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vincents63883719
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May 31, 2017
Question

Pages lost (turned black) in InDesign file after exporting to PDF

  • May 31, 2017
  • 3 replies
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Hey,

I'm kinda new to InDesign but have beeen working on a file for a long time now. I made a pdf from my file, but after doing this some pages went missing in the InDesign file and turned into grey pages.

How do i get these back? When I tried to delete them InDesign told me that the pages contained content so it can't be that it has been deleted

Thanks in advance

    3 replies

    leo.r
    Community Expert
    leo.rCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 16, 2024

     

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    By @vincents63883719

     

    This looks like you have Fast Display selected under Object > Display Performance or/and View > Display Performance menu.

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    Yvonne Hubner
    Participant
    April 28, 2025

    I always set mine to High Quality Display.

    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Legend
    April 28, 2025
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    I always set mine to High Quality Display.


    By @Yvonne Hubner

     

    Why? It only slows down InDesign... 

     

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    Yvonne Hubner
    Participant
    November 16, 2024

    I am also having the same issue. InDesign 2024 here. What happened? How to fix?

    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Legend
    November 16, 2024

    @vincents63883719 , @Yvonne Hubner 

     

    If you are on Macs - toggle on or off GPU Acceleration.

     

    If it doesn't help - try IDMLing as maybe your files got corrupted - export as IDML, open, save with a new name - do not overwrite your original INDD files.

     

    Srishti Bali
    Community Manager
    Srishti BaliCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    May 31, 2017

    Hi vincents,

    It seems like images you linked on this file has been deleted or move from the location where they were saved initially.

    Please check explorer if the images are on same location or different location to you can re-link them.

    Check this link to re-link the images

    Manage linked or embedded graphics in Adobe InDesign

    Regards

    Srishti

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    Yvonne Hubner
    Participant
    November 16, 2024

    No, it's not about missing links. I can't believe I just noticed that this issue still happens since 2017 and Adobe has not fixed it. Time to to move to Affinity Publisher?

     

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