InDesign files copying themsleves

has anyone out there who stores files on a server ran into this problem?
InDesign files that color themselves - usually yellow - and then copy themselves?

Are you in the "Get Info" Menu? If you are, you should see the following:
In the "Open with:" window either choose InDesign or see below:
Select "Other..." and scroll for InDesign. After selecting ID, click "Change All..." below to make future InDesign documents open automatically in InDesign.
Hope this works.

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>my indesign file is a web file
Pardon?
Or do you mean that, when you created a new document, you choose Web as intent maybe?

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I'm using Creative Cloud InDesign CS6 on a mac. My current OS info is: OS X 10.8.3, 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7.
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Copy layer content between InDesign files

Hello,
I'm trying copy layer content between 2 files, the sources file is a Spanish version of a training manual and the target is an English version. Essentially making a single multiple language file out of two single language documents.
I'm not well-versed in scripting.
Thanks

Hello Again Steve,
Perhaps if I shared a bit more detail.
We began with an English version. All content was placed on layer 1. At the time some of the manuals were created there was no thought of needing multiple languages.
These files had their one layer with all placed graphics and text renamed English. The Idea was all the graphics that have text embedded in them have been edited to add the second language onto a new layer in the graphic files. (Many of the manuals share graphics between them, so a common links folder was used to maintain the library of images. The graphics files have an "art layer" and "English" layer and a "second and in some cases a third language layer added.)
In InDesign the English layer was to be duplicated (duplicating both the graphics and the text) The text was then exported out as tagged type and translated into the second language and was to be flowed back in to the second language layer. InDesigns layer overrides would be applied to each of the duplicate images to turn off the English text layer and turn on the second language layer. One copy of all the graphics and one InDesign file containing each language layer with it's appropriate layer overrides.
To print the thought was to turn of the language layer visibility you didn't want and turn on the language layer you did want.
I hadn't anticipated the translation company would override the request to perform the translations in this manner and provided a single language file back instead.
I thought it was an efficent system. A single copy of each manual to deal with and single graphic files in a common library to be maintained. At some point e-publishing is being considered and I thought one e-book with all the languages in it could be created and within the e-reader the appropriate language could be enabled. Eventually, I anticipate, and hopefully prior to the e-book effort, we will be upgrading to CS5.5 to take advantage of it's enhanced e-pub features.
Like I said, I am new to this multiple language publication process and imaged the workflow to do the job rather slickly. Rather then having sequential languages one after another in the same book the languages would take advantage of the virtual Z dimension.
Fewer files to maintain, if a change was made to the english version the change could be made to all language layers on the same page.
Given your extensive experience I'd be interested in entertaining the pros and cons of sequential verses layered multlingual files. Seemed more efficient to duplicate the text in this manner then to duplicate all the graphic files. In some cases the manuals we are working with are so old (but not outdate) as to not even have digital versions. It's a big project and management within the company doesn't always think very far ahead. I'm attempting to develop a "plan" and not certain nor convinced it is the most appropriate so your advice and opinion would be recieved with great consideration. I haven't found a whole lot of resources regarding multilingual publishing. The project was sort of "thrown" at me and at the moment it's rather difficult to determine if I'm sinking or swimming. My head goes underwater but I could be doing the butterfly and that's suppose to happen.
Right now language needs are limited to the languages with land masses attached to ours North Central and South America. International Spanish was one choice, rather then having to support each dialect. That will likely change in the upcoming years but I know of no plans when.
Thanks again,
Mark

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Can anyone help me open these InDesign files?

I've been trying all day to open files for a project I was working on in March with InDesign. I could open them in March but now my computer is either crashing from trying to load the folder that contains the files, or it gives me one of two error messages. The first saying I don't have permission to open the file, the second saying the file is already open with another user.
I have tried opening from my computer and from an external drive, neither work. I have tried restarting. I've tried opening as a copy, original and normal. I've tried opening InDesign as an administrator. I have tried phoning Adobe and have been on hold for 25 minutes so far. I have tried the online help but nobody available there. I don't know what else to try.
I can create a new InDesign files and I'm not having any trouble with any other Adobe products. My subscription is until 29th August. Any ideas appreciated.
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If you open it in a plain text editor, what do the first few lines look like? If there's no lock file, the next most likely cause for this error is that the files aren't really .indd files.

