I'm trying to figure out how to install a transparency flattener preset for InDesign Server CS4.

I can see how they are installed for the InDesign app.  Edit -> Transparency Flattener Presets...

But I'm not sure which directory to install these on for the server.

I've seen a post that mentions:

C:\Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\Version 6.0\en_US\Transparency Flattener Presets

/Users/<UserName>/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/Version 6.0/en_US/Transparency Flattener Presets

for the Desktop version.  But when I place files here even for the CS4 Desktop, they don't seem to show up in the UI.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,

Dennis

Hello,

Currently we are using the LBQ (load balancing) to queue up scripts to be run on our instances in IDS. After the scipt is run, we're trying to (within our .NET code) delete the script file. This works most of the time, but every once in a while we get an IO exception stating that "the file cannot be deleted because it is in use." I've run several tests and narrowed it down to being directly related to IDS executing the script, but thats about as far as I've gotten.

One idea that came up was to see if IDS could possible open up a copy of the script file and execute it (whether that be an option of the LBQ EnqueueJob() method, or a configuration setting on the server itself). I know that from within a script you can open up other files "as copies" but I wasn't sure if IDS had a similar ability. This would be nice because it wouldn't have to open the physical script file, thus we'd never have any trouble deleting it.

Has anyone ever done anything like this or know of something similar we could try?

Many thanks in advance!

-lhan

I have a running instance of InDesign Server CS6 which I launched using the following command:

"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS6 Server x64\InDesignServer.com" -port 12345

I tried running the following VBScript file to access this running instance:

Set myApp = WScript.GetObject("configuration_12345")

myApp.ConsoleOut("Foo")

Set myApp = Nothing

But I get this error (launched using 64-bit wscript.exe):

---------------------------

Windows Script Host

---------------------------

Line:          1

Char:          1

Error:          File name or class name not found during Automation operation

Code:          800A01B0

Source:           Microsoft VBScript runtime error

I also tried to access this instance using C++ COM:

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])

{

          HRESULT hr = ::CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED);

          if (FAILED(hr))

          {

                    printf("COM init failed\n");

                    return 0;

          }

          IDispatch* pUnk = NULL;

          hr = ::CoGetObject(L"configuration_12345", NULL, __uuidof(IDispatch), (void**)&pUnk);

          if (SUCCEEDED(hr))

          {

                    pUnk->Release();

                    pUnk = NULL;

          }

          ::CoUninitialize();

          return 0;

}

But, CoGetObject returns 0x800401e4 (MK_E_SYNTAX).

However, if I use the "helloworld-csharp-com" sample, using "configuration_12345" as the config, it works fine. Why is it not working with VBScript and C++?

I'm running Windows 8, 64-bit, IDS CS6 8.0

Hi all,

Strange scenarios we are seeing in one of our production systems. When a .pdf if generated it works great. I see InDesign get hit and the .pdf renders quickly. Then about 10-15 seconds later when there is no activiity happening I see InDesign spike (and in the Event log I see 'executing javascript') and it takes that instance to full CPU for about 2-3 minutes then dies off. This is all without any additional commands or jobs being sent to it from the web server.

During the time that it is spiked out of course no other jobs can work with it until this process gets killed or dies off naturally. I've been trying to investigate to find out what is causing this but haven't seen a concrete answer.

Any ideas/thoughts from the community on this?

thanks

I'd like to share with you my frustration about InDesign CS6 Server which tries to do the very same as shown above, but apparenty noone at Adobe did think about the fact that ID Server has NO GUI. So as a customer youre left with an Installation that provides NO means for later offline activation, but provides the very same link at installation, basically guiding you through a process that can not be accomplished with ID Server by any means.

Moreover, the Installer claims there is a 7-day grace period until you MUST have activated your license but even with entering a valid code the Server wont start from second ONE, stating "Adobe InDesign Server is not properly licensed and will now quit". This sort of misdesign is what makes customers furious! And then they wonder why people use circumvention technologies.

i am trying to get Indesign server Trial working... without any result.

this is the result in adobe_prtk

StartTrial Successful

Return Code = 0

still get no working server

message

Anyone any idea ??

