancy features - just basic composition, small printers etc. We just can't afford to update full version every time, and don't need all the bells & whistles. Sort of like Photoshop Elements! I'm still using CS3 and love it, but would like to stay up-to-date too.

ID is, indeed, very complicated. It's a professional layout tool with a lot of capabilities. I suspect it's more complicated under the hood than Photoshop.
I think the main problem with trying to make a "lite" version would be deciding what to leave out. My suspicion is that there wouldn't be a big market, for example, for a program that doesn't export to ePub, which is something I don't currently do, but is definitely the wave of the future. Print won't disappear entirely for many years, but a print-only workflow is well on its way to extinction.

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I have a client who wants to be able to create their own in-house documents, mostly postcards, flyers, etc. I can design and build them in InDesign, but is there an easy, inexpensive solution for them to be able to use that as a template, instead of purchasing a full version of Adobe InDesign? Currently they're using Publisher, and since I'm on a Mac, I can't create templates for them to use. InCopy sounds interesting, but the documentation on the Adobe site is so marketing driven that it's tough to tell what InCopy can actually do.

mathyoo wrote:
You would think that Adobe would develop a product like "InDesign Lite" that would let clients do some basic editing without the full features of InDesign, like having editable regions similar to Dreamweaver.
They do but unfortunately it costs the same as InDesign and has the same name too!
Seriously though you can design something up nice and then port it over to Word or Publisher so they can edit have a look at this here and think laterally. Yes they will pay more for you to do that than if they had and could use InDesign, No it is not OK for them to whine about that.

Comment lire un fichier Indesign CC sur du CS3 ?

Existe-t'il un plugin ou une technique d'enregistrement pour pouvoir lire un document enregistré sur une version Indesign CC sur du Indesign CS3 ?
Ma collectivité territoriale vient juste d'investir dans l'abonnement Créative Cloud pour mon ordinateur (1 utilisateur).
C'est génial mais le souci c'est que ma collègue de travail est, quant à elle, toujours sur l'ancienne version Indesign CS3.
J'ai essayé d'enregistrer le fichier en .idml cependant Indesign CS3 ne le lit pas. Je crois que ça fonctionne qu'à partir de la CS4, version que nous n'avons pas.
Pourriez-vous me proposez une solution ?
Merci d'avance pour votre aide.
Cordialement.
Vanessa MARTIN

Le passage par CS4 est incontournable. Une fois le fichier enregistré en idml à partir de CC, il faut ouvrir ce fichier idml avec CS4 et l'exporter de nouveau en inx (l'ancêtre du idml). Ce fichier inx sera ensuite exploitable en CS3. Attention, il ya de fortes chances pour que le texte chasse considérablement.
Et si je peux me permettre, c'est plutôt une mauvaise idée de travailler dans un flux collaboratif avec des versions différentes d'InDesign.
À part ça, je peux exporter ce fichier en inx

Lost Indesign CS2 fonts

Recently I had to have my hard drive cleaned due to a virus. When I re-installed Indesign CS2, many of the fonts that I formerly had are now gone. How can I get the lost fonts back? I am sure that the solution is simple, but since I am a beginner, be precise with any suggestions. I have Windows XP.

There is no known issue of incompatibility of Type 1 fonts with CS2 on Windows XP.
You say you "upgraded" your workstation to XP Pro. From what version of Windows did you "upgrade" from? Was that an in-place upgrade or did you totally reformat your system partition and do a "clean install" of Windows XP Pro? Only the latter is recommended, i.e., the "clean install!"
In general, Adobe strongly discourages "in-place" Windows upgrades, especially from Windows'9x to Windows 2000 or XP. The fact you refer to ATM 4.0 leads me to believe you attempted to do an in-place upgrade. Note that ATM 4.0 is
not compatible with Windows XP. That may be a major part of the problem. Furthermore, except for support of Multiple Master fonts, you don't need ATM on Windows XP. Finally, Adobe no longer markets or supports ATM Deluxe, although ATM Lite 4.1.1 is available for support of Multiple Master fonts.
Assuming you did an "in-place" Windows upgrade, our best advice would be to reinstall Windows XP from scratch along with font, applications, etc. on a newly formatted disk partition. That would eliminate many problems that you are likely to experience with an "upgraded" operating system beyond simply loss of support of full and proper operating system support for Type 1 fonts.
- Dov