What is the best way to work on the same InDesign file in different locations?

I'm the creative director for an in-house creative department. We produce 37 catalogs and a multitude of print and electronic advertising each year, plus a variety of other items. Our problem is that we have two locations. In the current set-up, if I want someone at one location to work on a project but the files are at the other location, I have someone at the one location package all the materials involved with that project and either upload them to DropBox or copy them to an external drive and ship it. Not very efficient.
We have servers at both locations but there are different files at each location. I'm able to remote from my computer into a computer at the other location, but if everyone were to do that we would need double the number of CC subscriptions and computers, and it would bog down the internet connection that the entire company uses. I'm also connected to the server at the other location (again, over the internet) and have opened InDesign files that reside on the server there and tried to work on them here (over the internet) but that is much slower than remoting in.
The only way I can think of to alleviate this problem is to run duplicate servers at each location, but this would be an update and back-up nightmare (unless I'm missing something). Is anyone operating this same way and, if so, how are you dealing with it?
We can't be the only company that works like this. Maybe I'm just missing something.
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We have servers at both locations but there are different files at each location. I'm able to remote from my computer into a computer at the other location, but if everyone were to do that we would need double the number of CC subscriptions and computers, and it would bog down the internet connection that the entire company uses. I'm also connected to the server at the other location (again, over the internet) and have opened InDesign files that reside on the server there and tried to work on them here (over the internet) but that is much slower than remoting in.
One tiny thing bothers me about your setup. And you said it above, you would need double the number of CC subscriptions and computers. Are you using two people to access under the same CC subscription. Even if they are working in two different time zones, it is technically violating the rules and spirit of the rules of being able to install on two machines at the same time.
You're allowed to install for two machines for one person working at the office and then at home. One person wouldn't be in two different locations at the same time.
Meanwhile, regards your problem, I remember reading about a system many years ago that was pretty simple. It was based on an old newspaper/magaizine system of "who has the folder." (Created before computers) In the old days, if someone was working on a file, they left a folder with their name in its place.
In the computer age, one person, working on a file, would move it to their desktop. Then, they would leave an empty folder with that document's name where it had been as well as their initials. So if I took "Shoes and Socks Fall 2015.indd" out, I would leave a folder named "Shoes and Socks Fall 2015_smsc" in its place.
And if it was necessary for me to have the images, I would make a copy of them onto my machine so I wouldn't tax the network. Then when I was finished, I would copy the file back to the server. The links should show up. If not, we could relink later.
With the empty folder on the server, anyone could tell who is working on a project. So if they were late getting it back, you could email them.
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Batch importing Word files into separate InDesign files

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I have what I though would be a fairly common question, but I can't seem to find any information about it in this forum or on the web.
I have a folder of Word files (over 100, which is why I don't want to do this manually) and one InDesign CS4 file that I'd like to use as a template (basically it's just a couple of pages with some threaded text boxes and a few images). I would like to write a script that will go through the Word files, one by one, and pull each into the text box in the InDesign file before saving it as a new copy (ideally with the same name as the Word file). So, if I have 100 Word files and one InDesign file in a folder, I'd like to be able to run a script and end up with 100 new InDesign files.
I think I can deal with importing and placing the text, and saving the file again. It's mostly the question of using javascript to go through a folder to find all of the filenames so that I can pass the name to the import file command that is confusing me.
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Before reinstalling (which is most often unneeded) it would be useful to test the way the app behave when it is used in an other User Account.
If it behave flawlessly, no need to reinstall it.
If it doesn't, it *_may be useful_* to reinstall it but it's not sure.
Nothing prove that the problem is really linked to the installed application's files.
It may be linked to a file built on the fly like preferences or fonts cache…
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 3 décembre 2010 15:55:58

Joining multiple inDesign files into one, can you solve this?

