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  • May 11, 2020 at 9:53 am in reply to: How to open an IDML file that crashes #1249865
    David Dilling
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    Great description and work-around Phyllis. Corrupted images (or fonts for that matter) can often cause an entire InDesign file to go bad. One tip, in general when trouble-shooting a flaky .indd file is to artificially break the links. Which you accidentally did. Just watch out. One of those images could be the root of a future problem… There are a bunch of other very useful corrupt InDesign file tips on this article on InDesign Secrets – https://indesignsecrets.com/corrupt-indesign-file-horror-stories.php

    Friendly Regards,
    David

    February 27, 2020 at 6:51 am in reply to: Indesign Crash.. no recovery #12343074
    David Dilling
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    Another trick Civi, which we use often on the backend anyway, is try your corrupt InDesign file in IDMarkz. This is a stand-alone tool that opens and previews InDesign files without the need for the Adobe apps! https://markzware.com/products/idmarkz/ Then it can export as IDML, PDF, etc. Problem is, at the moment it is macOS only. If you send me your file, I will try, free of charge (as friends of InDesignSecrets) for you. My email is David AT markzware D O T nl.

    February 27, 2020 at 2:12 am in reply to: Indesign Crash.. no recovery #12343072
    David Dilling
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    Hi Civi, Yes, we may be able to recover your bad InDesign file: https://markzware.com/products/file-recovery-service/ There is no guarantee, but we have about a 70% success rate recovering corrupt indd InDesign files. We even had a little article here on InDesignSecrets, https://indesignsecrets.com/corrupt-indesign-file-horror-stories.php

    We stand-ready to assist, if you opt that route.

    Friendly Regards,
    David Dilling
    Markzware

    May 21, 2019 at 4:02 am in reply to: Copy table data from Word to ID #116615
    David Dilling
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    Hello Goran,

    What you could do is export the Word file as a PDF and place that. If you want actual converted tables, take the PDF and convert it with a multi-page PDF converter, like our PDF2DTP plugin for InDesign.

    May 20, 2019 at 11:36 pm in reply to: Indesign Crash.. no recovery #116613
    David Dilling
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    I am late to the party, so we may be too late.

    There might be some hope. Do you also have the original files which InDesign won’t open?
    I might be mistaken, but I think the “DBTmp…” recovery files contain some data about the “changes” that were made to the document and so the recovery can “merge” them.

    It turns out the MarkzTools plugin for InDesign we develop will actually open and convert the recovery files, but often they do not contain much data. That is often the problem.

    Thus, can send us both the original bad file along with the DBTmp as there is a chance we might be able to salvage something.
    (From the sounds of it, you never saved the file to start with though – but just want to be sure)

    Friendly Regards,
    David Dilling
    Markzware

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