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"Cannot place this file. No filter found for requested operation." I am using InDesign 2020 on Mac. Please advise.
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Hi Toniko: You will need to let us know what kind of file you are trying to place in InDesign 2020.
~Barb
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Yes you are correct without knowing the type of file we cannot sort it out.
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My appologies. The files are .jpg. I have tried .png, .pdf, .ai and they all work fine. Thank you.
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Are you certail the file is a JPEG file? Just because the filename ends with .jpg does not mean it is a JPEG. It might also be corrupt or a JPEG 2000 file. Saved from Photoshop JPEG 2000 files usually end .jpf, but they can also end .jpg and open fine in Phtoshop. JPEG 2000 files cannot be placed in InDesign. Have you tried resaving as JPEG?
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Is its file type one of the supported types? See a list on Supported file formats for InDesign (it says "CS5" but actually I don't believe the list has changed in the past decade – except for the very latest version, which added SVG).
Also, remember that changing a file extension does not magically make the file a correct type! You cannot rename a file from, say, "document.pages" (which would be an Apple Pages file) to "document.docx" and expect it to work.
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I have similar problem. Any advices on how to fix this?
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My problem was solved by eliminating all special chars from the path. I also did uninstall/cleanup/reinstall, but I suspect that did not affect anything.
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Download example to some dropbox/yadisk service and give us the link. Without file you can't expect real help in your question.
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I have the same issue it is with a JPEG. I did not change the file type. There is clearly something else going on here. Can you please expand on these issues?
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Sorry file type .JPG
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Hi Steinrueckn:
Are you able to open up the image in Photoshop? If so you can save it as a .PSD, or export it to a JPEG or PNG. Any of those formats can be placed in InDesign.
~Barb
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Also, what version of InDesign are you? What macOS version?
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I'm having this exact issue. InDesign is up to date. Using a MacOS Mojave.
Trying to import an Excel spreadsheet into ID and I get this same error message. Please advise!
Thanks 🙂
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Try to save this file to some root folder without any special or non-latin character.
Cannot place doc, docx nor rtf: InDesign (at least 15.0.1, 15.0.2, 14.0.3) crash or warns re filters
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Has there been any other sort of resolution? I am having the same issue right now. I'm working on Windows 10, trying to place a PSD file into my InDesign document. Using the latest version of CC for all programs. I've also saved the PSD as a PNG and JPEG with the same problem ensuing.
Thanks!
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Now the document won't open in PSD either... it's a PSD. It's now saying it's not a valid photoshop document.
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If you're not able to import it in most any format, my suspicion is either the file itself is corrupted or you have a problem with the filename. This often happens on the Windows platform, where files created/saved on the Mac platform can introduce characters not compatible with Windows file conventions. This can also happen occasionally with files saved in Windows, but more commonly happens with files being passed from Mac to Windows systems.
Would you please share the filename with us? That way we can help identify/rule out file naming as an issue.
Randy
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I had the same problem, trying to place an image which was already in the indd doc on another page 😕 However re-saving the image with a shorter file name worked so maybe it was a server thing.
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Had the same issue today with a PDF downloaded from the web. I opened the PDF in Acrobat, saved it on the desktop then dropped that version in which worked fine. I tried a couple of other PDFs and they worked so it must have been something in the file it didn't like 🤷:male_sign:
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I am facing the same issue. I am trying to place a file in word format. Please advise.
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Did you read my previous post here?
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Normally InDesign should recognize the file type.
But I am aware on 2 issues:
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So the file I'm trying to place in InDesign 2020 is a file I've place before with no problem. It's a vector eps and when I try to open it in either Photoshop or Illustrator, I get error messages. I'm having this problem with other vector eps files so it's not isolated to one file. Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign also won't open other file formats of this file. Please advise.
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.eps is an evil, resave all of them to .ai and re-place into the publication.