I now have the solution to this problem and I have posted it here as it may be a way of sorting our similar problems for other people.

Basically you delete the cache folder.

To delete caches:
For Macintosh Users: With InDesign closed launch a Finder Window in column view and click on your home folder. With the Option Key pressed choose Library from the Finder Go Menu. Within the Library folder find the “Caches” folder. Within the Caches folder find and delete the entire file “Adobe InDesign”. I find that deleting the cache file completely leads to a lasting change.
For Windows Users: On Windows 7 and above the caches files are hidden. To find them go to the Control Panel and open Folder Options and then click the View tab. Then select “Show hidden files and folders” or “Show hidden files, folders or drive options” in Advanced Settings. Then delete (or rename) the folder at the end of this path: C:\Users\[User Name]\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version [#]\<Language>\Cache.

After just posting this message, I’ve just realised something … if a draw a graphic box it works … it’s if I draw a box using the Pen Tool that it doesn’t work.

Could this be a bug in InDesign?

Any help to get round this problem would be great, because there are some awkward shaped marks that would need to get rid of by drawing a white box with the Pen tool.

Thanks.

John

Thanks for you answer Dwayne.

I now know where these fonts come from. They are in different places in CC2015 and CC2014.

In InDesign CC2015 they are in Applications / Adobe InDesign CC 2015 / Resources / Required/Fonts

In InDesign CC2014 they are in Applications / Adobe InDesign CC 2014 – SHOW PACKAGE to look within the Application – / Contents / MacOS / Required / Fonts

They definitely don’t want us to remove these fonts do they!!!!!

Thanks for the reply, but that just causes more mayhem. Things move around on the page.

As I said before, in earlier versions if you just dropped your master page on the page, the elements that have been deleted that originate from the master page appear again, but any text etc. is not affected.

In the CC onward versions, dropping your master page introduces the master page items again, but makes all the text disappear from the page.

Thanks for answering David, but it is still not quite right. Yes, it will say 3 instead of iii, but when the true page 1 kicks in, and for example there are 20 pages of Prelims numbered i-xx, page 1 will read as 21 instead of 1.

This only happens when you export to PDF, the numbering is correct if you export to postscript first and then run it through Distiller.

I work for a typesetting company and this happens on all our Macs. It is inconvenient because the customer might print out the PDF to make correction marks on the proofs and it can sometimes become confusing.

If it works for postscript files, surely it should work for Export to PDF files.

Thanks Hopsa for your answer (sorry for not acknowledging earlier but I've been very ill and therefore not on the forum).

Unfortunately I'm not exactly sure what wording I need to write above and below the script wording app.activeDocument.hyperlinkTextSources.everyItem().remove() for it to work. Can Hopsa or anyone else help please?

That is exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks very much for your help – greatly appreciated – I can now work happily as before the issue this was something that always got on my nerves but not enough to find out how to exactly do it – until now.

Cheers

JohnnyCarbon

Thanks David.

Your answer cured the changing size problem, but unfortunately the images do not hold the same position within the graphic frame when they are updated – they are graphic icons at the end of heading lozenges and so due to the shift in position the whole graphic is not showing. Do you know how to cure this too? I'm going to have to Package each book as a get-around, but I wouldn't want to keep doing this in future on other projects.

Cheers