Reducing in CS3

Mac/OS X/InDesign CS3
Trying to reduce a 27 page document to 47%.
Using a program called "Gluon".
Reducing 6 pages at a time.
Some items are not reducing, tabs are not reducing, embedded images are not reducing.
Is there a script for this or am I missing something in InDesign??

BobLevine wrote:
With a long doc, I'd be tempted to place the InDesign file and just use edit>original.
Bob
There's a risk when placing the ID doc, though, that text will reflow, if the size is reduced byond a certain point (had a long thread about this a year or so ago). That doesn't happen with PDF.

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JS CS3: Help to reduce running time of my script

Hi
We have developed a script to find similiar words/characters at the end/start of 3 or more continous lines. The script has been developed by following steps:
1. Get all lines of the document;
2. Get first 2 characters of first line and compare with next two lines' first 2 characters.
3. If matches, then give a no break before the word to flow.
The same procedure for find end characters of the lines.
As our documents has more than 300 pages, the script runs too long time (about 15 minutes) per document.
Could any suggest to reduce the time of script running?
My basic sript is:
for (k=0; k<myStory.paragraphs.item(i).lines.length; k++) {
var myParaText = myStory.paragraphs.item(i);
var myChar2Fa = myParaText.lines[k].characters.itemByRange(0,1).texts[0].contents;
var myChar2Fb = myParaText.lines[k+1].characters.itemByRange(0,1).texts[0].contents;
var myChar2Fc = myParaText.lines[k+2].characters.itemByRange(0,1).texts[0].contents;
if (myChar2Fa== myChar2Fb && myChar2Fa== myChar2Fc) {
myParaText.lines[k+2].characters[-1].noBreak=true;
Kindly suggest.
regards
Masthan

Every interaction with the Object model costs -- in this case, asking ID for paragraphs.item(i).line, itemByrange(), etc. Avoid this by storing as much as possible direct references into variables.
Every interaction with the document text itself also costs -- you will see the script runs much faster if you only count the number of occurrences. (But this cannot be avoided.)
That said, your way of retrieving the first 2 characters per line is rather clumsy ... My version still takes the odd minute or so, for a 300 page test document, but I think it's mainly because ID has to re-flow each paragraph it changes.
myStory = app.selection[0].parentStory;
ln = myStory.lines;
n_ln = ln.length;
for (i=0; i<n_ln-2; i++)
if (ln[i].length > 1 &&
ln[i].contents.substring(0,2) == ln[i+1].contents.substring(0,2) &&
ln[i].contents.substring(0,2) == ln[i+2].contents.substring(0,2))
ln[i+2].characters[-1].noBreak=true;
I'm not convinced this does what you intend: avoiding three consecutive lines to start with the same two characters. First of all, to be sure you'd need to run it again, since reflowing the text may move another word to the front of the line with those same characters.
Second: the [-1] is a special index in InDesign. It does not point to the item before the current (as it would if -1 was treated the same as 0, 1, and 100), but instead it counts backwards from the end of the indexed item -- in this case, the No Break is applied to the last character of the 3rd line. I bet you wanted to apply it to the last character of the 2nd line (which, if so, is easy fixed).

Reducing AI size for clip art (wmf or emf) CS3 on Windows

Hello All -
I was actually in an Adobe workshop last week with an Adobe goddess and she was not able to answer this question - so unfortunately, I do not have much hope. But the last question I asked on this forum was answered so quickly and accurately I thought I would give it a shot!
I am creating clip art for a client who has decided they can only use .wmf or .emf files for their application. My illustrations, when exported to .wmf, are around 3MB. Obviously, for clip art this is much to large, since these files are typically around 7-15 KB.
I have tried numerous ways to reduce my file size drastically, (including merging, saving as older versions, tiff's & png's and reimporting, correcting in photoshop...) and the only way that has produced a small enough file size was to remove any beauty in my illustrations and make them completely flat, solid, colors. At first, the client was pleased with the results, but has now decided they are not pleased and want to be able to use the original illustrations that I provided and still have a small file size.
Suggestions?

Your client is painting you into an impossibly small corner, and for no reason. Large posters such as you will be producing are printed on expensive inkjet plotters, operated by professional print service bureaus. Those people use professional graphics programs, including Illustrator. They would most likely prefer either native files (ie: Illustrator) or PDFs. Your client is asking for impossibly small EMF files because... well there’s no way to logically finish that sentence. Probably that’s the format they grew up with or that they were told works best with Microsoft Word. Perhaps it did, too, in the 1990s.
Since quality of image is probably the most important factor, anything you do to make smaller size or EMF compatibility a priority will compromise that, probably for no good reason. See if the print shop will accept PDF. See if the client can work with PDF, if the client feels some need to work with the files.

