InDesign on Sonoma

[Michael3035086873ul]

Has anyone tried Indesign on MacOS Sonoma?

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[BobLevine]

What problems are you having? AFAIK, almost every major issue affecting InDesign was fixed with 14.3.

[100pk]

Well, InDesign runs smoothly on Sonoma; Sonoma ‘feels’ smoother than Ventura too.

But one issue still remains (I had it with Ventura too): strange graphic glitches when switching between Normal and Preview mode:

[BobLevine]

Turn off GPU Performance. That "feature" has been a wonky mess since it was released.

There's one that is truly on Adobe to fix and they haven't done a very good job of it.

[Bertd]

I was under the impression that the problems were not solved yet. Also Adobe is not mentioning MacOS Sonoma on their requirements pages. Since I'm in the middle of a production phase I did not wanted to try this out.

But I assume now every mentioned problem is solved?

[BobLevine]

My standard advice: If you don't have a test machine, then make a full system backup before updating. Sonoma is now up to version 14.4.

Edit: Just to clarify that, you should make a full back up anyway but don't update if your test machine is showing issues that can't be addressed.

[Welma32653138qbai]

Yess. It’s insane. Paying a fortune in Adobe subs — and can’t use the rulers in Indesign.

[BobLevine]

First, as pointed out countless times, that was a workaround for an Apple bug. Secondly, as also pointed out countless times, Apple fixed that with 14.3.

[mojoprime]

I'm still having the slow down on opening and closing documents. I tried all of the fixes you and others suggested, Bob, and even updated to Sonoma 14.4, just released. Don't know what the issue is. Maybe it's something wrong with my system. Anyway. Thanks for your continued assistance.

[BobLevine]

What are your system specs? Processor, RAM, etc.

[mojoprime]

Mac Studio 2023, M2 Ultra, 64gb ram, 2tb harddrive

[BobLevine]

Well, that should certainly work. Have you tried resetting your preferences?

[mojoprime]

Yes sir. That was one of the first things I tried. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I've about given up that this is how things are going to be. I thought it might be related to old plug ins from FontXplorer, but they never got installed for the newer versions of IND. i disabled them anyway with no change.

[Steve Werner]

There is a distinction between problems which you experience when using a particular OS, and problems which are caused by the OS.

The great majority of Sonoma 14.5.x users are not having problems at all, including me.

Computer problems can be caused by many other issues, regardless of OS.

[mojoprime]

Actually, this issue was related to rogue file associated with a font manager app I had tried and decided not to use.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-is-slowing-down-while-open-documents-in...

I searched and found all the files related to that app, and since then it's been smooth sailing (knock on wood). We had to dig into the acivity manager threads to find it.

[Negin27279202gov7]

"Adobe Indesign is missing required system fonts or CMap files." error occurs on Sonoma! I have tried reinstalling and removing old Indesign application files, but nothing happens. Please advise as I have an InDesign class to teach from my computer this week!

[leo.r]

"Adobe Indesign is missing required system fonts or CMap files." error occurs on Sonoma! I have tried reinstalling and removing old Indesign application files, but nothing happens. Please advise as I have an InDesign class to teach from my computer this week!

By @Negin27279202gov7

Just to confirm: are you on the latest Sonoma, macOS 14.5.x?

[Negin27279202gov7]

Yes, it's Sonoma 14.5

[leo.r]

Also, here's another thread on this error, which suggests to run Adobe CC Cleaner Tool:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/missing-required-system-fonts-or-cmap-files/td-p...

[Steve Werner]

Use the CC Cleaner Tool and reinstall InDesign. See this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/missing-required-system-fonts-or-cmap-files/td-p...

[Steve Werner]

@Leo: We posted the same solution 38 seconds apart!~

[leo.r]

@Leo: We posted the same solution 38 seconds apart!~

By @Steve Werner

Oh yeah we can be fast!

[mojoprime]

There was another thread that had a solution that might work: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/missing-required-system-fonts-or-cmap-files/m-p/...

[Steve Werner]

@mojoprime: Worth trying but it dates to 2005 in CS2 days.

[mojoprime]

Sorry, you're right. i should have looked closer.