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InDesign strangeness: Pages turned gray?

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    • February 25, 2016 at 12:52 pm #82255
      Stephen Harris
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      I’ve been working with InDesign for years and never seen anything like this:

      All of a sudden, while working on a 60-page magazine I design monthly, the last 1/3 of the spreads all turned gray… and all of their footer page numbers changed to ‘PB,’ even though nothing on any of the spreads was shifted off the page boundary.

      I have no idea what brought this on. I had to go back and manually add a blank spread, move all the items from a gray spread to a normal white spread, delete the gray spread, and repeat.

      I am working with the file on Dropbox, and sharing it with 2 InCopy users (who are prone to making the strangest mistakes because they are unfamiliar with the way Adobe programs work) – so I have no idea what could have happened.

      Can anyone explain? Or share a similar experience / solution? THANKS!!

    • March 28, 2019 at 12:44 pm #115640
      Anonymous
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      The same thing happened to one spread of a 28-page catalog for me using InDesign CS5. It happened after I hit overprint preview. I’ve never had this problem despite creating many similar catalogs. This is, however, the first time I worked directly from a DropBox folder so it may have something to do with that.

      Thanks for sharing your fix.

    • December 4, 2019 at 12:28 am #14323629
      Ruud Ruttens
      Member

      Anyone? Happend to me twice last month …

    • December 4, 2019 at 9:16 am #14323628
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      If this ever happened to me on a document, I would:

      1. Try switching from page to page to see if it goes away.
      2. Press command-shift-/ (slash) or ctrl-shift-/ to force a redraw.
      3. If that doesn’t work, then: Close the document and open it again
      4. If that doesn’t work, then: quit InDesign and launch again
      5. If that doesn’t work, and it’s just that one document, then: Save as IDML (use save as or file > export), then open that IDML file.
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