Print size reduced-CS3

I somehow have the document size set at 75%. When I open the document the header gives "filename @75%" I've checked settings for InDesign and the printer to no avail. PDF output is similarly scaled down.
Help!! Chuck

Problem Solved:
When I first did File > Print > Setup... ,I clicked on the Setup button at the lower right. This brought up the message
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I ignored the message and proceeded to select my printer and enter its setup properties before returning to the InDesign Print dialog. One of the properties I had set was document size=75%. That was the problem.
Note that the InDesign Print continued to show scale=100%!!
Chuck

Adobe Bridge CS3 not opening Photoshop Image Processor

I selected one, four, and multiple pictures in Bridge to reduce the file size of jpgs. I went to Tools > Photoshop > Image Processor. Nothing happened. Photoshop did not open. That got me to thinking that sometimes while I am in Photoshop Bridge won't open either. Any ideas on resolving issue of "Bridge not opening Photoshop Image Processor" would be greatly appreciated.

Hello Curt Y, Everything is checked in the "Startup Scripts," including Bridge (twice) and Photoshop (twice). Not sure why duplicate entries but there are.
If you mean that you have two of the same versions (both CS3) in there that indicates there is something wrong with your install
If you have any suggestions regarding being able to access the Image Processor to resize pictures and such without first opening Photoshop, I'd greatly appreciate it. If not, the work around will have to suffice.
My first goal would be to reset the preferences for both PS and Bridge and then try again
see also this KB document, section preferences reset:
http://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/troubleshoot-errors-freezes-bridge-windows.html
And inhere also info on how to retrieve your path for cache to manual delete it.

Adobe CS3 Upgrade on 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro

I am planning to purchase the new generation MacBook Pro in about a month.
My question is about Adobe CS3. I currently use CS2 on an older G4 PowerBook because I could not deal with the performance dip on the older MacBook Pro (1.83 GHz with 512MB RAM). So I have a licensed copy of CS2 for PPC. If I buy the Upgrade Version of CS3 at a much reduced price, will the transition to Universal work on a MacBook Pro? No more Rosetta? Performance problems solved?
I realize Rosetta probably struggled with my previous MacBook's speed and lack of RAM. But I don't want to go through that hair-pulling again. I don't get into that advanced PhotoShop, etc. of CS3 but I'm willing to upgrade just to have it Universal and be more reliable. And, of course, I'd like to save the $800 on having to buy the Full Version of the software.
Thanks everyone for your feedback.
By the way, I had the same performance issue with MS Office for Mac. Almost 30 seconds to open Word! Anyone know if this becomes a non-issue with newer Macbook Pros??
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Your problem your your previous MBP was simply RAM. 512MB when trying to use CS2 products is simply insanity. If you opt for a new MBP with the standard 2GB, better still with an upgrade to 4GB, then CS3 will perform extremely well. RAM us hugely important and one of the biggest bottlenecks in today's hardware and software requirements.

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I am trying to create a GIF using CS3. I have read the discussions on Adobe but I get to a stage in the instructions and it is not working for me. I have 6 jpeg photos, and i bring them all into one. All photos are named different. After reading the forums, the next step is FILE>SAVEAS. Next, you select COMPUSERVE.gif. Once I select that, I have no idea where to go. It would be much appreciated if someone could help me out. Thanks
PS Sorry about the picture quality.

Here are some basic steps, but i would go Image>Image Size and reduce the size (pixel dimensions) of your document first.
http://www.megandowntherabbithole.com/2012/10/how-to-create-an-animated-gif-in-adobe-photo shop-cs3-tutorial/

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Hi, I recently switched from Quark to InDesign and am having trouble figuring out how to reduce the size of a PDF on export.
The file has about 200 pages with about 300 EPS files, which are approximately 30-40K each. The file uses fewer than 10 fonts, all from two font families (Bembo Std and Univers Std). When I created a similar file in Quark, the exported PDF is ~5MG. However, when I export the file I created in InDesign, the PDF is 10xs larger (~50MG). I tried exporting using the High Quality Print and Smallest File Size settings, but the result was the same. (I think that is because there are no JPG images to compress, just vector files which are already tiny.)
If you have any suggestions for other settings to check, I would be grateful for the help. Overall, other than this issue, I have been extremely happy with InDesign.
I am using CS5, v 7.0.4 on Mac OS X (10.6.8, Snow Leopard)
Thank you,
SH

