Nothing in document is displaying on pages when printing or exporting.

[lbw23]

Nothing in my document is displaying on the pages tab.  When I export to PDF or print, it's blank.  Help, please!

[Barb Binder]

We can't see the top of your pages panel, but my first guess is that you added the content to a custom master page and not to the body pages. Next, check to see if the layers are set to non-printing.

As I continue to think about what you are showing us, it may be that the file is corrupt. In that case, try saving the file as an .idml file, close it, reopen it and save it again as an InDesign file. Or open a previous version and pick up from there.

~Barb 

[lbw23]

How do I move content to body pages from master page?  I'm still new to InDesign, thank you for your help!

[Barb Binder]

How do I move content to body pages from master page? 

Use Edit > Select All, Edit > CopyCut, and then Edit > Paste in Place.

But did you confirm that this was the issue? Again, I can't see the top of your pages panel, so I can't confirm it.

~Barb

[BobLevine]

A little nit pick here, Barb...I'd go with cut instead of copy.

[Barb Binder]

You are correct, Bob. Will edit the answer.

~Barb

[Frans v.d. Geest]

If it was all really on the master page it would show in the document pages preview as well and it would print/PDF.

Also looking at the screenshot I see solid blue lines on the frames, if it was a master page it would all have been dotted lines, so these are NOT master page items (!) 

My guess is a layer set to non-print or items set to non print. All is locked as well on the screen shot, so I guess someone kept clicking on all the little icons in the Layers panel 😉

[BarlaeDC]

Hi,

Can you share the document as that will probably clear everything up pretty quickly?

Regards

Malcolm

[Scott Citron]

My guess is that the content is on a layer that's set to Non-Printing.