InDesign on Macbook Air?

I am using this combo. The key commands I have for character styles and paragraph styles are not working for me. My expectation is to use the function key along with other keys to simulate the "enter" key or number keys. For example, "Command-1" to use "function key/command/J" but nothing happens. Is it that the Macbook Air just doesn't have the capacity? Or is it I don't know how to do it?
Thanks,
Richard

>Add this to the long list of other important things they have ripped out of the Air machine to make it sexy and light.
FYI, that wasn't about the MacBook Air, it's about the latest generation of Apple keyboards introduced earlier this year. None of them have a Num Lock key or an alternate set of numbers on the main keyboard. Apple quietly removed them from
all of their keyboards, including the MacBook, the MacBook Pro, and even the keypad-less Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard.
Some years ago I picked up a cheap USB numeric keypad, and when I have some need to use numeric keypad-specific keys with my laptop, this seems to be the best way to go unless you don't actually have any space next to the machine.

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Free alternative to adobe indesign for macbook air

I have experience in using adobe indesign however I have just brought a MacBook air and my copy of indesign is on my windows machine!
is there a free alternative to indesign that anyone can recommend or someway of me getting it from a windows to a mac?
Thanks

No. I have seen nothing even close to InDesign in the free department. You could install Windows in bootcamp on your Mac and install it there.
Check the bootcamp forums
Boot Camp
Cheers
Pete

InDesign on MacBook Air or on 2 GB RAM on laptop?

Having broken my shoulder, I am no longer able to carry half the weight I once could.
So even my tiny MacBook Pro 13 is too much for me.
Anyone have experience running ID as well as PSD, Flash, AI, Acrobat, and some other CS5 programs on a MacBook Air or a laptop with only 2 GBs of RAM?
This wouldn't be for "real work" just 72 ppi demo and classes.
But I don't want to switch to Windows (thanks anyway).

The MacBook Air is designed to be used wirelessly, hence the name. It is by definition a second Mac and was never intended to be someone's only computer.
DVD and Ethernet ports on my laptop have been used fewer times than I have fingers. Very few laptops have enough batteries to play a whole DVD without draining 50% of their battery life.
If you do have an optical drive and actually and use your laptop as your primary computer the OptiBay is a better use of that slot. Turns your internal optical drive into an external and puts a hard drive where your useless, slow optical drive used to be.
http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/index.html
As for the 2gb RAM, that won't change until they refresh them. The 16 RAM chips are soldered in and likely the maximum density for the space. The 2 gigabit DRAM chips are thicker than what can be accommodated in the Air due to its thinness. I think the standard when they designed the Air was 50nm and they are down to 30nm, but its hard to tell whether Apple would use them as the 2nd gen Air was a major price decrease from the first offering.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Air-Teardown/598/3

InDesign problems on Macbook Air running Lion.

HI folks,
I have recently purchased a 2011 Macbook Air, running Lion. I have a copy of Indesign CS4 that I am trying to get running on this machine. I previously had it activated on my macbook pro and had no problems. I deactivated it from that computer and have activated it on the new machine. After creating a new document in InDesign I find that I get the beach ball and it won't do anything. Have any of you had a similar experience? Do any of you know the solution to this problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
James.

Well, you haven't given us lots of detail - but only because there aren't that many details anyways, right?
Did you install from the original media? (It never would have occurred to me to just drag apps off one machine and drop them on another, but people do this sometimes.)
Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall? (That's what I'd do first if a fresh install of a program was borked from the very beginning.)
Have you tried it as a new user? (If it works in a new user account, then the problem is with your user account, not with your install of ID.)
There are other things to try - search the forums for removing the SING datastore, or resetting preferences - but really the uninstall/reinstall should make it work right off the bat, and it also should take less time than actually diagnosing the problem & fixing it.

Looking at MacBook Air. Will I be able to run InDesign and other CC apps?

I've had a MacBook Pro in the past, but stopped using it several years ago when it developed a charging issue that even the geniuses couldn't figure out. Needing to have it plugged in 100% of the time kinda defeated the purpose, so the kids took it over and I've been only working on my desktop since then.
I'm looking to get a laptop again as a backup computer, and I need to know whether it is reasonable to consider a MacBook Air for my needs. I work with InDesign, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator on a daily basis. I like the price tag of the MacBook Air, longer battery life, and light weight. I was going to upgrade to 8MB RAM… but does anyone have experience running these apps on a MacBook Air? Will it be an exercise in futility?
Thanks in advance for any guidance!

