How to Resolve Adobe CS4 Installation Error?

Error 1704 or 1500 when installing or removing Adobe Creative Suite 4 and Point Products (Windows)

Issue



When you install or remove an Adobe Creative Suite 4 product, you receive a Windows error message concerning suspended, incomplete or interrupted installation. Possible error messages include the following:



"Error 1704. An installation of [Adobe Creative Suite 4 product] is currently suspended."

"Error 1500. Another installation is already in progress. Complete that install before proceeding with this installation."

Reason




Microsoft Windows installer may be interrupted because of power outage, premature system shutdown, or system issue. You may need to clear out certain registry keys in order to proceed with the Adobe Creative Suite 4 installation.



Solution



Do one or more of the following solutions:


Solution 1: Remove any in-progress installations.

Disclaimer: This procedure involves editing the Windows registry. Adobe doesn't provide support for editing the registry, which contains critical system and application information. Make sure to back up the registry before editing it. For more information about the registry, see the Windows documentation or contact Microsoft.



Launch Windows Registry Editor.

On Windows XP

Choose Start > Run, and type regedit in the Open text box; click OK.



On Windows Vista

Choose Start then type regedit in the Search box and press return.

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\Inprogress.

If the Inprogress key exists, then delete it.

Attempt the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product installation again.

Solution 2: Unregister and then reregister the Windows Installer Service.

Unregister the Windows Installer Service.

On Windows XP

Choose Start > Run.

Type msiexec /unreg and click OK.

On Windows Vista

Choose Start, type msiexec /unreg in the Search field and press Enter.

Register the Windows Installer Service.

On Windows XP

Choose Start > Run.

Type msiexec /regserver and click OK.

On Windows Vista

Choose Start, type msiexec /regserver in the Search field and press Enter.

Attempt the Adobe Creative Suite 3 product installation again.

Transforming Pages in Indesign CS5

I recently read that with CS5 you can transform pages just like you can transform objects on pages. Scale, Rotate, Free Transform, and Shear all work on pages now. It isn’t obvious at first how to do this, but one method that works is to transform an object and then switch to the Page tool, select a page, and choose Transform Again (or Transform Sequence Again) from the Object menu.
Here’s a document with pages rotated in 10 degree increments.

Here’s one with sheared pages.

Here are some with multiple transformations applied.

If you place an object after transforming the page, the object appears normal in the document window. But in the Pages panel, you can see what your output will look like in print, PDF, etc. Click the image below for a close up.

You can also see the different behavior of master page items and local items.

Now you might think at least some of this is buggy behavior, but no. It is all documented in the CS5 scripting guide. This is a feature. A weird feature, but a feature nonetheless.