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Anonymous
October 26, 2010
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InDesign CS5 Background Tasks

  • October 26, 2010
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When one opens Window->Utilities->Background Tasks, one can see a panel UI with title called "BACKGROUND TASKS". It seems the Panel is for showing something about background process(or maybe a thread on windows). I wonder if there is any way that we can see something on this empty panel, in what situation we can see it. Could one see something when a background process is forked or another thread is activated? Anyone tried it? Thanks

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karincanada
Participant
November 20, 2015

You can also cancel a background task. Like when you hit export when you weren't quite ready...

latoyas27875186
latoyas27875186
Participant
June 29, 2016

How?

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Anonymous
October 26, 2010

In one case, that is, ID CS5 export doc as PDF file, one might be able to see the progress on the "Background Tasks" according to ID CS5 document. I am not sure whether my Plug-In background tasks can be shown on this panel or not.

Harbs.
Harbs.
Legend
October 27, 2010

I'm pretty sure it's only possible for tasks running in a separate thread...

Harbs

tomaxxi
tomaxxi
Inspiring
October 26, 2010

Hey!

"Background Tasks" panel is used when you are exporting your document to PDF.

So you can open multiple documents, and export all of them to PDF without waiting for first to finish.

It's like PDF export queue.

Hope that helps.

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tomaxxi

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