INDD to PDF?

I have downloaded the INDD 30 day trial and want to save a mock-up of something to PDF. When I export the INDD file to PDF and preview it, the PDF appears blank.
Help?

Most common occurence for this type of event is that you may have accidentally placed all items on the Master Page.
Go to the Window>Pages
And from here you see a Panel and it's divided with a Line.
Above the Line are master pages - and below the Line are the pages in the document.
You should move any items on the Master Page to a Page in the document.
Hope that helps.

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I assume Google's intention was to hack down bandwidth usage, which I don't begrudge them, but the results stand out glaringly in an otherwise vibrant WWW. Embedded fonts work fine, and the only other visual/layout errors can be with some more advanced design effects—unless they are flattened down to Acrobat 5 compatibility.
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I know how to do this with Photoshop, and I assume it's a Photoshop engine working behind the scenes in/for InDesign when processing images, so I'm hoping this is attainable.
Semi-educated guesses:
That a suitable color profile could be created and selected when outputting either PDF or PS, resulting in 255-color (indexed) RGB images in the final PDF layout.
That the long way is to make alternate versions of each image used in the layout, swap them (such as with relink to file extension, e.g. GIF for TIF), and output a version specifically for embedding.
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Tagged INDD -- Tagged PDF

Hi,
I thought that when you tag all elements in an InDesign layout and then play with their order inside the Structure panel (in InDesign), this tagged order would be preserver when exporting into PDF activating the checkbox "Tagged PDF".
But when I do so and open the PDF in Acrobat, then open de reading order panel, I find that this order does not match the one I set in the Structure panel in InDesign.
The manual says it may do it, but I cannot find out...
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UPDATE:
I have spent a long time trying to find an answer to this to no avail. I have finally contacted Adobe Tech Support and explained the issue that concerns me and I have had a response from a senior expert on InDesign/Acrobat/Accessibility.
The issue is as follows:
When you prepare an InDesign document so that the generated tagged pdf is fully accessible for screen readers and the like (create TOC, include bookmarks, add document structure, tag untagged items, map styles to tags, tag uneccessary content as artifacts, include alt tags for images etc.) the bullets in bulleted lists cause the pdf to fail the Full Accessibility Check in Acrobat Pro. The full accessibility report will flag bullets as 'Inaccessible Page Content - the element is not contained within the document structure tree'. This is acceptable from the targeted end user audience (viz those with impaired vision using screen readers) because , as Acrobat states "Content that is not attached to the structure tree will not be available via assistive technology like screen readers." Well you don't really want the screen reader saying "Bullet" or similar everytime it comes across one, do you?
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I explained the above to the Adobe expert and asked if there was an efficient way, in InDesign CS2, to tag all "bullets" as artifacts so that they would be ignored by screen readers AND be seen as artifacts by the Acrobat Pro Full Accessibility Checker and hence pass the check. His answer was NO. I said in the past I had tediously, laboriously gone through the documents in Acrobat pro and marked every bullet as 'background' (= an artifact) to make it pass the Full access checker successfully. Surely, I asked, there must be a simpler way to do this? No, was his answer! "It's extremely cumbersome... but it's the only way"
Aaaahhh.

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Why am I getting missing plugin error in CS4 Indesign when trying to open indd or PDF files?

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PDF files cannot be opened in InDesign.
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Big problem with PDF export from CS4

Create a document with facing pages. Then place a rectangle or any other object on the master through the whole spread. Place the text or any other object on the master over the first rectangle on the both pages. Now, when exporting pdf, the text on the left pages is disappeared becaouse it covered by the copy of the rectangle. The variation of the problem is when using any tansparencies, then they become "less transparent" on the left pages because of this strange dublicating.
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Thanks, it works, but bug is still bug. In some cases it's impossible to do this, for example my recent case: it was text with huge outer glow on master pages. Outer glow from right page dublicates to the left and covered left text, and there's no way to move effect to another layer separately. The solution was to detach these texts from masters, but it's also unhandy solution.
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How do I write a javascript code to open InDesign File, import Doc, save and export to pdf?