OK so basically I work at a magazine, the creative's all work on separate spreads so all the inDesign files consist of between 1 and 10 pages then usually they are all spat out in there sets of PDF's and sent to the printers.
Now I want to do an online addition of the magazine with the new SWF export feature in inDesign CS4 but I'm wondering how can you easily compile all of the separate inDesign files into one so that it can spit out one single swf with all 200 pages with the page peel effect?
Is there even a way without a mass of work of manually adding all the pages into one file, that would be absolutely humongous? Anyone with any suggestions how to make this process the simplist and with the least amount of labout would be an absoulute legend, I have little time to spend on this which sucks so looking for the best and fastest possible way that we could do it each month.
Cheers
J

I migth have a kind of solution for you. I have made a solution named eDocBrowser. (I called it Magazine Browser in earlier threads here and couple of other forums). It´s a collection of files that you publish with you SWF-files you have exported from InDesign. With eDocBrowser, you can put several SWF-files together and end-user can use them almost as one single SWF. Heres little demo I made just few minutes ago.
http://www.prepress.fi/eDocBrowser/
There are 3 SWF-files, all of them exported from InDesign. They are originally separate indd-files. When you reach last page of Document1, small arrow appears, and text "Jump to next file" and name of the next file too. You can go there also by using next-button at the bottom right corner, one that you use normaly to go next page. Same kind of arrow appears also when you are in first page of document 2 or 3 etc... with it you can go back to earlier documents last page etc... All the documents can be seen also in a drop-down menu at top of the screen. Labels of that menu are customizable.
Theres also a zoom. When you clic zoom+ button, your cursor changes to magnifying glass. With zoom- you can go back to normal view.
Additional features are FullScreen-view, Printing current spread and customizing user interface, buttons and logo at the top-left corner. Text search is very exprerimental and requires indd-file indexing with script we have made too. It indexes every single word in indd-document to XML-file and put pagenumbers there too. eDocBrowser searches that XML-file and gives all the hits to small result window. Hits are also links to page where they point...Search is not in use with this demo..
There is a small help-section in top-right corner...
We also have a script called eDocMaker. It does everything for you. You just have to have indd-files in one folder. Script asks location of that folder when you run it. It also askes you which resolution you want to use with images, anything goes between 72-2400 (72ppi is indesign´s default resolution for SWF-export, using bigger resolution might cause bigger SWF-files, but images look better when zoomed)
Price of the single licence of eDocBrowser will be 80euros (aprx. 100dollars). With it you may install one copy of eDocBrowser into your server and use as many SWF-files there as you want. There is no search feature in single version.
Price of unlimited licence is 300euros (aprx.400dollars) With it you may install as many copies of eDocBrowser as you like. With it you also get all the indesign scripts including eDocMaker with resolution booster, search indexer etc. + goodies like user interface and button templates, indesign effect (3D spine graphic etc)....
Product is about ready, we are just setting up a place to sell it. Now it seems that we are going to use a service called payloadz.com....
Additional info: petteri.paananen[at]NOSPAMprepress.fi (replace [at] with @ and remove NOSPAM)

When fonts are packaged, do these fonts only link up to the one InDesign file that was packaged?

I often work with InDesign client files that are different "versions" of the same file (the only change between these InDesign files maybe be a location name, but the rest of the file is the same (fonts, links, etc). So I'll have an InDesign file named as A version, one as B version, etc. When I open the A version of the file and package it for the printer, are those fonts (Document fonts) available to that specific InDesign file only? If I copy the other versions of InDesign files into that folder for the printer (rather than package each individual InDesign file, will those other InDesign files link to the collected Document folder? Or will I have to package each file separately?