I use all of those app on my 2012 model and everything is fine with an i5 with 8GB. Not screaming fast, mind you, but for everyday task it’s fine.
Note that this is not my primary machine.

How can I copy my CS4 InDesign from my iMac to my Macbook Air

I need to have a copy of CS4 InDesign which is on my iMac, on my new MacBook Air. Is it possible to do this and if so how?

Never try to migrate from one computer to another computer, this will not work.
I doubt that CS4 will run without problems, so you should consider to subscribe to the Creative Cloud.
If you will try to install it, make an image file with the disk utility of all installer CDs, copy it on an USB stick, mount these installers and install it from there. But you are on your own.

Will the indesign cc free trial work on macbook air 11inch?

will the indesign cc free trial work on macbook air 11inch?

In theory yes:
http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/tech-specs.html
Mylenium

InDesign CS5.5. crashing on startup on my MacBook Air...

...used Migration Assistant to transfer it from my iMac and it's not working.
Can I download it again from scratch? I am traveling these days for work and need it on the MacBook Air. I am told I have no chat support because the version is too old and directed to the forum. Speedy help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

As you’ve discovered migration assistant rarely works with Adobe software.
Run the cleaner tool and the install the apps properly. You can download the installers for CS5.5 here: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-5-product-downloads.html

2013 MacBook Air for CS6

I've been looking at the new 2013 13-inch MacBook Air for quite some time now. I'm a graphic designer, so I'll be looking to use Adobe CS6 (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat) and Aperture. Also of course, the general things such as Safari, Mail and iPhoto.
I have the new 27-inch iMac at home, which serves as my main machine. 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6 GHz, 32GB RAM (8GB at the moment - upgrading soon), 1TB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX with 1GB. I love it!
I absoloutely love the MacBook Air - it's a lovely design, so lightweight and the new 12 hour battery life is just epic!
If I were to get the MacBook Air, I would definite upgrade to these specs;
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- 8GB RAM
- 128GB Flash Storage (or possibly 256GB - bare in mind, I have a 1TB external hard drive).
So I guess the big question is... Will the new 2013 13-inch MacBook Air, with these specs, be sufficient for my needs?
Thanks in advance!

Ah, thats too bad. It's really annoying. Any workaround to make the line less visible? (i.e. external monitor)

2013 MacBook Air for graphic design?

I've been looking at the new 2013 13-inch MacBook Air for quite some time now. I'm a graphic designer, so I'll be looking to use Adobe CS6 (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat) and Aperture. Also of course, the general things such as Safari, Mail and iPhoto.
I have the new 27-inch iMac at home, which serves as my main machine. 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6 GHz, 32GB RAM (8GB at the moment - upgrading soon), 1TB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX with 1GB. I love it!
I absoloutely love the MacBook Air - it's a lovely design, so lightweight and the new 12 hour battery life is just epic!
If I were to get the MacBook Air, I would definite upgrade to these specs;
- 1.7GHz dual core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz (although I'm told the i7 will drain battery quicker, and isn't much faster?)
- 8GB RAM
- 128GB Flash Storage (or possibly 256GB - bare in mind, I have a 1TB external hard drive).
So I guess the big question is... Will the new 2013 13-inch MacBook Air, with these specs, be sufficient for my needs?
Thanks in advance!

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
The problem of the MacBook Air is the GPU, and Adobe apps don't support the GPU of your MacBook officially because it's an integrated GPU.
Sincerely, if you want to use that type of applications, the only valid Mac is the 15-inch MacBook Pro. It includes a quad-core processor, 4 GB of RAM (with the possibility to add up to 16 GB), a 500 GB HDD (with possibilities for bigger HDDs and SSDs) and a NVIDIA GPU which will work with your applications without any problem. Also, you can modify the RAM and hard drive without voiding the warranty.
If you want to give the MacBook Air a try, buy it and see if your applications work properly. You have 14 days to return it if it doesn't work as you expected, but to be sure, go for the 15-inch MacBook Pro. The MacBook Air is designed for home tasks

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No idea what happend. I was installing the CS6 suite on a brand new MBAir. All software was fine, eg, DW, InDesign and so on. Only Photoshop failed. One strange thing was that the MBAir has Java 7 but when launching DW it asked me to install "newer" Java version (?). I did the SMC/PRAM reset. Then uninstalling and installing PS solved the issue.

Yosemite made my macbook air slow. Please help.