How do I write a javascript code to open InDesign File, import Doc, save and export to pdf?

Hi hasvi,
Need Template(.indt), textframes etc for the following script:
var myFolderInd = Folder.selectDialog();
var myFile = myFolderInd.getFiles("*indt");
app.open(myFile)
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
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mySaveFile.pages[0].textFrames[0].place(File(myFile1))
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It´s really hard to say without seeing your files (orig indd and resulting pdf), but one possible reason could be transparency.
If you have something that causes transparency flattening, it may convert all your texts to outlines during pdf-process, if you are using PDF1.3 as a target compatibility in your settings (or if you make your pdf by printing instead of exporting).
On the other hand the fact that you still can copy/paste that text give a reason to doubt that you have a problem with character encoding. Did you try to use some other font, try some very basic font, like Times New Roman or Arial, export it again and check what happens...

Possible to generate xmp thumbnails for PDF files in Acrobat?

Hi,
Apps from the Creative Suite 5.5 allow to embed a tiny preview (as XMP thumbnail) when saving to some .ai .indd or .pdf file. However, I could not find the option in Acrobat X Pro.
Such XMP thumbnails prove useful when visually browsing through PDF documents in Windows' explorer. I'm surprised Acrobat X lacks such a feature whereas other apps from the Suite do it fine.
Please not I'm not talking about embedding page previews, this is a completely different topic.

sample file, you can use any name and append the xml data elements too...
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<xapi:request select="/MODULE1/LIST_G_EMPNO/G_EMPNO">
<xapi:delivery>
<xapi:email id ="123" server="[email protected]" port="25"
from="[email protected]" reply-to="[email protected]">
<xapi:message id="123" to="[email protected]" cc="" attachment="true"
content-type="text/html" subject="Purchase Order Number: ${EMPNO}">Please
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[JS][CS4/CS5] Images dropping off in scripted pdf export

I've encounted a bug that I wonder if someone could try to replicate or suggest a workaround of some sort for.
Some background: we often need to batch-export a number of versioned InDesign files to pdf. These files will often share a lot of content, particularly placed images. We've used Peter Kahrel's export script for this purpose, as well as a number of scripts of my own. The specifics of the script don't seem to be important. I've seen the problem in both CS4 and CS5 on the Mac.
The problem: Placed Illustrator files (and pdfs) drop off of exported pdfs, without any kind of error being raised, after a user tries to interact with InDesign while it's tied up during a script which opens and exports one file after another. Once an image drops off, it will be missing from every subsequently exported pdf until the script completes. The pdfs are valid—they open and display just fine—they just don't contain all the images they're supposed to. Placed raster images are not affected.
If anyone cares to try to replicate this for me, the script I used to trigger it was:
var f = File("/path/to/InDesign/file.indd"),
    d = Folder("/path/to/export/directory"),
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    i = 1000,
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    doc.close(SaveOptions.NO);
The InDesign file can simply be a single page with any (as far as I know) placed Illustrator file or pdf. I used an .ai file with one black rectangle in the middle of the page.
After getting the export script going in the ESTK, I Command-Tab over to InDesign. As soon as I try to click on any UI element (which will get me a spinning beach ball), the placed vector image drops off of the exported pdf and stays dropped off until I stop the script.
While the solution seems simple—don't mess with InDesign while it's batch exporting pdfs—it's easy to forget that it's tied up, and the consequences of an image silently dropping off of an exported pdf could be quite dire.
Thanks in advance.
Jeff

edit: Did file a bug report (5th of december 2012)..
It is just unbelievable that this bug still exists! absqua, have you filed a bug-report?!
Easy to reproduce, just launch script and click any toolpanel header while indesign running script..
test_document.indd includes those black rectangles in linked .ai file.
Right after InDesign ui-element is clicked, that linked .ai is dropped from rest of exported pdf's.
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[JS][CS4]PDF Export With RegExp Doesn't Include First Zero-Please Help

