Text boxes not showing up after export

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November 5, 2019
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When I export my document, almost all of my textboxes aren't shown. In InDesign I see this icon. What does this mean? Why isn't my text exported? Thank you!

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi,

your not printing frame is not a text frame. It's a text box for form fields.

You can convert it back to a printing text frame:

Select the text box, go to Object > Interactive and do Convert To Object.

From my German InDesign CC 2019:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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Laubender

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hi,

your not printing frame is not a text frame. It's a text box for form fields.

You can convert it back to a printing text frame:

Select the text box, go to Object > Interactive and do Convert To Object.

From my German InDesign CC 2019:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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bjmVWAuthor

New Participant

Wow, thank you! No idea how that happened (but it is a former colleague who started this document - that might be the reason).

Danke schön!

Ashutosh_Mishra

Inspiring

Hello,

We'll be happy to help. Would you mind sharing some more details like:

1. Version of InDesign and OS.

2. What are the steps you are following to export the document? (A screenshot of the issue/steps or a small video would help, you may attach it with your post)

3. Is it happening with just 1 file or with every file?

All this information would help us understand the issue better.

Looking forward to your response.

Regards,

Ashutosh

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bjmVWAuthor

New Participant

I work on Windows10 with InDesign CC (this morning 2019 14.3, now 2020 15.0).

I export with standard 'High Quality'-presets to pdf. Since it's only happening in one document, with textboxes with one font (Dolce), I thought the font wasn't embedded properly? But this doesn't seem to be the problem, because some textboxes (with the same font) are exported successfully.

The only difference between those text boxes is the 'cursor-icon': the textboxes with this icon don't get exported.

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