Thanks for replying Steve. A man who worked at a press, told me that InDesign files always pulled fonts from the same folder first. My coworker thinks it's only the InDesign file that fonts were packaged for. Now I don't know for sure what he meant and I don't have a way to contact him again.
More experimentation on my part will be required and more packaging of files. Our Creative dept has 3 designers and when we work on each others files, there's always font issues unless the fonts have been packaged for each file. And don't get me started on Helveticas! Between system fonts, fonts used over the years, clients providing fonts... it's been a problem we've yet to solve... everyone using the same Helvetica font family.
Again, thanks Steve.

Is it possible to link and update external files in a Indesign document when sharing the Indesign file in Creative Cloud with multiple users?

I am new to Creative Cloud, but have been using Adobe software for many years.
Now we are considering sharing an Indesign file with my project group using CC.
The Indesign file contains links to external files (one Illustrator and multiple .txt files); and we export the approved version to an Hi-Res PDF.
These .txt files are currently hosted on our internal server but have not been linked directly: we first copy them over to local desktop and update the links in Indesign before creating a new PDF.
Since these file can be update by different people we would like to keep them outside the Indesign and Illustrator files.
Is it still possible with CC to link directly to the files on our server in Indesign and see if there have been updated?
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This will work if you all use the file syncing of the Creative Cloud desktop application and then you use the Collaborate option for the folder containing all the files. Then it will work on each of your desktops.
Links to files will not work in the browser when viewing the InDesign document from https://creative.adobe.com/files.

How do i fix a file where relinking or updating file is too slow and generating 60+MB pdf from a 4mb Indesign file?

I have an 18 page files linking several pdf images and working with this file is horribly slow. These pdf images(total of 15) easily take a min to relink or update (pdf's are at max 2mb but majority are less than 1mb). The Indesign file is only 4mb but when i export or print to pdf I get a 60-70mb file. Exporting or printing these 18 pages easily takes 30 min. I can't use the file with a higher display quality unless i have the patience of watching a plant grow on that day. I've read a majority of ways why InDesign would be slow. At work im operating Windows 7, Indesign 6 and I have 32MB of RAM. Extremely frustrating and reminding me of the days of dial up internet. I've already done a SAVE AS and tried to reduce linked files image size and to no avail has not helped. I was able to get my 72mb pdf file to reduce to 6mb after using Adobe Acrobat and getting rid of the hidden information but I lose alot of quality in the linework. I am guessing its because these pdfs are generated from Revit or Autocad is why it might be holding onto some hidden info. So how do i make this file work faster (relink,export,pdf etc)?

Just to note as well, InDesign only links to files, there's no embedding, you would see a 4mb file, but if it's linked to a 10mb pdf and it has to include all that PDF in the final file then it will be circa 14mb file.
What you have is a vector heavy PDF and there's no real way to reduce that without losing quality.
You may have better joy by opening the linked PDFS in acrobat and using File>Print and choose Adobe PDF (or another method) to basically refry the CAD pdfs.
I'd do this with a copy of all the files though just in case something goes drastically wrong.
Frankly, I feel it's the nature of how CAD pdfs are made that's causing the downfall here, refrying these and Printing these files to PDF removes a lot of the complicated things happening in CAD files and makes a very dulled down PDF version.
Once you've done this then try FIle>Export from indesign to make your pdf.

Is there ANY way to fix a corrupt InDesign file??

My computer crashed last night and the InDesign file i was working on seems to have been corrupted.
When i try to open the file i get the following message:
"Adobe Indesign automatic recovery failed the last time it tried to open the document"
when i click yes to begin recovery, InDesign crashes. i've deleted the prefs and cache files and restarted, but the problem persists.
I can open other InDesign files, so the problem seems to be with this particular one.
is there any fix at all??!??! this is a 60+ page document and i am on deadline.
p.s. my backup copy seems to have gotten corrupted in the process as well, so i am really concerned.
OS X 10.5.1
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thanks for any assistance.
gregg

