Serien Email mit Indesign CS4 möglich?

Hallo,
ich habe soeben einen serienbrief mit indesign erstellt!
nun möchte ich diesen per outlook an meine adressaten aussenden, weiß jedoch nicht wie!
ist das überhaupt möglich?
viele grüße
Michael

Gegenfrage: Wäre es überhaupt sinnvoll? Bekanntermaßen sind ja drucken/ PDF erstellen und e-Mail zwei kaum konvergente Technologien, um's mal schön verschwurbelt auszudrücken.... Könnte mir nur vorstellen, dass es irgendein Plugin oder Skript gibt, dass das macht, aber sonst glaube ich kaum. Selbst wenn, dann ist ja dein Layout so oder so futsch, also hätteste das ganze auch gleich anders angehen müssen...
Mylenium

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Lesezeichen erstellt in InDesign CS4 - ohne Funktion in Acrobat

Hallo zusammen,
ich erstelle mit InDesign CS4 (PC mit XP) Kataloge, hinterlege Überschriften als Lesezeichen und exportiere die Dateien als PDF (Acrobat 9).
Beim Öffnen mit Acrobat werden die Lesezeichen zwar dargestellt, jedoch sind diese ohne Funktion, d.h. beim Klicken wird man nicht auf die Zielseite verwiesen. Ich habe gerade sämtliche neuen Updates für CS4 und Acrobat installiert, der Fehler ist immer noch da.
Die InDesign Datei besteht aus mehreren Sprachversionen, die als Ebenen angelegt sind. Bei den Exporteinstellungen für PDF wähle ich jeweils die ausgewählte Ebene an. Hier habe ich schon alle möglichen Einstellungsmöglichkeiten erfolgslos versucht.
In weiteren Foreneinträgen gibt es Benutzer mit ähnlichen Problemen. Bei mir funktionieren die Lesezeichen jedoch auch ohne Passwortschutz nicht.
Handelt es sich hier um ein Programmfehler von InDesign oder Acrobat?
Ich wäre sehr dankbar, wenn mir jemand einen Tipp geben könnte, da dieser Fehler mich seit längerem sehr ärgert.
Vielen Dank im Voraus!
Herzliche Grüße,
Adrian

Keine Ahnung, aber kann mich ganz vage daran erinnern, dass da mal in der Page ein Tip stand. Glaube es liegt wohl daran, dass die Elemente generell jeder Sprache erst zugeordnet werden müssen, sonst geht da nix. Irgendwo in dne Ebeneneinstellungen drin... Ansonsten verstehe ich aber nicht den Aufwand. Wenn richtige Absatzformate verwendet werden, wird doch eh jede Überschrift in ein Lesezeichen konvertiert. Ist vielleicht eher ein Problem, dass du's manuell machst und damit den Automatismen entgegenwirkst....
Mylenium

Indesign CS4: Dateilinks in PDFs

Hallo!
Einige Fragen an die, die das schon mal hingekriegt haben
In Indesign CS4 kann man Hyperlinks zu Dateien erstellen. Das funktioniert aber nicht wie erwartet.
Sprich, der Hyperlink ist, da das Protokoll file: verwendet wird, einer der den Browser öffnet.
Nun will ich aber in einem PDF, das ich mit Indesign erstelle, einen Link haben, der ein anderes PDF öffnet.
Klar, ich kann sowas nachträglich mit Acrobat einfügen. Aber es sollte, verständlicherweise, durch Export des PDFs aus Indesign auch gehen, denn sonst viel Arbeit jedes Mal, wenn ich das Dokument aktualisiere.
Hat sich Adobe da nur vertan? Oder muß ich ein Plugin haben, das das korrigiert?
Ich meine, wenn ich eine Datei auswähle, dann wird neben file: der komplette Pfad mit angegeben, den ich zum Glück noch ändern kann.
Weil, der Anwender, der meine PDFs später bekommt, hat die alle zusammen in einem beliebigen Pfad. In Acrobat kann man Links erzeugen,
die direkt eine Datei aufrufen. Das müßte doch auch über Indesign gehen oder wofür wäre die Funktion sonst da?
Vielen Dank schon mal falls jemand eine Lösung hat.

