I have updated my imac to system 10.4.11 because I have installed Adobe CS3. In an Indesign document when a font is missing it highlights it in pink but in my document it is just highlighting all the spaces in pink! Font book is saying that the font is not corrupt and apart from that the font looks OK. Any ideas?
Strange. If this started happening to me, I'd do three things first.
1. Ensure that InDesign has all updates downloaded and installed.
2. I'd download, install and set up
Font Explorer. It's free and comes with InDesign and Quark 6.5 auto-activation. Let it handle your system fonts.
3. I'd throw away the InDesign preferences file. (com.adobe.InDesign.plist) in your Home Folder>Library>Preferences... and restart the Mac for good measure.
Also Quark 6.5 wouldn't open - have taken out JAWs folder and also two extensions: FontDownloadingXT.xnt and PDF Filter.xnt. So now quark opens but I can't make a pdf from it. Would upgrading to quark 7 or 8 solve my problem?
No. Upgrading shouldn't help. After setting up FontExplorer and your fonts, I'd put the JAWs folder back and the extensions and use the Xtensions Manager under the Utilities menu to disable extensions. You shouldn't have to disable PDF filter... I'd also do the same as with InDesign; throw away the preference file (QuarkXPress.setup.plist) and see how that goes. Without JAWs, you won't be able to make PDFs, unless you do it through Distiller.
However, on the whole, if you like QuarkXpress, the upgrade from 6 to 8 is well worth it. Far more useful features, they've fixed a lot, and it feels far more robust. However, as with every version of Quark, you can only save down one version so if you're working with people who are still using v5 or v6, keep the v6 installed...
Anyway... try these things first and we'll see what happens. I'll check back later and others will probably chip in as well.
