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Adobe updates InDesign CS5

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Adobe has released InDesign CS5 7.0.2 – an update to its page composition/layout program. The 17 Mb patch addresses a number of issues, including:

  • Corrects issue whereby files could not be opened or saved from/to certain server environments.
  • Corrects not finding legacy Type 1 Postscript fonts located in the Document Fonts folder.
  • Corrects several SWF display and creation issues.
  • Corrects Helvetica Neue TTF and Postscript conflicts.

Owners of InDesign CS5 can update via this link to the InDesign CS5 7.0.2 Update page or via the Adobe Updater application.

Markzware Q2ID v5 Ships – Now InDesign CS5 Ready

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Marksware is now shipping version 5 of its Q2ID (Quark To InDesign) plug-in. The updated version now works with both InDesign CS4 and the new CS5. It makes quick work of converting QuarkXPress documents, from version 3.3 to the current 8.x.

List price of Q2ID v5 is $199.00. Upgrades from previous versions will cost $99.00.

This video for version 4 of the plug-in gives an overview of how Q2ID works. Version 5 works the same way.

Adobe updates InDesign CS4

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Adobe has released InDesign CS4 6.0.1 – an update to its page composition/layout program. The 33 Mb patch addresses a number of issues, including:

  • No longer unexpectedly quits when joining two points with the pen tool.
  • No longer unexpectedly quits when Shift-Cmd-double-clicking to override a master page text frame containing text.
  • Now correctly updates the links in documents with a large number of placed InDesign files.
  • When exporting to SWF, InDesign now correctly page turns right-to-left bound documents and correctly exports “mailto:” links have “http://”  links.
  • Now correctly exports to PDF InDesign documents with very large images with a high effective resolutions.
  • No longer loses stroke settings for merged table cells when opening an INX file created in InDesign CS3 or earlier.
  • Now correctly converts InDesign CS3 documents which previously caused inaccurate reflow due to hyphenation limits.

Adobe updates InDesign CS3

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On the heels of the CS4 release, Adobe has released an update patch for InDesign CS3. The 71.4 Mb InDesign CS3 5.0.4 Update is primarily a CS4 compatibility update, correcting issues with CS4 to CS3 Export to INX (Save Back) workflows.

In addition, InDesign CS3 5.0.4 offers a number of other fixes, including those concerning: File Size, Hyphenation, Performance, Anchored Objects, Character Alignment, Step and Repeat, Indexing and Table of Contents, Text and Fonts, Dictionaries, Color, Scripting, Import/Export Graphics, InDesign Interchange files (INX), XML, Library files, and Printing.

A detailed list of fixes can be found in the ReadMe file.

The patch works on all previous versions of Adobe InDesign CS3.