Sicherheitsgründe? Aus einem PDF heraus etwas öffnen? Heutzutage Gang und Gebe. Und ein anderes PDF öffnen ist kein Ding der Sicherheit.
Generell ist Acrobat natürlich die Lösung, aber die Links, die ich in Indesign verwalten kann, kommen so nicht rüber nach Acrobat.
Mache ich ein PDF, sind das Hyperlinks auf Dateien. Ich kann dann im Acrobat aber nicht sagen "mach mir alle Hyperlinks zu Dateilinks", oder?
Wüßte zumindest keine Funktion. Zumal ich hier noch Acrobat 5 habe.
In Acrobat die Links zu erstellen ist extrem mühsam und müßte halt nach jedem Export des PDFs aus Indesign heraus wiederholt werden.
Oder ich müßte nur die veränderten Seiten exportieren, in dem vorherigen PDF die dann alle ersetzen und bei denen, die nicht ersetzt wurden und wo Links drin sind, passen die dann noch. Das ist nicht gerade, was man effektiven Workflow nennt. Mal angenommen, man hätte 50 Links in einem Dokument...
Das muß doch auch anders gehen!

Indesign CS4 keeps crashing on Launch

My copy of CS4 Indesign keeps crashing.
It gets to the window where is shows the recent documents and then crashes everytime.
I have deleted the preferences and the version folder and even re-installed the app from the master dvd but it still crashes on launch.
It was working ok earlier today, which is why I cant understand the problem.
All the other CS4 apps work fine - it's just Indesign.
Im running Mac OS X 10.5.7.
Please help
Thanks
Pete

Hi John,
My InDesign CS4 keeps crashing on launch since I upgraded to OSX Lion. Here is the pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/9BGZ85e6
Thanks in advance for any comments!
Michael
[email protected]

[Ann] QR Code for InDesign CS4 and up

Ever needed to create a QR code? There are literally hundreds of free QR code generators on the web, but they all have the same drawbacks:
1. They typically deliver a PNG, either 'click here to download', or you have to drag it somewhere yourself.
2. It's typically an RGB image, so the cautious designer will start up Photoshop to convert it to a monochrome image.
3. .. so you get a file to store somewhere ..
4. ... and after seeing four of them you cannot remember which QR code said what ...
5. .... and, you cannot use such site in a batched environment (well, maybe some people can by building a proper URL, call the website, wait for a response, etc. I bet it's difficult for your average scripter.)
So I had a go on converting one of the existing Javascript solutions -- Patrick Wied's, in case you're curious -- into a construction fit for InDesign. All you have to do is download the zip: http://www.jongware.com/binaries/jw_qrcode.zip -- unpack it, and save the file "QRCode.jsxbin" in your local User Script folder. It ought to be compatible with InDesign CS4 and upwards, for both Mac and Windows.
When it appears in your Script Panel, you can double-click to run and
1. with nothing selected, it prompts for text and error recovery settings, and will place a proper monochrome TIFF bitmap of (approximately) a useful dimension in the center of your current page.
2. with an empty rectangle selected, the new QR code will be placed inside it.
3. with some text selected, the text field will be pre-filled with this.
4. With a QR Code selected which you created earlier using this same tool, the text field will contain the original text, and the quality setting will be retrieved. You can cancel the dialog if you only wanted to know what it said, or change the text or quality.
5. You can call this script from another script to perform batch operations. It accepts two required arguments, and one optional, in this order: text, Error Correction level (1-4), and optionally a destination rectangle to place it in:
app.doScript(new File(app.activeScript.path+'/qrcode.jsxbin'), ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, ["hello", 1, app.selection[0]], UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Call QR Code");
6. Since it's a monochrome bitmap TIFF with enough resolution (at its default size it's 200 dpi), you can use the swatches palette to change the white or black parts to another color, or even make one transparent.
7. It's just a small file, and so I decided to always have it automatically embed. That way you can never loose it. The image first has to be created in a temporary file (default location: (Temp)/qrcode.tiff, where (Temp) is your local Temporary Files folder). If this fails for some of you (there always seem to be overly prudent IT professionals who seem to despise users storing files willy-nilly), I'll have to think of something else.
Note: this version only supports plain text mode, not numeric, alphanumeric, or Kanji. Text is converted to UTF-8; for the most common purpose -- web pages -- it should work normally.
Enjoy!
Based entirely on Patrick Wied's implementation of a basic QR Code generator. Patrick Wied dutifully notes
I do not guarantee any resulting QR code generations or detections, use this application at your own risk! - this project is just a study project (non commercial).
and so I advise to always check your generated code using a good QR Code reader.

