Before installing I was just checking out the InDesign CS4 6.0.5 update and noticed this text at the top of the release notes.
"IMPORTANT: This update fixes an issue in how InDesign CS4 calculates the bounding boxes of placed AI/PDF files. The behavior is now consistent with the behavior of InDesign CS3. Users with existing CS4 files may notice a repositioning of placed AI/PDF files when updating their links"
Hopefully I'm overreacting here, but from a service provider standpoint this could be a production nightmare. If we're running 6.0.5 and a customer is running 6.0.4 or earlier, then placed AI and PDFs will shift in position when we open their files. This is not something that I want to see happening in a point upgrade, especially since there isn't an easy way to tell if an incoming file is done in 6.0.4 or 6.0.5.
Has anyone else seen any issues with this? If so how much of a repositioning can we expect. If all our customers were updated to the latest version of CS4 right away it wouldn't be a problem, but that's never going to happen.
Anyone from Adobe care to comment on the thoughts behind making this change? Seems like a really bad idea to mess with image positioning engine at this point in what is otherwise a minor bugfix upgrade. I'd expect this kind of thing in a full upgrade from version CS4 to CS5, but not going from CS4 6.0.4 to CS4 6.0.5. I mean I've got to keep a different point versions of Quark to avoid type reflow problems between 7.2 and 7.3 and I really don't want to see that happen with InDesign too.
Shawn
"IMPORTANT: This update fixes an issue in how InDesign CS4 calculates the bounding boxes of placed AI/PDF files. The behavior is now consistent with the behavior of InDesign CS3. Users with existing CS4 files may notice a repositioning of placed AI/PDF files when updating their links"
Hopefully I'm overreacting here, but from a service provider standpoint this could be a production nightmare. If we're running 6.0.5 and a customer is running 6.0.4 or earlier, then placed AI and PDFs will shift in position when we open their files. This is not something that I want to see happening in a point upgrade, especially since there isn't an easy way to tell if an incoming file is done in 6.0.4 or 6.0.5.
Has anyone else seen any issues with this? If so how much of a repositioning can we expect. If all our customers were updated to the latest version of CS4 right away it wouldn't be a problem, but that's never going to happen.
Anyone from Adobe care to comment on the thoughts behind making this change? Seems like a really bad idea to mess with image positioning engine at this point in what is otherwise a minor bugfix upgrade. I'd expect this kind of thing in a full upgrade from version CS4 to CS5, but not going from CS4 6.0.4 to CS4 6.0.5. I mean I've got to keep a different point versions of Quark to avoid type reflow problems between 7.2 and 7.3 and I really don't want to see that happen with InDesign too.
Shawn