Reinstall and reregister InDesign CS3, Acrobat 9 and Photoshop 7

I just lost my Dell Latitude Laptop and my office Desktop computers, thanks to Sandy. Now I must reinstall Adobe Indesgin CS3, Acrobat 9 and Photoshop 7; as well as Windows XP and MS Office Pro 2003. What can I do to make the re-registrations of these products go smoothly, i.e. not take a week?

Not sure what you are trying to say. You need to properly reinstall them. Downloads can be found here for most legacy products:
Direct Download Links for Adobe Software
Activations can be reset by calling support. there is no need to re-register. If you did once, all the info is on your Adobe account already.
Mylenium

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Hi Forum
My setup is a Powermac G5 with 10.5.8 and a Epson 1400 and a Epson c8500. I have checked, that I'm using the latest drivers from Epson.
My problem is then I print A4 PDF documents to these two printers, the prints will be cropped, it actually seem like the top and bottom margins of the printable area are wrong. Scaling is set to none and I have also tried printing as an image.
I have tried using Acrobat 8, Adobe Reader 9 and Indesign CS3, also behave the same.
If I use Preview, my prints will look just fine.
I tried the same from a Macbook pro with 10.5.8 and Acrobat 8 and 9, and from this computer things work correctly.
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anybody seen this before?
kind regards
Lars

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Indesign's interaction with Distiller is no different from Frame's: From
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Indesign) no longer plays a part in the PDF creation process.
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the error you're seeing is a problem with Distiller, not with Frame. But
if you're printing to the Adobe PDF port it's kind of hard to figure out
where things are going wrong. If you change the port to File, you can
print to a PS file from Frame, close Frame, and then distill the PS
file. Obviously any error you see at that point is not from Frame.
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat 7?
I wouldn't bother buying Acrobat 8 just to fix this problem, although
uninstalling Acrobat 7 and reinstalling some version of Acrobat might
fix it. Plenty of people are running IDCS3, Frame 7.2, and Acrobat 7
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www.pegtype.com

Different Colors when printing from Photoshop and InDesign CS3

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I have the following problem:
When printing from Photoshop or InDesign to a PostScript printer, Adobe recommends to let Photoshop handle the colors (I use the German version, so I don't know the exact term used, it changes slightly in all CS3 apps anyway).
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RE: "You don't indicate what Xerox printers you have"
In my first post I named it, is that the information you need?
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Why is Merge into single pdf using InDesign CS3 and not CS4 ?

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navigated to "Merge files into single pdf". I chose the CS4 InDesign files to Add and clicked the Combine Files button.
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Why is starting CS3 InDesign and not CS4, and what is the "unidentified" error ! ?
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InDesign CS3 - PDF = fuzzy font, and random bold

Hello,
When I print straight from InDesign CS3, Garamond font looks fine. When I export to PDF, then print from Acrobat Professional 8, version 8.1.2, the Garamond font is not as crisp-looking. Also, when I print the PDF from Acrobat, there are a 2 or 3 lines of Garamond text (seemingly randomly dispersed among the rest of the text, although they're the same lines every time) that actually look like they're bold, even though they're not, in the original.
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Andrea,
I just got back from school and took a look at what you sent.
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At this point I don't know if the differences in the my PDFs are due to settings or the font itself. My Garamond font is TrueType flavored OpenType, version 2.30 from Monotype. The actual filename is GARA.TTF.
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Booklet issues with InDesign CS3 on Mac, and Xerox WorkCentre 7655 booklet maker

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Presets and defaults get deleted when InDesign CS3 crashes

Every few days InDesign CS3 crashes. I don't know why, but that's not even the issue here. The problem is that when it does, all of my presets and default settings get erased.
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Read through the prior threads Peter posted. I see no solution offered. I
too have had this problem on two separate workstations from the day ID CS3
was installed. Intermitant, but it can be made to happen quite easily. I
have never had a problem with printing, just opening multiple files through
explorer.
I spend hours on the phone with Adobe tech support and they also could not
resolve the issue. Tried everything under the sun, including activating only
the bare minimum fonts required by the systems, creating new XP user
accounts, reinstalling the suite, deleting prefs, washing some files through
INX, defrag, turning off all processes other than ID... nada... still
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Creating an index in InDesign CS3 - is there any way to limit where and for what it looks?

I'm creating an index for a 300-page book using InDesign CS3 on both a PC with Windows XP home and a MacPro with OS X Leopard (I take this book back and forth between these two computers). I have created this as a book (.indb) file so I can use the Index panel with the book option checked to include all of the book chapters.
There are two things I was wondering how to do, if they can be done at all.
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Read http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WS8721440D-5F68-4fd6-8115-CA3BEDACF001a.html (the online Help on indexes) -- it will probably answer a few questions.
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Customised Flavor Drag and Drop in Indesign CS3

Hello All,
I'm implementing a to Drag & Drop from an external application (say windows Desktop) on to Indesign CS3 Document. I have implemented a Custom Flavor helper and a Data Exchange helper for my custom Flavor.
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Kindly help.
I am stuck at this point.
..Many Thanks

From the Swing tutorial check out this section on [url http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/dnd.html#customComp]Data Transfer With a Custom Component.
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Matching Raster and Vector RGB color in InDesign CS3.

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Color Management is set to "North American General Purpose 2" with "RGB: Preserve Embedded Profiles" selected.
1) The file is exported as a PDF 1.4, High Quality, PDF/X_None.
2) The PDF was ripped on a Cheetah RIP (Jaws level 3) with no color management on.
3) Solid raster colors such as 0-255-0 will reproduce as 0-255-1.
4) The color differences between the raster and vector are usually 1-4 points.
5) The vector is consistent as was input in the programit's only the raster that changes. When you are trying to match raster and vectors logo colors it is a killer.
However, I can go into the InDesign (or Illustrator) color settings and turn color management off (This is our current workflow). In doing this the RGB working space uses the monitor profile and "color management policies" are set to OFF. With these settings the RGB raster and vector match. The problem with this work flow is two fold:
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Platform: Mac OS 10.5.2
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I believe that setting is an old Illustrator setting that has been saved to effectively turn the color management off. The monitor profile effects the image displayedit doesn't effect the color transform.
Anyway, the color management I want to use is the "North American General Purpose 2".
To reiterate:
The procedure:
1) The file is exported as a PDF 1.4, High Quality, PDF/X_None.
2) The PDF was ripped on a Cheetah RIP (Jaws level 3) with no color management on.
The Problem:
3) Solid raster colors such as 0-255-0 will reproduce as 0-255-1It changes from the original raster color placed in InDesign.
4) The color differences between the raster and vector are usually 1-4 points.
5) The vector is consistent as was input in the programit's only the raster that changes. When you are trying to match raster and vectors logo colors it is a killer.
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Hello Rich,
Can you explain how the printer is networked. Is it shared by another or does it have its own ip address? (Don't know the model so sorry for the question)
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