Ok, here's what's next.
Have you trashed your InD prefs? This might be a good place to start. You'll have to search for the specs on doing this, I don't have that info handy. But it's a good place to start.
If that doesn't help, let's see if there's something in your OS that's causing the crash -
Do a "safe boot" - restart, hold down the shift key during startup till you see the words "Safe Boot" on the startup screen. This will disable any non-apple extensions and fonts. I'm starting to think you've got a bad font.
Now, in SafeBoot mode, try to open the file. Try to save the file. Try to Export and INX. If all of this works better than during the regular startup then we've hit on something. If a safeboot is helpful, consider an archive and install of the OS. Could be something got corrupted.
If the safeboot doesn't help, here's what's next:
You might try working with the file in under a new user account that hasn't had a million drivers and extension added to it. Here's a rough outline of the steps I have in mind (though you'll have to figure this out yourself)
First, set the permissions for all the job files to Read-Write for all users. If you don't do this, the new-user won't be able to open the files.
Create a new user account, call it "Clean Account". Reboot into the clean account.
Now try to work with the job. Any luck? Missing fonts? Move the job fonts into the clean user account. Are you crashing now? Bingo - it's a bad font. Are you in better shape now in the clean user? Bingo - it's some driver, haxie or extension.
Maybe you're due for an "Archive and Install" from the original system disks, or even a "Clean Install" if you've got a free weekend to rebuild your environment.
I guess there's also re-install the app, though I've never had to do that. But it's harmless to try.
these are just ideas - something is wrong - corrupted - bad. Could be in the OS, InD, a bad font, even a bad placed EPS (you don't use EPS files, do you?). So I'm just thinking out loud. These are all good trouble shooing options.
And check the disk with a utility. You didn't say that you'd done that.
Best,
SilverDollar

How do I keep my text formating when pasting from other InDesign files?

I'm trying to post charts from one InDesign file to another. The chart I'm trying to paste has hand-made fractions in them. The font is superscript and baseline shifted. When I paste it into a new document, the text loses all that formatting. It seems like a preferance thing, but I can't find it.

Even if Placing an .indd file retains the formatting, it's a non-starter. The reason I needed to paste the formatted text in the first place was to create a variation of the ad for a different purpose, so I need to be able to edit the text - something you can't do with a placed file.
For instance, I created an ad for an exhibit that includes the date of the reception and the address of the museum, etc. Then I want to create a poster for the wall of the exhibit, so I create a new document with different specs. Placing the ad copy would serve no use since I have to edit the copy (removing the address and reception date) and then readjust the emphasis of each line slightly.
Then I created another new file (RGB, tall and skinny) for the email invite. So I needed to copy the ad copy and again put emphasis in different places.
I hope you can see that there is a real need to be able to copy and paste manually formatted text from one document to another while retaining the special formatting. In these kinds of jobs there is no need to create a new style for each line of text since each line is tweaked and tweaked to death.
This copy & paste behavior is not intuitive and is obviously causing problems for users for no reason whatsoever except that "Adobe knows best". Why can't Adobe trust that I knew what I was going when I applied the formatting in the first place?
Considering how easy it it to remove formatting and revert to the original style, I would say the nod should be given to retaining formatting upon pasting. Both Word and Quark do this, so it's not anything unusual. Or give us the choice with a Paste Special dialog. But saying this behavior is "as designed" or suggesting you need to place a file or PDF, is not the solution.

Help!!! Images are blurry/low-res in InDesign files I sent - re-linking is not working or we're doing it wrong :(

So I am transferring all of my InDesign files over to my boss because I am leaving my job, but all of the photos placed in the layouts I've created show up blurry when he opens the files on his own computer. We've tried relinking the files, even! We may be doing it wrong, so first of all, could I get a detailed step-by-step to relinking files? Secondly, if that doesn't work, what else would you suggest?
Info that may or may not help: I have a PC, he has a Mac, we used Google Drive to share the files, and I've already tried packaging the files.
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Is it now the appearance in ID only or also PDF output? If the output is fine, it may just be the screen display settings. ID by default shows a low res screen copy. You can check on the boss' computer by selecting an image, right click and change the setting...near the bottom of the menu.
Also, in the links panel, are all the images up to date?

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