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1. Re: InDesign PDF Presets Bug
Stix Hart Jul 12, 2010 2:54 AM (in response to Ratko Asanovic)This is standard behaviour. In CS5 you don't get a progress bar, you have to go to Window > Utilities > Background Tasks and if you've got something there it hasn't finished exporting. And yes a PDF will appear that is 0kb, that happened in CS3 too. For an old fashioned foreground export try the script at the end of this post here.
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2. Re: InDesign PDF Presets Bug
Ratko Asanovic Jul 12, 2010 3:11 AM (in response to Stix Hart)Well both in CS3 and CS4 when you have Generate PDF dialog that shows a progress of building PDF when finished you have PDF that is done and with the proper size after export. Concerning Background Tasks panel, many thanks for that. Somehow I neglected it because i get use to Generate PDF.
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3. Re: InDesign PDF Presets Bug
Eugene Tyson Jul 12, 2010 3:13 AM (in response to Ratko Asanovic)There is a very small indicator on the Control Bar that indiciates a background task is being performed
You can't click it - but it's at least something to let you know what's going on. But as suggested go to Window>Utilities>Background Tasks (I've assigned a Keyboard Shortcut for this using Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts)
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4. Re: InDesign PDF Presets Bug
Ratko Asanovic Jul 12, 2010 3:13 AM (in response to Ratko Asanovic)Background Tasks panel replaced Generate PDF dialog and from there can be seen progress of exporting in percentages.
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5. Re: InDesign PDF Presets Bug
Eugene Tyson Jul 12, 2010 3:14 AM (in response to Ratko Asanovic)It's not really a bug. The PDF file is being built, that's why you see it in folder. It won't be ready to open until the Background Task is completed.
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6. Re: InDesign PDF Presets Bug
P Spier Jul 12, 2010 3:39 AM (in response to Ratko Asanovic)In theory this is an improvement since it allows you to continue to work while your PDF is being processed, which can take quite a while with a long document full of images, but there are a lot of reports of the background task freezing, so don't be shy about checking if things seem to take longer than you expect.
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7. Re: InDesign PDF Presets Bug
Eugene Tyson Jul 12, 2010 3:55 AM (in response to P Spier)Here's a few things I wished the Background Task did.
1. The Indicator in the Control be clickable to open the panel (else add a background tasks button where the other buttons are Guide Screen Mode and Arrange Documents)
2. The list of Background Tasks performed remained and you can open the PDF from the background task panel. The point of the background panel is to allow you to work while pdfs are being generated. Well if I'm working I don't want a PDF jumping up when the option is clicked in the settings to open the pdf. Instead I'd prefer the Background Panel icon to turn Green or something when PDFs are in the Background Panel. That would give me a visual indicator that I have PDFs created that need to be looked at in Acrobat. I can then open the panel via the shortcut on the control bar and commence checking my PDFs created that day.
It just falls a little short for me at the moment.