Peter

The installation instructions states

You need to download Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition (APTEE) for using the InDesign Server trial

The download link only refers to CS6, CS5.5 & CS5 not CC

Since there is no Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition for CC I decided just to install and run the trial.

However I got the Adobe InDesign Server is not properly licensed and will now quit message.

According to the CC Release notes it says:

InDesign CC Server needs to be activated before it can be used. If the computer is online, activation is done automatically when you install. You need to provide your Adobe ID, and serial number when prompted by the installer. Unless the software is activated, you'll see an error, "Adobe InDesign Server’ is not properly licensed and will now quit."

My computer was online yet the it seems it didn't perfom the automatic activation as it suggests. When I entered my AdobeID credentials I did not get any errors saying it could not connect online.

So I had to do something and decided to use the Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition for CS6.

This allowed me to get pass the licensing issue.

The next problem was I was getting DDE Server Window:InDesignServer.exe System Error popup. Telling me The program can't start because svml_dispmd.dll is missing from your computer.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server x64>indesignserver
================================================================================

.  InDesign CC Server Version 9.0 x64 Evaluation
.  Copyright 1999-2013 Adobe Systems Incorporated and its licensors.
.  All rights reserved. See the other legal notices in the ReadMe.
================================================================================

11/28/13 08:08:49 INFO  [server] Initializing
11/28/13 08:08:49 INFO  [server] Loading the application
11/28/13 08:08:49 INFO  [server] Scanning for plug-ins
11/28/13 08:08:49 INFO  [server] Registering 113 plug-ins
11/28/13 08:08:53 INFO  [server] Completing Object Model
11/28/13 08:08:53 INFO  [server] Saving Object Model
11/28/13 08:08:53 INFO  [server] Initializing plug-ins
11/28/13 08:08:53 INFO  [server] Calling Early Initializers
11/28/13 08:08:53 INFO  [server] Starting up Service Registry
11/28/13 08:09:02 INFO  [server] Executing startup services
11/28/13 08:09:02 INFO  [server] Using configuration configuration_noport
11/28/13 08:09:02 INFO  [server] Initializing Application
11/28/13 08:09:02 INFO  [server] Completing Initialization
11/28/13 08:09:02 INFO  [server] Calling Late Initializers
11/28/13 08:09:08 INFO  [server] Image previews are off
11/28/13 08:09:08 INFO  [server] Server Running
11/28/13 08:09:08 INFO  [javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server x64\Scripts\startup scripts\ConnectInstancesToESTK.js
11/28/13 08:09:08 INFO  [javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server x64\Scripts\converturltohyperlink\startup scripts\ConvertURLToHyperlinkMenuItemLoader.jsx
11/28/13 08:09:08 INFO  [javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server x64\Scripts\converturltohyperlink\ConvertURLToHyperlinkMenuItem.jsxbin

So after browsing the net to see where I can get this missing svml_dispmd.dll I found this post http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/285859

and decided to install what it suggested.

I still got the missing dll error so I copied it from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared Libraries\redist\intel64\compiler into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server x64

Now it just sits there and hangs at the same spot

11/28/13 08:09:08 INFO  [javascript] Executing File: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CC Server x64\Scripts\converturltohyperlink\ConvertURLToHyperlinkMenuItem.jsxbin

What the heck is going on here?

I have installed Indesign Server CC on another machine and although I did not get the missing dll problem it still however hangs at the same spot mentioned above.

Could someone from Adobe please help. The already I'm losing days with this trial and I will have little days left to test this product.

Following the documentation for multi-instance support the application, running as a web service under IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 R2, is failing to access the object. For a single instance I use CreateObject("InDesignServer.Application")but as document for multiple instances I useGetObject(“myIDS1”)(where I have an instance of InDesign Server CC running with parameter “indesignserver -configuration myIDS1”. I have tried running the instance both from command line, elevated command line, and from the InDesignServerService). It is acting as though it does not recognise the instance name, but then I don't really understand how it would. Any ideas appreciated.

hello,

I have aserial numberforInDesignCS5.5serverforMultiInstance.

WhenI talkwithCORBA, only oneinstance is running, others leave.