This is a script we put together with the help of Jongware, Shonkyin and Kaysan a while back...
Here's the link to the original thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/481958?tstart=0
( function() {
if(app.documents.length != 0){
var myFolder = app.activeDocument.filePath;
if(myFolder != null){
var myPageName, myFilePath, myFile;
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
     //var myBaseName = myDocumentName + "_" ;
          //1. Update modified links, find and alert operator of missing links.
          var linksLog = updateLinks(myDocument, "");
     if (linksLog != "") {
          alert("Missing Links\n" + linksLog + "\nPlease resolve and try again.");
          return;
     function updateLinks(doc, log) {
          var myLinks = doc.links;
          for (var j = myLinks.length - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
               switch (myLinks[j].status) {
                    case LinkStatus.normal :; case LinkStatus.linkEmbedded : break; // nothing to do
                    case LinkStatus.linkOutOfDate : myLinks[j].update(); break; // update
                    case LinkStatus.linkMissing :
                         log = log + "Link '" + myLinks[j].name + "' is missing\n";
                    break
               } // end switch
          } // end for
          return log
     } // end updateLinks
var my_suffix = decodeURI(app.activeDocument.name).replace(/^(\d+).*/, '$1');
//my_suffix = Number(my_suffix);
if (typeof (my_suffix) != 'number')
my_suffix = Number(my_suffix);
for(var myCounter = 0; myCounter < myDocument.pages.length; myCounter++){
    if (myDocument.pages.item(myCounter).appliedSection.name != ""){
        myDocument.pages.item(myCounter).appliedSection.name = "";
myPageName = myDocument.pages.item(myCounter).name;
app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = myPageName;
myFilePath = myFolder + "/" + "MyTest_" + (my_suffix + myCounter) + ".pdf";
myFile = new File(myFilePath);
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;
myDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, myFile, false, "[Press Quality]");
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
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alert("Finished exporting");
The problem is, I never considered pages 0 through 99. The script works perfect for 138-140 TEST 10_WORKER.indd. It creates PDFs named:
MyTest_138.pdf
MyTest_139.pd
MyTest_140.pdf
If the document name is 098-100 TEST 10_WORKER.indd, It creates PDFs named:
MyTest_98.pdf - should be MyTest_098.pdf
MyTest_99.pdf - should be MyTest_099.pdf
MyTest_100.pdf - This is perferct
And of course, the double 0s, 008-010 TEST 10_WORKER.indd
MyTest_8.pdf - should be MyTest_008.pdf
MyTest_9.pdf - should be MyTest_009.pdf
MyTest_10.pdf - should be MyTest_010.pdf
Why doesn't it use the first 0(s) in the name? 0 is a digit and every RegEx tester I've checked it with includes the zero.
Any assistance with getting this script to use the leading zero if there is one would be greatly appreciated.
Also, if there is a way to export each PDF from a multipage document which doesn't start with a number, it would be extremely helpful.
Thanks in advance
Danny

The zeros aren't there because they never were there. Your loop starts at 0 and that could be a page number. To pad your page numbers to three-digit numbers, replace this line:
myFilePath = myFolder + "/" + "MyTest_" + (my_suffix + myCounter) + ".pdf";
with this one:
myFilePath = myFolder + "/" + "MyTest_" + (my_suffix + pad(myCounter)) + ".pdf";
and add the following function somewhere at the end of your script:
function pad (n) {
    return ("00000"+n).slice(-3);
Peter

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Fortunately we still have CS6 and we were able to place the same PDF with no problem. So we had to save the document into a CS6 format and then insert the PDF.
I don't know what would have caused this, but we haven't had problems with other PDFs. It seems that there was something about that PDF that InDesign CC didn't like (but that CS6 was able to handle).
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