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Why is my "Extract from image" menu disabled in InDesign?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
November 24, 2022
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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @Chris P. Bacon ,

are you sure that the selected graphic frame contains the image?

Perhaps it contains another graphic frame with the image inside…

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Uwe Laubender
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Chris P. BaconAuthor

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Hi,

no it's the image and its frame only.

I tried with several .jpg images.

Is the extraction done locally or in the cloud?

What image formats does it support?

J E L

Community Expert

My system specs.

@Chris P. Bacon thanks for posting your system specs. I took a look through them. I realize you may already be aware of your system limitations. They may or may not be a cause of the problems you experience. Here are my thoughts.

Under Storage > Drives, your C Drive only has 37.92 GB of Free Space. Your K and L and M drives don't have much more. Where are the documents you are working on located? Generally speaking, Photoshop likes a lot of free scratch space and InDesign likes local files.

Your Intel HD Graphics 520 is an integrated card. This means both your CPU and your GPU are using memory resources from the same chip. A dedicated card comes with its own VRAM which gives quick access to image data. I have seen many times when users experience poor graphic performance when using integrated Intel cards.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

From my experiments - it should be available all the time - even with no image selected.

So definitely resetting preferences is the first step - which I posted above.

If that doesn't work

Reinstalling rarely fixes everything - you can do a complete reinstall using the
Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

Chris P. BaconAuthor

Inspiring

Is the extract operation done in the cloud or locally?

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Hi Chris

Not sure why it's not working for you.

If a document is not behaving well then try

File>Export

Choose IDML

Open the IDML in InDesign
Save the file as a new InDesign file with a new name
See if the issue persists.

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Try resetting your preferences:

Windows: Start InDesign, and then press Shift+Ctrl+Alt. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.
macOS: While pressing Shift+Option+Command+Control, start InDesign. Click Yes when asked if you want to delete preference files.
A dialog will appear asking to delete the InDesign Preferences, select 'Yes' on this dialog.
Further info and instructions here if needed:
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/indesign/kb/indesign-preferences-support-file-locations.html

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I found the same image online.

It's working for me

Even when it's just copy and paste with nothing in the links

This is also a webp format.

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