To give back to community, here is the script to generate QR codes for business cards created by data merge
It reads text frames starting with MECARD:, empties them and places QRcode rotated 15 degrees counterclockwise. Enjoy!
var _d = app.documents[0];
var _allStories = _d.stories;
for(var nx=_allStories.length-1;nx>=0;nx--){
    var _storyAllTextFrames = _allStories[nx].textContainers;
    for(var mx=_storyAllTextFrames.length-1;mx>=0;mx--){
         _storyAllTextFrames[mx].select(); // change page
         if(_storyAllTextFrames[mx].contents.indexOf('MECARD:')==0){
             var obj = app.doScript(new File(app.activeScript.path+'/qrcode.jsxbin'), ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, [_storyAllTextFrames[mx].contents]);
             _storyAllTextFrames[mx].contents = "";
            var myScaleMatrix = app.transformationMatrices.add({horizontalScaleFactor:.7,
                verticalScaleFactor:.7,counterclockwiseRotationAngle:15});
            obj.transform(CoordinateSpaces.pasteboardCoordinates,AnchorPoint.centerAnchor, myScaleMatrix);
             //obj.move ([_x,_y]);
here is a MECARD template for you:
MECARD:
N:<<Last>>,<<First>>;
TEL:<<Direct>>;
TEL:<<Mobile>>;
EMAIL:<<E-mail>>;
NOTE:<<Position>> at <<Company>>;
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/service/developer/make/content/barcode/function/applica tion/addressbook/index.html

InDesign CS4 memory problems

I have had memory problems with InDesign CS4 (and also with Photoshop CS4) for about a year now. If my file has a lot of pictures (100+) at some stage I get error message "Out of memory" . In the beginning it just have problems with redraw pictures (half of picture stays black), but also export to pdf is halted by same message and printing to file also. No problems in the beginning of large files or with files with text only. At one point InD just has enough and starts to behave like a ... Only solution is to export InD CS4 file as INX and continue to work in CS3 (but it takes a long time to match the text flow because textengine works differently). It's not monitor, because I have changed monitor during this year (from LaCie 22 blue IV to EIZO 27"). It seems that it's not video (NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX, 512 MB) also, because everything functions normally with CS3. I know, that it's not a proper video card for my work, but one likes to play Bioshock sometimes... Something strange happens with Photoshop CS4 also when I work for a long time without shutting down the program. After about editing 60+ pictures Photoshop CS4 begins to slow down (specially with using clone tool).up to impossible to work. You just have to wait while the cursor is dragging itself to right place an picture is redrawing itself. Seems like memory cannot empty itself and gets overloaded when working with CS4. No problems with Photoshop CS3. One cannot notice anything with small files. I can work with CS3 but there are features I would like to use in CS4.
Have anyone experienced anything similar?
Claudius
Win XP SP3
4GB RAM
video NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB with latest drivers
CS4 and CS3

