InDesign Help

Adobe released the InDesign 5.02 update on 1/22/08. You can download the update for the Mac by clicking here or for the PC by clicking here. There was a bit of a delay between the release and my posting about it, maybe next time Adobe won’t rudely put out an update on my fiance’s birthday. As the second major update since the release of InDesign 5 some major problems have actually been resolved. You can view the full release notes by clicking here (pdf) or see the basics, as summarized below.

What the update fixes:

This update fixes known issues with Anchored Objects, Character Alignment, Step and Repeat, Indexing and Table of Contents, Text and Fonts, Dictionaries, Color, Scripting, Graphics Import/Export, InDesign Interchange files (INX), XML, Library files, and Printing, as well as other miscellaneous issues.

Does not fix:

10.5.1 Leopard/InDesign CS3 compatibility problems. Users are unable to hide InDesign CS3 using the cmd+h keyboard shortcut. InDesign CS3 may unexpectedly quit when using the Place, Save, Save As or Export commands using either the OS or Adobe dialog boxes.

It looks like we’re headed in the right direction. Sometime, in the not too distant future, I’ll be able to be an updated Mac user and an InDesigner without having all kinds of problems specific to Mac/InDesign Interaction. I’ve been waiting for this day since the Intel Mac was released and it’s nearly here.

My “new” iMac is having some DVD issues so I decided to go the download route in order to install my CS3 applications. Wishing to forgo Adobe.com I checked out their FTP site to see if InDesign CS3 was available there. Unfortunately, no. No, it’s not. Fortunately I did stumble upon Chapter 13 of InDesign CS2 CiB (Classroom in a Book). The file contains Chapter 13: Using XML as well as the example files for the other chapters.

Granted this is for CS2, not CS3, but aside from a lack of InBooklet I find the programs to be nearly identical. This download is available through adobe’s public FTP site and you can obtain it by clicking here. It’s pretty large (over 200 mbs) but it gives you a nice introduction to what the Classroom in a Book has to offer.

If you own the CiB and have since lost the CD this file contains all that data as well. I personally think the CiB’s are great (although overpriced) for the beginning user and less useful for the more advanced users.  Happy InDesigning.

InDesignCS4.com has a simple question:

What do you want to see in InDesign CS4?

I’m a simple man. I actually wouldn’t mind seeing less features. As well as, of course, stability and reliability.

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