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‎Nov 27, 2018
04:04 AM
Okay. But I don't even post here on a regular basis (most of the time I find answers to my Adobe questions by reading what others have written), so I'm unlikely to be a good test case. But if others come here because it happened to you also, please speak up. (I had a hard time choosing which of your replies to designate the "answer", as they were all helpful pieces.)
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‎Nov 27, 2018
03:21 AM
How would I report it? Or can you simply do it as a moderator? I don't have any screenshots or other supporting evidence.
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‎Nov 27, 2018
02:50 AM
1 Upvote
Thanks. I wasn't nervous about getting in trouble (although I'll admit that the word "rejected" is not pleasant to see) but was wondering if there might be a bug that needs reporting. If the system says the post submission failed (no matter what the reason), it shouldn't secretly submit the post anyway.
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‎Nov 27, 2018
01:08 AM
I was writing a question on the Acrobat forum, and I started to get a periodic red message at the bottom saying that it couldn't auto-save, that I was possibly signed out, and offering a link to refresh the page. (I don't remember the exact wording.) I was not signed out, so I don't know what the problem was. I refreshed another tab I had open on the forum, and it showed me still signed in. When I finished writing and clicked Post, I got the same error. But the message only stays visible for a couple seconds, and I didn't respond fast enough to click on the refresh-the-page link. So I clicked Post again just to force the message to reappear so I could click on the link. (I chose that method rather than my browser's refresh in the hopes that it would be smarter about saving what was in the form.) Most of my content went away (proving that auto-save was indeed failing), but I restored it from where I had copied it elsewhere and submitted successfully. But the surprise was that I got three emails from moderation: one approval and two rejections! Does that mean that the first two submissions, which supposedly failed, actually succeeded?
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‎Nov 27, 2018
12:26 AM
I don't know which version update to Acrobat Pro DC caused this (I currently have 2019.008.20081), but recently the comments pane/comments list (I don't know what it's actually called) has lost all color coding. It used to be that the names of different commenters would show up in different colors, and the comment currently selected had a beige background so you could easily see where you are. Now everything is white or gray, and it's hard to see what's going on. Is there any way to bring color back to that pane? Here is a small screenshot I found in an old email, next to a view of what it looks like now. Notice how it would be hard to scan for a name (e.g. Karen) through dozens of comments and replies that looks like this.
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‎Nov 02, 2018
03:00 AM
Yeah! I'm using Acrobat Pro, not Reader, but apparently the same change was made to both. I came here thinking there was some setting to change it back, but apparently not. Where can I sign the petition?
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‎Jun 25, 2018
09:14 AM
I voted and commented on the second one you cited, but although the title sounds like exactly what I want, the description is different, talking about the Initial View setting for a document. That's not really what I want, as it puts the burden on the person who creates the PDF and forces that view on everyone, not just those who want it. I decided to add my idea as a new request, but in the process discovered that someone else already did and it was declined! See: setting to open sidebar with comments by default – Share your feedback on Acrobat DC So I suppose there's no point in posting an additional suggestion of the same thing.
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‎Jun 18, 2018
11:13 PM
Resurrecting my old thread... I just stumbled across "Actions", and thought it might have potential for this little annoyance of mine. I created an Action to apply to the Dropbox folder where the documents with comments are always placed, and added the tool "Comment". But it does nothing automatically when a file is opened. So then I tried applying the Action simply to the currently opened file instead of a folder, hoping there might be a way to attach a hotkey to it. But alas, that does not appear possible - to run an Action, you apparently have to click Tools, scroll way down to the bottom, click Action Wizard, click the Action you want, then click Start. Obviously that is harder than the way I've been doing it, not easier. Is there a way to have an Action automatically run when a file is opened, or a way to assign a hotkey to it so you don't have to go find the Action Wizard? Or if Actions is barking up the wrong tree, is there some other new feature since last year's conversation that will allow me to get to that Comments List in some more automated way? It seems so logical to me to offer a Preferences checkbox like, "Always open Comments List whenever a file with comments is opened", but maybe it's not logical to Adobe decision-makers.
