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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems

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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