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Randall B Miller
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Randall B Miller
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‎Apr 14, 2023
04:08 PM
1 Upvote
A nice answer that applies to many formats, not just After Effects: replace the .aep extension on a duplicate of your file with .txt, and see a complete editable text version of your file. You may or may not be able to do anything, but at minimum, you can change internal meta-data etc. (similarly, with Office files, change the extension to .zip and get easy access to original assets)
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‎Nov 25, 2019
07:39 AM
Thanks, Rishabh, I spoke too soon. My problem reoccures after a few minutes of initial success. Twice I have made Caches and Prefences "old" so they will be remade by next startup. I've also reinstalled the program. I'm on Mojave 10.14.5, my Adobe programs are in the default Applications folder. Thank you for your help. Things like this don't happen to me 🙂
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‎Nov 25, 2019
07:07 AM
I just now replaced the Library/Cache files and preferences and it seems to have stopped, so no more problem. Thank you!
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‎Nov 25, 2019
05:46 AM
I've had to go back to v14. I cannot resize simple text frames by dragging handles (or by entering numbers in the control pallet).
When I do resize, I get an extra object outline, and the type doesn't reflow. I also have lost any access to Undo when I do this. I've tried this on New documents, as well as have reinstalled V15. This doesn't happen in v14.
Here I dragged from the left in about an inch. the text stays wide, doesn't flow in the requested "smaller" box.
I need to use V15 if at all possible, anyone know what I should do?
{Renamed By MOD}
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‎Jun 05, 2019
07:48 AM
The past two early release Mac OS's have had issues (like cursors becoming "noise-squares"). Has anyone tried current CC Indesign (and the others) on Catalina? I'm eager to try Apple Pencil with apps like this. I can't make Catalina and Adobe come up together in a Google search
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‎Aug 30, 2018
03:51 PM
For years, working with offsite editors using Incopy, I have updated my Indesign stories, based on the little yellow triangles that had a weird "wire" underneath them in the Links pallet. To me that meant, the Incopy user had made a change. I would quickly update, and go on with work. Now, the little symbols are gone. Now, I have to update every article, in hopes I don't miss one, since I'm blind to what has changed at the Editor's office. Am I the only one that has had these very helpful symbols disappear? Does this problem even make sense? I still have what otherwise looks like a common Creative Cloud folder between my editor and myself, like we have had for years. What changed? A setting somewhere? Randy
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‎Oct 26, 2017
01:46 PM
4 Upvotes
I'm not being snarky, (the worst sentences begin this way!)--But to get around this issue, I have reinstalled Indesign 2017, and called it a day. People on deadline here are implying that they feel trapped (If I'm wrong, I'm sorry, but I see real deadline anger?). I'm just glad that 2017 is still available for a clean install. Unless you need end-notes, do you have to have Indesign 2018?
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‎Oct 25, 2017
05:40 AM
I have fixed the low-res pdf issue (at least temporarily) by reformatting the boot drive and putting High Sierra, CC, etc. in as virgins, like a new machine. No transfer of settings etc. Its working now. I'll report back if it reverts to the bad behavior. (I had originated this forum question).
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‎Oct 22, 2017
04:55 PM
1 Upvote
Here is my Dropbox folder with a indd 2017 pdf and a indd 2018 pdf, of the same file. All link connected, green preflight. Thanks for looking at this! Randy Should be two pdfs, one for 2017, and the other 2018. The High Quality View on indd 2018 gives a very high resolution image of everything like expected, nothing like the low res 2018 pdf export... so I feel indesign has the right high res data, like it does in 2017, just isn't going to the pdf Dropbox - Indesign 2018 pdf export lowres
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‎Oct 22, 2017
06:35 AM
I have also tried manipulating the resolutions in the compression area, no change at all.
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‎Oct 21, 2017
02:28 PM
I can't make Indesign 2018 export a high res pdf. All the links are great. Preflight is green. Verified my pdf presets resolutions, and also tried the default ones. Everything, eps and raster, is low res when it comes up in Acrobat DC. When I go back to Indesign 2017, it outputs correctly at high res, the same exact files, as it always had. I uninstalled acrobat DC, and that made no difference. How do I fix the distiller with Indesign 2018? The Indesign 2018 pdf results look lower than 72 dpi. Anyone else see this?
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‎Apr 06, 2017
07:22 AM
1 Upvote
Just typing my last reply, I realized I should shut down my macro program (which I hadn't altered lately)--and it seems to have stopped the behavior. Thanks for the response, don't want to waste any more of your time.
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‎Apr 06, 2017
07:17 AM
I think its what you typically get when you use command-O (its like someone is pressing command-O every time I switch to Illustrator, with other projects open or not.)
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‎Apr 06, 2017
05:41 AM
On Mac Sierra: Every time I switch to Illustrator, I get the Open Window popping up. It started today. I then updated to newest 2017 version, didn't change anything. I'm pressing command-period every time I switch to Illustrator. Major nuisance. Has anyone seen this behavior in ANY app?
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‎Jan 12, 2017
09:31 AM
Sorry I didn't see context, you're right!
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‎Jan 12, 2017
08:45 AM
My food manufacturer client requires everything be 100% built in a specific version of Illustrator. Many groups require Illustrator. I don't get to choose software.
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‎Sep 30, 2016
10:09 AM
2 Upvotes
I agree. Basically we are just begging here, and hoping....but not expecting.
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‎Sep 30, 2016
09:05 AM
I would love to use Indesign. My client uses packagers that demand Illustrator, on top of that Illustrator CS6. No fun at all.
