InDesign on a Mac and a PC

Are INDD files interchangeable between a Mac and a PC?

Yes. You may encounter some trouble with fonts, though if you use Mac-format TT or T1 fonts or .dfonts, none of which will work on Windows. Stick with OpenType fonts and it will be seamless.

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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

Indesign CC for Mac and PC are not the same?

I have creative cloud on a Mac and a PC. I cannot open the Mac Indesign files on the PC and it's frustrating. The whole point of getting Adobe CC was to be able to work on both platforms. The Mac version of Indesign is showing as 9.2.1 and the PC version is showing as 8.0.2. If you're never going to get the PC version the same, how can I revert the Mac back down to 8.0.2 so the files will be interchangeable?

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InDesign CC on mac and DevNagari Keyboard

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just trying to use InDesign CC on mac with Devnagari keyboard (Hindi and SANSKRIT language).. and while I type it jjust shows.. XXXX boxes and not the text I type.
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Is adobe world-ready paragraph composer is turn on in the paragraph panel?

Issues when sharing InDesign files across Mac and PC?

I'm looking for advise regarding cross platform use of the same InDesign files. We'll be working on 1000+ files with high resolution images. One designer works on a Mac and the other on a PC. We run the same version of InDesign. So far we are finding some (not all) fonts have issues where a PC font has to be replaced by the Mac equivalent and this often means the text box size has to change. When finished the files will be handed over to a fabricator.
Should we be getting a 2nd Mac to replace the PC or is this cross platform sharing going to work without long term issues down the road?
Thank you.

Please, let's not let this get into a platform war.
There's no reason to buy another computer to collaborate unless one of your users is unhappy with the platform they use now, and then the deciding factor should be personal choice. One is decidedly not better than the other from any technical standpoint as far as working in Adobe applications. If you want to cooperate with other users it's best that everyone have the same version of ID, which you've already said is the case, so the only point of conflict is cross-platform sharing, and the only hangups there are fonts and a few third party plugins that might be available only on one platform. If you stick to OpenType fonts, fonts be come a non-issue, and if you don't have OpenType, Stick withthe PD fonts for what becomes a minor nuisance on the Mac side. As far as plugins, nothing you can do if you need a one-platform release to do the work on both sides, but most third-pary plugins are friendly enough that you can stillopen the file with missing plugins on the other end if necessary and don't need the functionality to do your work.

InDesign CS6 on Mac and Websense

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We have Websense Endpoint deployed but Macs using InDesign, loading the Websense Endpoint client causes InDesign to crash on opening.
We have raised this with Websense but have not got a satisfactory solution (in over a month) but I wondered if other people had found problems with InDesign working with either Websense Endpoint or equivalent webfilter agents?

I am on Windows, but have 2 links that may help
Mac 10.9.3 and CS6 https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1480238
next link says After Effects, but check YOUR permissions !!!
-http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2014/06/permissions-mac-os-start-adobe-applications.ht ml

A book file in InDesign CS3 (.indb) - Mac and PC - crashing issue

Several months ago, I posted that when I indexed a 300-page book with lots of chapter, generating the index crashed InDesign. This happened initially on a PC running Windows XP home. When I took the book to a Macintosh, it happened also.
One thing I had done, and I don't know if this makes a difference, is changed words that already had index tags attached to them.
It has been several months since I've tried this - I've been waiting until this book was completely written before trying again.
Since this happened, I've also tried to synchronize styles and that also crashed InDesign. Before the index 'broke', both generating the index and synchronizing styles worked like perfectly - amazing functions of InDesign and makes working with a book much easier.
Now the book is ready. I stripped all of the index codes from the entire book using search and replace, and then the first time I tried to open the Index window, it crashed again.
When it recovered, there was a message that 5 of my 24 documents in this book may be damaged.
So I tried opening the indb file, opening the Indexing window, THEN opening the book files and it crashed. I was able to get the error message this time: An exception unkown software exception (0xc000000d) ocurred in the application at location 0x78138aa0. Click OK to terminate the program.
When InDesign came back up, I closed the Index window and was able to open all of the book's files with no problem.
My questions are:
1 - Is there any way to find out where/how those files are damaged?
2 - Does anyone know what may cause an Index generation or style synchronization to crash InDesign - and then not fix the problem?
3 - Could this be something other than the index, and how do I figure out what it might be?
This book is now 374 pages in 24 documents, and I don't think there is a way to go backwards in the InDesign process at this point.
I'm not sure how clear I'm being with all of this, but the book is to go to the printer Monday and I can't index it.
I'd appreciate any help I can get.
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Marcy

