I decided to give ID6 a try. No easy way to import keyboard shortcuts… adobe gets a lot of stuff right but this one is so obvious, and they botched it.
Ok, lots of googling and I find out where my ID4 .KYS file is and copy it to the appropriate ID6 folder. Everything seems ok until I go to insert a line break. Doesn't work. Google the issue, find one possibly relevant page about Swedish ID5: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesig…..oduce.html.
One is to apply an update, no go. The other is not super clear but it helps. Go to edit your keyboard shortcuts (edit –> keyboard shortcuts) and find the keyboard shortcut for paragraph breaks. From the second dropdown choose “type menu”. Scroll through the list of type shortcuts until you find “Insert Break Character: Paragraph Return”.
It may show there's an existing shortcut, but it's shown as a weird box character (Which you see often when you view a web page with the wrong text encoding). Clicking the shortcut and attempting to remove it seemingly doesn't work. You need to click remove 2 or 3 times before it goes away, but it can be nuked.
Now when you just click in the “New Shortcut” blank and press Enter, and then click “Assign”, right? Even that can go wrong… I figured out that if you leave the context dropdown alone (so it shows “Default”) then the shortcut doesn't work. You have to change that dropdown to say “Text”. Now your paragraph returns work again. You will want to do the same thing for the shift+enter forced line break. I think there's also an enter shortcut within the type and tables area.
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Now, a quick question or three:
1. Is there a more reliable way to import my shortcuts besides manually recreating them? Why doesn't adobe have a load shortcuts button?
2. I still get an error when I save, even though the keyboard shortcuts seem to work fine: “Content contains characters that cannot be encoded”. I'm guessing that's the weird little box symbols I'm seeing in various places in my shortcuts? Any easy fix?
3. What's the purpose of the “Show Set” option that lets you view the shortcuts in a text editor? It doesn't seem like you can edit the keyboard shortcuts directly by editing this file (would be nice)… so, I guess it's just a reference?
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