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I installed Yosemite and now my computer is crawling, the fan goes on for long periods and gets overheated. My hard drive was full but I migrated many of my files to dropbox and made sure to only selective sync files that were necessary on a regular basis.
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Is 4GB of RAM enough for MacBook Air 11

I am contemplating whether to stick with the 4GB that ships with the new MacBook Air 11, but I am not sure if it is enough?
I am planning on using it for mainly coding apps (xcode, arduino ide, java, etc.), play video files, and general web and email. Possibly some Adobe apps like photoshop, indesign and dreamweaver.
I may be interested in either a bootcamp partition or parallels in order to to run windows, but if this is a problem I can avoid as I have Windows running on other machines.
Its just the RAM is going to cost me at least £60ish (student discount) which will highten the cost of things. However, if its going to cause problems further down the line I may have to dig deeper and get it ordered with 8GB.
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PATRICKMELE wrote:
Before spending money try this free app from the mac app store,
http://www.tweaknow.com/ Works http://www.tweaknow.com/freerambooster.php
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Add real Ram at the time of purchase, not fake stuff later.

MacBook Air 11" Mid 2011 (Fan & CPU Usage & Kernel_task)

Hello everyone.
I have a small problem with my Mac which is about its fan noise and CPU usage.
It was running FLAWLESSLY until like last couple of days after OS update where I started to notice really high CPU and Fan usage.
But first, system specification:
1.6 Ghz Intel Core i5 Processor
4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Memory
Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB Graphics Card
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
128GB SSD Storage
For some reason my MacBook Air started to have these "high intensity work" moments when a process called "Kernel_task" started to eat up to 600% of the CPU !
Now I can imagine it's just a software issue since it started to occur after I updated my OS via Software Application and my Flash Player and the rest of my software is up-to-date too but has any of you had this problem before ?
I do not play on my MacBook Air, there are only two things I do - I use Safari and some Adobe software (Photoshop/Flash/Dreamweaver/Illustrator/InDesign/Fireworks) and that's all.

The kernel is using excessive processor cycles. Below is a partial list of causes for this condition.
Throttling
When it gets high temperature readings from the hardware, the kernel may try to compensate by interrupting the processor(s) to slow them down and reduce heat dissipation. This condition can be due to an accumulation of dust, to high ambient temperature, or to the malfunction of a cooling fan or temperature sensor. Note that if the problem is caused by a faulty sensor that reads too high, there may be no actual overheating.
The Apple Hardware Test, though not very reliable, is sometimes able to detect a bad fan or temperature sensor.
Using Apple Hardware Test
Encryption
Transferring large amounts of data to or from an encrypted disk image or FileVault volume may put an extra load on the kernel. If both the source and the destination are encrypted, the load may be doubled. If you transfer data from an encrypted disk image on an encrypted partition to another such image on another encrypted partition, the load may be quadrupled.
This issue probably doesn't affect late-model Macs with an Intel i-series, recent Xeon, or later processor. Those processors support hardware-accelerated encryption. You can determine what kind of processor you have by selecting About This Mac from the Apple menu in the menu bar.
Installed software
User-installed software that includes a device driver or other kernel code may thrash the kernel. Some system-monitoring applications, such as "iStat," can also contribute to the problem. You can test for this possibility by completely disabling or removing the software according to the developer's instructions, or booting in safe mode (with the shift key held down at the startup chime.) Note, however, that disabling a system modification without removing it or booting in safe mode may not be as easy as you think it is.
Corrupt NVRAM or SMC data
In some cases the condition has reportedly been cleared up by resetting the NVRAM or the SMC. I can't confirm.

Adobe Software vs MacBook Air

Hello.
Soon, I'll be buying a late 2013 MacBook Air.
I was using a late 2010 Unibody MacBook, which, sadly, got stolen. In it, I had numerous softwares, but, for professional reasons I used a lot of Adobe's Softwares: mainly Adobe CS6 softwares!.
Question: are these particularly quick when used on a MacBook Air? Or is the low end laptop now adequate? Is 4 GB's RAM & a SSD fast enough to work with Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign?
Thank you for any information you may provide me with.

Heres an example youll like, on the SLOWEST 2013 Air, CS6 Adobe Photoshop will boot in 4+ seconds.
thats very very fast for such a huge APP.
Yes, all Adobe stuff will run fast as lightning on your Air, however the Air is NOT the best idealized machine to be sure for VIDEO editing.

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