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‎Aug 17, 2016
06:37 AM
2 Upvotes
So many think merely rotating the art (or switching to another art program) is the answer for this issue. It's the wrong answer for anything but the simplest art. With dozens of layers, high-res placed rasters, thousands of objects... rotating complex art, merely for a better view (to perhaps proofread upside down type) is dangerous to your project surviving 100% intact. The procedure is onerous: 1) Unlock all locked layers. 2) Unhide all hidden layers. 3) Unlock all objects on all layers. 4) Worrying about, and possibly temporarily changing, your artboard size, or its rotation. Based on how you exactly select everything, you hope masking fills, groups, pattern fills, photo fills, rotate correctly, on screen. Large-area projects can rotate off of the maximum area permitted by Adobe (signage etc.) Objects can easily fly off-artboard (as well as off-screen and out of mind). Then when you are done looking at your art from the new angle, you have to reverse the above process to get back to where you started. (If you made any simple editing change, you can't undo or revert to get back to where you started.) Switching between Portrait and Landscape artboards is irrelevant, art doesn't move at all, just potentially puts static objects off-artboard. Switching software is not a possibility. My typical random clients expect Adobe files. I would be never used again if I somehow sent material from non-Adobe. (No one would understand why I even would do such a thing.) CC is the one thing random artists who will never meet or talk, have in common working for nationwide companies. I have no time to translate and hoping for accuracy between programs and versions. I wouldn't give non-Adobe files to other artists via a middle-man client, nor would ever want to receive non-Adobe art (when I do, such a nightmare and waste of time getting it in to CC intact, especially projects that have linked file collections in the gigabytes). This is a horrible procedure under rapid deadlines, where perfection is expected. I hope Adobe adds this. Too important not to. But we've been waiting literally decades. Another stopgap measure is to save your art as pdf, for the sake of rotating/viewing in Acrobat. But that's no fun for large complex art either.
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‎Dec 15, 2014
10:01 AM
2 Upvotes
pivot.app is available at the app store. You can look at your menu-screen monitor at 90, 180, 270 degrees. I design packages too all the time with upside down type. This pivot app is better than nothing. (note, your mouse pointer still thinks its right-side-up, so there is a bit of challenge in moving the mouse.) It's a shame that in late 2014, this most technical of programs doesn't allow looking at panels at any 90 degrees. So many files are too complex to unlock, unhide, and hope for the best, as you rotate and un-rotate back. It's a horrible answer for us trying to make a quick correction to someone else's 'upside file'. Please Adobe, please add this one feature. I'll never complain again. Randy
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‎Dec 13, 2013
12:18 PM
And all the additional money I make from using apps I never would have bought or looked at--it's wonderful too! Especially Adobe Muse, came from nowhere, and really shook up what I offer my customers, instead of sending them to web guys. This $50 a month thing is the biggest bargain in my life, going to a movie for two these days is $28. And this is soooo much better than the occasional $600 upgrades I could never feel like I wanted to afford. BUT this is my lonely opinion, apparently!
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‎Oct 17, 2013
05:02 PM
You're right, using all apps sounds so unlikely, but using MORE apps, at $0 additional cost per app, has really helped me. I tried Adobe Muse for no real reason, and now I'm making websites for my long term print clients. I never expected that to happen, or to enjoy it, or make that money. If "all" had not been available, it would have been unlikely I would have tried Muse. Having all apps, even if I use a third of them, seems like such a great opportunity to me. I'm looking forward to trying other ones as I get the chance.
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‎Oct 17, 2013
11:10 AM
Good point on portfolio mattering a lot, it sure does, regardless how produced. Maybe Corel is better or different than I've been led to believe. I just know no printer/service wants to receive or work with Corel files (especially eps). But maybe that's changed lately. Good luck in your search!
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‎Oct 17, 2013
10:07 AM
I wouldn't suggest trying to find real work for employers while proclaiming expertise with obscure non-industry-standard products. With clients, it doesn't matter, just so you can produce...but during job interviews, I can't imagine saying "I have 15 years experience in Corel!" And then you get the fun of receiving current Adobe data files from professionals that you can't open. I don't know how you would get around that. If you're producing art by yourself, for yourself, it doesn't matter. But how can you make a living interacting with professionals not using/learning what everyone else is? When a job goes bad on the press, the pre-press people can help you out, since they run Adobe stuff all the time. But how do you get out of press trouble like that when it's (relatively obscure) software? Life is easier using the most popular tools. But that also means you don't get to choose what those tools are.
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‎Jun 21, 2013
04:26 PM
I'm done too! Goodnight everyone!!! It was invigorating to run into strong opinions on a near and dear subject--Thank you!!
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‎Jun 21, 2013
04:26 PM
I have severe problems with CS3--advertisers ads created with newer versions would drop entire graphics because of transparency options added in later. I was blamed. Newer versions I can be worry free. We likely work in different conditions and expectations
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‎Jun 21, 2013
04:13 PM
maybe its just Mac then (all I've used)
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‎Jun 21, 2013
04:03 PM
That's a very fair reply. I have no idea on the future. It will likely get worse before it gets better. I've been happy since 1988, I'd be surprised if the party stops, but it sure can happen easily!
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‎Jun 21, 2013
03:59 PM
(I don't know how to spell perpectual either!)
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‎Jun 21, 2013
03:55 PM
however it's spelled, I can't imagine any software I buy today working on 2020 computers. I don't believe in software that runs forever. I was just saying, maybe that's why I don't understand using software forever with one purchase.
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