If you run InDesign on Snow Leopard you may have run into an error message when double clicking a file from OSX’s Finder.
That error looks pretty scary but it seems to only occur with files that contain “#” or “/” in the file name. This is an operating system bug and it’s fairly easy to work around.
- Rename any files removing the offending characters;
- Open the files from Bridge or from within InDesign.
Of course, those are just workarounds and until the folks at Cupertino get around to fixing it in 10.6.? there’s an additional choice. Rorohiko has just released an update to Soxy, their application that chooses the correct version of Creative Suite programs to open when a file is double clicked.
Soxy 1.0.7 adds a preference setting to Open InDesign by Script. Once this in enabled, the “Missing required parameter ‘from’ for event ‘open’. open error shouldn’t rear its ugly head, again. As Kris Coppieters explains it in a post on the User to User forums:
the workaround works by special-casing how Soxy opens documents in InDesign: instead of using AppleScript, Soxy will use ExtendScript to instruct InDesign to open the document – which works fine
Soxy can be downloaded from here. The update for current license holders is free and there is a fully functional demo available. A beta Windows version can also be downloaded from the same page.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on February 11, 2010
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