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Well, I was using the forum yesterday and then came back today and it has all changed!I had trouble with login on Firefox but when I try it in IE it works.Also I notice that one screen is muddled in Firefox, here's a screen shotMartin

As I type in any forum window, the first line nearly always ends abruptly and sends me to the second line (as if I hit "return" but I did not). What is causing this?

Why the hell does the forum have a rich text editor when it doesn't support any rich text feature except bold and italics? There's a strikethrough button, different fonts and fontsizes available - but all of these formatting choices are simply thrown away when the post is submitted. It's annoying to spend time richly formatting some text and then find out you did it for nothing.

I have used FontExplorer X for a year or so until I had problems with it. Upgrading to the Pro version made it worse. I decided to go back to Font Book which works in most aspects but when using Adobe Garamond or Utopia Regular (there might be others) some letters come up as pink rectangles. I have about 400 fonts acquired from different sources. Any help would be appreciated.Hans

In the short time I have been visiting these forums I have witnessed some distasteful attitudes toward other forum participants who come here seeking Help. Is a patronizing attitude with sarcastic belittling remarks the normal behavior here whenever someone asks a simple question.  I'm beginning to think so!  I have seen it from both regular members as well as " Community Professional".   Is there any forum/web-site administrators or moderators who monitor the activity within the forums. Do they even care?I can't honestly speak for everyone, but when I come to this or any forum I look to the forum members with experience and who have been around for a while for help if I need it.  I feel any person should be able to approach the experienced person or "Community Professional" with any questions.  Any Question! with out worry of being chastised for asking the question.      What kind of response is telling someone they just wasted 5

It's been a long time since I've come to Adobe forums to ask for help with any Adobe products, but that's not a good thing. The reason for my not asking questions is not because the products are question-free, but because the forums themselves demand more work to enter and to use and I really can't remember what my software questions were. Lately, after I sign on a pop-up window keeps appearing at the tip of my cursor that says "Loading User Profile." This is different than the usual taking of several minutes to be able to sign on, this is a new obstruction to the usability of these forums. Is it the Jive software that is behind all of these strange behaviors?

Hey everyone, new here so Im probably doing this completely wrong but please bare with me! I was randomly directed here whilst trying to find out if theres a way of changing my Facebook URL (its already been changed once - not by me)I have no idea why the adobe forum section would be interested in that, but the link provided sent me here. I also had no idea what thread to post this in either, so I apologise in advance for probably making a mistake.Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys

Dear AdobeI have the following problem with Indesign CS5.After placing correctly my pdf doc into ID CS5 and exporting it for epub, the exported epub file is generated with only small size. I mean when i opened the epub file with Adobe digital edition, i can not maximums the size of the doc. I think the problem is that ID CS5 is added a page number for only the first page in the right bottom of the first page only. This will makes the doc to be displayed with maximum only by adding an extra blank page to the right of each generated page which contains only a page number, so that I can not change the display size in Adobe digital edition. However, Adobe digital edition is working well for other e-books.How can I remove the page number on the first page and make the epub file to be displayed with normal size.best regardsthaar al_taiey

I have only just upgraded to Cs5, on a project I was working on I wanted to use the lighting effect option under filters / render. Has this option been taken away from me to use in Cs5 or is it under another heading?  

This has happened so often that I lost count, but again my user name is messed up in the Premiere Pro forums.My user name now looks like: Harm Millaard-qz01ws. My profile is messed up as well and my picture disappeared. It always happens during weekends  and resetting it to normal will usually only be accomplished by tuesday after I have complained.Often this also means that counters are reset as well and that the new messages on a forum now include everything that I have already read.When can you get rid of this Jive crap. It is bad that your servers are down so often and cause serious delays and posting problems, but this forum software is so crappy , one can almost say the only reliable thing about it is that it causes problems with fantastic reliabilty. Not something to be proud of. Maybe you ought to have a look at the forum software used in your own pre-release community.

