InDesign under Rosetta

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InDesign under Rosetta

Hello All,

I've had a moderately stress-free transition to my new iMac (a few probs with quicktime and an HP2600n printer). I installed Adobe CS 2 and everything seemed OK - PS and Illustrator so far seem fine and relatively snappy. Unfortunately I'm having a bit of trouble with InDesign.

When setting the default measurement in preferences to mm (or any other) the computer adds a ridiculous amount of decimal points to all measurements in the application.

For example if I add a text box and enter a width value of 3.5mm, InDesign changes it to 3.5005005005005003mm.

I've never had this issue in 4 years of everyday use

Could anyone with the CS Suite installed on an Intel Mac see if they can replicate this problem? I'd like to work out whether it's happening exclusively under Rosetta. I've checked the Adobe forums and there's nothing there so I'm hoping you guys could shed a little light.

Many thanks

T

iMac 20" 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Jan 26, 2006 4:58 AM

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DanH

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Jan 26, 2006 6:11 AM in response to Tom Law1

Tom:

Can't help directly, but wonder if it's a question of preferences that rely on CS2's custom prefs pane, which is a known "won't work" with Rosetta. Does your problem crop up with all units, not just mm?

However, can I pick your brain a bit? Our newspaper was right on the verge of buying some new iMacs when the Intel announcement came. We want to run CS2 on them and along with your report (thank you) I'm seeing more evidence that it can work OK.

BUT, the unanswered questions seem to revolve around printers and scanners. Any wisdom to pass along?

Many thanks,

-dan

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Tom Law1 Author

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Jan 26, 2006 7:54 AM in response to DanH

Hi Dan,

Do you mean CS2's Version Cue pref pane? If so, I don't think it could be that as I was aware of the 'won't work' issues and purposely didn't install Version Cue. I don't think CS2 has any other preference panes. The problem is with all units of measurement and I've searched high and low for anything about decimal points etc.

With ref to CS2 in general, like I said earlier all appears fine so far (apart from Indesign). I was pleasantly surprised by photoshop and ran the radial blur test on the horse image in 59 seconds! It all seems quick at the mo but I have installed maximum RAM and my last Mac was a 1Ghz iMac!

I had a probelm printing to my hp2600n yesterday (it's driver was not in the list of supported printers). I reinstalled the driver this morning and it seems to be working OK. The hp2600 icon doesn't appear in the dock or in the list of printers but thats only a cosmetic thing. I've yet to try my scanner - it's about 5 years old so I'm not too confident. Hopefully I'll be able to use Vue Scan with it.

Please everyone let me know your CS2 feedback/issues

Cheers

T

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DanH

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Jan 26, 2006 8:47 AM in response to Tom Law1

Many thanks, Tom. I'll keep you posted as our research progresses.

-dan

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Jan 26, 2006 7:37 PM in response to Tom Law1

For example if I add a text box and enter a width
value of 3.5mm, InDesign changes it to
3.5005005005005003mm.

Mine is doing the same thing!!!!!!! This is driving me nuts

I guess I will call adobe

20" imac intelduo, Power Mac G5, and 900 mhz ibook Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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Tom Law1 Author

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Jan 27, 2006 6:15 AM in response to Jamie Croft

Hi Jamie,

Glad I'm not alone!!

Have you had any joy with Adobe or have they said something along the lines of "We don't support InDesign under Rosetta...."

Please let me know how you get on - it's driving me nuts too!

Ive still got my PPC system running so I'm going to save an Indesign document on the intel send it to the PPC and see if it opens with the same measurement bug. I'll let you know how I get on.....

Tom

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Chadwick

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Jan 31, 2006 8:12 AM in response to Tom Law1

Any news?

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Tom Law1 Author

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Jan 31, 2006 8:31 AM in response to Chadwick

I've heard nothing, although I did do a bit of testing of InDesign files created on intel macs on my ppc mac and all seemed OK i.e measurements displayed correctly

Are you having issues with InDesign?

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Chadwick

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Jan 31, 2006 8:51 AM in response to Tom Law1

Not at the moment, but we're getting ready to purchase a new iMac for bsaic layout work and need to be sure that it won't hose the files created on our main PowerMac G5 machines. At least until the universal versions of CS2 are released.

Thanks for your reply

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DanH

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Jan 31, 2006 8:59 AM in response to Chadwick

Chadwick:

Our newspaper is in the same boat. We need to decide -- very soon -- whether to wait a year (we need to do training and config during slow time here on Cape Cod) or buy Intel G5s or PPCs to run InDesign CS2.

Any info or comments welcome.

-dan

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Tom Law1 Author

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Jan 31, 2006 8:59 AM in response to Chadwick

"At least until the universal versions of CS2 are released"

Many people believe Adobe won't release universal software until CS3 which could be anytime this year...

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Chadwick

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Jan 31, 2006 10:56 AM in response to Tom Law1

Many people believe Adobe won't release universal
software until CS3 which could be anytime this year...

That's esp frustrating since we have just gone through trying to get our 5 machines synced to CS2.
I suppose we could just buy a G5 iMac in the interim and wait for the Intel versions of the Mac tower. (which I suppose will be called the MacPro, or ProMac, or NikNakPaddyMac.)

We just hate buying "old" tech on purpose.

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keesNL

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Apr 5, 2006 12:18 PM in response to Tom Law1

Hé guys,

Encountered the same problem. Document made on the iMac however, appears good on the G5.
Seems iMac displays the numbers incorrectly but handles them OK.

Good luck,

Kees [case]

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Answer 13

May 24, 2006 9:06 PM in response to DanH

I'm hearing that some are having difficulty exporting to pdf from InDesign - getting an out of memory message with 2G ram installed on the intel imac. I'm trying to find more information on this, but so far have had no luck.

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