Pdf converter to indesign

hi everybody,
Is there any free pdf converter to Indesign project? i'm in search of pdf converters to indesign projects but i found some plugins that i must pay for them.
Thanks in advance.

If you need them, pay for them.
The people that develop plugins of this sort spend massive amount of time on them. For anyone stuck with a PDF that needs to be converted it’s well worth the price of the plugin.
Bob

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Is it possible to convert a PDF into an Indesign File? I am using Indesign CS5.5
Thanks in advance for the help!
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No you can´t.
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I'm trying to make a textbox appear in a PDF made in InDesign when the user rolls the cursor over another textbox, and I want it to disappear when the cursor moves off the first textbox. I've tried the following with various setting, and it's just not working for me.
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Here's more information about what I'm doing.
1. create text box with a little text
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4. turn this into a button (Button 2)
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7. For Button 1, click + to add Action and choose "Show/Hide Buttons and Forms"
8. For Button 1, change icon next to Button 2 into crossed-out eyeball (which I assume makes Button 2 invisible on roll off).
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Both buttons are visible in the PDF, and nothing happens with roll over and off.
What am I doing wrong?

How can I maintain multiple white spaces in a PDF written from InDesign?

I need to have 2 white spaces maintained (within a part #) in the PDF I write, but when I open in Acrobat it converts it to one space.
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I am talking about normal white space. Multiple fixed widt spaces are not a problem. How the space is handled in a PDF depends on how it is created.
Viele Grüße
Wilhelm Georg Adelberger
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Am 21.08.2014 um 12:01 schrieb Peter Spier <[email protected]>:
How can I maintain multiple white spaces in a PDF written from InDesign?
created by Peter Spier in InDesign - View the full discussion
It may not be a great idea to use multiple spaces, but it certainly is not prohibited and sometimes is necessary -- you might want a 2em space, or a thin space before and after a tab you underline in a form.
I'm able to select the multiple spaces just fine in Acrobat 9 using the text touch-up tool.
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I can't open PDF files in InDesign CS5

Hi all,
I can't seem to open any PDF files of any version while using InDesign CS5...
I'm currently running InDesign in Windows 7 Professional x32bit...
This message keeps popping up:
Cannot open the file "TIG_Sheet_and_Application.pdf". Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing, or the file may be open in another application.
I've made sure that the file was not open in any application, and its not just this particular pdf files... all PDF files can't be opened. The only thing that actually opens in InDesign are the indd files...
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Cheers,

krystlew, and others reading this thread and considering the answers "snarky" or "not helpful": note that this is the InDesign SDK forum -- that is, a question posted here should be about programming for InDesign:
About this Forum
The InDesign SDK forum is for discussions on InDesign plugin development using the InDesign SDK. InDesign plugins are developed in C++.
Presumably, you found this discussion because the error message lead you here: that you cannot "open" a PDF. That's InDesign's usual message for all content that it cannot 'open' with the command "File > Open..."; try for example with a Word document, a JPEG image, or an Excel spreadsheet. InDesign is perfectly able to import these files -- but you cannot use "File > Open...". You must use the command "File > Place..." instead. "Placing a PDF" is described in the online Help: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/placing-graphics.html
It is a regular User Interface question and so unrelated to what this forum is for. General InDesign questions can be asked in the regular user forum: https://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign/content
I believe that the original question was posted in error in this forum and thus got interpreted as "what do I need to code to natively open PDFs". The answer is: lots. InDesign does not provide anything to natively read a PDF, so you would have to program literally everything.
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Is there a way to open PDF's in InDesign?

Is there a way to open PDF's in InDesign?

You can PLACE a PDF as you would an image file, but it will not be editable inside ID.
There's a plugin, I think from Recosoft, called PDF2ID that will allow you to open a PDF file as native objects in ID, but your mileage may vary as to how usable the file will be.

PDFs exported from InDesign cannot be printed

Our Marketing Manager is using Adobe InDesign and exports her documents to PDF. These PDFs won't print in any of our printers in the office. It spools and then gets stuck and it actually makes our HP Coloured Laser Printer throw an error (error 79) and we'll have to restart the printer due to this error. We can print other documents and other PDFs in the printer so we know it's not a printer driver issue. In fact, we have isolated the problem to only PDFs exported from InDesign. Even if we create a blank document or add just text from InDesign and export it to PDF it still won't print. Really odd.
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Exporting large PDF document in inDesign

I'm exporting a large file (3m in length x 1.2m in width) in inDesign to PDF for print and the document just will not save, or if it does, only half the document actually saves. Help please!

I don't think so. A PDF can have several hundrets of miles now.
Viele Grüße
Wilhelm Georg Adelberger
Von meinem iPhone gesendet
Am 09.07.2014 um 12:09 schrieb Peter Spier <[email protected]>:
Exporting large PDF document in inDesign
created by Peter Spier in InDesign - View the full discussion
Your file may be larger than the maximum dimensions for a PDF (not sure what they are, currently). Try working at half-size in ID and see if it makes a difference.
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I have to reformat my hard drive and reinstall all of my programs. What do I do about Creative Cloud? I also still need access to CS6 (I have a Marksware converter for InDesign to Quark).

I have to reformat my hard drive and reinstall all of my programs. What do I do about Creative Cloud? I also still need access to CS6 (I have a Marksware converter for InDesign to Quark).
This is a MacBook Pro 15" (Model number A1286) running Mavericks. Hard drive is fine but system software has been corrupted. I cannot simply restore from Time Machine as it will copy the corrupt system.
Will I have to find all of my serial numbers before I can launch any of the programs?
Thanks

For the Cloud, you log in to your paid Cloud account and download & install the same way you did the first time
Cloud Getting Started https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/topics/getting-started.html
If you have the perpetual license version of CS6 you install from your original media and use your serial number
If you have the version of CS6 that is installed via the cloud use this link
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/download-previous-versions-creative-applications. html
-or http://www.adobe.com/downloads/other-downloads.html

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