Reply To: CS4: The dreaded Index …

But — now the Index function doesn't work anymore! I get random page numbers left out, and if I check the relevant chapter in its own file, the references are all there; a mini-index of that chapter on itself works fine. I can clearly spot the missing pages in the overall index because the comma “between” is still there.

oh please no! i have a customer who, with my help, has set up a 300pg textbook in a similar fashion to jongware (indesign files into an indesign book file) and we're just at the indexing stage… don't tell me that the software is buggy!

i must admit that persuading my customer to upgrade from CS2 to CS4 has left me with egg on my face as:

1) it was installed on windows 7 and a rarely known bug about screen resolution can play games with trying to select items in indesign's dialog boxes and panels, causing us to lose a week of production until we worked out the solution;

2) the table styles don't work as well as they should and often don't behave (this is the abridged explanation of the problem)

3) now it looks like the index will be problematic. i have several scripts i can use to make the index in other ways BUT why should i have to? the software is meant to work.

look, indesign does plenty of the things i need it to do and some things that it doesn't do out of the box may be able to be scripted. sometimes there are bugs/glitches which have workarounds, but the index issue is a total progress stopper and has to be resolved by Adobe.