InDesign CC 2015.1 Released
The 2015.1 release of InDesign (11.1.0.122) is now available. Ladies and gentlemen, start your updaters.
What’s New?
Publish Online got some new features including:
- Support for all locations (previously it was limited to English versions only)
- Multiple page spreads
- Multiple page sizes
- Text hyperlinks (including TOC markers, index markers, and cross references)
- Support for 96 PPI image resolution
- Sharing via Twitter and email
- Improved support for gestures
CC Library Enhancement
An Edit Charts in Creative Cloud option appears in the context menu of the CC Libraries panel, enabling you to edit charts directly in the Creative Cloud.
Better Handling of Layers in Placed Graphics
There is a new option in File Handling preferences you can enable to hide layers that are added to placed Illustrator and InDesign files (but not Photoshop files yet). With this turned on, added layers in these files won’t disrupt the appearance of your InDesign layout when you update the links. This should save a lot of unwanted trips to the Object Layer Options dialog box for some folks.
Bug Fixes
Adobe reports that several bugs were squashed, including:
- crashes when duplicating text containing tables with graphic cells via drag and drop
- crashes when publishing a document with both transparency and hyperlinks
- crashes on saving documents
- crashes when canceling a Package operation
- Undo only changing a single character
- blurry images in interactive buttons
- books with 3-page spreads not exporting correctly
- hyperlinks not working in PDF and EPUB output
- Smart Dimensions Smart Guides are fixed
Discoverability
When you install the update, Adobe is keen on you discovering the new (and newish) features, so the CC Libraries panel pops open and InDesign’s Welcome screen returns, even if you’ve turned it off previously. If it annoys you, remember that you can turn it off again by clicking the checkbox at the bottom right.
Troubleshooting
Try these steps if you’re on a Mac and your CC app appears empty, or just sits there with an endless spinning cursor.
1. Quit out of all your Adobe apps.
2. Quit out of the Creative Cloud app.
3. Delete the opm.db file located at ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/OOBE/opm.db
You may also need to use the Activity Monitor application to quit a stalled Creative Cloud process.
4. Restart your computer.
5. Start up CC. You should get the sign-in screen. Once you’re signed in, you can see and install the update.
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Thanks for the troubleshooting advice. I had been wondering what was wrong with my CC app.
Some have found the CC libraries in CC 2015 apps fail to initialise after the update. Discussion on Adobe’s forums here. On Mac, killing the CCLibrary process in the Activity Monitor was the answer for me.
Hi Mike,
just a note on this:
“Adobe reports that several bugs were squashed, including:
crashes when copying tables with graphic cells”
Actually it is: “duplicating” text, not a text frame, just selected text with drag and drop, PLUS three conditions apply:
A.) A table is part of the text you are dragging to a new insertion point.
B.) The table is containing a graphic cell.
C.) The graphic cell is containing an image.
Copy/paste selected tables with graphic cells wasn’t an issue, as far as I know.
Uwe
Another thing:
As I understand it the Overlays Panel is totally irrelevant for Publish Online (Preview) or export to EPUB.
Slide Shows
are basically Multistate Objects (MSOs) containers (not DPS specific).
All features set in the Overlays Panel are ignored for Publish Online and EPUB.
For the Overlays Panel every MSO used in the layout is tagged automatically as “SlideShow”. But that does not mean, that other features in InDesign will honor the settings made in the Overlays Panel. In fact, they are ignored.
Web Content
Inserting HTML into InDesign is also independent from DPS.
This is a basic InDesign feature. It has nothing to do with the presence of the Overlays Panel.
Just my 2 (Euro)-Cents.
The DPS developer team and the InDesign developer team are two totally different developer groups, totally independent, that do not speak much with each other. At least, that is the notion I developed the last years after DPS was introduced and developed on.
Uwe
Thanks Uwe. I’ve heard from others as well that the Overlays panel isn’t relevant to Publish Online, so I’ve removed that bit from the article, and amended the mention of the bug fix about crashes and graphic cells.
But the interesting part is that the Overlays panel now works in 2015.1. I haven’t tested it with an actual DPS document, but until now the Overlays panel just contained a message saying that it was “coming in the summer of 2015.”
The overlays panel in CC2015 only works for DPS 2015 (aka Digital Publishing Solution). There is no folio builder panel and no support for DPS Classic. For that you’ll need to go back to CC2014.
DPS Classic will continue to be supported in CS6-CC2014 for at least a year. After that, all bets are off as Adobe will make a decision on support based on what they’re clients want. I suspect a year from now most will have moved on to the vastly superior experience from the new product.
I’ll support crych’s comment about the quickest way to get the CC Libraries working is killing the CCLibrary process in Activity on the Mac. I believe there is an equivalent way of killing processes in Windows but I don’t know it.
That process sometimes gets “stuck”. Killing it allows you to restore it when the CC app is launched again.
Windows users can press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to get the Task Manager dialog on screen (or they can right-click on taskbar and choose Task Manager).
When the Task Manager is on screen, click the Processes tab, and look for the process names mentioned above. Select the bad boys to “kill” (force quit) which you can do in that tab.
Just to clarify the point made about the Support for 96 PPI image resolution – this is to do with publish online, not general exporting of jpgs etc.
When exporting jpgs, the base measurement still remains as 72ppi, and again can be demonstrated by toggling between the points/picas and pixels measurements as per my article back at the start of August 2015.
I’ve tried using the Overlays panel on an app, however, only a few items worked and they were hyperlinks and video. There’s no preview button so I couldn’t try it out on my desktop or iPad, so I published it online instead.
96 PPI looks as though it is a default setting!!!
The following buttons don’t work: Panorama, Image Sequence; Scrolling, etc., So, why has Adobe included an Overlays panel which barely functions?
