Images showing up invisible

[lainey_9474]

I am trying to format an art and literary magazine, but many of the images are not showing up in InDesign no matter how I place them. I have tried using frames, dragging them from my desktop or a specific folder, using "Place", relinking the images, turning them into .psd files, changing them from jpegs to pngs, and nothing is solving the issue. At first, I was able to resolve the issue by making the image file sizes smaller, but since I updated InDesign that fix has not been working. I am not sure if the files are somehow corrupt, but I do not know how to tell or fix this. 

I have attached an example of how the images are showing up. When the images show up this way, they also say that they are linked to the Pasteboard rather than the page that they are on. Any help with this would be great, because the magazine needs to be finished sooner rather than later for printing. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

So hard to guess from so little data, but —

• What format are the images? And how large (in pixel dimensions, not megs or such)?
• Do they appear if you use Place and drag a reasonably-sized frame in which they can appear? (That is, not selecting a frame and using Place to fill it, which might be showing you only a corner of a very, very large image.)
• (after placement) Select frame, right-click, Fitting, Fit Proportional?
• (after placement) Does the image show up in the Links list?
• Do you have more than one Layer defined/active?

In any case, don't use cut and paste, and I'd recommend against drag and drop for this. Place gives more control, more reliably.

[lainey_9474]

Thank you for your reply!

They do not appear when I put down a frame and then use Place. They are all Jpegs and they vary in size, one is 1280 x 830, another is 2160 x 2752. They appear in the links list even if they are invisible, but they say PB instead of a page number. I am using only one layer. 

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

"they also say that they are linked to the Pasteboard rather than the page that they are on."

This might be a cropping issue. You might have accidentally moved your image within the graphic frame using the direct select tool, so the contents of your graphic frame moved onto the PB, but the actual frame stayed on the page..

What happens if you, say, use the center command on that frame/ (Fitting > Center Content)

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Agree--that is definitely a odd "feature" of InDesign's. I always thought it should be stopped at the frame edge. 

[lainey_9474]

Thank you for this reply! I have tried this and it still was not fixing the issue.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Can you copy and paste the image into a new document and upload it?

[lainey_9474 · Accepted solution]

Update: I spoke to someone else who suggested the file might have been corrupted (it is a template that has been used for a couple of years) and it seems that is the problem. I tried a new file and everything worked perfectly fine. I apologize for not trying that sooner, seems like a no-brainer after the fact. Thanks everyone for your help!

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Glad you worked it out!