This workflow often repairs unopenable files.īut question, does this mean that i need to fix some things int he file so that it will not get damaged again?įor example i thought it might be the type that i used has an issue.so shd i change the type now? Carefully read the solution under the heading "The Markzware solution". I cant even open in design once I tried opening the file the first time.
What about an unopenable file, i have a magazine type document due in a few weeks and im screwed if I cant fix it. 2:00am and you have made it that I can go to bed! Thank goodness for the INX file!! Oh my goodness, you have saved me HOURS of work! I even installed a new hard drive because I thought that was the problem (I needed one anyway.) Thank you, thank you!!!!! Your solution was so simple, elegant, and EFFECTIVE! Thanks a million! Thank you! I've spent hours trying to figure out why InDesign now crashes if I so much as look at it wrong, and nothing I'd tried had worked. The tip worked great and I was able to move forward with the file without any issues. I thankfully found your post and was so thankful.
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I was ready to create my hi-res pdf for the printer and the file kept closing out on me. Thank you sooo much! I thought my assignment was doomed! This is one happy uni student! :) :)Įxcellent! Thanks for sharing such a great tip!! Thanks a million for posting this! - J.Lenius This worked beautifully! I exported a damaged (but openable) InDesign file using the InDesign Interchange format, and reopened it without any problems. Even if you do not want to pay, we would still love to see your strange InDesign files for our R&D. Just email with the document (if less than 15MB) or email us for our FTP details if larger. $99) where will will attempt to fix your flaky InDesign CS documents. Till then, we have a nice service (no cure-no pay. See the offer from the Markzware Blog below:įix your Bad Adobe InDesign Files! Markzware, well know for it’s QuarkXPress fixing XTension MarkzTools and conversion tools, such as the ever-still popular Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) Plugin is working on a tool that hopefully one day will make fixing bad or not opening InDesign files a cinch. If you don't want to purchase both products, you can hire Markzware to try the fix for you. So if you use ID2Q to convert the corrupt file to Quark, and then use Q2ID to convert the file back to InDesign, you might be in business. Why am I telling you this? It just so happens that people have discovered that sometimes ID2Q will open and convert InDesign files that InDesign itself can no longer open. Markzware also makes a product called ID2Q that converts InDesign files to Quark. Q2ID is a great program from Markzware that converts QuarkXPress files to InDesign format. I've seen this work wonders many times! If you have InDesign CS4, and this doesn't fix the file, try the steps above again, but choose InDesign Markup (IDML) for the file format. The new file should look just like the original file, but hopefully without whatever is causing the file corruption. inx file and rebuild a new, untitled InDesign file. InDesign will read through the instructions in the. Next, close the corrupted file, and open the.
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inx extension, which is sort of like a list of instructions on how to put the file together.
Specify a filename and a location to save the file to, then click the Save button. Select InDesign Interchange (INX) for the Format. With the bad file open, choose File > Export. This method will only work if the bad InDesign file will open. When a file goes bad, and you don't have a recent backup copy, what do you do? Here are two things to try. Sometimes a corrupted file won't even open. Or the text is all scattered willy-nilly across the page. Sometimes the bad file will open, but crashes every time they turn to page 3. Clients sometimes call me with tales of woe of misbehaving InDesign files.
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