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• • April 5, 2011 at 9:54 pm #59184
    Josh Freeman

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    Since I upgraded to CS5, I'm seeing this odd behavior:

    I make a PDF and check the box to open it in Acrobat when it's finished. In the Olden Days, Acrobat would come to the foreground and display the new document. But now, Acrobat seems to activate for perhaps a nanosecond, then InDesign instantly becomes (remains?) the foreground application. Whuh? Anybody seeing this? Anyone know how to fix it?

    Thanks!

  • April 6, 2011 at 6:16 am #59186
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

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    That's weird, I haven't seen it myself. PDFs open in Acrobat normally, just as before.

    Does ID create the PDF correctly … that is can you switch back to Acro and open it, everything's okay? Which version of Acrobat are you using?

    I might try re-associating the PDF extension to Acrobat. And I'd try the usual rebuilding of the InDesign prefs.

    AM

  • April 6, 2011 at 8:47 am #59190
    Josh Freeman

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    Thanks, Anne-Marie. I'll try rebuilding prefs again. The PDF comes out perfectly and it's already open in Acrobat (v.9) when I switch to it. Everything about it seems pretty normal, other than the fact that my computer instantly (and I do mean instantly) switches me back to InDesign once the file's created.

    BTW, if I manually have Acrobat in the foreground, waiting for an in-progress PDF to appear, it also switches me back to ID once the new PDF completes itself and loads in Acrobat.

    As for re-associating the extension, all my PDFs already open in Acrobat just fine.

  • April 8, 2011 at 5:21 pm #59216
    Alan Gilbertson

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    Something is making ID grab focus after the PDF export completes, but I've tried a number of possibilities, but nothing makes that happen on my systems.

    Did resetting refs do the trick?

  • April 8, 2011 at 5:25 pm #59217
    Josh Freeman

    Member

    Nope. Didn't work. But it doesn't do it when I make an Interactive PDF. Only the Print kind.

  • April 13, 2011 at 7:02 pm #59258
    Alan Gilbertson

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    That's beyond weird. I can't imagine what would make that occur, far less why it would affect one flavor of PDF and not the other. I would be tempted to write it off as a quirk and ignore it otherwise, rather than (say) uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat. In my experience with minor oddities like this, they go away as mysteriously as they show up, leaving a light patina of perplexity on the bottom of the screen. :-)

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