Why?

2014-09-24 13:27:36 [12216] SWTAG: _info_: Start SWTAGGING productName=Adobe InDesign CS5.5 Server; licensingCode=InDesignServer-CS5.5-Win-GM; locale=MUL; caller=1

2014-09-24 13:27:36 [12216] SWTAG: _info_: Get privilege info for "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\regid.1986-12.com.adobe" returned 0

2014-09-24 13:27:36 [12216] SWTAG: _info_: Set privilege info for "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\regid.1986-12.com.adobe" returned 0

2014-09-24 13:27:36 [12216] SWTAG: _info_: Reading existing C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\regid.1986-12.com.adobe\regid.1986-12.com.adobe_InDesignServer-CS5.5-Win-GM-MUL.swid tag file

Indesign Server CS 5.5 (7.5.3)

thanks

I have downloaded and installed "Adobe InDesign CC Server | English | Windows 64-bit | 535.7 MB" from https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=indesign_server.

I have also downloaded and installed APTEE to active the trial licence.

From an admin command prompt I've then run "adobe_prtk.exe --tool=StartTrial --leid="InDesignServer-10-Win-GM"", in the directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\Enterprise\utilities\APTEE\CS6\"

This returns the following:

I then try to launch Indesign server I get the following error.

If you can help I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Peter

Hi,

I am setting up my indesign servers and as of to date I only can support the Indesign CC version of the application because that is all my server will support. I did hear however that Adobe Indesign CC Server 2014 has been released, and if this is true where is this available at? I would like to update my servers to CC Server 2014 so my users can use the latest version of Adobe Indesign CC 2014. Thank you for your time.

We have two offices that use Adobe InDesign. The central server is located in location A. Location B uses the mapped drives from location A in order to do there work inside of InDesign. The connection between the two offices are VPN tunnels over the WAN. The users in location B are constantly complaining about speeds inside of Abode InDesign and what we are needing to find is if Adobe InDesign Server is like Revit server in the way that it will act as an accelerator/host relationship between the two locations or if we are barking up the wrong tree. And if I am correct in my assumption that InDesign does act in a manor of Host/Accelerator then what your that infrastructure look like?

Hi,

Where do PDF Preset files or joboptions files need to be stored for InDesign CS3 Server to "see" them. Would InDesign Server need to be restarted to pick up changes to the Presets?

Thanks

Hi All,

I have searched the forums and internet for help with this to no avail.

My setup is Windows Server 2003 / Indesign Server CS5 / Coldfusion 9 / Apache 2 / PHP5

I intend to use the Java / Soap implementation to communicate with ID5... Unless anyone can think of a better way to implement with CF9 (i have found no info on the web)

I have a lot of experience in scripting inDesign, and coding Coldfusion, but pretty much no experience in Java or compiling Java...

I am trying to compile an run the 'sampleclient-java-soap' sample but keep getting the following error:

C:\Program Files\Adobe InDesign CS5 Server SDK\samples\sampleclient-java-soap\sc
ripts>sampleClient -host http://localhost:12345 c:\test.jsx

C:\Program Files\Adobe InDesign CS5 Server SDK\samples\sampleclient-java-soap\sc
ripts>java -classpath "..\lib\sampleclient-java-soap.jar;..\..\idsp-wsdl-java\li
b\idsp-wsdl-java.jar;..\..\..\external\axis-1_2_1\lib\axis.jar;..\..\..\external
\axis-1_2_1\lib\axis-ant.jar;..\..\..\external\axis-1_2_1\lib\commons-discovery-
0.2.jar;..\..\..\external\axis-1_2_1\lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;..\..\..\exte
rnal\axis-1_2_1\lib\jaxrpc.jar;..\..\..\external\axis-1_2_1\lib\saaj.jar;..\..\.
.\external\axis-1_2_1\lib\wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar" com.adobe.ids.SampleClient -host http
://localhost:12345 c:\test.jsx
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/rpc/Service

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.rpc.Service
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        ... 12 more
Could not find the main class: com.adobe.ids.SampleClient.  Program will exit.

I first tried to compile with ANT, then with ECLIPSE (which i have no experience with) but still get the same error...

