Small but annoying new features with InDesign CS5
Posted by Marco on Aug 22, 2010 in
INDD
I’ve been working with InDesign CS5 for some time now and there are several small things that drove me nuts at first. (I’m a Creative Suite 3 migrant, so some of you CS4 users might already know about these things). First thing I noticed right away was I now need to pay close attention as to where exactly I click when I grab an InDesign image frame. Why? Well ,I didn’t know this but I tend to always grab an image frame in the center. When I work I pick up and move stuff around at lighting speed but I started noticing empty image frames. Now I knew I filled that frame and I also noticed the outline frame when I released it and jumped to another part of the page. But why was it empty now?
It was the new interface. Every image now has a circle when you ‘mouse-over’ the frame. But because I usually click the center of the frame when I want to grab it, I now clicked the new circle so InDesign activates the frame’s content instead of the frame itself. As I was moving things around and working rather fast I hadn’t noticed this at first. I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it, but for now I have to train myself to not click the center of an image frame. It looks like there’s no way to deactivate this new behavior.
Comments
#1 Michael Weijenberg | August 22, 2010 | 11:12 CET
I recognize your behaviour, still it happens to CS4 users as well. This new “content donut” feature is CS5 only. I find it very nifty but he, i’m not used to click on centers of any box. Good luck! Regards, Mickey
#2 Michael Ninness | August 22, 2010 | 22:59 CET
Marco, you can turn off this new InDesign CS5 feature via View > Extras > Hide Content Indicator.
#3 Erik | August 23, 2010 | 11:33 CET
In Weergave / Extra’s / Inhoudgrijper tonen of verbergen
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3994296/Afbeelding.pdf
#4 Marco | August 23, 2010 | 12:53 CET
You guys ROCK! Thank you.
#5 Jessi | September 1, 2010 | 15:09 CET
This had been driving me nuts. Thanks for the tip on how to turn it off. I’ve been searching unsuccessfully because I didn’t know what the stupid doughnut thing was called!
#6 Maarten | October 18, 2010 | 01:05 CET
Wow, thanks so much for the advice. Been working with CS5 since tonight, and I thought I was going crazy with that anoying donut thingy ^^ Thanks again!
#7 Nathan | October 22, 2010 | 11:59 CET
Very interesting, I have just written some tips with news on the new features of InDesign CS5, there are some great new things to play with.
#8 Caroline | December 9, 2010 | 21:59 CET
Thanks so much! I can see how this feature might be useful to someone who is just being introduced to Indesign in CS5, but for those of us who’ve used many earlier versions, it is very annoying! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stumbled over that feature cursed it. Thanks for showing me how to turn it off!
#9 Mattie | May 26, 2011 | 21:36 CET
Thank you so much!! I felt like I was slow as molasses until I turned that feature off
#10 andr | July 13, 2011 | 01:09 CET
oh. my. gosh. THANK YOU MICHAEL NINNESS for telling me how to turn that dang donut off. and thank you marco for hosting the discossion.
#11 VAiN | October 23, 2011 | 20:58 CET
Thank you so much!!!!
#12 Iuri Lammel | November 22, 2011 | 18:35 CET
yay! thank you so much, Michael.
I was trying to deactivate it through Edit > Preference, but it was so frustrating… thank you
#13 carolina schierholz | May 2, 2012 | 19:44 CET
Thank Yu Thank You!!!!!!!