Indesign copy paste the text box, it become an image

[Vika Zheng]

it works when copy paste a text box within the same page, but when i paste the text box to other pages, it becomes an image inside a image box.

anyone know why?

[Eugenia22hg0ztr3p]

Hi! Did you find a solution to this issue? I'm having the same problem 

[stephaniea63886159]

No, and chatting with Adobe was very unhelpful. They said it was just "the workflow." So, I just opened the layout created in Adobe 2022 IN Adobe 2023 and copied and pasted from the old layout to a new one created in 2023 and it's fine. It just doesn't work if you open a layout in Adobe 2022 and copy text to a layout in Adobe 2023.

[defaultxjjjpwippfri]

Hi, I have also been having the issue repeatedly over the past year or so with no solution. (Indesign 2021, Windows). When copy and paste directly after the copy in the same or different documents, there is usually no issue. However, when you do something in between the copy and paste (some other command, or even random clicks around the page) then the dreaded <pasted graphic>  occurance happens. So for insantce, even clicking to scroll through the document to get to your prefered page will activate this issue. Very frusterating. Would be also greatful for a solution rather than a work around! 

[defaultxjjjpwippfri]

Update: I have found a solution to this particular problem. When copying and pasting-in-place, I was using the standard shortcuts ctrl+c and ctrl+alt+shift+v which should normally work. However, I had at one point modified the standard set of keyboard shortcuts (even though the above shortcut functions were programed with the same tags) and this seemed to be causing the issue. After switching back to the standard set, the problem no longer occurs. 

[Leihlani27132951reco]

I am having the same issue as well. Has anyone found a resolution to this?

[borbala_1102]

I made a file 1 month ago in ID 2024, now I want to copy a textbox from it to a new document, made in ID 2025. I cannot do it, it becomes a pixel image. I tried to copy only the text, than it appears in the new file like normal text, it looses al the settings and fonts.  "Enable in Layout View" doesn't help. It is a big problem.

[Laubender]

@borbala_1102 said: "I made a file 1 month ago in ID 2024, now I want to copy a textbox from it to a new document, made in ID 2025. I cannot do it, it becomes a pixel image. …"

See my answer from 2023 here in the same thread to workaround the issue:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-copy-paste-the-text-box-it-become-an-im...

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

[Willi Adelberger]

Use the content convoyer tools fpor that purpose. Normally the 3rd slot in the tool box.

[stephaniea63886159]

I uninstalled Adobe 2022 and am just working in 2023 now, but I would be curious if the Content Collector Tool works in this case without placing text as an image.

[Laubender]

@stephaniea63886159 said:

"I don't want to duplicate ... I want to copy text from a layout created in InDesign 2022 and paste into a new layout in InDesign 2023."

To copy text between two different versions of InDesign will create a graphic element in the target document.

Two or three ways around that:

[1] Open the InDesign 2022 document in InDesign 2023 and then copy/paste.

[2] Move the text frame out of the layout frame to your file system. This will create a snippet file with suffix *.idms. You can place the *.idms file in your other version's InDesign, just drag it in from Finder or File Explorer. Alternatively export the selected text frame to an *idms snippet file.

[3] Add the text to a CC Libraries library with InDesign 2022 and pull it out when with InDesign 2023.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )