InDesign 4.0.4 Update Released for Mac and Win

New update applies many fixes, solves PS canvas-change scaling problem

Recently announced by Adobe, and which by now should be show­ing up in the Updates win­dow of your InDesignCS2, Adobe has post­ed new updates which will bring your ver­sions of InDesign up to 4.0.4.

The updates are avail­able for both Windows and Mac, and take care of a host of fix­es, includ­ing (but not nec­es­sar­i­ly lim­it­ed to): index­ing, launch issues, trans­paren­cy, short­cuts, text and fonts, script­ing, inline graph­ics, InDesign Interchange (INX) files, German hyphen­ation, XML, library files, per­for­mance, QuickTime 7.x sup­port, print­ing, SING glyphlets, EPS export, and text import. A com­plete list of fix­es can be found in the ReadMe file.

A cer­tain key fix worth not­ing involves a change brought in by the 4.0.3 update; enlarg­ing the can­vas in a linked Photoshop file caused the image to scale incor­rect­ly in InDesign. This caused unex­pect­ed rescal­ing of the image on relink, and rescaled images came in at 72ppi. Adobe reports that this has been cor­rect­ed with the 4.0.4 update.

The update is avail­able through the Updates dia­log on the Help menu. If you pre­fer to down­load them direct­ly from Adobe, the Mac update (40.9MB) is avail­able here, and the Windows update (29.6MB) is avail­able here. The updates will bring any ver­sion of InDesign 4 up to 4.0.4., and incor­po­rates all fix­es; the indi­vid­ual updaters for 4.0.1 through 4.0.3 are no longer available.

InDesign CS2, Updates