Hi

I changed the color of both the fill and the line to red.

Now when I drag a rectangle it fades from red to black instead of from black to white?

I can change the color using the swatch palette but it still always has a fade across it?

Mike

Here is an image of the swatches panel and one of the rectangle.

Hi again

I tried to upload a picture of the whole screen but for some reason it wouldn't work.

It was working a few minutes ago, that's computers I guess.

But there was nothing seleted.

It's been this way since somethime yesterday.

I've never had this happen before and I've been a user since Aldus PageMaker. LO

I'm fairly new to CS4 though.

I'll reboot and see if I can show the whole screen.

Mike

I reinstalled in a different directory, actually a different drive, and I still have all the same problems.

The boxes still come in shaded and I don't have any swatches not even the default cymk ones.

This really has me stumped.

Next step is to open Windows 7 and see if I can get the job done then I'll worry about this tomorrow.

Thanks for the help, I'm going to have to completely wipe Indesign including any preferences it's picking up and reinstall again.

What puzzles me is why it isn't picking up the swatches when I open a file now.

Mke

Hi

The good news is that my installation in Windows 7 works fine.

The bad new is that I did tell not to keep my preferences when I uninstalled it.

I got my job to the point where I can stop on it for today in Windows 7 so i'm going to give uninstalling it another try.

This time I'll try and get rid of everything including registry entries.

Mike

Hi

I uninstalled again, I ran the cleanup tool.

I removed all the registry entries, I deleted every folder I could find for Indesign.

I ran my registry cleaner just to be sure, I installed in a different directory.

When I uninstalled I said don't save preferences.

When I reinstalled it was all working fine, with one exception, I still have the shading in any shape that I create using the shape tool?

Any other idea?

Mike

Hi

Here is the image...

As you can see it works fine if I open a new document.

If I open any of the pages then the problem comes back.\

So somehow what ever is happening is encoded into the documents.

I also noticed that the shapes created are transparent.

When I overlapped it with another box I could see it underneath.

Well since it works fine in Windows 7 I'll just finish the job using it and hope that it doesn't happen on the next job.

Weird that it works in Windows 7 and suddenly not in Windows 8.

And if it's an error in the file why does it not open the same in 7.

Mike

Hi Peter

I just got back to my computer!

I'd be glad to send you one of the effected pages.

I have discovered that out of the 8 pages in this job, this is only happening on 2 of them.

One is the cover which has a lot of images and that's where I first noticed the problem and one of the inside pages which has only 2 graphics.

I'll send the inside page which is smaller. Just under 8 mb.

Where do I find the link?

Mike

Do you need an e-mail address?

Hi Peter

I've tried several time to send the file, for some reason it failed every time.

I think this is something I'm going to have to look into as well.

I had problems uploading images earlier too, and I usually upload large video files with no problems..

Anyway I've figured out what's wrong, but not why!

The problem is that the shapes are appearing with the Gradient Feather, and Drop Shadow effects applied.

I can turn them off now that I know what's happening.

But I don't know how to change it do that they aren't on by default.

Maybe you can tell me that.

Mike

Hi Peter

That's all it took to fix it.

What made me look in the effects was the fact that it started having a drop shadow, (it wasn't doing that to start with only the fade thing) I knew where to change that.

That made my look in Object/Effects, and I saw the check marks.

I have no idea how it got set to those settings there isn't anything in the document that has those settings applied.

And I should have know how to change the defaults I've been doing this for years but changing to CS4 has caused me some problems.

Especially dragging frames with their contents to a different size, I have that figured out now too.

Thanks again for the help.

Mike