IDCS3; Windows XP SP2; HP XW4400 Workstation; 2GB RAM; 193GB free disk space; NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285 (128Mb) Video card.
I have a 10 page A3 document in InDesign - that is basically made up of a few imported Jpegs Goodnes Document has frozen - Adobe: InDesign - Tek-Tips Engineering.com. Affinity Publisher 1.8. Price model: One-off fee. System: Windows, Mac. Pros: Feature-rich, cheap.
Two problems, both causing IDCS3 to freeze and 'program is not responding' message:
Problem 1. Using Adobe-Single-Line Composer; keeps to control widows and orphans set to 1 line (start), 2 lines (end): ID often freezes when importing Word docs containing formatted headings and text only (file sizes up to 350Kb). Tried saving as rtf, same problem. I would expect ID to leave short pages when it's unable to resolve widows and orphans using specified keeps. If file imports OK, same problem occurs when text edits affect H&J on subsequent pages. Only solution seems to be to deselect keep options and manually check and adjust headings, widows and orphans. NB. Adobe Paragraph Composer gives unacceptable results for the bookwork I do.
Problem 2. Same conditions as problem 1: entering forced line break after en or em dash causes ID to freeze 'program is not responding' message.
Anybody any suggestions as to the causes or any solutions?
Exporting to PDF (Print) results in a hung background task that cannot be cancelled. If you attempt to quit InDesign, you get the message, 'InDesign cannot quit because one or more tasks are running in the background.'
Indesign Frozen
Solution 1: Install the latest InDesign updates.
Install the Iatest InDesign updates by choosing Help > Updates, or by visiting the Adobe product updates page: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates
Solution 2: Disable preflight and restart InDesign.
Solution 3: Add the document to a new book and export from the book panel
Indesign Has Frozen
- Select the INDD document that is affected and click Open.
- From the Book Panel pop-up menu, choose Export Book to PDF.
- Create an empty text file and save it as 'DisableAsyncExports.txt'.
- Navigate to the location of the InDesign executable, for example:
Win: C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe InDesign CS5
Mac: /Applications/Adobe InDesign CS5.5/Adobe InDesign CS5.5.app/Contents/MacOS/ - Move the text file from step 1 into this location.
Adobe Indesign Frozen
Note: For a startup script that provides a menu choice to control background export, see this link.
How To Unfreeze Indesign
InDesign CS5 introduced PDF export as a background task via multi-threading capabilities. Some third-party and InDesign native operations become confused by this new method and result in a hang.