Please help... I know it's probably a newbie question in regards to Java but if someone can just point me in the right direction that would be great... From what i have deduced it is about the 'classpath' setting but in the sampleClient.bat batch file it explicitly defines the locations of the classes which from what i have read should make it work regardless ?

I have installed the trial version of InDesign Server CS6 on Windows 2008 and am trying to run scripts against it using the ExtendScript Toolkit, but it is not working. When I select "Adobe InDesign CS6 Server" from the drop-down list in the upper left, I get an alert box that says "Cannot launch target Adobe InDesign CS6 Server!". When expanding the details box it just repeats that same message.

I can start InDesign fine using either the command line or the windows service and it responds to requests. As far as I can see, it is just ExtendScript that is having problems with it.

I have combed through the event logs and can't find anything there indicating what the problem might be. I have also googled everything I can think of looking for a solution with no luck.

Has anyone else run into this? Any suggestions on a solution or at least where I might be able to track down a useful error message that says why it can't launch InDesign?

so right now on my windows server which is 2008 r2 I have the following installed

I am trying to get InDesign CC Server 2014 trial activated and here is what I have done so far

So I got the error that it is not properly licensed so next I ran the command from the Adobe Manager Directory : adobe_prtk --tool=StartTrial --leid=V7{}InDesignServer-10-Win-GM

Now I got a successful StartTrial indicator, so I will go back and try again

I am confused at this point? I got the right return code for successful, but yet its not licensed properly?

Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions regarding this? or maybe I am missing something and doing something incorrectly somewhere?

Hi folks,

does the InDesign Server (CS3) write an undo stack? If yes, is it possible to deactivate this feature via a c++ plugin or with a JavaScript command?

Cheers Tino

Yesterday I installed the trial version of InDesign Server (CS5.5) on a Windows 7 Professional box. I wanted to test it in an automated publishing system and have seen where others have made it work in this environment. I couldn't get the management console snap-in to work and the only advice I could find on the forums was to try uninstalling then reinstalling. The uninstall seemed to run smoothly but now when I try to install the trial I get and error. I looked at it with Adobe SupportAdvisor and it says:

cspid_83572r4:Error committing command when installing - Creative Suite 5.5

When I click the link for details it takes me to Adobes site and says:

Issue

The following error appears in your Adobe Creative Suite 5 or CS5.5 product installer log  file:

• Error committing command ARKCAPSWritePayloadDataCommand

Solution

This error occurs if you reinstall Photoshop CS4 when both Photoshop CS5 or CS5.5 and Photoshop CS4 are already installed on your system. To successfully reinstall Photoshop CS4, first remove Photoshop CS4, and then reinstall it.

I'm not trying to install Photoshop. Does anyone know what's causing this?

Thanks.

When trying to access properties of a hyperlink it causes InDesign to crash. I can assign properties of the hyperlink but if I try and retrieve properties it hangs and crashes resulting in the error below. I'm using InDesign Server 64bit version 7.0.4.553. What's interesting is this works completely fine when testing using InDesign CS5 client version.

I have used Extend script toolkit to try and debug the issue but you can't even use the databrowser to look at the hyperlink properties as it'll crash there as well. But if I debug using toolkit with client version of InDesign it works fine. It really seems like an issue with InDesign Server and I'm not sure what I can do to work around/fix this problem.

Example script -

var myDoc = app.open([document path]);

for (i = 0; i < myDoc.hyperlinks.length; i++)

{

     var myHyperlink = myDoc.hyperlinks[i];  

     var newDestination = myHyperlink.destination; // - this causes indesign to crash

     //Do some processing...

}

Faulting application name: InDesignServer.exe, version: 7.0.4.553, time stamp: 0x4d891c6d

Faulting module name: HYPERLINKS.RPLN, version: 7.0.4.553, time stamp: 0x4d891ef9

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x000000000006e33b

Faulting process id: 0x1dfc

Faulting application start time: 0x01ccd52e23e3216c

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS5 Server x64\InDesignServer.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS5 Server x64\Required\HYPERLINKS.RPLN

Any help would be great! I can post more information if needed.