Quark to the best of my knowledge still goes the Postscript to PDF route - I'm not 100% sure on that.
But here's why Export is differetn than how you print to Postscript and distill http://indesignsecrets.com/creating-pdf-export-or-use-distiller.php
Distilling is very much frowned upon, and Export from InDesign is considered the best workflow.And the file size is larger, but it does add a lot of important information to the PDF, which makes it superior than distilling.
But, there's a lot of document overhead in PDFs.
The High Quality setting is only meant as a guide. It's not meant to be used, in my opinion, out of the box.
This explains why and how to counter it.
http://indesignsecrets.com/document-overhead-in-indesigns-pdf-can-be-huuuuuuge.php
The Help files do give some clues
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-70b3a.html
This PDF guide is MUST http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/cs3/articles/cs3_printguide.html
And besides that EPS files are considered legacy files by Adobe, I'm not sure how they're handled on PDF export. But you'd be better off saving to .ai from illustrator from now on.
http://www.prepressure.com/library/file-formats/eps
Instead of EPS from photoshop - save as TIFF or PSD if all Raster. If it's raster + vector text layers, shapes or masks then save to PDF.
http://indesignsecrets.com/preserving-vectors-in-photoshop-files.php

End of Upgrade Cycle for CS3 and CS4... Really Adobe?

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It wasn't enough that the upgrade path wasn't much of a discount, but in the current economy every penny counts! The choice of stopping support for CS3 and CS4 in my personal opinion an ill-advised move. I personally went from 3 to 4 within a short amount of time... then when 5 came out my budget didn't allow so I needed to wait. The new CS6 isn't direly needed so I decided I'd have to loose some additional "upgrade power" because money need to be directed elsewhere now... but the news that I'd loose all the upgrade power and would have kept on upgrading for nothing it's just ridiculous... and if that's the treatment a customer will have to expect from now on I think I'll use what I have and move to alternatives stopping to personally support Adobe products an rely on licensed copies at work instead. Perhaps Adobe hasn't notices we aren't exactly doing that great in US between the current economical situation, the various setbacks experienced across the country and for the fact that in this particular business most work is often being outsourced out of US these days... I am sure you will have a huge market on the countries where the outsourced work is being sent... as far as I am concerned comes 12/31/2013 I will no longer be an Adobe customer as Adobe is forcing me out of the upgrade cycle and I won't plan to re-enter anytime soon in the coming future... lesson learnt.
Thank you for your time (if any of the marketing gurus will have cared to read this far without laughing and discounting with a "screw those old customers, they should've upgraded earlier" which was basically the content of the email I got this week... pasted below)
Cheers,
tfbkny
Content of email received from Adobe saying last chance to upgrade now or what you got will be worthless in less than a couple months.
Dear Creative Suite customer:
We want to make sure you're aware of an important change to Adobe's upgrade policy that may affect you.
Beginning January 1, 2013, only Creative Suite customers with licenses for CS5 or CS5.5 versions will qualify for upgrade pricing to CS6.
Due to this change, we will only continue offering CS3 and CS4 customers like you special upgrade pricing through December 31, 2012.*
* Owners of CS3 and CS4 individual products and suite editions will be eligible to receive upgrade pricing to CS6 until December 31, 2012. After that date, only customers on CS5 or CS5.5 will qualify for upgrade pricing to CS6.

Adobe doesn't care, they don't have to. I like Phsotoshop and have been using it professionally for 20 years, but lets face it, I wouldnt mind some really good competition from another source. It didnt use to be the only game in town, and doesnt have to remain so.
I could brainstorm how I would want competing software to look like. Pshop is not the easiest workflow possible. Illustrator is clearly deficient to even CorelDraw, and certainly Freehand. I've been meaning to reconnect with CorelDraw. It did some cool things.
Google Chrome is pulling a lot of manoevers software wise and I hope they try to go a little deeper and give Adobe a run for their money on the one program they feel justifies unbelievable gouging. Go investigate Ableton Live if you want to see what a company that cares about its customers is doing, ADOBE. Audition is a JOKE compared to Ableton Live. Thank God we're not powned on the audio side by these suits.
The idea that a company would peddle buggy software, which CS4 was..., although some of that was Apple's fault, is bad, the upgrade prices were ridiculous, and this is the end of the road for me currently. The idea that a company would actively
push away customers is pretty incredible. "But I sent you an email!" Whoops, you gotta pay $1900 for production premium CS6! HAHAHAHAHA. Time for a YT video with my old hard copy box. Sounds like a good idea.
There are too many options on the motion graphics side, and I'll keep a static machine to run Pshop and AE CS4.
The masters of the universe will have theit way, and the rest must bow to their ambivalent greed. At least that's the way they think. It would seem that Adobe and Apple really, really want some upstarts to come up. Maybe $360 for a year to figure out an exit might work. It will be interesting to see if this hits earnings. VERY interesting.