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‎May 29, 2018
09:30 PM
It is happening to me too, every time I try to delete a point on my mask and sometimes when I try to move a point. I've resorted to completely removing the opacity mask altogether and starting over instead of trying to modify a path. I also am using CC2017 (I tried CC2018, but a massive memory leak conforming audio forced me to revert). I also am using Windows 10 64-bit. When it happens, I first get this debug event announcement: When I click Continue, I then get a red error message in the lower right corner saying it was an "input contract violation" plus another dialog: Can anyone who is using CC2018 on Windows 10 confirm whether this bug was fixed in that version?
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‎May 29, 2018
07:41 PM
I have now noticed that other Adobe software has the same problem, and the version delineation is also less clear, as most of my programs are still the 2017 version. I see imported resource files in all of these lists, and exported results in most of them (Premiere Pro is the exception, but it uses Media Encoder for output). It's weird that InDesign 2017 Japanese doesn't do it - it shows only files that were opened. I did what I could to test non-Adobe software. Everything I use except Adobe and MS Office are "portable" versions, so they don't store anything in the registry, and MS Office has very little capability of merely exporting - in most cases Save As ends up with the new file format opened in the software, which would naturally put it in the Recent list. But an exception is PDF - it is a true export (because Word can't even open a PDF as far as I know), and the resulting file does not appear in the Recent list. Before the screenshot below, I opened an existing Word document and saved it as TXT and PDF, and only the TXT (which had become the currently open document) showed up on the Recent list. So the limited evidence is still that only Adobe software has the problem.
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‎May 15, 2018
05:55 PM
Agreed, jblo. It doesn't even need to look at the whole clip - just looking at the first few seconds would suffice. And if it did that, it would work even on clips that don't have any extra on the front even in the original source. By the way, I just got a notification of Albright Productions responding with their workaround, but "View the full discussion" link goes to a different thread ID (https://forums.adobe.com/message/10384457) which doesn't exist, and the response is not here either, even though their profile says they responded on this thread (see https://forums.adobe.com/people/Albright%20Productions/content?filterID=participated). Weird. Anyway, their method sounds even more complex than other workarounds proposed - two round-trips of exporting, importing, and replacing audio.
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‎Apr 24, 2018
07:48 PM
One more screenshot - to prove that inside CC2018 everything looks as it should. Both on the opening view and in the menu item File->Open Recent, all the INDD files I have opened recently appear. There is one PDF at the bottom of the list, but it's possible that I did try to open that one as an experiment - I don't remember.
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‎Apr 24, 2018
06:52 PM
Adobe Acrobat DC is the default application and always has been so. Looking at the Recent list again now, it's even weirder - it almost seems random. I'm seeing recently exported PDFs (perhaps all of them - I'm not sure), recently placed image files (some, not all), and a couple INDD files (some, not all). Here is an annotated screenshot of my current list: As I said, I also have InDesign CC2017 Japanese, which I installed in February this year when I discovered that the English version didn't create the right kind of printer marks for Japanese printshops. I just now looked more closely at its recent list and did some testing (shown below). Although it has only INDD files (I exported a PDF just now, and it did not appear), it also has other mysteries. Only four of the files were actually opened in that version - the top two were today's test (a Save As and an Open) and the next two were in February. The rest were only opened in the English version! Most are older (from before I upgraded the English version from 2017 to 2018), so it's logical to assume that it adopted a list that was present on the system. But notice that two of the icons are different from the rest (I pointed at them with yellow arrows) - those are CC2018 files, and I think the rest are CC2017 (from before I upgraded the English installation). And neither of those icon types look like the white-bordered icon showing for all files in the above list. The fact that the icons in the above list are all the same for five totally different types of files is also an indication that something isn't working right. Do these clues help you figure out what might be going on?
