Text not showing in indesign but showing in PDF

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October 8, 2017
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Hello everybody,

I am working on an Indesign document of over 80 pages and had my text all laid out and had exported the document before.

All of a sudden the text of 4 pages has disappeared from the document, however, I can see it when I export the document as PDF.

Any suggestions on how to solve this?

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Correct answer Scott Falkner

Check your Layers panel to see if any layers are hidden, then your export options to see if you are exporting all layers. It is possible to hide a layer but export all layers, even non-visible ones.

This, I suspect, is not the problem. When I get weird behaviour like this I like to rebuild the InDesign file. Export to IDML then reopen the file and save using a new name, keeping the original as a backup. This forces InDesign to rebuild the file. It can help clear up a lot of annoyances, like swatches you can’t delete.

Scott Falkner

Correct answer

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Check your Layers panel to see if any layers are hidden, then your export options to see if you are exporting all layers. It is possible to hide a layer but export all layers, even non-visible ones.

This, I suspect, is not the problem. When I get weird behaviour like this I like to rebuild the InDesign file. Export to IDML then reopen the file and save using a new name, keeping the original as a backup. This forces InDesign to rebuild the file. It can help clear up a lot of annoyances, like swatches you can’t delete.

Geоrge

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I have had this bug early few times. Add new pages and do text frames and threads again with "main text", than delete bugged pages.

Remember, never say you can't do something in InDesign, it's always just a question of finding the right workaround to get the job done. © David Blatner