Can I still use cs3 on a new SSD in the same Mac?

Hello, I just got a new ssd for my snow leopard macbook and would like to copy After Effects CS3 from the original HD to SSD if possible.
When I tried to just put After Effects in the SSD application folder and launch it, I got an error "licensing for this product has stopped working. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and reinstalling it. Or contact IT administrator or adobe customer support."
What am I supposed to do?
I don't have the install disc. I don't even remember if I got this application from online or a disc...
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I recommend you to give the definitive size you think you will need to both partitions.
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CS3 - Opening up a Fireworks PSD in Photoshop

This is the first time I've actually had this issue, maybe becuase I've never created a psd so deep in groups before. When opening a psd in photoshop, that was created in fireworks, I'm unable to see sub groups and the objects, layers, text within those group folders, specifically I'm unable to see 6 group folders deep. Now I've searched the forums and can't seem to find anything to assist and I was wondering if I can correct this. Can anyone assist?
Note: I realize that if you don't save the file properly in fireworks by showing all, then it won't save and show some layers in photoshop, so I've manually opened up and made all folders, objects, layers, etc... visible in fireworks before saving as psd and opening it up in photoshop. (I also used the show all options as well in fireworks). I also realized I should be able to see 6 folders deep in photoshop, but I did notice that is also the limit for sub groups, is this a limited to assist with file size issues? or an oversite by developers of the application?, I've gone as much as 15 in fireworks so I'm confused as to why photoshop is limited. I'm also aware that the folders are called sub layers in fireworks and they are called groups in photoshop.
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It sounds like Fireworks produced an illegal PSD file.
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Running OS 1.5.4 on 24" Imac, I'm attempting to generate a "horizontal slideshow" from bridge-selected files in Photoshop CS3.
[Sounded like the problem in this post: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5a9fe/2 but on re-reading I've decided it's different so I'm giving it it's own thread, with more detail...]
Here's my experience:
1) Description and title show up for a second on the first slide, then revert to just the blank template on that and all subsequent slides (title: [blank] description: [blank]....
Hitting "refresh" produces the descriptive metadata for a tantalizing moment, then it' s back to the blank template for this and all subsequent slides. It does this both for Safari and Firefox.
You can view this behavior in a slideshow at http://oasisdesign.net/projects/earthtoilet/
If it asks for a password, use---
user:earthling
pass: draf1 )
"preserve all metadata" is checked.
I've tried all combinations of checking/ unchecking "title, description, filename" for labeling...also, making slideshows with just one or two slides to reduce the chance that it's a weird character issue of the type some other folks have experienced...
2) additionally, the web gallery is not respecting the manual sort order in Bridge, which is the source of the files. The help files say the slideshow should follow the manual sort order in Bridge.
3) Finally, metadata entered in bridge metadata tab sometimes vanishes, sometimes metadata entered in file info wouldn't show in the metadata tab.
Thanks for your help!!
Art
BTW, here's the related issues I found:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5a9fe/2
...After some investigation, I found that the descriptions were disappearing only for photos that had a Return / Line Break in the description. If you go back and make sure all of your descriptions are a single line, it works fine....
=Don't have line breaks, nor "and" nor &...
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bff9de1/0
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bd62ec3/0

OK...here's the hack I used to get around what I'm now totally convinced are program bugs and shortcomings relative to advertised functionality, for anyone else who has to deal with this, followed by my (suggested fixes to Adobe)...
1) Sort everything the way you want in bridge.
2) Make meta descriptions w/o weird characters (a warning here would be helpful)
3) Use "batch rename," with "copy to another folder" to give the images totally plain vanilla, DOS-style file names (001.jpg, 002.jpg...). This solves most filename issues and the works around web gallery's failure to recognize bridge sort order in one go. Note that you can irrevocably screw up the names of all your original files if you're not very careful to COPY at this step.
([a] make the bridge sort work directly, as advertised, por favor. [b] add an error message or warning about file names such as 006-(2).jpg causing malfunction. A compassionate, low-effort short-term patch for Mac users of web gallery, especially since bridge generates that particular sort name itself invisibly and automatically if you move a file with the same name into a folder)
4) Use "white on black" instead of bug-ridden "horizontal slideshow" (horizontal slideshow should be fixed or deleted from the next version...multiple slideshow options would be awesome, as they advance automatically at the max rate the user's bandwidth allows, a very attractive feature)
5) Restrict all images to the same height so users can click *in the same spot* to advance the 200 images with less carpal tunnel (the advance arrow should *always* be in the same spot, for every web gallery, IMHO)
Web galleries are a fantastic tool for sharing information easily...I hope to see some evolution in those great automatic updates someday...