Having exactly the same here. 16 Gb of ram in an 8 core 64 bits Vista system. Absolutely no infections on my system. Having great troubles getting my work ouputted.
I'm making an overview with 50 cards with pictures in them and bevels on the edges, dropshadows. It might be heavy but it is a normal question from my client.
I don't care if transparency is difficult for Adobe to handle. They shouldn't make it public if it is not properly tested. I am now so far as to make the composition in photoshop ( if that works)
What I thought was the problem is that I originaly placed indesign files in frames. But there is a great script out there on www.automatication.com to convert that in editable object again. Works great so check that out. But this didn't solve my problem. The effects used in these items are the memory consummers and Adobe is not freeing the memory properly.
Advise to Adobe: check also to dropshadows feature because this is not scaling up or down with the rest of the effect.
I'm am writing a realtime 3D renderengine here, if CS5 is not working fine, I might digg in to this one as well, getting a bit tired of waiting for properly working software.
Jaap Clarenburg
[email protected]

Printing/Font problem Indesign CS4

I am hoping someone can help me figure out an issue I'm having with Adobe Indesign CS4 and printing.
A few weeks ago I upgraded from CS3 to CS4. I had just sent a CS3 document to my printer and it looks great. I decided to update all the files I was working to CS4 (Indesign) since I knew I'd be working on them within the next few months. I upgraded and printed out one of the files to my xerox 6200 phaser and now parts of the document (a 4 page document) prints out of my printer like it's missing the font. Not all of the fonts change to a strange courier slanted italic font, just some of them. I've tried just about everything and am driving myself crazy trying to get it fixed. I can't attach a sample because it only does it when printing. I have checked for errors in preflight and I have none. The fonts I'm using are cronos mm and cronos mm italics. My operating system is snow leopard 10.4.11.
These are what I've tried:
1. I printed from the indesign 3 file before conversion and it prints fine.
2. Made a pdf of the indesign 4 file and no errors and looks great on screen and prints from the printer and looks great.
3. I've printed out individual pages, one at a time, and when printing individual pages no weird fonts, but when I send the job to printing the whole document is when I get the weird fonts.
4. Tried to save it as an .indx file and print from it and it still has the same issue.
5. Exported the text and saved it as plain text from text edit and placed it in a fresh file and reapplied the fonts and it still prints weird. I only did 1 and a half pages of it to see if just bringing in clean text and redoing it but it didn't work.
6. I'm using Font Agent Pro 3.3.2 and I deleted the fonts from the system and reimported the fonts from a backup file. Verified the fonts and found that some of the cronos fonts (expert) couldn't be verified and deleted them, but those weren't the ones that I was using.
7. Cleaned the font cache using Tweak Freak.
8. Deleted the adobe plist preference thing
9. Deleted my printer, downloaded a new driver and font management thing for my printer and reinstalled it
10. Restarted numerous times and reopened the file and printed and it's still printing weird.
11. Done a save as several times and gotten the same results.
12. I've opened other files that use the same fonts as this file and they've printed fine after upgrading to cs 4.
13. Printed from another person's computer who has everything that I have on my system and his system does the same thing.
14. Spent countless hours looking online and can't find a solution. I'm afraid if I do anymore I will screw up my computer or indesign or fonts so I thought I'd email this list to see if there's a solution. Any help would be appreciated.
Rosie

Peter,
Thanks so much! It worked! I changed it to subset and it printed perfect. I had tried everything else in that box, such as binary instead of ascii, level 2 instead of 3, but never changed from complete to subset. I really appreciate your help! And I do still have some hair left. I didn't pull it all out
As a side though, it's weird that in CS 3 with the same settings - complete - it would print fine, but when upgrading it changed it. I also exported it as a pdf to make sure it looked good on screen and printed out great. Thanks again. I appreciate your help. You are brilliant!
Rosie

InDesign CS4 Interactive swf?

Hi there,
Well when I export my E-magazine to swf I get the following message: "Some button actions will not be preserved. The following actions are supported in pdf only Close, Exit, Movie, Open File, Sound . . ." and so on and so forth. Sure enough when I open the swf file after exporting none of my buttons or anything work.
From reading all the promo material I am under the impression that this should all work when exported to a swf. What am I doing wrong?
I am using InDesign CS4 on a pc.
Thanks.