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‎Apr 05, 2018
04:26 PM
If I open InDesign and look at "File->Open Recent...", the list is only INDD files that I actually opened. But if I right-click on the InDesign shortcut on the Start Menu in Windows 10 (either a pinned large square or the small one in the list of all programs), I get not only INDD files but also all PDFs I exported. I export a lot of PDFs (e.g. individual articles from a single document of a magazine layout), so the INDD file I want is often not even in the list. Is there something I can do about that? I think this is a recent problem with InDesign CC2018, because I also have CC2017 (albeit the Japanese language version) installed, and its Start Menu icon only lists INDD documents, as it should.
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‎Mar 22, 2018
07:36 PM
Okay, I wrote a feature request for it: Option to have list indents work near text-wrap objects – Adobe InDesign Feedback Yes, please vote for it so that it gets the attention of the powers-that-be. I realized while writing it that numbered lists are even more of a problem than bullets - using an en-space or em-space for Text After won't work, because numbers vary in width. So far I haven't had to put a numbered list next to an non-straight text wrap, but I'm sure the day will come!
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‎Mar 22, 2018
06:30 AM
1 Upvote
r5dsign: You're lucky that you didn't have a third line on your bullet curving around that water image. Your workaround would have failed then. Plus, apparently you don't mind your bullets being flush left. Today I'm trying to lay out a magazine article with LOTS of bullets and a design that uses photos canted at angles. No matter where I choose to put the photos, I can't seem to avoid having some to the left of bullets, resulting in this kind of thing (normal behavior on left, wrapped situation on right): Two things are lacking: (1) the indent before the bullet (3mm in my case), and (2) the additional indent of non-first lines (3mm plus the size of an en-space, however much that is). "Indent to Here" would only solve #2, and only if the photo edge was straight vertical. It seems crazy to have to add a network of invisible rectangles (three rectangles just for these two bullets alone), but I guess that's what I have to do. Why isn't there simply a checkbox in either the Text Wrap dialog or Bullets/Numbers dialog to tell InDesign to treat the edge of the wrap area as if it was the left edge of the text frame?
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‎Mar 02, 2018
04:21 AM
Wow, I never noticed that "Offset" field before, or if I did, I didn't know what it meant. Laubender suggested DIY marks, but I don't have to match the mark style exactly, so that would be more work and would have to be part of the real document, not added only when needed. I love the simplicity of Vladan's suggestion of just setting an offset! I don't need it to be bigger than the bleed value - just equal to the bleed looks fine. Responding to Laubender's comment about no more need for marks, that's not up to me. The printshop (probably the largest online printer in Japan, which has done a great job for me for nine years) has a very specific guide for what settings to use in every version of all software whose output they support, and in InDesign they want the first three categories of marks (called inner, outer, and center in Japanese). Today no one said, "If you're having trouble avoiding the bleed with your marks, just turn them off." Whether the physical machines need them or not, I don't know, but I'm happy to do it their way.
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‎Mar 02, 2018
02:40 AM
As an American who lives in Japan, I used the Japanese version of InDesign and other Adobe software for many years, but now that I subscribe to CC I enjoy the luxury of being able to install either language version as desired. There are a few Japan-specific features not in the English version, most notably vertical writing. But as long as I don't need those features, it's easier to navigate the interface in English. But today a large print job had printer marks showing on the edges of many of the pages, and the printshop people and I discovered that the PDF export functionality in the English version of InDesign does not have the same types of printer marks. In the Japanese version, there are three choices of "Type" in the Marks section of the Marks and Bleeds tab. See this screenshot, where I'm showing the selection dropdown open, and translated the choices below. ("Center mark" is apparently "registration mark" in English.) But if you look at the English version, you'll see that there is only one choice for Type: "Default". I don't know if you've ever wondered why a dropdown even exists if there is only one choice, but now you know - there are more choices in some language versions. What is the difference, you ask? See here a demonstration of the three. The lighter blue area is the 3mm bleed, and you can see that in the Western style of marks ("Default" in the English version), the crop marks and registration marks encroach on the bleed area. What's the point of having a bleed to protect against cutting misalignment if printer marks are going to be printed within them? It doesn't make sense to me, nor did it to the printshop. The printshop was extremely kind to me - they are reprinting my large print job at no cost, even though it wasn't their fault. But what should I do in the future? Ideally it would be nice to have those printer mark type choices in the English version - is it possible to somehow import them? If not, is it possible to have both languages of the same CC version installed? So far I haven't been able to do that - currently I have English CC2018 and Japanese CC2017, but if I do my layout in the English version, I'll need the same or newer version in Japanese to create the PDF. So if I can't have 2018 in both languages, I'll need to reverse the order and have Japanese always be one version newer rather than older. Or does someone have other ideas of how to solve this without wrecking my workflow too badly? (I'm also curious if someone can explain why the "Western" mark style is not a problem in Western printshops - this baffles me.)
