Microsoft has established Patch Tuesday for its security patches for Windows. Patches for InDesign and for Mac OS X don’t come on such a regular schedule, but arrived on Tuesday, April 26. It’s a best practice to keep your computers updated with software patches as they come out to prevent unexpected problems.
InDesign CS5 7.0.4
Adobe released a patch to InDesign CS5 7.0.4 to fix a number of problems including those related to the exporting of PDF files and IDML. Check out the CS5 7.0.4 Release Notes for all the details. Here are some highlights:
InDesign unexpectedly quits when a master page has 3 or more columns and new pages are inserted. [2688552]
InDesign shuts down on export of converted document to IDML if it contains invalid frame data [2748140]*
InDesign CS5 unexpectedly quits opening documents from previous versions with invalid frame data [2729972]*
InDesign becomes unresponsive when exporting to PDF [2670994]
InDesign CS5 unexpectedly quits when allocating large memory. [2776161]*
John Hawkinson reports on the Adobe InDesign Forum:
We had a number of really serious problems with IDML exports and opening CS3 files in CS5, all of which seem to be fixed in 7.0.4.
Snow Leopard Font Update
We wrote about a month ago about a bug in Mac OS X 10.6.7 which affected the use of PostScript OpenType fonts. It doesn’t affect InDesign so much, but affects other applications which use the Mac OS X font mechanism. Today, Apple released the Snow Leopard Font Update which apparently fixes this problem. The patch is available in Snow Leopard from Software Update.
Apple lists four specific problems fixed by the update, including:
- An issue in which some OpenType fonts don’t display correctly in certain applications
- Printing problems in Preview
- PDF files not opening in third-party PDF viewing applications
- Invalid font errors when printing to PostScript printers
This article was last modified on December 21, 2021
This article was first published on April 26, 2011
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