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Chad Chelius
Chad Chelius
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Cannot open InDesign layout from Folio Builder panel after mandatory update

May 3, 2012 6:53 AM

After installing the mandatory folio builder update, I am unable to open an InDesign layout by double clicking on the layout in the Folio Builder panel. I've tested this with InDesign CS5 and 5.5 with the same result. I can manually open the InDesign Layout from the Finder (I'm using Mac OSX 10.7) without a problem. I am able to update the article from the FBP but can't open the layout. I don't know if this is affecting pushing updates though.

883 Views   17 Replies   Latest reply: Laubender, May 3, 2012 10:23 AM
 
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  • Bob Bringhurst
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    1. Bob Bringhurst,
    May 3, 2012 7:01 AM   in reply to Chad Chelius
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    What happens if you preview the article? You might need to relink the article to the source files. Or re-create the articles.

     
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  • heinrichvdberg
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    2. heinrichvdberg,
    May 3, 2012 7:12 AM   in reply to Bob Bringhurst
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    I have the same problem - all my source file links are broke to the articles. It will take very long to relink everything.

     
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  • Chad Chelius
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    3. Chad Chelius,
    May 3, 2012 7:30 AM   in reply to Bob Bringhurst
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    Hi Bob!

     

    So I thought of the relinking issue as well which I neglected to describe in my original post. When I relink an article, it automatically defaults to the correct path location so I click OK. I find this strange because if it knows the correct path location, why can't it open it? Anyway, after relinking the article, it still will not allow me to open the InDesign layout by double-clicking on it. That being said, after your suggestion to preview the article, I tried it. Now several of my pages are PDF stacks which don't preview obviously, however after trying to preview the article, I am now able to open the layout by double-clicking on it. Does that make any sense? So to get everything working as it was, I need to re-link each article, try to preview it, then I can open the article by double-clicking within the Folio Builder Panel. My magazine is 157 pages. Uhg! Which leads to the next question… Is there any good trick to relink multiple articles at once?

     
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  • Bob Levine
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    4. Bob Levine,
    May 3, 2012 7:40 AM   in reply to Chad Chelius
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    This would certainly appear to be a bug. At least it’s not a killer and just an annoyance…but it’s an annoyance just the same.

     

     

     

    If you have a sidecar.xml file you might want to just recreate the entire thing.

     

     

     

    Bob (the other one)

     
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  • carlosgarro
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    5. carlosgarro,
    May 3, 2012 7:42 AM   in reply to Chad Chelius
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    Same error here, (posted before) right now we are making another folio from scratch just to test.

     
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  • Chad Chelius
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    6. Chad Chelius,
    May 3, 2012 7:49 AM   in reply to Bob Levine
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    I was afraid of that Bob. Yet another pro for using a sidecar.xml file!

     
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  • carlosgarro
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    7. carlosgarro,
    May 3, 2012 7:52 AM   in reply to Bob Levine
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    The better option is "do it again"...

    Right now I'm making a new folio from scratch with the same files (articles) and everything is working as usual.

     

     
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  • Branislav Milic
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    8. Branislav Milic,
    May 3, 2012 7:59 AM   in reply to carlosgarro
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    Had the same problem.

     

    I reimported everything with a sidecar.xml file. It took 20 minutes but it was not me clicking hundreds time.

     
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  • Chad Chelius
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    9. Chad Chelius,
    May 3, 2012 8:08 AM   in reply to Branislav Milic
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    I think that's the right approach Branislav, after taking 15 minutes to update 5 articles, I think I'm going that route as well!

     
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  • Bob Bringhurst
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    10. Bob Bringhurst,
    May 3, 2012 8:10 AM   in reply to Branislav Milic
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    Thanks for letting us know about this issue. I reported the bug.

     
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  • Laubender
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    11. Laubender,
    May 3, 2012 8:44 AM   in reply to Bob Bringhurst
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    Thank, you BobB!

     

    Same here on my machine (InDesign v7.5.3 with OSX 10.6.8).

     

    Adobe DPS version:

     

    plug-in version

    7.5.5.19

     

    folio format version

    1.12.0

     

    plist version

    1.3.0

     

    ExtensionBundleVersion

    12.2.2.20120427_m_686705

     

    Uwe

     
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  • Laubender
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    12. Laubender,
    May 3, 2012 8:49 AM   in reply to Laubender
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    I guess the bug is due to an update of the "afc.db" file after installing the new Folio Builder panel.

     

    Uwe

     
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  • Branislav Milic
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    13. Branislav Milic,
    May 3, 2012 8:51 AM   in reply to Laubender
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    I don't have this problem.

     

    I have updated three folios.

     
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  • Bob Levine
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    14. Bob Levine,
    May 3, 2012 8:57 AM   in reply to Branislav Milic
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    Maybe that bug didn’t make it Europe, yet.

     

     

     

    Bob

     
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  • Laubender
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    15. Laubender,
    May 3, 2012 9:50 AM   in reply to Bob Levine
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    @Bob – it did.

     

    I did a little drilling to the "afc.db" file and found the culprit. Missing entries in:

     

    verticalLayoutSrcDocId

     

    horizontalLayoutSrcDocId

     

    Maybe that will help the developer team to work that out.

     

    I could recreate the connection between my InDesign files and the corresponding folio article by getting the right values inserted in the "afc.db" file.

     

    To get those, I simply made a new folio with the article, checked again the "afc.db" file and copied the entries for "verticalLayoutSrcDocId" and "horizontalLayoutSrcDocId" over to the old article represented in the db file.

    I would absolutely NOT recommend this to the "average" user. It's more on the experimental side.
    And, I guess, does only work for local folios.

     

     

    Uwe

     
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  • carlosgarro
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    16. carlosgarro,
    May 3, 2012 10:17 AM   in reply to Chad Chelius
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    I remake the folio from scratch and everything is working fine

     
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  • Laubender
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    17. Laubender,
    May 3, 2012 10:23 AM   in reply to Branislav Milic
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    @Branislav – just checked. YES. You are right.
    Updating single articles does the trick. The connections to the InDesign files are established again.
    No need to hack the "afc.db" file.

     

    Pooh…

     

    Uwe

     
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