Nico, I've sent you a copy of the .dll, but it seems unlikely at this point that the file itself is bad since you've already replaced it with a working copy from a colleague's machine. It's more likely being triggered by something else. Can you create a new user and launch InDesign from that new account? InDesign is very sensitive to badly made or corrupted fonts. You said you haven't installed any fonts recently, but that doesn't mean one of the old ones isn't bad. If you have the original media for all of your fonts, I'd try removing everything except the required system fonts, then seeing if ID will launch. If it does, you know the problem is one of the fonts, and I'd reinstall from the original media, rather than just copying back the old ones. Do it in groups and test in between. The most common sources of badly made fonts are free font downloads, so I'd be most suspicious of those if you have any and want to try removing just a few fonts first to test. Peter ... View more

Nico, Does this happen if you rename the recovery data folder? It's possible that ID is trying to recover a corrupt file. http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb407150 Peter ... View more

If you contact me off forum at spammercatch at comcast dot net I'll send you the .dll and you can replace the one you have. Peter ... View more

First thing to try is a system restore to a point at least two days ago. Have you run any sort of Updates or installed any new software or fonts in the last couple of days? ... View more

But you have other fonts from Microsoft named Arial, yes? And I don't think Adobe ever supplied Arial MT. It is, or was, available from Monotype (through fonts.com) in T1, TT, and OpenType (Postscript flavored outlines). ... View more

Have you tried uninstalling either the the T1 or TT versions of the fonts, then switching, so only one version is active at a time? The patch Bob mentioned is here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1553 ... View more

Your issue with Arial could simply be that you have both the TT and PS versions installed, and they may have the same internal name in the name field being searched by CS2. It's ALWAYS a potential problem when you have multiple versions of fonts with the same name installed simultaneously, and Microsoft has, unfortunately, not gone the route of renaming fonts when they make new versions. ... View more

File a bug report here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform and be sure to offer to send in the problem file for analysis. Peter ... View more

In my opinion, that's a good thing. Any rotation angle is recorded and can be used later by the smart guides feature. Have you considered rotating graphic content inside the frame instead of rotating the frame? I doubt that's any better, but it would keep the bounding box oriented. Peter ... View more

That sounds like a current workspace based on changes to the default Essentials workspace, which would be located in the directory where you installed ID, as in \Adobe InDesign CS4\Presets\InDesign Workspaces\en_US. I'm not sure it would actually be created, and potentially "missing" unless you were using the Essentials workspace and moved something or changed the panel view and closed the application or changed workspaces. CS4 keeps track of changes you make to named workspaces in your user profile with names like that. Peter ... View more

Sasha, I'm going to recommend you move your post over to the Mac forum since that's your platform and the people who understand Mac kernel errors will be over there. That said, do you have any 3rd party plugins installed? If so, remove them and see if it helps. Peter ... View more

You have some sort of serious problem if this happens all the time. It is definitely NOT normal for Windows or Mac. Possible sources of the problem are bad video driver or possibly some bad font. Do you see anything in the Event Viewer Application log about the crashes? It would help a lot if there was some sort of error message to use as a starting point. Peter ... View more

I normally crop in ID, too, but the school paper is manned by low-skill students who have a lot of trouble getting things cropped and positioned correctly, so I like to give them as much of a chance as I can. :) ... View more

No, it's the same download, but there are two "program files" locations in 64-bit versions of Vista. I beleive the the 32 bit version is under the x386 directory, but I don't have Vista, so I'm not certain, and I'm not even sure it's necessary to put CS4 in that folder. Let's see if we can get Bob to pop in. He runs Vista 64. ... View more

Chuck, I get that error when I rename the TypeSupport folder. I'm thinking this may be a case of having installed into the wrong Program files directory. Do a system restore and install in the 32-bit program files directory and see if that helps. Peter ... View more

One more thought. On occasion I used to save PDF as .eps from Acrobat, then run that through distiller to get it to behave (mostly for cropping off the marks and page info and the huge empty borders when designers would send me two-inch ads on lettersize pages). You might give that a try. Peter ... View more

I've also got those Acrobat related installations, but I doubt ID is looking there since you can install it without Acrobat. The difference between the two paths was in the spelling of the TypeSupport vs TypeSpt folder name. If you didn't have earlier versions of Creative Suite products installed you may not have one of the folders. If you've got only the short version, try copying the folder and pasting the copy into the common folder with the original, then change the name to the long version. ... View more

Sorry, I should have said the FIRST path, with TypeSupport fully spelled out, is newer. Peter ... View more

The problem may be WHERE it is, not that it's missing altogether. I've just done a search for the file and come up with two candidates (on my XP system) for where the file should be: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\TypeSupport\Unicode\Mappings\Win and C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\TypeSpt\Unicode\Mappings\Win I suspect that these are the same files, but the two paths are used by different versions of Adobe applications. The second path seems to be newer, so I'd start with that. Peter ... View more

For what it's worth, which isn't much, I don't think this is an OPI comments problem. I've seen that with a lot of Quark generated PDFs because Quark enables OPI by default. On those files the page has printed, but random images will be missing from the placed PDFs. I don't know much about Page Plus, other than it is a low-budget solution. I suspect one way they cut costs is to use some open-source PDF clone engine to produce the PDF and it isn't adhering to the spec perfectly. Peter ... View more

Try renaming the SING folder. ... View more

Export or print the book to PDF, then print spreads form Acrobat. ... View more

How does it print? PDF is often a little flaky about display of thin lines, in my experience, but they print fine. Does it make a difference if you open the .eps file in Illustrator and save as native .ai, then link that instead? I think I recall some previous discussions about line renderings from .eps files generated by some CAD programs. Peter ... View more

Over on the ID forums we often wind up wanting to look at actual document files, not just images (which are often irrelevant to the problems we are trying to solve), and Pixentral doesn't support that. Lots of users have never tried to upload a file to any kind of server before, and being able to attach directly to the forum will be a big help, I think, but it does raise the issue of how much space, where, and for how long, will be dedicated to storing those files. I doubt if 100 gb would last a month. :) Peter ... View more

>And yes, we can keep everything on the new system (up to 100 gig, I believe). And how long do you think it will take to reach that limit with the new ability to attach files and embed images? Peter ... View more

Have you tried Dov's suggestion in post #5? Peter ... View more