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    • October 30, 2016 at 8:34 pm #89435
      Chris Court
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      Greetings, oh venerated gurus of inDesign,

      I have an old inDesign template that was originally created on a version of ID that had several third-party plug-ins grafted on (part of a dysfunctional CMS system we were working with at some point).

      I no longer use, have installed, nor have access to these plugins.

      This doesn’t generally cause much problem – although ID does remind me when I open the file that the document “uses one or more plugins that are not available on your system.” However, I have recently discovered that I’m not able to export packages based on this template. I get the error “This document cannot be packaged due to missing plug-ins. Please install or activate these plug-ins:”

      So, my question: Is it possible to somehow make the file “forget” all about the plugins? There is nothing in the file that would rely on any features of the plugins, so far as I can tell. Or is my only option to recreate the template from scratch?

      Any enlightenment would be highly appreciated.

      Kind regards
      Chris

    • October 30, 2016 at 8:43 pm #89436
      Ari Singer
      Member

      If the file does indeed not rely on any plugins then exporting to IDML should do the trick.

    • October 30, 2016 at 8:50 pm #89437
      Chris Court
      Member

      That has done the trick.

      Thank you!

      C

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