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Indesign not showing any content on my pages

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
October 14, 2017
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Hi,

I've just been working on a catalogue and when I tried to export the final version, certain sections from the indesign pages are showing blank. I can't even see any objects in Preview mode but only some objects in Normal mode.

Here is a screenshot of what I am getting.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Siraj Asfahani,

I was able to "repair" the document; don't know if all is repaired.

Added pairs of pages before the damaged spreads.

Moved the contents of the damaged spreads to the new spreads I added.

I did not copy/paste because some text frames are threaded from spread to spread.

Important:

To select the contents on a damaged spread I used a selection marquee, I drew a selection rectangle with the Selection tool.

Some screenshots of that process from my German InDesign 2022 on Windows 10:

In the layout windows I moved my selection of frames up to a good spread:

Also the contents of the next damaged spread:

Saved the document to a new name. Removed both damaged spreads. Saved again to a new name.

Walked on to the next damaged spreads.

Download that "fixed" version from my Dropbox account:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vb8vct0jbew9szk/Joliet_RESAVED-2.indd?dl=1

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

siraja7015342

Participant

Thank you so much!! You are absolutely the best! Hope I would be able to return the favor some day.

Enjoy the rest of your day,

Siraj Asfahani

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Siraj Asfahani,

could you make your original InDesign document available ~~again~~ with Dropbox?

~~I mean the zip file you had linked to.~~ I'd like to look into it. Maybe there is another way to repair the damaged document.

EDITED:

Sorry. Got confused with the original poster's zip-file from 2017.

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

siraja7015342

Participant

Absolutely! I tried packaging the file to send a zip but it won't let me do that and got an error message "indesign can not copy necessary file links". I did however upload the indesign file to Drop Box without packaging and not sure if that is helpful at all.

Please click on this link to download the file:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yu3d2qbfpsbh3co/AAA01SxCmWX7sbg3y13Tu-eka?dl=0

Siraj Asfahani

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SJRiegel

Legend

Two possibilities that come to mind are:

1) your objects might be set to a non-printing attribute. This would also account for their not showing up in Preview mode.

or

2) your document might have developed some minor corruption. If this is the case, if might be fixed by exporting an IDML, and working with that file.

BobLevine

Community Expert

Looks like they're either set to non-printing or are on a non-printing layer. Look in the layers panel (non printing layers are in italic) and/or the attributes panel.