Just to add to Eugene's recommendation. Q2ID is worth every last dime of the $200 it cost.
I just upgraded to the latest version when I received 25 Quark files to convert for an iPad app. Even for early Quark files that InDesign can open, it does a better job.
BTW, it's also worth noting here that Adobe cannot legally have InDesign open anything later than Quark 4.x files due to the encryption used in Quark 5 and later files. Quark is too dependent on Markzware for XTensions to go after them.
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Booklet issues with InDesign CS3 on Mac, and Xerox WorkCentre 7655 booklet maker

I'm having several booklet making issues I'm hoping someone can help me with.
I am on a MacPro, OS X Leopard, InDesign CS3. We have a Xerox WorkCentre 7655 that has booklet making capability. The network server is a PC with Microsoft 2003 server on it.
The booklet I am making uses two 11x17 trays - one for cover stock for the cover and one for regular 24 lb paper for the insides. The layout is single pages rather than spreads - spreads did not work at all.
From InDesign using the printer, the cover pages come out backwards and mirror image. The inside pages are upside down and on only half the page. I did not not InDesign file/booklet because that seemed to create even more problems with the Xerox booklet settings, and I don't know how to try InDesign booklet and not the Xerox settings.
I tried making a pdf and printing booklets from that. On the Macintosh, I can't figure out how to tell it the pages are 11x17 so it keeps giving me an error that the printer is waiting for 8 1/2 x 11.
I actually did get the booklets to print properly using the pdf file and a PC, but any gray graphics came out lilac. The text was black, and the covers were the correct colors - only the inside graphics were the wrong color.
I hope this makes some sense - I really need help. I've tried everything I can think of. I spent a lot of time with Xerox 1st and 2nd level support, and they have washed their hands of this. So I'm posting here hoping someone has some ideas.
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I have a similar machine configuration and have had many issues printing to an HP 9500mfp. Pages rotate, mirror, 2-sided both print on same side. I've lost the "bookletmake" function. Jobs will not recognize paper trays (meaning I have to manually tell it which paper tray holds the tabloid stock). I've tried using the "Page Setup" dialog box to no avail. On occasion, I can get some of the features to work with a pdf printing from Acrobat. Sometimes, that doesn't work either - never with any kind of predictability. Printing to the HP 4700 is more reliable. I've downloaded the updated "Leopard" compatible driver from HP, but it fixed no issues. When I tried contacting tech support for HP, the replied that this is an OS issues and not with equipment, leaving me SOL.

Just installed InDesign on my Mac and there are no minimise or exit buttons and...

Just installed InDesign and there are no minimise or exit buttons and the viewing window seems to be bugged and see through. Any one have any idea? See Image. Very odd, tried doing a cmd+alt+shift open and still no joy.
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InDesign Mac and Windows troubles

Hi,
We got 2 different shares on our Windows Server. One share for InDesign documents and one share for pictures. The pictures are used in the InDesign documents.
We use InDesign CS6 for Mac and for Windows. If we create the InDesign documents on a Mac and open it on a Windows InDesign the picture links are broken. Same thing happens when we create the InDesign documents on Windows and open it on a Mac. Between 2 Macs or 2 Windows computers there isn't any problems.
If both the InDesign document and the picture we link to is on the same server share there's no problems too.
Shouldn't it be possible to edit the same InDesign documents on both Mac and Windows without breaking the links when they are stored on different shares?
Thanks!
Best regards
Brian

Sounds like either a problem with the path separators (Mac style vs. PC style), or possibly the network protocol used to link to the server on the Mac side.

