Help me to change Value Display - Indesign CS2

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

For the benefit of the regulars, here's my plan:

Each time a newcomer posts this question, I'll find the most recent example and move that thread to the new one.

I hope this doesn't play too much havoc for newsreader users.

Dave

[Blair_Francey@adobeforums.com]

I tired looking for this issue, but couldn't see any topics ... were there others having this problem that have already posted?

Sorry if I'm duplicating questions ...

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Blair,

The speed with which topics are created in this form meant that this previous topic from six days ago was half-way down the second page of topics.

Dave

[Blair_Francey@adobeforums.com]

Hello,

So I'm running ID CS2 on my Intel Mac (not sure if that will make a difference, but just so you know what's going on), and I've noticed that everytime I go to create a new document, the default measurement (for a letter document, let's say) is: 8.5000500050005 in with my margins set at 0.5000500050005 in.

If I try and type in just plain old 8.5 in, it defaults back to that weird number above. And it's not just for a letter document ... any document I create has these weird dimensions to them, and I don't know how to change it. I've looked in the preferences and deleted the preferences in my library folder, but to no avail.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Blair

[Guidingbyte@adobeforums.com]

I just migrated all my apps from my old G4 to the new MacPro. IDCS2 worked OK but measurements all have 15 decimel places 8.5 has become 8.500005000050000. I checked preferernces and even threw away my old ones and when I went back to ID it was exactly the same.

How can I fix this?

[Lesley_Arenas@adobeforums.com]

Every cell that displays a numeric value has 15 decimal numbers (x, y, w, h, etc...).
I tried to change it in Preferences, but even there all the value cells have 15 decimal numbers. I know how to change the measurement unit there but all of these numbers are killing me.
Any of you have an idea of how to change it?
Thanks!

[tman@adobeforums.com]

let me guess...MacPro Intel machine right?
it has been posted many times...
No known current fix. Apple knows of the issue.

[Lesley_Arenas@adobeforums.com]

Thanks, but does it mean that there is no known solution to this?

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Allegedly, Mac OSX 10.4.8 fixes this, but there's been no official announcement of that from either Apple or Adobe.

Dave