Document contain an “invalid frame”

[tpk1982]

HI All,

Recently i faced a problem when opening an Indesign document. It shows the below error message. Any one please explain why it comes?

I aware we can export the file as idml or inx will fix the problem.

Is it possible to detect this kind of indesign document through javascript?

Regards,

Karthi

[tpk1982]

Hello Experts,

Any suggestions or advice please.

Regards,

Karthi

[Peter Kahrel]

> Is it possible to detect this kind of indesign document through javascript?

No, that's almost certainly impossible.

[tpk1982]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply. May i know why it comes? Is it the document corrupted? but even it's opened!!

Can we use try, catch method to identify this?

Regards,

Karthi

[Peter Kahrel]

What do you want to catch? What statement would you use to find the problem? You don't know what you're looking for. And even if you did, InDesign's object model doesn't provide anything for low-level access to document features.

P.

[tpk1982]

Hi Peter,

I have 10 indesign document in a folder. I want to know which file give this error message. So if i give the error description  as "Document contains an invalid frame." then i will get the indesign document name.

try{
        }
catch(err){   
        if(err=="TypeError: Document contains an invalid frame."){
            alert(app.activeDocument.name)
        }

Thanks,

Karthi

[tpk1982]

Hi,

Anyone please help me regarding the above issue.

Regards,

Karthi

[Loic.Aigon]

Interesting one but clueless unfortunately. Apart from the message does the preflight panel raises the issue ?

In this case, you may take advantage of the preflight reports ?

FWIW,

Loic