InDesign CS crashing when type tool selected

[bribie60]

InDesign CS is crashing whenever I try to select the type tool. This has only just started happening, and is happening on all documents (even brand new ones). The crash log says it is: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000010.

Nothing has changed on my Mac except that ISDN has been installed, and I now have an ISDN router enabling my partner's PC (Windows NT) to share the ISDN connection. That's running fine.

I've re-installed InDesign. Please help as I'm in the middle of several InDesign projects and currently am unable to finish them.

thanks

 

[jimoblak]

Version?

Hold the Control key while selecting Help>About to determine the 3 digit build number.

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[bribie60]

It's Version 3.0. On a PowerBook running 10.3.4

And I can't find a 'Help>About combination' on my menu - sorry.

By the way, I've also tried deleting the InDesign default in Preferences - with no result.

thanks

 

[jimoblak]

On Mac you hold the Command key while choosing 'About' from the InDesign menu. If you are properly patched, you should see 3.0.1(838).



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[bribie60]

Hmm - I'm still seing 3.0 - so guess I'm not properly patched ...

cheers

 

[bribie60]

Yippee! Am now on 3.0.1 and everything is working again... the patch fixed the problem. I'm back on track.

By the way - as a Pagemaker user since its earliest days I have been dragged kind of unwillingly into InDesign. But am getting the hang of it - it certainly makes newspaper style layout quicker and simpler, and all those bells and whistles like gradients and dropped shadows are pretty good. Oh - and table formatting is a breeze.

One thing that still gives me scope for complaint is easy incremental font increase and decrease shortcuts - so easy in Pagemaker, and a real pain in InDesign, requiring manual entry. But I'll probably find a way round it.

And on my tired days, I still happily work in Pagemaker at speed with all the shortcuts working. Then I can relax.

Many many thanks.

 

[jimoblak]

InDesign also has shortcut keys to increase/decrease font size. If you do not like the default keys (which should be the same as PageMaker's), you can change them in the preferences.

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[fenderjazzmom]

I am new to the forum and am researching a problem for my department. We are a textbook publisher and need to figure out how to get a list of words, probably from a text file or another InD doc into InD's spelling dictionary. Then we need to find a way to update all the user's dictionaries for the new data. There are probably 45 to 50 users on this project.

I have been reading the Adobe InDesign CS help file PDF, but I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with adding a word list to the spelling dictionary, and then updating a whole group.

Thank you!