Adobe Pagemaker Ke Tools
Claude
With the Text Selection Tool active, I double-click a text frame and hold, and the cursor is placed on the text inside the frame. But I can no longer drag from where the cursor is to highlight the text.
When I click again to start highlighting the text, the text itself becomes inactive, the text frame becomes active and my attempt to highlight drags the frame. The tool panel shows that the Text Selection Tool is still active.
Similarly, if I switch to the Hand Tool and grab a portion of the page, the frame I happen to be over moves instead of the page. Grabbing on a part of the page where there is no frame does nothing at all.
I've followed the instructions in the Troubleshooting 101: Replace, or "trash" your InDesign preferences article , dleted the InDesign Defaults file and restarted, but that has made no difference.
Well, the last 9.2.1 update does not fix this sad bug (trick with one second delaying works, but it is horrible to live with it), i am staying on 8.0.2 because ready to sacrifice new opportunities for stable and properly working basic
It is incredible why adobe would mess the selection of text in a text frame. I often work with the selection tool and suddenly I want to select the text. I am so used with the triple click that working in ID CC seemed so frustrating I went back to CS6. Also the font list works terrible, if I already have some formatting to the text, selecting a new font will lose any bolds, italics... Or if I select minion bold, I cant change it to italics from the italics menu...
This is a big disappointment to me, I don't get why Adobe ruined so many things that worked fine, without any real benefit. Sorry Adobe, hope you will do better next time, I will just stick with CS for now.
4 months passed. Got new cool InDesign 2014.1 x64 (10.1.0.70) with old double-triple problem. Looks like developers keep their ears and eyes closed or maybe they are just work so hard and so busy that 1.5 years cant fix that bug. Well, cant wait next update with hoping for a better.
Another 4 months are lived. Updates to 3 branches of indesign released CS6 8.1, CC 9.3, CC 2014 10.2. The last two still unusable. In 8 version to select text we need two quick clicks. In 9 it does not matter how many times you will click it still does not select without a 1 second pause. In 10 you need about 18 quick clicks in a row so that was the effect of a double-click. Waiting for eleven version or CC 2015 or how you name it
I am new to Creative Cloud, about 6 months now, and I am having the exact problem with the selection tools within InDesign. Nothing I do works!! It is always selecting whatever is the largest object in that area despite which layers are highlighted. I should not have to even fiddle with the layers let alone turn off layers in order to make fast efficient selections. I work out of home on CS5 and this issue never occurs when I am working in InDesign in that format. It is 2015 now and this selection issue is still a huge problem for CC users. Tasks that should take minutes are taking hours. Are there any more recent solutions to this?
Highlighting layers will not affect what is selected, but whether a frame has content or is empty might. Without a screen shot of your page showing frame edges it's going to be next to impossible to tell you why you are not selecting what you expect.
I'm having a similar issue after installing the new CC 2015 InDesign. When using my tool box tool (T) it shows its active in the tool bar on the left but freezes for a second, spinning wheel, then goes back to the selection tool. This allows me not to be able to use the shortcut (T) to quickly edit text boxes and copy. I literally have to go over and select the box then go edit the text (too slow for the fast paced environment in working in and unacceptable). Also over the last couple of days it has been getting worse. Now when i try to zoom in by clicking (Z), it goes to the selection tool or when i try to escape from editing within a text box it freezes for a second, spinning wheel, then goes to some other tool
Just want to chime in and say I'm experiencing this same issue since moving to InDesign CC. The "double click, wait, then double click again" thing makes no difference: whether I single click, double trick, triple click or just swear at the trackpad, I can't select a block of text without using the arrow and shift keys. Super frustrating and a huge step backward in usability.
I am also chiming in, out of sheer frustration!... It seems like I'm suddenly working with Micro-fricking Word instead of (what should be) a high-end design program. I have been a faithful user of all of the Adobe products since the first version of Pagemaker and it seems those early version were much better than this CC2015... it just keeps getting worse!!! Click on a text box to reduce the size and it instantly expands... try to nudge the size of a graphics box and it blows up to the full size of the enclosed graphic...attempt to select a small amount of text and the whole paragraph highlights... THIS IS NOT WHAT WE ARE PAYING THE BIG BUCKS FOR. If there's another similar program developed I'd like to know about it - and take a giant leap OUT OF ADOBE... aarrggh.
