Adobe InDesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing
Posted in Conversion News, ID2Q (Adobe InDesign To QuarkXPress), Markzware Conversion Tools, Markzware FlightCheck, Markzware News, Markzware Preflight For Print, Preflight News, Print and Publishing News, Pub2ID (Publisher to Adobe InDesign), Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign), file recovery on June 30th, 2009 by David Dilling – 2 Comments
Adobe InDesign cannot open the file...
“Cannot open the file “*****.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.”
Good news- Solution below!
That was the message a customers file was giving us. They thought their Adobe file is corrupt; and it might still be. But what does this rather broad Adobe InDesign dialog message mean?
From a few Google searches, I see, oddly enough, that many will get this Adobe InDesign error message when trying to open a version of QuarkXPress higher than v4.11; which Adobe cannot handle. (Markzware Q2ID can of course convert all versions of QuarkXPress right into Adobe InDesign.)
Yet this message also seems to come up at other un-appropriate times; like the file is really damaged. For instance in this thread, titled, “Indd file created in France will not open in the US” we see the same exact Adobe error message as above… So what is going on?
SOLUTION FOUND!
Then the solution appeared; which I figured as much, for the file is not recognized even by FlightCheck. We find the answers here in this useful thread:
