I had the same problem after I installed MacKeeper! Restore from Time Machine worked for me too, thank you!

I'm having the exact same issue with InDesign. I get the "PDF Library fails to initialize" error message, which renders ID completely inoperable. I, too, installed and ran MacKeeper just days ago. I think it might be the Duplicate File remover in MacKeeper that's running afoul.

Eager to try restoring ID from my TimeMachine back up. By the way, MacKeeper says they no nothing about this problem.

ralfellis wrote:

 

I don't think it is the duplicate File Remover, because I did not run that system.

 

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Thanks for the update, ralfellis. Any thoughts on what MacKeeper tool might be the culprit?

Peter Spier wrote:

 

Doesn't sound like a MacKeeper issue.

IMHO, MacKeeper seems to be the one commonality among everyone here. Fortunately, if you can restore from back up using TimeMachine (Mac users), the problem appears to be recoverable.

I have MacKeeper also and have experienced the same error: "PDF library failed to initialze" I uninstalled/reinstalled ID and the problem went away. I chatted with MacKeeper online and directed them to this thread and they said they were not aware of an issue, but to me, at least for now MacKeeper seems to be the culprit.

They suggested to omit ADOBE files from the Duplicates Finder feature.

I'm also having the same issue after running MacKeeper… I've tried trashing the preferences but to no avail. Anybody have any suggestions? Just like above, mine is right out of the blue as well.

thanks John, I will give it a shot…

Yes, I agree, MacKeeper is the culprit, though I couldn't say which part of it is evil.

I installed it yesterday and have had no end of trouble now. I uninstalled it, wrote to MacKeeper, and am reinstalling InDesign CS4. It's a shame, because as others here have mentioned, it gets great reviews online. Maybe those who have not yet experienced problems are those who only use their Macs as glorified entertainment systems and not for their livelihoods.

Hi, Wendy,

I was told by the third support guy I spoke with that they don't recommend using TimeMachine to restore Adobe products. So there you go.

The reinstall was the way I went, because TimeMachine left out libraries and other things needed to get InDesign back to where I had it. I lost one and a half work days because of MacKeeper, and when I wrote to complain after uninstalling it, they refunded my payment quickly and cheerfully. But I got up at 5am this morning so I could get this straightened out with Adobe.

YES! Same problem - installed MacKeeper and now can't run out files on pdf because of this initialize message - help!

Well, for me, this was not only ID CS4 that was affected, but also PS CS4, both of them. Now having problems with psds somehow being saved as flat files, not useful at all.

It would be super nice if MacKeeper posted this clearly somewhere, rather than having all of us victims contact them after the fact, since full resolution of any of these problems has not been consistent.

I have MacKeeper on two Macs, one running 10.6.8 and CS5. No problems whatsoever.

I have a laptop on 10.7, MacKeeper and CS4. Problem, which is why I'm here.

There may be a problem caused by MacKeeper and I broadly agree with John Hawkinson that other programmes do much of what MacKeeper does, etc, etc. but I think the problem must surely lie with the CS4 / MacKeeper interaction.

Back in the day I used AppleJack, but now find myself using both OnyX and MacKeeper. As John suggests, there are other ways to get to the same place as these two programmes, but their point seems to be that they each of them are one-stop scripts that do a range of things, an automator of sorts. Many users simply never repair permissions, or need to. But others need do need to, for all sorts of reason. I'd suggest that each of the aforementioned do their thing their way and so are useful to many users who are perhaps less computer-wise as John evidently is. Many leave their machines on 24/7 and don't need to concern themselves with maintenance scripts. Some don't. And on and on.

His point that one or both programmes conveys no material benefit is correct, but only in so far as you can accomplsh many of the operations they do by simply using the built in Disk Utility in your Mac. Or re-index Spotlight manually. You get the idea. They offer convenience, and the various claims the software makes is the usual marketing that companies do and which you ought to regard as such. And MacKeeper does have virus scanning now, and their version of Find My Mac, so some might find these aspects useful. I'd respectfully suggest that John's comments are useful, but unproven, and so perhaps ought to be read as one reads MacKeeper's claims - with both eyes open.

And anyway, there's a separate thread on this same subject which appears to have nothing whatsoever to do with MacKeeper: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/615271 so the root seems more complex than the suggestion here.

And no, I don't work for MacKeeper, or have any links to them at all.