Following my blog post from last week (‘Find Previous’ in Adobe InDesign), I actually got some feedback from Vipul-Bansal, an InDesign engineer, on the Adobe Forums: We had tried really hard to just provide two buttons “Find Previous” and “Find Next” but there were quiet [sic] a few design limitations because of which we can […]
Here’s a real-world scenario. (It’s very real in my world anyway.) I have a 200-page document in InDesign with lots of text in various frames. I need to review all occurrences of the word “department” in this document and change some of them — but only some — to “Department”. I cannot use a batch […]
Yesterday, I wrote a post about a new problem introduced in InDesign CC that involves the presence of a link to a PSD file on the page. Thanks to the feedback of Betalogue reader and fellow InDesign user Lars P., I am now able to confirm that the problem is more specifically linked to the use […]
It’s an inevitability: Every new version of a major software title introduces new bugs. I’ve just encountered one in InDesign CC, and it didn’t take an inordinate amount of sleuthing to identify its source. The problem surfaced when I started working on a publication designed by a client, which I am expected to translate, with […]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a new problem with Mac OS X 10.7.4 that causes InDesign CS6 crashes when using certain functions, such as the “Package…” command and deleting pages with content, because they display a warning dialog. In Mac OS X 10.7.4, the warning dialog box is blank and the application […]
Yet more fun with crappy Adobe products… Will the situation ever improve? Right now, on my Mac Pro 2009 running Mac OS X 10.7.4, if I open a publication in InDesign CS6 and then use the “Package…” command to create a complete package that I can send to the printer, I get an application crash […]
There is a bug in recent versions of InDesign CS (including CS5 and CS5.5) which causes problems for people who have footnotes in their publication. When you have consecutive pages that contain footnotes, editing the text on one page (changing its formatting in various ways, for example) can causes the text frame on the next […]
As a French-speaking user of Adobe’s InDesign page layout application, there is little that irritates me more than Adobe’s on-going refusal to support the standard keyboard shortcut for inserting a non-breaking space, a character which is an essential part of French typography (and should be used more often even in English typography). In InDesign, for […]
It’s that time of the year again. I am putting together a publication for our local university in InDesign CS5, and I have to work with existing Word files that were submitted by the various contributors and then edited by the publication’s editor-in-chief. And when you combine two lousy pieces of software such as Office 2011 […]
In InDesign CS4, when you opted to export a publication in PDF format, while the exporting was in progress, you would get this: In my experience, these two progress bars were, generally speaking, rather useless, because InDesign would typically jump from one end to the other with little indication of progress in between. But at […]
For the past few weeks, I have been using the latest version of InDesign (CS5) to do the layout of an academic review published by our local university. This has given me the opportunity to use the software in a more in-depth fashion and to compare it with my experience doing similar work with previous […]
Last year, I wrote about various bugs in InDesign CS4, including one where placing Word documents containing footnotes would sometimes, for no apparent reason, fail to import some of the footnotes and renumber the remaining ones. Needless to say, it was a pretty destructive bug, and one that I hoped Adobe would at least fix […]
For the past couple of weeks, I have been working hard on an academic review for which I have been doing the layout in InDesign for the past 7 or 8 years. I have always used the latest available version of InDesign, and so this time I proceeded to do the layout with the new […]
A short while ago, Adobe released a stand-alone updater for InDesign CS3 (version 5.0.3). Today, I got around to downloading it and installing it on my machine. I expected yet another lousy experience with Adobe’s Mac OS X software, and I was not disappointed. After the customary request for my administrator’s password (without even an […]
I don’t know about other InDesign users, but I get caught all the time… I am working on a multi-page InDesign document. I go to page X to make a change. The change involves selecting something, and possibly switching to the text tool to type some text. Then when the change is made I use […]