Frans v.d. Geest
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Frans v.d. Geest
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Mar 25, 2025
09:12 AM
Sadly, even the older interface has become impossibly buggy. Twice in the last three weeks, I've had to get technical suppport because Acrobat had slowed to the point it was taking 40 seconds or more just to open or close a file. But I'm now doing something that I encourage everyone else to do also. I'm writing a complaint letter to Adobe's CEO. We need to make our voices heard at the top of the food chain. Here is the CEO's information: Shantanu Narayen President and Chief Executive Officer Adobe Systems Incorporated 345 Park Avenue San Jose, California 95110-2704
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Mar 24, 2025
02:37 AM
1 Upvote
I think the same. I really, really non't need any AI to create a Layout. Especially not, when this is nothing I can decide by putting on or off. Especially not if it is slowing down everything. It's the same everywhere. People programm some gimmicks who never work with the programs sincerely just to have a great show at the Adobe events. Sometimes less is much more.
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Mar 22, 2025
08:21 AM
I agree, it should be the default or at least an Preference setting. Have you looked at submitting a feature request?.
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Mar 20, 2025
11:45 PM
I'm on the latest version of everything. At the end a restart fixed the problems. I do have a theory of what happend though. I did a transfer of my setup to a new mac through mac os, and I think that the preference files were corrupted somehow. Deleting the prefs and restarting did the trick.
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Mar 20, 2025
10:17 AM
That's exactly what Acrobat/PDF does if you want it to. No need for it within InDesign, even for export.
But we've said that.
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Mar 20, 2025
06:07 AM
https://fvdgeest-dtp.blogspot.com/2018/04/co2-etc-grep-anno-2018-met-een-nieuwe.html
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Mar 19, 2025
07:04 PM
[...] "Allow Off Allow Document Pages to Shuffle." (Sort of counterintuitive.) [...]
By @defaultvs1q1ebng424
For a long time - I was thinking the same 😉
Until you think about it from the InDesign's "point of view" - when checked, it means that InDesign controls flow of pages - when user adds new pages - and makes sure, that there is only one page - Facing Pages OFF - or two pages per Spread - Facing Pages ON.
Otherwise - user can add more than one / two pages per Spread - and on either side of the spine.
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Mar 18, 2025
01:40 PM
Interesting fix, thanks for sharing: as luck would have it, my system is an Intel Mac mini with no dedicated graphics card, so no option for me. 😞
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Mar 17, 2025
10:53 AM
Blocked how? At your end? Just visit creativepro dot com.
By @Frans v.d. Geest
Yep YouTube is blocked in China when OP is from.
However, interestingly, the video in the CreativePro link you posted doesn't seem to appear in certain browsers.
I can see it in Brave and Opera but not in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, for example.
Chrome:
Brave:
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Mar 17, 2025
04:42 AM
For me this new plugin is working, no more crashes or slow response from Indesign.
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Mar 13, 2025
10:21 AM
1 Upvote
And then there are Accessibility tags and you change a level. You have to check each 'based upon' style. I respectfully disagree with 'as it should be'. You can, not should.
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Mar 13, 2025
04:56 AM
Hi @.random..,
Thanks for sharing your experience! The experts have offered some great suggestions, were you able to try them out?
Could you also confirm which version of InDesign you tested this with? Additionally, if possible, share a screen recording showing when the delay occurs and when it doesn’t. That will help me investigate further with the team.
Looking forward to your update!
^
Abhishek
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Mar 12, 2025
04:05 AM
Hi Frans! Thanks for your message. I tried this and it does indeed remove the blue markings but the style of my radio buttons remains a circle instead of text.
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Mar 08, 2025
11:44 AM
Here is an example of a button that shows a hidden, read-only text field (popup) and a checkbox. Clicking the checkbox hides itself and the popup. It would require the free Acrobat reader; will not work in Preview or most browsers. It did work in Chrome with Acrobat extension.
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Mar 08, 2025
04:46 AM
OH SWEET JESUS! SOLVED...THANK YOU!!
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Mar 07, 2025
07:10 PM
I'm a fan of FontAgent, and I do still have it installed, but like Bob and Dave, I'm finding I don't really use a font manager. I think I keep FontAgent installed because I was a beta tester for it in the early days and I'm sentimental 🙂 That said, I think it's solid, relatively easy to use, and gets the job done.
