A crashing Adobe InDesign or large .INDD document that will not open is truly a bummer. First of course you should try the basics, like making sure your general operating system is running fine (no corrupted fonts or other issues; on a Mac try Cocktail for general system maintenance, for example..) and to look at the InDesign application itself. For instance, it could be a corrupted set of preferences within InDesign, try; Restarting (or starting up) InDesign with the cmd+alt+ctrl+shift keys held down – (tip via @rufusd) now this may help you if the problem is a corrupted InDesign preferences file. However, what if it is something bigger and badder?

Fix Bad Adobe InDesign Documents – a service

Markzware, the makers of CS3/CS4 plugins like Q2ID (Quark to InDesign), FlightCheck and the new content search tool for InDesign, PageZephyr,  has a “no fix, no pay” InDesign File Recovery Service it is offering. This method of repair has a high success rate, working about 80% of the time. It costs only 99 USD/EUR and you can email sales AT markzware.com for more details and the location on where you can submit your bad Adobe file. See:
http://www.markzware.com/blogs/bad-corrupted-adobe-indesign-software-docs/2008/09/15/  Read more... (430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

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We look forward to serving your preflight, layout conversion, file recovery and DTP desktop search and content extraction needs for 2010 and beyond!

Take care,
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Here was a popular discussion over on the “Prepress, Print & Color Management Professionals” group on Linkedin.com where Sean Runchman of Tunicca posed an interesting post and something I think many on our side of the printing fence have been thinking of for while, titled, “Premedia – the new Prepress?”

“We are seeing more and more encouragement for printers to diversify from a product offering based solely on print to more service oriented solutions. This requires printers to embrace the digital age even further and look at providing additional services demanded by the marketers within large brands.”
See full post and details here:

Then, to show the Markzware side, especially with the content conversion, content extraction and file recovery we offer, the MASSIVE business opportunity for printers out there is summed up in my last post on this hoping thread:

“Ink on paper is a term used often by printers. This expands to, “Content displayed as ink on paper.”

The printers controlled, in essence, the content up until the Internet. That today (ironically enough, for Gutenberg invented movable type to free content!) has more apparent freedom. Yet is that really so?  Read more... (374 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Screencast.com, coupled with Jing is neat and a handy way to share and categorize screen shots or grabs and even screen captured videos. Here we share a collection of Adobe InDesign problems, including cannot open dialog messages like “InDesign has encountered a problem.” Got any other strange messages about problems with InDesign that InDesign throws at you? Share it with us! (email me on david A_T markzware DO_T nl) Here is our collection with info on how you can fix or recover your bad InDesign files and avoid InDesign font problems, as can be accomplished with Markzware products compatible with Adobe InDesign:

For more info on how we recover or can attempt to fix your bad Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe InDesign CS3 or Adobe InDesign CS4 documents, see this blog post:
http://www.markzware.com/blogs/bad-corrupted-adobe-indesign-software-docs/2008/09/15/

Not long ago, Markzware put out a cry for Adobe InDesign users to send in their bad, corrupted documents or otherwise not responding documents. We have seen a steady stream of crashing InDesign documents coming in, which is to assist our R&D team in making a recovery plug-in, similar to MarkzTools. Keep sending your corrupted InDesign documents to (pr AT markzware DOT com), for we are making incredible progress. Those who want to see how we fix them currently, visit this site and lastly, here is a video up-date on the recovery process. We show a huge file getting fixed: