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January 6, 2024
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Missing Paragraphs / Interactive

  • January 6, 2024
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Someone has stolen four paragraphs from my manuscript with an interactive program. Fortunately I have a .pdf of the manuscript, yet there should not be any interactive programs disrupting the writing process, or making clumsy gestures with a mouse. How can I secure my In Design document from unwanted users?

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Correct answer Brad @ Roaring Mouse

@David W Detrich . You have posted more than a couple of times over the last few years of similar so-called hacking. None of these had any evidence to that, or it turned out it was a simple matter of an improper setting.

In any case, what makes you say paragrphs were stolen? Did you find them somewhere they shouldn't be?

If you truly are being remotely accessed, your problem isn't with Adobe but with your own computer's security and a possible malware infection or worse. I recommend you get yourself professionally checked out for this.

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Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 6, 2024

Where is your InDesign document stored - locally on your computer, or on a server? 

Participating Frequently
January 6, 2024
My InDesign document is stored on my computer, while some people interact
with the program through the mouse. I think this interaction is improper,
leading to the loss of two pages.
Steve Werner
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 7, 2024

I have never heard a report before in all the years I've used InDesign that someone or some software as "stolen" paragraphs of text from an InDesign file store on a local computer. Perhaps you have a computer virus. Please tell us what operating system (exactly) you're running. Please tell us (exactly) what InDesign version you're using.