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Mar 06, 2025
04:44 PM
Hi John, another user reported that the latest version that was recently released should fix this now (20.2), thought I would reply to you so you can give it a try. If not, I'd still recommend giving the above steps a try (reducing the Number of Recent Items to display from 20 to 0) as it might work for you too. The lag hasn't returned for me since so hopefully it'll be fine going forward. Best of luck1
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Mar 05, 2025
03:39 PM
@jay_9092
If your students are using InCopy as a WYSIWYG / Rich Text editor - why not use WORD or Google Docs?
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Mar 05, 2025
10:27 AM
Hi @HD Schellnack ,
also look into Ariel Walden's InDesign script Translate that is working with DeepL. Currently I'm testing it:
Translate One-click translation of your InDesign document!
Id-Extra’s Translate add-on for InDesign uses the power of DeepL™ (and/or Google™ Translate) to change your document’s language while retaining the document’s look, layout, and formatting!
December 2022 update: We have switched to DeepL.com as our main machine-translating provider. (However, the old Google Translate add-on is included in the download package as well.)
https://www.id-extras.com/products/translate/
Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )
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Mar 03, 2025
09:26 AM
It is doing it again. I wish i knew what the issue was so that I could fix it instead of having to recreate this whole multi-page catalog.
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Mar 02, 2025
11:59 PM
Thank you for your answers. I am on a MacOS so I am now doing tests with VoiceOver. I have checked "Use for Tagging Order in Tagged PDF". On your advice, I am using Acrobat's Accessibility checker to help me identify the problems. I am training at the same time as I am doing this project. I have made 2 documents: - the original magazine optimized for greater accessibility (balises, texte alternatif) - the magazine adapted for even greater accessibility (management of color contrasts, size and choice of font, more spacious text, deletion of text in columns) I managed to obtain a fairly good result, but I still encounter a problem on the original magazine with the text in columns. When I read the file with VoiceOver, on some pages the screen reader does not "understand" the columns and jumps from one to the other while reading the lines of the 2 parallel columns. Do you know how to correct this problem? If this one come from my document and not from VoiceOver. I don't understand why only certain pages are causing problems, I tried to delete the images, to separate the columns into 2 distinct linked text blocks... Nothing changes. Have a good day !
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Feb 27, 2025
10:04 AM
...to be honest, your answer does not make any sense to me at all... 🤨 Are you confusing paths or the PAC message on 'non essential artifacted item' etc? Illustrator has nothing to do with this at all... 🧐
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Feb 26, 2025
11:20 PM
@BrantlyGoodwin said: " … When I click the the options dropdown I see no option to 'release'. Is there some other way to get to the release option?"
Hi @BrantlyGoodwin ,
what always is working:
[1] Select the anchored object
[2] Zoom to e.g. 200 % to center the selected object in the layout window
[3] Cut the selected object to the clipboard ( Cmd + x / Ctrl + x )
[4] Paste ( Cmd + v / Ctrl + v )
Regards, Uwe Laubender ( Adobe Community Expert )
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Feb 25, 2025
07:32 AM
/Applications/Adobe\ InDesign\ 2024/Resources/Cookies/ENABLE_POSIX_PATH
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Feb 25, 2025
05:01 AM
Please please please please give us a checkbox to turn off the notifications that pop up every time an image is updated. I also like to listen to music with Apple Airpods when I'm layouting, which then automatically switch from the iPhone to the computer every time the (video) notification pops up. That's really annoying.
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Feb 21, 2025
04:27 AM
@James3669094303ct
You can either increase soace after for the first paragraph - or space before for the second paragraph.
But you should do it in the ParaStyles applied - not as a local formatting.
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Feb 17, 2025
09:49 AM
Cross reference markers, looks like someone tried a view times to insert a cross reference at this same point.
EDIT: Mike made a good suggestion, look at it in the Story Editor.
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Feb 17, 2025
09:45 AM
Sure. Now hope the OP gets back to us and notes it as solved.
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Feb 15, 2025
11:42 AM
Feb 10, 2025
07:07 AM
Omg i didn't know for the touch workspace, thank you so much for your help !!
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