I was having trouble with working normally, trying to get the selection tool to work, but it kept changing to the grabber hand for no reason, and also trying to double-click with the type tool to activate the text, but also kept getting the grabber hand. When I hid the content grabber, the tools went back to working the way I'm used to. I've been using this software since pre Adobe PageMaker too.
Well it's been two years since the beginning of this thread and I'm shifting into CC from CS6 and I have to agree with much of the above frustration with the changes in the selections tools when moving over multiple objects on top of each other. I'm a print designer and spend most of my day in InDesign. I just can't make selections the way I could before. Why when I have my open (A) selection tool does the software force my cursor into a solid (V) selection tool? And vice versa. If I want select the content I will push (A) and do it. At least I can fix that by turning off the Content Grabber, but the other selection tool decisions don't seem to be able to go back to what they should be. This has made moving through different objects and selecting content inside frame clunky slow and repetitive where I have to keep fishing for the right thing. This is even more frustration when attempting to select single anchor points and fine manipulation of points and lines in objects. I just don't understand why the program would or should ever override my ability to control my selection tool. It just seems like it's a step to undoing the professional perfection of this software. Please reconsider this little hinting tool shifts that are suppose to make it more user friendly or whatever the reason.
And yes I have turned of every useless extra that has been added. I have to do this every time my InDesign crashes and resets to the default settings. It would be great if turning these off could be part of a custom workspace. Oh the hours I have spent View>Extra>Turn off Content Grabber etc.
You can keep CC Libraries from popping open: In the Swatches panel > New Color Swatch > uncheck Add to CC Library. Repeat also for Paragraph Styles panel > New Paragraph Style and for Character Styles panel > New Character style.
I had the same problem when I updated to the latest InDesign CC 2015.4. Indesign was almost unusable so I attempted to reinstall from my Time Machine backup. This failed so I uninstalled InDesign from the Creative Cloud app and reinstalled the latest version and it is now working smoothly - text tool performing as expected. It also seems to be as quick as before.
It has nothing to do with Adobe or InDesign. You need to turn down the click speed in Settings>Mouse from Fastest to maybe two steps down. The fastest click setting is TOO fast. I thought it was my mouse not working properly since I wasn't able to open files on my desktop, in addition to the double-click issue in InDesign. Adjusting the click speed in the Mouse settings fixed the problem.
Many graphic designers work with expensive proprietary software because they believe they have to, and it has to be Adobe. But this is not so: There are many fine professional-quality open source graphics applications out there. (Skip down to the end to see 10 of my favorites.)
Conventional wisdom says that in order to work in graphics one has to use Adobe software on a Mac. "Macs are for graphics, PCs are for accountants!" Macs and Adobe are not the only way to produce graphic design, and never were. Those starting out in graphics with open source tools would feel comfortable with them, not having anything to compare them to. It may be a bit more difficult for long-time Adobe or QuarkXPress users to accept alternatives, or even chuck the Mac for Linux. Many graphic designers refuse to believe that yes, they can. If it doesn't cost hundreds of dollars, how could it be any good?
It was a given that graphic designers in the 90s worked on a Mac or Windows PC using Quark or PageMaker. Adobe launched InDesign in 1999 to replace PageMaker and compete with Quark. In 2002, Quark released version 5, but it was not compatible with Mac OS X, which led Quark CEO Fred Ebrahimi to declare: "...the Macintosh market is shrinking and dissatisfied users should switch to something else." Quark users still had to use Adobe Photoshop for photo editing, and Illustrator for vector imaging. This was true for InDesign users as well.
There are alternatives to InDesign and Quark that cost less. To save cash, graphic designers can spend about $30 for apps such as Swift Publisher, iStudio Publisher, or the more expensive iCalamus. There are alternatives for photo and vector editing as well. However, page layout is the backbone of graphic design.
I was introduced to open source graphics as the production manager for Florida Sportsman magazine in 2014. All ads we received were PDFs, either InDesign or Quark, except one. An ad came from Panam and I was curious how it was produced. The metadata indicated the PDF was created from Scribus. Uh-oh, it must be corrupt! I researched "Scribus" and found it was some open source app for page layout. I rolled my eyes and told the salesman to get a "real" file. I found nothing objectionable in the PDF and kept my fingers crossed. It printed just as well as the InDesign PDFs.
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