I know it doesn't help, but I can sympathise with some of the problems you're having. I also upgraded to a new laptop relatively recently, with Sonoma already installed. I daily face screen redraw issues, flashing graphics when I try to select them or move them, the screen turning completely black, etc. I'm in New Zealand so also paid a lot for my Macbook Pro M2 Max late last year.   As far as your scary changing text issue goes. I assume you will be sending a PDF to the papers, so you should be OK to trust your final output PDF. Although this doesn't solve the frustrating bug you're seeing, I guess fairly regularly creating press-ready PDFs will let you know if the problem is actually affecting your file or whether it's just some weird screen redraw bug.   There have been various threads on here mentioning turning rulers off and/or switching the GPU on or off, but unfortunately none of the solutions work for me. I too would be very interested to know about any InDesign-related bottlenecks I can address to get things running smoother. ... View more

If a printer is doing that I won't use them.   I'd love to be in the position of choosing which printers we work with, but unfortunately that is very rarely the case. Printers are most often dictated by existing contracts with clients, and most other printers we work with are chosen by clients based on price alone. ... View more

I'm with you troyjack – Adobe, please don't add this sort of thing to InDesign.   We don't need or want it and it is sure to add overheads that slow things down. If you need AI imagery there are already plenty of options around – both paid and free. ... View more

Having said that - Eugene is right to say ask for joboptions from your printer. ... View more

I don't know if it happens in Australia, but often if you ask for joboptions from a printer in New Zealand you're just met with confusion. They simply don't use them. Asking even some of the big printers what colour profile they would like us to use for a particular job and they simply don't have an answer. ... View more

The idea is that I am building my own Portfolio site from scratch in Dreamweaver. ... View more

I am exporting an OAM file of my banner ad from Adobe Animate and then placing the OAM file into a page built with Dreamweaver using the "Insert > HTML > Animated Composition" function. It seems to work so far? ... View more

I've since discovered that Dreamweaver supports OAM files exported from Animate. It seems fairly straightforward to place an OAM into a Dreamweaver page – except that now I'll need to learn how to use Dreamweaver 🙂 ... View more

Hi Marie   It'm not sure if this helps, as it may be different in Australia, but in New Zealand we've always used sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and Coated FOGRA39.   Steve ... View more

Thanks. I might try the Animate website build option. ... View more

Thanks kglad. I'm referring to animated HTML ads, that I'd like people to be able to play to see the animation. I don't think Adobe Portfolio does that. I appreciate the suggestion though. ... View more

After a quick play with extending images using generative fill I have found that the extra fill is significantly lower quality than the original image.   I have been testing it on fairly high resolution images (8000 x 8000px) and while the extended area is sometimes quite good (but also sometimes comically bad!) it can't be used as it is nowhere near sharp enough to match the original image. See the attached image where the top half is the original image and the bottom half the generative fill extension.   Maybe I'm just expecting too much of it. Are other people noticing this? ... View more

You can do this with a checkbox.   The key is to name all your checkboxes in the set with the same name, but give them each a different 'export value' in the options tab. This will give you the behaviour you want. ... View more

I'd suggest using the 'Show/hide a field' properties with your button. You can define these as an action in your button properties.   So set your photo to be 'hidden' in the 'General' tab of the button properties and then add the 'show field' option in the yellow button's actions.   I think this will acheive what you are trying to do. ... View more

The PDF you shared is actually just an image saved with a .pdf file extension, so that makes it even harder. It's not a true PDF with text converted to outlines. Unfortunately, the image that they saved as a PDF is low quality as well.   If this is all you have to work with then you could do it in Photoshop by duplicating the word 'SECOND' from the cover and carefully sizing it to replace 'FIRST' on the spine.   If they had actually given you a PDF with the text outlined as vectors then the change would have been pretty straightforward. ... View more

Something else that often works to trigger the fonts to load for me is to place the cursor in the middle of the text and just type a character, or space. That usually triggers that particular text block's font to load. Sometimes it triggers all the fonts in the document to load, but most times it just fixes the individual text block.   This may or may not help with troubleshooting the bug. ... View more

