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    • August 26, 2012 at 9:36 pm #62981
      chefren
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      Hello,

      I have a layman's ability to work with Indesign, but haven't used Indesign in over a year. On my first day back, today, I hit a road block with a file that someone sent me to hopefully edit.

      The file consists of text and images, is in CS2 and came with this instruction,

      “Here's the inDesign file. It's formated to be exported to PDF, so if you do edit it, be sure to open and close it with a PDF script in inDesign.”

      I guess it will come as no suprise to anyone here that when I opened the file straight from Indesign, I found that I couldn't access the text to do any editing, which are like images. Actually, the 'text box images' are also off center, too. Furthermore, when I converted to PDF, the file font looked rough… I have the original PDF when it is done properly, and it looks fine.

      All I need to do is some cut and past texting on this file, and have it look like a decent PDF file when I'm done.

      So, I'm wondering if anyone would kindly advise as to what I have to do when it comes to opening and closing with a PDF script? And secondly, if that is all that I really know in this case.

      Regards

      Chefren

    • August 27, 2012 at 7:11 am #62985
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      That actually sounds really strange. I have no idea what “open and close it with a pdf script” means.

      Open the Links panel (from the Window menu). Does it show a bunch of PDFs or other graphics? Maybe with Red warning symbols next to them (indicating missing graphics)?

    • August 27, 2012 at 8:21 pm #62993
      chefren
      Participant

      Actually, there is nothing in that field. When I open the file, it says 208 missing links, which must refer to the page count… What appears to be going here is that the pages are somehow captured as images… hence no text linkage from page to page…

    • August 27, 2012 at 8:24 pm #62994
      chefren
      Participant

      check that… after I wrote that message, the links window populated, and shows each page listed as a pdf, with the dreaded red question marks… It seems that in its current form, my indd doc is basically 208 different pdf pages, each one listed as the corresponding page in the book…. pdf60, pdf61, pdf62 etc

    • August 27, 2012 at 8:40 pm #62995
      chefren
      Participant

      I wonder if it has something to do with this….

      https://www.adobe.com/devnet/di…..esign.html

      I would imagine this is a well known page, however..

    • August 28, 2012 at 6:36 am #63002
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Yeah, if that is the only file you have, you definitely don't have anything editable.

      You can convert PDFs to editable InDesign files with the commercial third-party add-on PDF2ID from recosoft.com

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