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Dec

Contribute CS3 Line Break Bug Fix

I’ve been working on a project for the Editorial department for a few weeks now. They wanted the ability to edit content and since Contribute came with our Creative Suite 3 packages, I tried it. Despite all of the testing I did beforehand, someone caught a bug I didn’t notice before: the keyboard shortcut for Line Breaks doesn’t work. Like Dreamweaver, it should just be the default Hit the keys shift and return at the same time. (Shift+Return). For some reason the key bindings are wrong (or missing) for Mac OS X, Contribute CS3.

An easy fix explained in this newsgroup took care of my problem. It isn’t a permanent solution, but I don’t have time to delve into multitude of files to find the piece of code that has the logic error.

Quick and Dirty Fix

If you don’t want to read the newsgroup messages and you aren’t picky about the keyboard shortcut configuration, just follow these instructions.

  1. Quit Contribute.
  2. Open a finder window. Go to Applications -> Adobe Contribute CS3 -> Configuration -> Menus.
  3. Duplicate or back up ccmenus.xml.
  4. Add the new ccmenus.xml file. (Hit OK to replace the file.)
  5. Start Contribute and open a page to test the new keyboard shortcut.
  6. Hit (Cmd+Shift+Return) to insert a Line Break.