"…if you immediately close the document and reopen it everything looks absolutly fine.  When the same document is opened hours later the problem repeats itself."   We have had this problem on our Macs for some time – for a couple of versions of InDesign. I'd always put it down to our font management software being slow to activate the font (we use Suitcase), but I guess InDesign is playing a part in the issue.   It is quickest to do what you say – open a file, close it then re-open the file. Fonts will always be loaded on re-opening the file. However, in our case we also find that if we just leave the file for a while the fonts will eventually activate. ... View more

Thanks Colin! Not knowing how to control this has frustrated me for a lot of years.   I could be resizing a set of poster files from A3 to A2 and some would add space to the left, some to the right and I never worked out why. Proof that there's always something new to learn 🙂   Edit: Turns out I was getting mixed up with changing the document size. The reference point fails to influence how the page resizes there. Still, good to know it is controllable with the page resize tool. You just have to watch out for the document still reporting its size as what the original page size was. ... View more

That should stop things resizing, but is there any way to control where InDesign adds the extra 1/2 in on the page?   I've never worked out how InDesign allocates the space. Sometimes it adds it to the left side, sometimes the right, sometimes both. Same goes for top and bottom when resizing a page.   It doesn't seem to have anything to do with your reference point settings, but is it truly random as it appears to be or is there a trick I've been missing all these years 🙂 ... View more

Ah yes, those marketing types … 🙂 ... View more

In a production environment you should NEVER edit any text in a PDF to start with, variable or otherwise.   As much as Adobe like to keep sending out emails saying text is fully editable in a PDF, it isn't really… as I have had to explain to several of my clients who have received these emails.   Editing text in a PDF is only for people who are never going to go near a production environment and, to be frank, for people who don't know or don't care about the quality of the final output. ... View more

This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but it does format a table to defined widths. I got this script many years ago and unfortunately I am unable to determine where I got it from or who wrote it, so apologies to the author. It works for me as I need to format a whole bunch of tables to the same column widths within a document. Just change the values for the widths (in the second line of the script) and save it. Then select your table and apply. var myDoc = app.activeDocument; var myWidths = [96, 19, 19, 19]; for(var T=0; T < myDoc.textFrames.length; T++){ for(var i=0; i < myDoc.textFrames[T].tables.length; i++){ for(var j=0; j < myWidths.length; j++){ myDoc.textFrames[T].tables[i].columns[j].width = myWidths[j]; } } } alert("Table width updated successfully...");   I hope this helps. ... View more

You need to identify the element that is crashing your file. Saving it as an .IDML might fix it, but if not you need to start working out exactly what element is causing the crashes.   Start by duplicating the document, so you have a back-up copy. If you know roughly where the crashing page is, try deleting all the pages except for a couple either side of it, so keep perhaps page 50 to 60. See if that document still crashes. If it does then delete half the pages and see if it still crashes. If it does, then the problem page/element is in the other half. So go back and delete the opposite half of pages and so on and so on until you've narrowed down the page or spread that the issue is on.   Try updating all the links on the offending page/s first and see if that fixes it (just update them with a generic link). If so then try replacing the links one at a time and you'll find which one is crashing it, and be able to replace it with a resaved version.   I have had instances where it was text that was causing the issue too. In that case, once you have established which page is causing the issue, you need to remove just that page/s and insert blank page/s to replace it. Then you can go back to either a PDF to get that text, or you original. Save it as unformatted text (use Text Edit) and then reimport that bit (we suspected in our case that it was something that had come in with an impot form MS Word). You'll obviously need to restyle the text once it is back in your document, but the rest of your document will still be intact.   But hopefully just saving as .IDML will sort it out! ... View more

I recall this happening to InDesign CS6 with, I think, OSX Mavericks on the Mac. What version of InDesign and OS are you using? ... View more

Is this ever going to be fixed Adobe? ... View more