Perl client for InDesign Server

Please help to setup a perl client for InDesign server to run javascripts: Below is the code I tried to run "MakeDocument.jsx"
use SOAP::Lite;
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my $soap = SOAP::Lite->new(proxy=>'http://172.16.32.43:18444/service?wsdl');
my %script_parameters = ( "scriptFile"=>"MakeDocument.jsx", "scriptLanguage"=>'javascript');
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print $result;

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Auto-generated links exported from InDesign do not work in tablet apps

Hyperlinks automatically detected and exported from InDesign CS6 8.0.1 as a PDF work fine on the desktop version of Acrobat Reader. However, on the iPad version of Adobe Reader as well as iBooks and GoodReader, these links are completely ignored, meaning they are just text.
On the other hand, if I was to manually set the hyperlink in InDesign or Acrobat, the link works fine.
It would be extremely tedious and time consuming to manually reset hundreds of hyperlinks in my documents since InDesign use to handle this correctly.
Is this a bug? If so, it's pretty serious and should be Adobe's priority to fix since millions of people read documents on tablet devices.

No, it's a Feature of Acrobat and reader that they attempt to create links from anything that "looks like" a URL. Other readers lack the feature.
It's not good practice to depend on this in any case as it's hardly foolproof even in Acrobat. Links that break across lines, for example, will not be properly recognized.

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
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Re: i can't start up indesign cc each time it says it has to close the program on start-up. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and have rebooted my machine seeveral times and it still doesn't work.

How do you create another user account?
I am having a similar problem - have deleted preferences which did not solve - this is since I installed the latest update - it is very slow - and cannot close - says background task running - but when I open background task window - shows nothing - only way to close is to use Windows task manager and end program
mouse movements are delayed - it takes forever to do anything
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Ram - 8 Gb
AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series

My problem is really weird - ID CC 2014 with the latest update can become very slow - at first it was only when I had other applications going [especially Photoshop] - but for the last week it has been every time I try to use it - even with no other app running.
Mouse movements are delayed, any selection takes forever to take effect. When closing - I sometimes get message saying background task is running [but not every time]
new user account didn't help, deleting preferences neither .
I had several ID files open -closed those - crashed ID - rebooted - opened totally different files - same problem.
However - I have just deleted the file Recovery Data in the users/user name/appdata/local/adobe/indesign/version 10.0/en_US/Caches/InDesign REcovery- and that seems to have temporarily fixed the issue as ID is behaving normally now. [I guess that 's the same as creating another user account]
Ann

InDesign crashes every time you double click to open an .indd file on Windows system

InDesign crashes every single time you double click to open an InDesign file and has done so since replacement of the original version of InDesign introduced in the Creative Cloud launch. Does anyone else have this problem? I'd say it was unique to my system if I hadn't experienced the issue repeatedly on several different systems now. You have to relaunch InDesign which then opens the file from recovery, so it saw the file you tried to launch in the first place. This leads me to believe the problem lies with the file association registry of InDesign inside Windows systems. I find it unbelievable that this problem still exists and remains unreported and that a solution hasn't been implemented by Adobe to rectify the issue.
The double click is a fundamental tenant of opening files on a Windows system in the same way a single click is on a Mac. Does InDesign crash ever time a Mac user clicks to open their files, I think not.
Anyone got any ideas other than the obvious which is Adobe actually got their figure out and fixed it.
Cheers,
Pat Doyle

