CS3 Indesign...where did my characters go!?

[Sdashiki]

Um, this is weird.

Just switched to CS3, loving the new layout, much easier to use IMO.

Though, I am having a strange problem.

The characters panel, is blank.



the upper toolbar character thing works, but its only available when the Text tool is selected!

 

[JasonElise1983]

um...this has nothing to do with your problem, but why are your palettes tan? Shouldn't they be Silver?

-JE1983

 

[iMeowbot]

um...this has nothing to do with your problem, but why are your palettes tan? Shouldn't they be Silver?

That actually may be the problem, the text in the menus is off too.

If Shapeshifter or similar is running, turn it off and see if the palette display gets better.

 

[JasonElise1983]

that's kind of what i was getting at. If he has Shapeshifter running, then i say definately turn it off. If they are just tan by them selves..then you've got bigger problems than your character palette being messed up.

-JE

 

[bluetooth]

I think you may need to reinstall. There is something wrong there. I just upgraded yesterday and this is what my characters pallette looks like...

 

[Sdashiki]

Should have mentioned, this is on WinXP (at work of course!)

 

[iMeowbot]

All right then, you may be able to fix this by trashing the prefs. On win, launch and then immediately hold down Alt-Ctrl-shift until a dialog box comes up confirming that you want to lose prefs. If that doesn't do anything (that is, no dialog appears), quit and try again, it can be picky about the timing.

 

[Sdashiki]

this is on a hardcore locked down network, somehow I doubt I can do that.

 

[iMeowbot]

The preferences should be stored under your own user account. If you are able to change any preferences inside InDesign, this really should work unless your IT department is extraordinarily silly.

If you'd feel more comfortable doing this from the Explorer, This Adobe doc tells what to move out of the way (in sections 4 and 5). It's all inside your own Documents and Settings folder, so it should be accessible to you.

 

[Sdashiki]

...this really should work unless your IT department is extraordinarily silly.

only sometimes. 🙄

brb, gonna give it a try!

 

[Sdashiki]

Fizz-ixed.

thanks!

surprised Adobe had nothing in their forums about this.

MR does it again!