Suitcase and Adobe InDesign

[agentphish]

Does anyone know if Suitcase works with InDesign? I just got adobe CS2 and i am wanting to play around w/ it but the fonts i have active in Suitcase don't seem toshowup in InDesign.

I hope i dont have to go back to Quark
anyone got Ideas?

 

[Blue Velvet]

Activate your font/s or set/s.

Quit InDesign, restart InDesign. Are they there now?

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

I haven't migrated to CS2, yet (hurry up, June...get here!), but Suitcase works fine in CS1.

Have you looked at the tab inside Preferences that allows you to have Suitcase auto-activate fonts? This would be the first place to look, I would suppose.

You shouldn't have to quit the program and start it again. Once you activate the fonts in Suitcase, if everything is working right, they should appear in your font menu inside InDesign.

 

[Blue Velvet]

I haven't found a single CS1 app to work with Suitcase X1, without having to restart the app in order to get the font to show in the menu.

Something that Quark 6.5 seems to do OK.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

That's odd...I don't know if there's some kind of plug-in that was used on my (work) computer...it was like this before I got here. I'm just glad that I don't have to restart each time! That would drive me to Quark (EEK!!) as well!

I'll do some snooping and see if there's some kind of plug-in installed or something.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

Blue Velvet, do you have this Preference pane?

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

There is an Auto Activation Plug in that should in this folder:

Applications/Adobe InDesign CS/Plug-ins/Extensis/

and it's called "SuitcaseAutoActivation.pln"

That, I assume, would solve the problem.... I guess.

 

[Blue Velvet]

There is an Auto Activation Plug in that should in this folder:

Applications/Adobe InDesign CS/Plug-ins/Extensis/

and it's called "SuitcaseAutoActivation.pln"

That, I assume, would solve the problem.... I guess.

Thanks. I'll check this out tomorrow... what about PS & Illustrator, the two I've found to be more problematic?

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

One more note...it is available free on their website here

As for PS and Illustrator, if you're using CS1, it looks like that plug-in download supports those apps as well. I know they work fine on my computer.

And you're very welcome...I read a lot on these forums and know that you've helped a ton of people, so it's nice to "repay" you in some small way.

 

[Blue Velvet]

And you're very welcome...I read a lot on these forums and know that you've helped a ton of people, so it's nice to "repay" you in some small way.

Aww...

 

[agentphish]

well im still kinda noplace.
Applications/Adobe InDesign CS/Plug-ins/Extensis/
doesnt exist on my machine, but keep in mind im using CS2.
there is a plugins folder, but no extensis folder inside there.

I went and used quark to do what i needed to do today, but the damn thing wouldnt export to PDF and of course didnt give any real error message that might explain why all it said was "Could not export to pdf."
Any ideas on that one? Suitcase seems to be working fine with quark 6.5.

 

[Blue Velvet]

well im still kinda noplace.
Applications/Adobe InDesign CS/Plug-ins/Extensis/
doesnt exist on my machine, but keep in mind im using CS2.
there is a plugins folder, but no extensis folder inside there.

I went and used quark to do what i needed to do today, but the damn thing wouldnt export to PDF and of course didnt give any real error message that might explain why all it said was "Could not export to pdf."
Any ideas on that one? Suitcase seems to be working fine with quark 6.5.

Quarks built-in export to PDF is rubbish. Far better but also clumsier to print to PostScript using Adobe PDF PPD, then dropping it into Distiller or a watched folder. Of course, I'm also assuming you have Acrobat & Distiller.

Instructions here. (download)
http://www.ppa.co.uk/pass4press/download_v4/Q6_postscript.zip

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

well im still kinda noplace.
Applications/Adobe InDesign CS/Plug-ins/Extensis/
doesnt exist on my machine, but keep in mind im using CS2.
there is a plugins folder, but no extensis folder inside there.

I went and used quark to do what i needed to do today, but the damn thing wouldnt export to PDF and of course didnt give any real error message that might explain why all it said was "Could not export to pdf."
Any ideas on that one? Suitcase seems to be working fine with quark 6.5.

Personally, I would either just create the folder myself, or just throw the plug-in directly into the plug-ins folder, restart, and see if that works. Extensis has made a plug-in specifically for InDesign CS2, so, I would assume that it would work, once put in the plug-ins folder. Did you try either just placing it in there, or creating a folder called "Extensis," and seeing if that works? I'd hate for you to have to suffer with quark any longer. (;