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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems
David Blatner: Sometimes things go wrong with your document. You know, weird things. Suddenly you can't delete a color swatch or maybe Find Change can't find stuff that you know is there, or may be your file keeps crashing unexpectedly. If you really believe that it's your file and not InDesign that's the problem, you probably want to clean out the gunk by using an export feature called IDML or INX. Here is what you do. You go to the File menu and choose Export and then here in the Save as type pop-up menu, or what's called the Format menu on the Mac, you'd choose InDesign Markup (IDML). Now if you are using an older version of InDesign, InDesign let's say CS2 or CS3, you'll be using the INX files. It's called the InDesign Interchange Format INX. But here in the new versions of InDesign, it's InDesign Markup IDML. Once you save that, you click the Save button and I am just saving this out to my Desktop. So I'll switch back to my Desktop and you'll see that there is my InDesign file…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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