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‎Feb 11, 2018
08:44 AM
Never mind - I just noticed that you got CC17 working okay, so you don't need to fight this CC18 bug. I guess we can add this to the list of mysterious things that have gone wrong in CC18.
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‎Feb 11, 2018
08:39 AM
I'm glad to hear that it's working for you. I'm curious: Why did you need to rename all your folders? I didn't have that problem. The path to each asset should be relative to the project file's location, so if nothing moved, I don't know why reinstalling the software would lose the paths.
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‎Feb 11, 2018
08:25 AM
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I noticed in your example that the difference in peak values is exactly 1/3. Perhaps it's a coincidence, but take a look at other clips - if that trend continues, perhaps there is an audio effect on those clips that is being interpreted in some strange way. If that turns out to be the case, perhaps there is a way to search for all uses of that effect and apply a fix. Alternatively, if the difference is consistently 10.6 dB, perhaps it's not too much labor to add an amplitude effect of -10.6dB to one of the clips, then copy the effect, and paste it on each clip that has the problem. Either way, look for something in common between the clips that changed. An effect is what comes to mind, but it could be something else - you know your project. If you can identify the common factor, you might be able to: (a) do something directly to the effect or whatever it is, or (b) at least use that characteristic to find the clips more quickly that need adjustment.
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‎Feb 10, 2018
04:43 PM
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No, I'm sorry, I haven't heard any new news. The precious Dolby file is lost when you upgrade to CC18, and if you find CC18 unusable because of the memory leak and reinstall CC17, you won't get the codec file again because of some licensing issue. If you have a backup of your computer before you upgraded to CC18, get the codec file from there. I previously linked the forum post that has the path, but here it is again: Re: Premiere 2018 - A Disaster! If you don't have a backup, look for a coworker/friend/etc. who uses CC17 (or earlier version), and do two things: (1) warn them not to upgrade until Adobe fixes the memory problem, and (2) copy their codec file. I don't think it's legal for me to post my copy of the file (if it was no big deal, Adobe would still be including it in the CC17 installation), but if you can find it internally somehow, that's probably okay, as it simply restores your installation to how it was before CC18.
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‎Feb 07, 2018
07:59 PM
I have the same question as this thread: Getting PDF page numbers to NOT match InDesign file's. But in 2018, with the newest CC versions of everything, none of the menu items described in the three suggested solutions exist anymore. I eventually found "Extract Pages" (reply #2 in the other thread, but the navigation is completely different) and used that workaround this time, but I'm hoping there is an easier way for the next time - I frequently export only some pages of an InDesign document, and I almost always would want the PDF page numbers to start at 1, not look like this kind of crazy thing: Plus, it seems that by now there should be an option in InDesign when exporting the PDF in the first place, rather than just workarounds in Acrobat later. I really expected a simple checkbox in the Export Adobe PDF dialog (probably somewhere in the Pages section), but alas... I searched for a more recent question about this, but everything I found was either some quirky bug when using multiple sections (which I rarely do anyway), or about adding page numbers to the visible document (e.g. in the footer) in either Acrobat or InDesign, not about the internal numbering.