Why every time I try to open InDesign CC on Mac OS Maverick I get a "heap corruption detected free list canary is damaged" message and the application crashes?

Why every time I try to open InDesign CC on Mac OS Maverick I get a "heap corruption detected free list canary is damaged" message and the application crashes?
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I am on Windows, but have a few saved Mac discussions that may help (or, may not... but free to read)
Mac and Root User http://forums.adobe.com/thread/879931
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/940869?tstart=0
Troubleshooting guide for Mac freeze
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/troubleshoot-system-errors-freezes-mac.html

Copies of Indesign books works different on MAC and PC ?

Hello everyone,
i try to follow many discussion about how to create a clean copy of an Indesign book indb (with different chapters which are individual indesign files) with no link to the old one.
I found many tricks like changing the name of the original folder or packaging the book for print, but i'm not really satisfy by this way.
The first way forced me to change the name of the original file each time i want to make a clean copy and the second way will not keep the structure of my folder and subfolders which are not included in the package.
It seems the real concern is more about how Indesign is able to manage absolute and relative path, and i also found some people asking Indesign only works with absolute path.
But, after many trials on Mac and PC, i was so surprised to check that on my MAC, thinks are working very well, when i make a copy of the original book folder exactly in the same location, the copy is not linked to the original file (that's what i want) !!!
But on PC it doesn't, the copy of the book is still linked to the original files.
Can someone tell me the difference between MAC and PC ?
Is it an option in Indesign to change that ? or is it related to th OS file system ?
Thanks a lot.
Daté

Hi Peter,
I opened the two books in indesign to compare the paths of the files in the books.
I just simply move the mouse over the indesign file in the book panel to check the path that appears in the yellow tooltip.
For example :
for the original BOOK_TECH.indb, the path of the file Trims.indd in the DOC_TECH folder is : /Users/UserName/Documents/DOC_TECH/MAIN_FILES/Trims.indd
for the copy BOOK_TECH.indb, the path of the file Trims.indd in the DOC_TECH2 folder is : /Users/UserName/Documents/DOC_TECH2/MAIN_FILES/Trims.indd
Another way to be sure of what i'm saying here is to open the file trims.indd in the original book and the same file in the copy. You will get 2 different files opened in Indesign with the same name of course.
I also try with a Mac book pro running MAC OS X 10.6.5, but it doesn't work (you will get the link to the original one). It seems to work or not, depending the OS
i'm curious to know why it is working on MacOS x 10.9 and not 10.6 and windows. Maybe there is a way to fix it with the OS settings ?
If you have the right answer, just let me know, because it could help a lot of people.
Thanks a lot.
Daté

I've recently downloaded CS4 ( Illus. Photoshop, and Indesign) on my Mac Book pro. Only these apps appear as low resolution. All other imagery, text etc... appear fine on my system. How can I correct the pixelization of the Adobe products?

I've recently downloaded CS4 ( Illus. Photoshop, and Indesign) on my Mac Book pro. Only these apps appear as low resolution. All other imagery, text etc... appear fine on my system. How can I correct the pixelization of the Adobe products?

No. If you want full compatibility with that display for all Adobe apps you’ll need to move to Creative Cloud.

InDesign CC file freezes at 66% when exporting to IDML (Mac and PC)

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I'm using InDesign CC (9.1) and attempting to export an indd document to idml. However, it freezes at 66% and never completes.
FWIW, I've deleted chunks of text to see at what point it does successfully export and have found a point at which it does work — after deleting a lot of text until you hit the middle of a word.
I read about there being a possible memory space issue but I see the exact same behavior in both the Mac and PC versions of InDesign CC.
Does anyone know what I can do to resolve this issue?
~ Salman

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