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• • February 27, 2014 at 10:55 am #67360
    Anonymous

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    I wasn’t sure what search terms to input for the problem I’m having, so I turn to you guys for help.

    I have a very large document, 110+ pages, that I’m designing for a product catalog. There are several pages that are missing elements that I created, like tables for model numbers, or text boxes, etc. I can’t move any elements from other pages to that page, and I can’t create any new elements on that page. When I try, my document jumps to the last page of the document, or it just doesn’t display the object I moved/copied onto that page.

    I’m scared that my file is corrupted somehow, and not sure how to go about fixing it. Hopefully someone has encountered this problem before.

    Thanks guys (and gals).

  • February 27, 2014 at 11:04 am #67361
    David Blatner

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    Remember that old phrase that your grandmother would say? That “it builds character”? That’s what you’re experiencing. ;-D

    That does sound very odd. My suggestion is to export the file to IDML (using file > export), then open that IDML file. That usually gets rid of corruption.

  • February 27, 2014 at 11:22 am #67362
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I did export an .idml, but indesign would hang trying to open it. I worked around my current problem by just deleting the pages and inserting fresh ones and pasting the content back in. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that sooner.

    Thanks though. Any idea why indesign would hang opening .idml?

  • February 27, 2014 at 11:39 am #67365
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    No, but it might be a sign of a really messed up document. Personally, I would keep deleting things and doing Save As until you can get a successful IDML to export and import.

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