He suggests in the forum thread that if you submit a bug report, and report how this is affecting your workflow, that that will impact how fast it gets fixed.
While I can’t make any promises about if or when a fix will be made available, the issue is being considered for an out of schedule update. A solution has been tested which uses a new method to ensure that a unique reference is always generated for each placeholder object.
The code uses a reference which it assumed could not have multiple instances, when in fact some documents do produce multiple instances. We’ve not been able to find a workaround to the problem where the placeholder objects are not replaced by strings from the data source. Matthew Laun has also been on the case of reports from the InDesign Forum about placeholders in the Data Merge feature not being properly replaced with merge data, or with extra blank lines. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.ĬS4 Data Merge Outputs Placeholders, Blank Lines There are a couple of workarounds listed in Bob’s posting. We had a tough decision with 6.0.3, in which we had some fixes we wanted to get out quickly, but feared rushing the work on this critical issue could result in additional defects. The fix for this involves two components, both of which have great complexity, so it has required some significant code review and testing before we have confidence to release it. Adobe has recently acknowledged this problem and issued a technote on it.ĭov Isaacs, Adobe Principal Scientist, and Matthew Laun, and InDesign engineer reported this week that the fix for this didn’t make it into 6.0.3, but is expected before long:
If you’ve placed PDFs created by Quark 7 or earlier or distilled using Distiller 8 or earlier, some characters in those PDFs may be dropped when viewing or Printing the PDF from Acrobat or Reader version 8 and earlier. PDFs Placed into CS4 Documents May Drop Characters When Exported to PDF.īob Levine reported this bug in a posting in May. A couple of helpful Adobe employees have posted updates on the Adobe InDesign Forum about two of them. We’ve now had three updates to InDesign CS4, so we’re now up to InDesign CS4 6.0.3, but there are still little bugs which are ruining some people’s workflows.