Cannot place this file. No filter found for requested operation.

[TONIKO]

"Cannot place this file. No filter found for requested operation." I am using InDesign 2020 on Mac. Please advise.

[Barb Binder]

Hi Toniko: You will need to let us know what kind of file you are trying to place in InDesign 2020.

~Barb

[datap6156868]

Yes you are correct without knowing the type of file we cannot sort it out.

[TONIKO]

My appologies. The files are .jpg. I have tried .png, .pdf, .ai and they all work fine. Thank you.

[Jongware]

Is its file type one of the supported types? See a list on https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/supported-file-formats-indesign-cs5.html (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.

[Ari_]

I have similar problem. Any advices on how to fix this?

[Ari_]

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.

[Geоrge]

Download example to some dropbox/yadisk service and give us the link. Without file you can't expect real help in your question. 

[steinrueckn]

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?

[steinrueckn]

Sorry file type .JPG

[Barb Binder]

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

[Mike Witherell]

Also, what version of InDesign are you? What macOS version?

[graphiquedesigns]

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 🙂

[Geоrge]

Try to save this file to some root folder without any special or non-latin character. 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/cannot-place-doc-docx-nor-rtf-indesign-at-least-15-0-1-15-0-...

[doswald]

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!

[doswald]

Now the document won't open in PSD either... it's a PSD. It's now saying it's not a valid photoshop document.

[megcb39]

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.

[if_krystian]

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: