InDesing CS5 hidden time-bomb

Posted by Marco on Dec 28, 2010 in INDD

InDesign CS5 is having some serious scaling issues that can end up costing you a lot of money. I’ve noticed this crazy behavior with InDesign CS5 documents (on different MacPro’s running Snow Leopard) more than once now, so I feel save in warning you. When placing Illustrator artwork InDesign CS5 can change the scale from 100% to 99.997% or 100.002% when you alter the artwork and it get’s updated in InDesign. It’s a really small change, so you won’t immediately notice. However if you’re using InDesign to create Certified PDF files for complex work like packaging your printer IS going to notice. And it’ll be YOUR fault for supplying wrong artwork. After Photoshop’s ‘‘Couldn’t save .psd file because no write access was allowed” (rough translation of Dutch error message) I’m starting to feel a bit like a Beta-tester, Adobe.







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  1. DTP2 | December 28, 2010 | 21:42 CET

    Adobe is sitting on the same chair Quark was sitting on way too long. It’s time for some serious competition to bring/keep the product on a really high level instead of really stupid things like you have mentioned before.

  2. Patrick | December 29, 2010 | 10:56 CET

    Dat heeft vast te maken met de het niet al te ver achter de komma doorrekend en af gaat ronden.
    Maar kan ik me niet voorstellen, bij dergelijke berekeningen moet je de hele som in tact laten en niet gaan afronden om vervolgens weer verder te rekenen.

  3. F vd Geest | December 30, 2010 | 13:23 CET

    Tja, over beta-testen gesproken, er zijn nog meer nare bugs, zie ook hier:
    http://fvdgeest-dtp.blogspot.com/2010/12/interactive-pdf-verschil-cs4-en-cs5.html

  4. Marco | December 30, 2010 | 14:04 CET

    Hier ben ik ook al eens tegen aan gelopen. Daar kun je je helemaal suf naar zoeken… Dank.

  5. Marijan Tompa (tomaxxi) | March 1, 2011 | 21:43 CET

    Because of this strange behavior, I always turn on “Scale” column in Links panel. It enables me to easily check all my links scale.

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