Reply To: Can't figure out WHY I can't place RTF file–I do see Overset, but can't find problem!

Sorry, indeed, footnotes come at the bottom of the page, but if the footnote text itself it too big, and the option “allow split footnotes” (type menu) is off, indesign can stop flowing text at that point.

If you have the indesign file, why not just opening it, instead of placing it? If the file is an cs3 version, cs5 should open it (with some errors due to the version difference) without much problems.