Hi Michael,
I'll give it a go. Don't really like messing with the registry on Windows boxes. Yes you can do it, but it can end up being a case of the operation was a success, but the patient died.
Just was rather hoping someone else had already experienced this problem and posted the registry tweak. Didn't want spend hours reinventing the wheel. Not because I'm lazy, but I have so many demands on my time that resolving a minor issue that effects me only seems like it should be pretty low priority.
The system I'm using is brand new, but the problem seems to have followed me regardless which may indicate that it is seated in my synchronization information somehow. Really don't know how that could happen as I'm not an Adobe engineer or have the remotest idea where to even start looking. So I think I'll mark your suggestion as the "Answer" and just learn to live with it.
Windows eh! Can't live with - can't live without it. I'm sure Mac can be just as temperamental. Just have to chalk this one up as being just another ghost in the machine.
Thanks for all the advice you have kindly offered, much appreciated.
Cheers,
Pat Doyle

I am trying to uninstall and reinstall InDesign and a box shows up saying there is a file open, and I can't find it to close it. Before that, InDesign wouldn't open at all.

I was trying to open InDesign and it wouldn't open at all. So I tried to uninstall it, intending to reinstall it to see if that would fix the problem. A box popped up saying a file was open, but I couldn't find the file to close it. What else can I try?

I just uninstalled it and am waiting for it to reinstall. I sincerely hope that I have not lost everything that I worked on so hard. Now that mobile me is gone, I have not been able to go between devices to transfer things. I was merely trying to take a document I had worked on and open it in pages, but it said my version was too old. When I updated, it wouldn't load. Now I cannot do anything. I hope that the reinstall fixes it without losing everything. Please advise!!! Yes, I am in panic mode.

How can two people edit the same InDesign CC document?

I am looking for a desktop publishing application that I can use to create programs for a high school choir and am experimenting with InDesign CC. I'll do most of the work creating the progam, but the choir teacher at the last moment will have changes for me or will do them herself. Either way she will be producing the final copy for printing.
In an ideal world we would be able to edit the same file at the same time, me from my office and her from her classroom, not on a shared network, much like Google Docs.
Does InDesign CC have this capability? What steps would I use to approach this problem using InDesign CC?

You can look into InCopy for text changes and put the InDesign file in a
dropbox folder.

How do I import multiple Ai files into one Indesign File - whilst still keeping the Ai Files editable and up dateable for the one Indesign File?

Hi All,
Im relatively new to Ai and Indesign, and have been doing Uni work over Christmas, and have a rather urgent question thats stressing me out.
I originally had many art boards in my ai file, but due to the number, I split these into single files to help my computer run better.
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Im using CC Ai and indesign.
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Sam

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I know I could save each AI as a pdf them then merge the pdf's together in acrobat, but I have nearly 100 files so would feel more comfortable seeing them all together before print / saving.
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Can I replace Pantone color books in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop?

These new Pantone + books are a pain in ...well... you understand. In my years as a designer, I have just clicked on the correct book and color swatch, but now...
I am using Windows 7 and the CS6 suite of products. We have a company logo in which both main colors have dramatically changed with the new books. I won't go into all of the tricks we've tried to be able to place it in new documents without the color changing. I now think the only answer is to replace the color books as Adobe recommends. I do have two questions, though.
First, can I change the books in all of my products? Adobe only gives instructions for Illustrator and InDesign, but I regularly have to change vendor logos into our company colors in photoshop, and I am finding the color in Photoshop isn't the same when I bring that logo into Illustrator, even though they have the same number.
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HI this is good. But i have already seen this.
Its very informative but somehow i felt it lacks the punch and fun factor in a video. I need something which captivates and entrances the audience, not a speech kind of a thing.
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Looking for a 2014 InDesign calendar (full year) WITH holidays. Can't find one with holidays.

Looking for a "year at a glance" InDesign calendar WITH holidays. I can't seem to find any with the holidays. Thanks

Screw it?
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How to load a CSF file in indesign cs3 via scripting?

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How can I load a csf file into indesign from a path?. Once loaded, it is not remaining in dropdown list. Could anyone suggest on this?
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Once loaded, it is not remaining in dropdown list. Could anyone suggest on this?
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