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‎Jan 09, 2018
08:20 AM
Can anyone verify my observation about PNG images? There are two ways that PNGs can have transparency: an alpha channel or a certain color rendered transparent. I have no idea whether both or only one type cause the behavior, because I don't know how to tell which type of transparency my images have. If you know how I can tell the difference so I can test both in InDesign documents, let me know. But I'm pretty confident of my basic theory that at least one of those types of files causes the "unsaved changes" issue in ID documents. If it's confirmed, should I report it to Adobe somehow?
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‎Jan 05, 2018
01:12 AM
My C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC 2018\Scripts\startup scripts folder has only one file in it: ForceDirectory.txt The entire contents of that file is: Short Story: This file exists solely to force the source code version control system to create this directory/folder. Not likely to be causing anything strange with documents, and I suspect everyone has this file. I did a bunch of experiments, and my hypothesis based on the observable evidence is that it happens whenever a document contains a PNG that has transparency (whether it's linked or embedded doesn't seem to matter). It doesn't matter whether the document was created in an older app version and converted or created fresh in 2018. As soon as I remove all transparency PNGs, the symptom stops, and when I put one in a fresh document, the symptom starts. Can one of you test my hypothesis?
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‎Jan 05, 2018
12:18 AM
I took my New Years postcard document (because it's much smaller than the magazine and I know its complete history), saved it as IDML, opened that, saved as a new INDD file, closed, and re-opened. Same behavior - it shows an asterisk and expects me to save before closing. By the way, I was mistaken about my app version - I have CC2018 (13.0.1 x64, to be precise). ----- Side topic: Looking at the files, I'm baffled as to how IDML files can contain all the information. INDD needs 1.33 MB even after its "cleansing", but IDML apparently holds the same information in 112 kB? Magic?
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‎Jan 04, 2018
09:51 PM
Addendum: I just tried a different document that was not inherited from others but is the current version of a Save As that was originally done in an older version of InDesign (my yearly New Years postcard - the Japanese version of a Christmas card custom). It also does the asterisk thing. So it's definitely not scripts (I have never made a script, and I'm the only person who has ever touched the New Years cards), but perhaps there is something down in the file that knows it was originally converted, even though it's not now. If so, there should be lots of people experiencing this.
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‎Jan 04, 2018
09:46 PM
Michael: 1. It happens even if I save, close, and re-open the same document immediately. 2. No links have been touched. 3. I don't know how to write scripts for ID, but the document I'm currently looking at was inherited from someone else (a couple years ago) and reused repeatedly, so you caused me to wonder about this one. But opening the Scripts panel and then expanding the whole list, there are no scripts in this document from another one I made from scratch recently that does not exhibit the strange behavior. I looked for a way to "disable all scripts" or something else non-destructive to test whether a script is the cause, but I don't see anything like that - if you have an idea, let me know. 4. I don't know about variables, and there is no current date in the document I'm currently looking at (it's a quarterly magazine, and nothing is automatic that I know of). 5. Yes, fonts are fine - all or almost all are Typekit. Steve: My InDesign is CC2017. This particular document has probably been through a number of versions and converted (I have no idea when the first one was created from scratch - possibly even before CC), but it's currently current. Like I said, I can save, close, and immediately re-open, and it will still add that asterisk in about one second.
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‎Jan 04, 2018
07:32 PM
For some documents but not all, right after the document finishes loading, an asterisk will appear in front of the filename, indicating that InDesign thinks there are unsaved changes. Edit->Undo is still grayed out, so there is no action that InDesign thinks I have taken, so what is it doing? There are no errors, no broken links, no missing fonts. If at that point I close the document or ID overall, naturally ID will ask if I want to save changes. It doesn't matter if I say yes or no - the next time I open that document, it will do the same thing.
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‎Jan 04, 2018
03:56 PM
Apparently that worked for you, but on both audio drivers I have, that action said, "The best drivers for your device are already installed."
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