I am using OS 10.6.5. I have Lightroom 2.7 installed and I just purchased Photoshop Elements 9. I am trying to edit my Lightroom photos in Elements by going to the menu, selecting photos and then the Edit In, but I am not able to select any of the options as they are grayed out. I have uninstalled and re-installed both programs and that has not helped. Any suggestions?  Let me know if more info is needed. Thanks,Sam

Hey,Not long ago someone linked me to the hardware forum of Adobe but I can't find it anymore. Can't see it on any of the drop down boxes at all.Anyone know where it is?Hatton

http://forums.adobe.com/community/webplayers/flash_playerI need to see a topic on the 2nd (or 3rd) page of the Flash Player forum.  I cannot!It shows only 2 pages, and whether I click on the '2' or 'Next', the browser's address bar shows http://forums.adobe.com/community/webplayers/flash_player# but stays on the same page as it was (page 1).Even Search does not return the topic that I know must be on page 2 or 3...(Firefox 3.6.12 on Windows XP-SP3)

Please Help!!  I am trying to get stuff out to a customer, and I have to keep re-entering information each time.........For some reason after I download a form and complete the fields from internet,  I PRINT/SAVE to Adobe Cute PDF Writer.  Later when I open the file from harddrive I am unable to edit the fields....But I notice even after saving to the Writer,  it automatically opens as reader not writer.   I have tried to associate to the Writer but I cant find it, although I know its on my computer it isnt under program files.  My main question - Before I go through the trouble of reinstall, does cute PDF Writer actually allow edits or do I have to get a real PDF writer?So if the software does allow editing forms, is it maybe just not fully loaded, and should I reinstall the Cute PDF Writer???? Id appreciate any ideas at this point, this has caused alot of wasted time so far....

I am sometimes using indentation (Indent) to make some part of my instructions stand out.For instance I would like this paragraph to be indented.  I just add a little bit more text here for demonstration purposes; to make it a bit longer than just one line - you really don't have to read all of this.Ok, and now I am ending the indentation and take a screenshot, to show you have I intended this to look like...To start and end the indentation I have used the 'Indent' and 'Outdent' buttons on the editorNow when I post this message, all indentation is gone.Why?  This worked fine until a short time ago...

As you can see from this post (see also posts #4&7&8),http://forums.adobe.com/message/3267801#3267801the image only shows when and while you are posting an answer to it.And as you can see from post #8, it shows in the second attempt.

I have been able to read & reply to topics in the Flash Player forum all morning, but it has been incredibly slow.Now all of a sudden I can not longer open any topics.  When I try, I getI obviously can post in this forum.  Are there any other forums affected by this?(What is the meaning of this message, anyway?)

Hi, couldn’t find a specific place to post this as my question is not related to a specific product, but a question regarding an Adobe suite and operating systems.Background.I run a small IT company specialising in providing secure hosting to web development firms specialising in e-commerce and enterprise level websites. On the back of that, we directly produce approx 5 - 7 enterprise level e-commerce website per year. Our servers are only Linux as we feel those are the fastest and most secure, thus we specialise on PHP/MySQL scripts.But for script development we have been using CS3 on Vista for the past 3 years. Because of advancing technology (i.e. Vista running like a dog) it is time to upgrade our development hardware and software. We have been looking at CS5 and Windows 7. But because we provide Linux only servers and myself and our senior staff use Linux at home we have questioned the purchasing of new hardware and new operating systems.The problemFrom what I can tell, Adobe do n

Help, when trying to view videos from You Tube I keep getting prompted to install flash player 10 but it doesn't run. My current system is a MAC OS X 10.5.8, 1.8 Ghz Power PC G5 with 1 GB DDR SDARM Memory. How do I solve this?

I am experiencing some problems when copying quotes; I will show an example in the next post...

What is the differences between Photoshop CS5 andExtended and lightroom?

Since about Tuesday, Nov. 02, 2010, the Adobe fora have been very slow, and flaky. There have been several instances, where the servers were down. Mostly, these are rather short-lived, in the 15 min. range. Other times, they have been in the 1 hour range. In general terms, the speed of refresh, and response has been at about 10% of what I had become accustomed to - very slow, and often totally unresponsive.I have also been logged out about every 30 mins., with no real pattern. Sometimes, I'll stay logged-in for an hour, and then get logged-out with every post.I looked for some notification of maintenance, but saw none.Am I the only person experiencing this?Hunt

Most standard keyboard shortcuts (like Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V on Windows) work just fine in the forum editor.However, sometimes we make a mistake, e.g. deleting an entire text section.  The natural reaction is to hit undo (Ctrl+Z on Windows), but nothing happens.This happened to me a lot since this new forum came into being 1½ years ago, and I hate that such a basic computer feature is disabled here.Can we please have undo activated in the forum editor?

hello after i spoke with a adobe professional at the mac store, I was told that in my Mac computer in systems preferences, click on international and then click tab on Input Menu and select the arabic input source. Once I did that i thought it would work but then realize i saw another issue.  It look totally different. Please any suggestions?thanksJustina