PDF text disappears when placed in InDesign

I am experiencing trouble keeping the text I type onto a pdf form visible once it is placed into an InDesign document.

I've seen that when the field size is a little tight in the PDF.

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Why do my pdf files disappear when placing into Indesign CC?

I was working a late night rush project. When I came to the point of placing pdf files in my indesign CC document nothing worked. The first files showed up missing their header. They next file simply did not appear on the page. They previewed ok. The eventual work around was to place them in Indesign 5.5, an older program. Then they came in fine. I need to have an answer to why this happened. I was not placing the files from the cloud on somewhere on the internet but from my hard drive. I am getting very frustrated with this new CC application.

Try showing the import options and make sure the crop option you want to use is one that is not grayed out.

PDF Comments Disappear Upon Placing into InDesign CS5

I am creating an InDesign document in which I need to pull information from several files. One such file is a PDF with comments inserted via the typewriter tool.
Upon placing into InDesign, the comments do not appear, although the original text within the PDF does appear.
Will you please tell me if you know why this happens and if there is a workaround?
Thank you!

Dov Isaacs wrote:
To amplify on my previous response, executing a one line JavaScript will flatten all annotations / comments within a PDF file into the base document. This line of JavaScript is:
      this.flattenPages();
This is documented in the JavaScript API Reference that is part of the Acrobat X SDK, freely downloadable from Adobe's web site.
This function is more fully documented in the PDF file I've attached to this posting.
           - Dov
Thanks Dov - this solved the issue!

Sharp Photo When Placed in Indesign, Text becomes Blurry...

I have a Photo (with Sharp Text) that when Placed in InDesign, the Text Becomes Blurry (as in Unreadable)...
What's Up with that? And, more Importantly, what can I do to Correct? Thanks (can attach if needed)

Is this on screen or in print? Check Display Performance. Right-click on the image to change the display performance of only that image, or use the View menu to change the Display Performance of the document. Higher display quality generally slows the program down, although it can be slight. If the text is a text layer in Photoshop consider saving as Photoshop PDF. This will keep the file fully editable in Photoshop but the text will be vector paths in the PDF, rather then rendered raster art at the image's resolution.

Formatting of text fields when exporting from InDesign to Acrobat Pro

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Use a font that allows embedding/ check the font embedding settings in the PDF output settings.
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Why does added text disappear when I move the cursor

After adding text to an unprotected .pdf file the text disappears when I move the cursor and want to add a second box of text. The text in the first box reappears when I double click on the space where the box was. How do I set the text so that it remains visible and printable?

Hi,
I think the data in the PDF file was filled-in using MAC preview.
One option is to ask the user to fill the file again using Adobe Reader or Acrobat.
Or else refer to following link:
http://acrobatusers.com/actions-exchange/pdf2fdf_auto-save
Regards,
Anoop

Text disappears when updating story

When the designer updated a few Incopy stories in the Indesign file, the text disappeared. Anyone seen this before?

Text disappearing when you update a TOC is usually a symtom of havint put the TOC in the main story thread. The TOC must be in a separate story, not thread to anything else, becasue updating replaces the entire story.

How can I make a table cell extend beyond the page? The text disappears when the cell becomes larger than the page.

How can I make a table cell extend beyond a page? The text disappears when the cell becomes bigger than the page. I want the table to continue to the next page.

As a student, you might be able to get Office for Mac from the college bookstore at a substantial discount. Otherwise, I think your best option for documents that need to be shared with Office users is to get one of the free Office clones such as LibreOffice.

Illustrator files sometimes have a white BG when placed in InDesign

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This Gaussian Blur is probably created as a bitmap effect, not as live transparency. That makes sense, too, since EPS doesn't support transparency effects.
No option to change this in InDesign, unless you want to resort to ad hoc hacks such as setting the entire image to "multiply".
You can try to get hold of the original Illustrator file; if the blur is done as a transparent effect in that, ID sohuld be able to process it correctly.