Sound/video files are not supported in InDesigns´s SWF export.
I´m making eDocBrowser v2 right now, and it seems now that there gonna be kind-of support for using sound or video files with SWF files exported from indesign. If you want to get more information, send me an email: petteri.paananen[at]***prepress.fi (change [at] to @ and remove stars)

InDesign CS4 to PDF - Missing characters

I created a brochure (2-sided with lots of copy) using InDesign CS4; I exported it to PDF [Compatibility: Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)].
When opened in Acrobat 9 Professional on my computer, the file contents were perfect. The file was sent as an email attachment to prepress. When the printer opened it using Acrobat 7.0 Professional (don't know if it was on PC or Mac; they have both), there were missing characters.
The word "officer" occurred eight times in the document. In two of those occurrences, the characters "ffi" were missing. The remaining 926 words conveyed without a problem.
Any insights will be appreciated.
Frank

Embedding the entire font shouldn't make any difference whatsoever. InDesign embeds all the glyphs that are used. If the font is embedded at all, Acrobat only uses the embedded font.
Furthermore, Acrobat (including Acrobat 7) uses the local fonts option if and only if the font being accessed is not at all embedded and that particular font is on the user's system.
What is very suspect here is that the ffi ligature appears correctly in only 2 out of 8 occurrences in the word officer and that you see no problems on your system using Acrobat 9 Pro.
Here is what I would look for:
(1) Ascertain that the font is really embedded at all. Use CTRL-D and look to see whether the font is either embedded or subset embedded. If neither, that is the source of the problem. You could also run a preflight profile to ascertain that all fonts are properly embedded.
(2) You might want to find out what your printer is
really doing with your file. Is he opening a page or two in Illustrator, something can can cause very strange PDF corruptions? Are there any steps that he is performing before opening it in Acrobat such as processing it in some prehistoric workflow system that has more errors than an early Mets game?
(3) Find out whether your printer at least has Acrobat 7 updated with all the updates issued by Adobe. They were a whole carload of them. I think about 12 such updates in the 24 months that Acrobat 7 was current. You might also want to suggest that at this point, Acrobat 7 is a fairly old version for any printer that wants to stay up to date in terms of PDF print publishing workflow.
- Dov

InCopy CS4 (PC) / InDesign CS4 (mac) not working

My client and I are trying to establish an InCopy CS4 (PC) / InDesign CS4 (Mac) workflow. Neither of us has ever used InCopy and we are all getting frustrated now that our first production cycle has come and gone and the client is not recouping the money they invested on this software. Our trial system was successful for awhile and then it just stopped. The client says she can't open the icma/icml files and they need the indd file. So I send a new batch of files with the indd included and still no luck.
I'm saving the assigments like I've been saving in our initial trial run. In ID I go to Incopy > Export > Add all Stories to Assignment. That creates the content folder and the .icma files. I zip everything and send it off via email attachment.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Something my client needs to do? I prefer not to have to send the indd file. Should I have to do that for them to edit in Incopy? I appreciate any advice. Thank you. Lynn

Don't zip the files, that won't work.ID/IC is meant to work on a local server w/local staff. For a remote workflow you have to use a special technique.
After you create the assignment, use the Package for InCopy command in the Assignments panel.That creates an ICAP file that you send to the client.
When the double-click the ICAP file, it unpacks (it's like a zip file) on their computer and the assignment opens in InCopy. They work on the stories, and when they're done, they use the Return for InDesign command in *their* Assignments panel menu. That creates an IDAP file that they send to you.
When you open the IDAP file, it unpacks, looks for the INDD file (be sure not to rename or move it in the meantime), and updates the stories w/the editors changes.
Those are the broad strokes. It's covered more thoroughly in the online help file of both ID and IC ... you *and* your client should read up on it. And I cover it very thoroughly (4 videos ... Chapter 15) in my online Lynda.com tutorial on the CS4 workflow:
http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=651
(Chapter 15 isn't one of the freebie chapters, but you (or anyone) can use my 24-hour free pass for full access to their entire training library: http://lynda.com/freepass/amconcepcion)
AM

Guiones cortos al exportar Word a Indesign CS4

Cuando importo un archivo Word a Indesign, me elimina todos los guiones cortos. ¿Hay alguna manera de solucionar este problema? Gracias.

