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Dragging from bridge is the same as using the File > Place... command and results in a linked file, so that part seems OK. 4 gb is a pretty big PDF. In your other thread you mention this is a 360 page photo book which might explain the size. How large are the photos? What are your compression settings in the PDF Export dialog? Uwe, since I'm still using Acrobat 9, can you tell Jillian how to use the audit usage feature in newer versions of Acrobat? It would help to know if all that size is in images, or if it's file overhead that can be optimized out. ... View more

Since this seems to be related to your other thread, I think we should continue the discussion there: Re: IDML file won't open ... View more

It should have opened right away. The only time I've seen behavior like this is when there were a lot of pasted vector objects, but pasted or embedded rasters would probably do it too. Do you have a lot of imagery that is not linked, but is pasted or embedded? If so you should fix that. It's likely to cause file corruption down the road. Trouble exporting to PDF can be an indication of a bad image or a text problem, too. See Adobe Community: File Crashing on Output - printing/PDF/other  for troubleshooting tips. ... View more

It's been a few years since I needed cross-refs in a project, so I'm rusty, but it does look to me as if they are not able to do a page range directly. You would need to do something like create a text anchor at the start, and another at the end of the chapter, and use cross-refs to both in your TOC listing. This is really a lot more work than just putting your cursor after the page number in the normal TOC and typing in the en-dash and last page number (and personally, I don't really think you need an end number in a TOC). ... View more

Actually you don't have to join the frames, or work with a single story, but it probably would be easier to work with this text if it were set up as one frame per page. I've examined the file, and indeed it is what I said initially -- frames you want to pick up early are to the right of frames that you want as subtopics. Since all of these headings are centered there is no reason not to make the frames the full width of the margins, and the obvious good reason to do so so the TOC is ordered correctly. Personally, I would thread the frames, then delete all but the first one and resize that to fill the page. Edit your styles where necessary (define a new style for those "body text" blocks that are centered on the page that is justified, as they are now, but also has left and right indents applied), or just change the margins if none of the text needs to be wider than those blocks. You should also change from using empty paragraphs to using space before or space after to create your paragraph spacing. From what you sent I don't see any benefit to a three-column layout, either. I'm sending you a reworked page as a sample of what I mean. ... View more

If you want to share with everyone on the forum, find a hosting service and post a link here. If you want to keep it private, you can send a link to me in a private message (click my avatar), or I can send you an upload link for my dropbox. ... View more

I know there is sensitive content. Are you able to share the file? ... View more

Export was unsuccessful, or it didn't solve the problem? ... View more

OK, that's pretty strange. It almost looks like the file is set up to bind on the right instead of the left, but it isn't consistent. What version of ID do you have? Does it help to export to IDML? see Remove minor corruption by exporting ... View more

Uninstall and reinstall InDesign. ... View more

Without seeing even a screen shot of the file it's hard to say, but the most common reason for out-of-order TOC entries is the text frames are arranged badly. ID starts in the upper left, then moves down the page looking for things to include before moving to the right and starting at the top again, so a frame low on the page, but further to the left, gets picked up before a frame higher on the page, but further to the right. ... View more

Or are you asking how to replace the images? ... View more

Unless they also supplied a folder of images, you don't. You replace the images with your own. ... View more

Try making your IDML again, and test it on your end in both the version you use to make it, and the oldest version you have access to. ... View more

To elaborate on Loic's explanation, just a bit, the ^ inside the opening bracket makes the class "negative" so it finds anything except the characters following it up to the closing bracket. ... View more

And I would not open .indd files returned by either of them in CC 2017. Ask for IDML coming back. There is a growing history of problems with direct conversions of .indd files since about CS5, and it gets worse the bigger the gap in versions. Opening IDML will also force all the stories to recompose using the text engine in the version doing the opening, so you won't get any text reflow surprises because you touched a text frame and it recomposed the whole story out of sight. Opening IDML you KNOW you have to check for reflow problems. ... View more

The freelancer should update to 7.0.4 for compatibility with IDML from later versions. Your editor needs to be on 7.5.3. ... View more

The usual cause of failure on a paragraph style is that there  is also a character style applied to the entire paragraph. ... View more

Sorry, Vinny, that feature did not yet exist in CS3. In a case like this I tend to work "by the numbers." With the selection tool, select the left object and click one of the control proxy points on the right edge of the transform proxy. Copy the x-coordinate value from the filed in the Control palette. Now Select the object on the right, click a control point on the left edge of the proxy, and past the x-coordinate. Press Enter. If you have more than two objects, you can copy the appropriate coordinate (in this case the x-coordinate of the left side of the left-most object), select all the objects and use the distribute spacing trick, then put that x-coordinate in the field and press Enter. ... View more

The default display performance is typical. Reset it to High Quality Display. ... View more

The main screen which allows you to pick your files and show your files doesn't open. I haven't installed the new version yet, but what you are describing sounds a lot like the Start Workspace. Have you tried editing the prefs to show the Start Workspace when no files are open? ... View more

What Dan says, but I would add that the crop marks in your screen shots are too close to the trim edge (not enough offset), particularly the set  you have created. Thew reason for bleed is to prevent a white edge from showing if there is a cutter mis-alignment, and the reason for offset on the marks is to prevent any portion of them from showing on the trimmed piece in that same cutter mis-alignment situation. What this means is that the offset for marks really should be the same as, or more than, the bleed amount. InDesign's default offset setting is too small, and you don't want to reduce it any more. ... View more

No need for that, just use the reset all warnings button in the General section of the Prefs. ... View more