Tired of getting a message from your layout application such as, “Adobe InDesign may not support the file format a plug-in“? This video may help you fix your .INDD file and make that Adobe InDesign file openable… (With the simple use of a text editor, 0xED.)

The exact error message, is something like this:
“Cannot open the file “Xxxxx.indd”. Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing, or the file may be open in another application.“

Have a bad or corrupt InDesign file. InDesign document not opening, crashing, etc? Check out our no-cure-no-pay InDesign Recovery Service here:
http://www.markzware.com/blogs/bad-corrupted-adobe-indesign-software-docs/2008/09/15/

And do not forget this tip on how to help stop corruption in Adobe In Design files before it becomes a job-halting crash: Export to .INX Format…

When an InDesign.INDD file is really a Quark .QXP layout…….

Hi, David Dilling here from Markzware and here is yet another interesting one. A customer sent in a email with the dreaded “I have a bad InDesign file please help me!” This one was a little bit different in that he knew it was an old file and that there were defiantly issues with it and he couldn’t quiet figure it out. The subject of this movie is “When InDesign isn’t InDesign but QuarkXPress.” Yes follow me on this one. Come check it out on my screen here because it is quiet a common problem, in any event I’m hearing more and more about this and the type and creator being zapped in the file and other issues like this. It’s very important, the file extension use and how you use it on a Macintosh or even a Windows machine of course as well.

It is not as easy as just adding .INDD to a QuarkXPress file and woof magically it become a InDesign file. Visa versa you just can’t take a Jpeg add a .tiff and it becomes a tiff file, it just does not work that way. If it did life would be a lot simpler but that is just not so. Now come check it out on my screen and thank you for watching.

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To view the rest of the non-video testimonials on Markzware’s FlightCheck, Q2ID, ID2Q, PUB2ID, MarkzTools or our service to fix bad Adobe InDesign files, see:

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Fixing bad Adobe InDesign files with QuarkXPress coupled with ID2Q and Q2ID from Markzware has been pretty amazing. Today, this tricky file, threw a new twist to how we recover (attempt at least) bad or crashing Adobe InDesign files (when an indesign file will need help opening, like this one that just could not open anymore within IND.), bringing into focus not only a crashing InDesign, but also Quark:

For more details on how we attempt to recover your corrupted InDesign files, see:
http://www.markzware.com/blogs/bad-corrupted-adobe-indesign-software-docs/2008/09/15/

BAD InDesign RECOVERY SERVICE:
Don’t have Quark? Still need your .INDD document(s) fixed? We can help! For a small fee of 79.00 per bad file, we will recover them for you. This is a “No Cure, No Pay” service. Meaning if we can not fix it, you pay nothing! Just email the file to us on sales@markzware.nl (If smaller than 10MB) or email the same address for our FTP upload details. Alternatively, post the file yourself on a download site or on your own site and send us the download link.

Have a great weekend…

Bad, corrupted or crashing Adobe InDesign software documents are unfortunately a reality. Hopefully this will not be something you experience, but if you do, here is a great work-around for recovering flaky InDesign layout files. Note – here is a listing of the various InDesign error or crash messages you may get:
http://www.screencast.com/users/Markzware/playlists/Corrupt%20InDesign%20Files/

These are the instructions, with inventory list of software (XTensions and Plug-ins) needed. It is a work-around, however one which is working quite well…
SEE BELOW FOR A SERVICE WE ARE OFFERING TO *FIX* THESE FILES…

* = You need it
-= What to do

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*QuarkXPress 6 or 7
*ID2Q from Markzware loaded
-Open InDesign file in QuarkXPress via ID2Q (Under “Utilities)
-Save (hopefully) converted bad InDesign file now as a QuarkXpress file to your desktop with a “.qxp” extension.
*InDesign CS2 or CS3
*Q2ID plugin from Markzware
-In InDesign (after Q2ID is loaded) simply to a “file->open”
-Select the salvaged file now in a “.qxp” or QuarkXPress form
*** If it opens, it is generally RECOVERED!***

TIP- after you get the InDesign salvaged it is BEST to then EXPORT it as an “.INX” or Adobe Interchange format.. this will zap any corruption that may be lingering in most cases… then you can work-on!  Read more... (357 words, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)