Text Disappears when on top of an HTML overlay

Text Disappears when on top of an HTML overlay. This is a very simple file. It's not even part of an MSO. The text is disappearing when I view in both the desktop content viewer and the iPad.
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You might also try creating the html and leaving a space for you existing text. Select transparent background for you overlay and the text should be visible.

All website PDF s disappear when I try to open. They go somewhere.Where and Why?

All website PDF s disappear when I try to open. They go somewhere.Where and Why? A green arrow shows.

Current Firefox versions have enabled a built-in PDF Viewer that doesn't have all features that other PDF readers like the Adobe Reader have or may not function properly otherwise.
You can change the action for Portable Document Format (PDF) from Preview in Firefox to use another application like the Adobe Reader or set to Always Ask in "Firefox > Options/Preferences > Applications".
You can set the pdfjs.disabled pref to true on the <b>about:config</b> page to disable the build-in PDF viewer.
You can check the value of the plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types pref on the about:config page and remove the application/pdf part if present or reset the pref to the default via the right-click context menu if you want to display PDF documents in Firefox with another application (i.e. not the built-in PDF Viewer).
See also:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-without-downloading-them

Cropped PDF's appear uncropped when placed in InDesign CS3

I have an original PDF that I only needed a portion of. I cropped it in Acrobat 8, using the crop tool and resaved it as a new PDF document. But when I place the new PDF document in InDesign the entire original PDF document appears.
Any suggestions,
David

Select show options when placing and choose crop as the crop to option.
Bob

Text disappears when graphics frame is placed on top of it.

Hello,
When I try to substitute a large cap in a text frame with a graphics frame in ID CS4, the text disappears.
I have been able to do this successfully in the past, but not with this particular text frame.
Please see screenshots.
Can someone please help?
Thanks for your consideration,
cobaltgreen

That can't be the whole story. The image you posted indicates that if text wrap is applied, the offset is 0 (if it was anything else it would show when the frame is selected, as it is in the screen shot).
Normally you'd actually do this with text wrap and it would push the text to the right (and re-wrap the lines) in the first few lines when the image frame was put into position, but you've done something else we can't see to make that notch.
Peter

PDFs missing bleed when placed

I'm having an occasional weird problem in InDesign: I place an advertisement which has bleeds and cropmarks. These bleeds and cropmarks disappear in InDesign even though the frame is plenty large enough to show all of it. This happens occasionally both with ads I receive and with files that I create by exporting to PDF (the bleeds are there but don't show up when I place the PDF in another document). With my own files, I can ultimately print to PDF (instead of exporting) and get it to work, but I don't know what to do with this ad I just received:
http://www.rotor.com/temp/LifePortAd.pdf
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Thanks, Phyllis

Okay, I didn't notice that you could turn off the fixups (some of the profiles had specifically warned me that they were going to change the document). But most of those I'm not too sure about running anyhow. But the analysis ones look useful. "PDF analysis > List images below 250 ppi" seems like a very good one to run each time. I don't know what else I'd use. Ultimately I have to create a PDF with my printer's joboptions anyhow, but it'd be good to find out obvious problems from the start.
Thanks!
Phyllis

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I'm doing an interactive pdf from InDesign CS6. I have buttons that I've created using just a solid rectangle and reversed white text in the rectangle and the buttons are on my master page. I want my buttons to change to a different colour when you click or mouse over them (only text to change to a different colour). When I go to 'click state' or 'rollover state' (I've tried both), the button is copied and I can change the colour but then in my normal state, I have an overset text, (I get a red plus sign) my text disappears. When I try and correct my normal state, the same thing happens in my click or rollover state. When I export a file to an interactive pdf, my normal state button is without text and my over or click state button has text with the colour that I've selected. Does anyone know why this happens or how to fix it?
Thanks,
NZ

We might be able to help you but you'll have to drop the attitude. We're not Adobe here, but users like you.
You'll need to tell us exactly what you're doing and what's not working for you. By "rollovers," you could mean the change of appearance of a button. You could also be meaning what are sometimes called Show/Hide buttons where clicking a button causes another button to appear. Which is it?
And what kind of output are you attempting? Interactive PDF? SWF (Flash)? DPS?

PDF text disappears when placed in InDesign

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