Re: Text Disappears

BobLevine

Current version is 20.3. Please update.

BobLevine

Are you using an RTL version of InDesign?

BobLevine

It's spam and I'm going to mark it as such.

BobLevine · ‎May 07, 2025

Mike, the question was about being able to publish the document to Publish Online. Sharing the InDesign document doesn't do anything to help there.

BobLevine · ‎May 07, 2025

You never know, but don't hold your breath.

BobLevine · ‎May 07, 2025

You're not missing anything. Only the account holder can publish updates.

BobLevine · ‎May 06, 2025

Always use Opentype fonts and make sure that everyone is on the same version. There is no way to add a 2023 user so everyone will have to upgrade for compatibility.

BobLevine · ‎May 06, 2025

Turn off GPU Performance in your InDesign preferences (if available) and if that's not it, export the document to IDML and open that.

BobLevine · ‎May 06, 2025

Multi state objects are not supported in PDF and without seeing your file there's no way anyone can tell why it doesn't work in an EPUB.

BobLevine · ‎May 05, 2025

First thing to look at is any manual overrides in the paragraphs that aren't updating.

BobLevine · ‎May 05, 2025

Old discussion which has been asked and answered. I doubt very much you have the SAME problem. Please start a new discussion with full system details.

BobLevine · ‎May 05, 2025

I've found the best way to handle this is to keep the graphs and charts very simple; no gradients or pattern fills, etc. If they're okay, copy/paste from Excel to InDesign but for the best result, paste them into Illustrator and clean them up there. Then place in InDesign.

BobLevine · ‎May 04, 2025

Check to see if the paragraph is set to balance ragged lines.

BobLevine · ‎May 01, 2025

Open a PDF and it will be converted to a native InDesign layout. Don't expect miracles.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 30, 2025

Forget everything else, do not use buttons in an interactive PDF. They are way too unpredictable and likely to not work at all in anything other than Acrobat for a desktop. Edit: If you're working on an interactive PDF you can make changes in Acrobat and use the replace pages command to update the PDF without damaging the work you've done in Acrobat.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 30, 2025

Right! GREP is a horrible idea for this and a nested style would take about a minute or two to create.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 29, 2025

I'm going to be very honest. I don't want to discourage you but simply having software on your computer is not going to be enough for you to get any of this done. It would be like going to Home Depot and buying $20,000 in power tools and calling yourself a carpenter. You really need to decide which software you want to learn first. None of these application are what I would call intuitive. There is a steep learning curve and even if you have design skills (that's a whole different discussion) if you don't prepare your files correctly, you're going to get nailed for printing costs and AAs. tl;dr: hire a professional

BobLevine · ‎Apr 29, 2025

You're both on the same major version (19) so that shouldn't be a problem, but what version is the InDesign user on? He/she must also be on 19. For Dropbox, all users should have any cloud only / smart sync features turned OFF to make sure that everything is syncing properly. If that's all set up properly, we're going to need more information on the workflow.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 29, 2025

Which is exactly what was pointed out, in detail, above. And since this discussion was asked and answered two years ago, I'm locking it. If you have any further issues, please start a new discussion.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 29, 2025

As in a Microsoft forum, please. This is for InDesign and is an old discussion so I'm locking it.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 28, 2025

One other thing. Do not send that InDesign file to the printer; export a PDF and send that. BTW, if you unembed those images and export the PDF twice, once with the images embedded and once with them linked, the PDFs should be identical.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 28, 2025

I wrote this many years ago and should give you a decent overview of placing Word DOCX files that have images in them: Get the Full Picture With .DOCX | CreativePro Network

BobLevine · ‎Apr 28, 2025

No.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 27, 2025

Just to expand on Eugene's response. If you have a document open and do this, it becomes the default for that document. If you do it with no documents open it becomes the default for all new documents going forward.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 27, 2025

Have you tried a different font?

BobLevine · ‎Apr 27, 2025

You have two choices right now and neither is good. Buy a new computer or cancel your subscription. While you can ask, I doubt very much you're going find an installer for anything earlier than InDesign 2024 and even upgrading your O/S to one compatible with it is going leave you in a world of pain with 8GB or RAM and an old processor. If funds are a problem, and you want to keep on using InDesign, you might benefit from looking at Windows machines or even building your own. Good luck.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 26, 2025

I can only assume that the irony of accusing someone else of wasting their time posting here is lost on you. And given that this discussion is four years old, I'm locking it.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 25, 2025

Sounds to me like you're looking for some magic setting to give you perfect typography. That does not exist in any application including InDesign. InDesign however should give you an excellent starting point but then it's up to the user to set things up globally and if needed manually. Finally, there is no perfect setting. My rule is that if it looks good, it is good.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 24, 2025

If you can't delete it then try exporting the file to IDML and opening that.

BobLevine · ‎Apr 24, 2025

Okay, just updated to 20.3 and I am not seeing this behavior on Windows 11.

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