There is no support for the overlays panel in Publish Online. It’s for DPS only.
I’m well aware of that Bob! I was just playing around with the Overlays panel to see if it would do anything at all. As I mentioned, hyperlinks and video – fine. Anything else – nothing! I just used the Publish Online facility to see what an app would look like – it was pretty grotty!
I have tried DPS beta during the past few weeks – so we’ll have to wait and see what happens on that front.
You asked why Adobe included it. It’s for DPS, not publish online and it works just fine with DPS 2015. All of the overlays function well though there are reportedly a few glitches with scrollable content needing an extra tap to activate it.
BTW, there is no panorama in the overlays panel in CC2015. That is a deprecated overlay that was only supported in iOS for DPS Classic.
As I mentioned previously, Bob, I am more than aware that the Overlays panel is for DPS 2015. Also, I am well aware that there isn’t a Panorama facility in the Overlaps Panel, that was a typo on my part! :) I meant to say that there was no Panorama facility within the panel!!!!!!!!!
I just find it rather bemusing that Adobe choose to include a panel which is virtually redundant to the majority of freelancers and not concentrate on developing Publish Online to its nth degree!! We have more than enough problems with Adobe updates as it is without being bogged down with useless panels! Perhaps in the future, they can use their organisational skills a little better and update when it is absolutely necessary.
As you can imagine, Adobe is not my most favourite company, at the present time, as I have had to purchase another mac to use the software. So, the sooner alternative software arrives on the market, the better!
DPS is a big bucks, enterprise service. You don’t have to have the panel visible so I don’t understand why you find it so surprising that it’s there.
If you’re not a DPS customer you don’t need it. There are plenty of panels that I never open, but that doesn’t make them useless.
It’s also worth noting that the DPS and InDesign teams at Adobe are totally separate. The InDesign team is continuing to support and improve Fixed Layout EPUB and Publish Online as can be seen in this release.
Granted, DPS and InDesign are separate entities, but when it comes to updating the software, surely a little streamlining would go a long way!
As you so rightly say, DPS is a big bucks enterprise service. Therefore, as far as I am concerned, the panel is useless padding!
My big question is how can I permanently turn off the welcome screen? It is like a little pest the comes in the middle of the night to haunt me, I turn it off in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop and then magically, Adobe updates a program, and my little pest is back. After turning it off yesterday, I was greeted by the little devil after the 11.1 update. It was so much fun running a script tearing a document apart into multiple files and seeing the welcome screen try to open and redraw before the script opened a file. Can’t we just send the evil thing away to the focus group heck it came from?
Hi Warren,
Disable Welcome Screen script at:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-welcome-screen-photoshop.html
Uwe
Don’t forget about another important change in the 2015.1 update: “Hide new layers when updating or relinking” in the File Handling section of the preferences. This is used when updating placed ai or psd files with layer overrides.
Thanks for mentioning that, Bart.
I haven’t had time to test but according to this James Lockman blog post, that currently only applies to placed Illustrator files. It SHOULD also apply to Photoshop files for consistency:
https://blogs.adobe.com/jlockman/2015/08/12/new-layer-override-behavior-in-indesign-a-boon-to-fashion-and-product-design/
Thanks Bart, I’ll add it to the post. Got any other undocumented goodies for us?
Is there a way to roll back to 2015.0? I had nothing but crashes yesterday after I updated to 2015.1. If not, I’ll go back to 2014.
Thanks.
Phil
Phil, can you disable any 3rd party plugins? They’re sometimes the reason for a lot of crashes right after InDesign is updated.
Hey Mike,
At this point my 3rd party plugins are offering me more than CC2015.1. And things were well in 2015.0 with the plugins, which is why I was asking about a roll-back. But 2014 is doing fine with the job I was having trouble with yesterday, so I’m past that crisis, thankfully.
I appreciate the suggestion–thanks! And if you have more I’d welcome those also.
I’m experiencing annoying 1-2 secs freeze, since this update. No plugin installed. Tried to reboot, tried to repair permissions. Nothing happens. When you click, you have to wait 1-2 secs after the action execute. Annoying.
Pascal, that is strange! Did you try to rebuild your InDesign preferences? Maybe try closing some or all your panels (perhaps one or more of the panels is causing this). And does it happen on all documents (even new ones)?
It’s happening all around the software. Just for in design, no problem with others software of the suite. I’m experiencing this on 3 machines:
3 macbook pro retina (2013 & 2015) and 1 iMac 2015.
Frustrating… really. Is it possible a roll back ?
Hi, one more time after an update, indesign is now very very slow :-((((
Someone have a solution ?
Thanks
PS: osx 10.9.5. 2,66GH core i5. 32Go DDR3. Hard Drive (not ssd)
Have you tried updating OS X to 10.10.5?
Try to reset preferences.
Before open id, press SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+CMD at the same time and open id. Then release the 4 keys.
Much better, but menus are still very slow. Also the integrated Finder is slow. 1or 2 seconds lack every time you click a menu. On three machines for me.
I have uninstall indesign and then install. Now it seems to be ok now.
HELP!! No X&Y Coordinates type-ins?!
Working with Adobe InDesign CC 2015. Unable to type in the X and Y coordinates for new document. The tutorial shows a menu above the document, this is not in my software? I have the Show Special Guides in the ON position and have Show Transform in the ON position but this menu is NOT present. I need to type in 3.6604″ and all I can do is 3.6″ by dragging my guide. HELP! PLEASE!!!
Crystal, are you sure you’re using Adobe InDesign software? Those features don’t sound familiar to me. And I’m not sure what you mean by “X and Y coordinates for new document.”