Photoshop CS3 "Save for web" doesn't work

Hi everybody. I noticed one weird thing. When I want to use "Save for web" function on my Photoshop CS3 to save some jpg file and reduce size, the dialog window just doesn't appear. I clicked Save for web and nothing happen. The window of the file a wanted to save just get grey. I'm new in CS3 an it worked well in my CS2. BTW I use MacBook Pro and CS3 for Mac.
Guys, any ideas?
Thanx a lot. :-)

Hi all,
Deleting the SFW prefs worked for me.
My Photoshop CS3 was working fine till I (probably unwisely) tinkered with system files to free up some space.
Re-installed CS3 from scratch but still couldnt "Save for web".
Then I found this tip suggesting deleting the SFW prefs and BINGO! Back in acion.
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G

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I was working on three images in Photoshop CS3, when I went to open them from Bridge for review, two of three files were reduced to tiny white squares with a dogear in the top right corner, a little blue bounding box containing three tinier red green and blue somethings so small I couldn't even see what they were with my jewellery spec.
Nothing happened when I clicked on them, no error message, nothing. I managed to get one of them in 'reveal' - which opened up a larger blue bounded box with the red button containing a cross with the message 'cannot open as not right kind of file'.
What to do please? I don't want to spend hours on an image and hope it will open afterwards. Thankyou.

Thankyou for taking the time to respond. I did notice that I'd forgotten to place a . after the file name and before the extension - ie soiphotopsd, instead of soiphoto.psd, and renamed them and the opened as psds. I would have thought that Photohop CS3 with all it's bells and whistles could have provided a helpful popup/error message to this effect when saving images though!
I still have an old file I haven't been able to open, the icon of which is simply a small blue and white box with the letters pmg on the bottom. I tried to rename the file same as, but nothing seemed to work so far. Will just keep plugin away - forgive the pun.
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Hi I really need an Adobe CS3 expert and a Mac expert's help. I have been troubleshooting two days without luck. I have been in the forum trying to solve the mystery shutdown of my CS3 software. I have an imac 2006 with Snow leopard 10.6.8.
details:
       Model Identifier:          iMac8,1
       Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
       Processor Speed:          2.8 GHz
       Number Of Processors:          1
       Total Number Of Cores:          2
       L2 Cache:          6 MB
       Memory:          2 GB
       Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
My daughters also have an imac (newer like 2010) and since I have two educational edition's of Adobe CS3 One is WEB the other is Design Premium. At one time I had both installed on mine, then put Design Standard on my girls computer to let my artistic 17 year ols use Photosshop for school.
Everything has been working great untill two days ago, while in Photoshop on my computer, no error message has been seen.
It stopped working, the cursor became a pin head, and all options grayed and must force quit to close. Dreamweaver, Illustrator and InDesign are also no longer responding, all options grayed, and no when you open any of these a blank box pops up titled Adobe Creavtive Suite 3 Web Premium that only has a yellow reduce function on it, or on my kids mac the box says Design STD.
First I installed istat pro, thinking its a memory thing. (and it still might be, but I dont fully know what to do. istat pro said I have 195 GB left, so I made room - After uninstalling the CS3 I had about 203GB on my hard drive before I reinstalled. )
I tried to reinstall, also uninstall and reinstalled. Repeated uninstall/ reinstall with cc cleaning, re booting after each step.
I called Adobe thinking they cut me off, since ironically both computers are doing the same thing! They said they wouldnt do that. I never registered my products but have both products theS#. The person who I spoke to entered in my S3's yesterday. She said reinstalling should work.
When I reinstall I am not asked for Serial numbers.
Last night I uninstalled, cleaned, and then restored software from Monday. Same thing is happening. AGH!
If was was making a living using these software products I would sign up to use the new CC. but because I am in the learning stage, I just want my CS3 back.
Looking for a saving grace. Thanks for your help!
Catherine
Message was edited by: Catgus

Thank you SO much!
(and last night the Adobe support took my Serial numbers, so I hope that can't bite me in the butt somehow).
The thread you directed me to still worked and you have made my day.
So very grateful!
HappyThanksgiving to you!

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