Prueba a importar ficheros en formato rtf en vez de formato word, diremos
que importa mejor rtf que word. Decirte que estoy harto de importar
ficheros word y nunca me ha pasado, no sé si será por la fuente que usas en
cuestión, pues de verdad que después de 8 años trabajando con él no me ha
pasado nunca, pero bueno, siempre hay una primera vez.
un saludo
mateo
2013/3/12 Antoni P. <[email protected]>
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Any Advice on Indesign CS4?

I am just learning to use indesign CS4. Any adivce on potential problems with the software. We are in page set up at this point and everything seems to be going well to me. I really like this program and look forward to learning more about it. Can anyone give me examples of daily usage of this program?

[email protected] wrote:
I have had problem with my adobe loading
huh?
you really need to be more specific as Adobe makes may different types of software.
or
were you talking about moving your mud brick house?

Adobe InDesign CS4 Phishing Scam

This may have been mentioned elsewhere on these forums, but I can't find it. I received an email this morning purporting to be from Adobe with a "user key" attached as a zip file:
Dear customer,
Your Adobe CS4 License key is in attached document below.
We encourage you to explore its new and enhanced capabilities with these helpful tips, tutorials, and eSeminars.
Thank you for buying Adobe InDesign CS4 software.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
[Attachment: License_key_#8567.zip]
Something else to watch out for. But you'd think at least they'd refer to the current version of the software.
Steve

OK. It didn't turn up with a search, but this related thread popped up once I posted:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4009250#4009250

Missing plug-ins for InDesign CS4? Fehlende Zusatzmodule für InDesign CS4?

Missing plug-ins for InDesign CS4? Fehlende Zusatzmodule für InDesign CS4?
Hello! Hallo!
I am working with CS4 on the Mac OS X, version 10.6.8. I created some InDesign files with it a couple of weeks ago. When I want to open them now again, it shows me a long list of plug-ins that I supposedly have to activate first or I need to buy the newest CS as an alternative.1. How did this problem come off? 2. How can I activate the missing plug-ins?
Ich arbeite mit CS4 auf einem Mac OS X Version 10.6.8. Habe damit vor einigen Wochen mehrere InDesign Dateien erstellt. Wenn ich sie jetzt wieder öffnen möchte, zeigt er mir eine lange Liste von Zusatzmodulen an, die ich angeblich aktivieren muss bzw als Alternative das aktuellste CS kaufen soll.
1. Wie ist das Problem zustande gekommen? 2. Wie kann ich die benötigten Zusatzmodule aktivieren?
Thank you all! Danke schön!

Actually, Indesign only says like "I can't open, because it was saved from a newer version" and does not list any extensions/plugins.
If you now make a new document, save it and open again - will it work?
Those plug-ins are usually enabled/disabled via the Adobe Extension Manager (Menü "Hilfe"->Erweiterungen verwalten).

InDesign CS4 to reinstall after a system crash. I have bought CS4 some years ago in order to update InDesign CS2. Of course, I have my S/N for CS4 but, during the reinstallation process, I have to give the S/N of InDesign CS2 wich is lost !

I'm unable to reinstall InDesign CS4 which was bought as an update of an old InDesign CS2. I have the serial number of CS4 but I have lost the S/N of CS2 which is required.
Thanks for help.
Y. Ravassard

Hi,
Thanks a lot for your answer. In fact, I’ve really registered CS2 in 2002 (october 14th). But I guess that, at this time, my email address was [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> which is no more presently usable.
So, when the installation program of CS4 requires the S/N of CS2 (because my CS4 was an update of a preceding CS2, I’ve an answer (1037-0225-5711-8675-6584-4525) but this answer is not considered as correct by the program.
I guess this change of mail adress is the reason why I don’t find, on my personal file on Adobe, any information about Indesign CS4 (S/N : 1037-0005-3808-1893-0944-6511) nor PhotoShop CS5 (S/N : 1330-0000-7535-1483-5980-1567).
Thanks
Y. Ravassard
P.S.- My local time is GMT + 2 so don’t be afraid if my questions / answers are a little bit … delayed.

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