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Expert: - 5/4/2011


Question
First, when I open an InDesign Brochure I created, it says I have 19 missing links.  All of the missing links are text boxes and the text is there.
Second, when I try to edit the text in one of the text boxes, it says Unable to check out this file.  It may be in use by someone else.  Ideas/help?

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Hi,

When the document was created, how was the text placed? What was the source of the text? Whatever it was, it sounds like it is in some format that doesn't allow direct editing in InDesign. Did you for example export the file as an inx file and then re-open it? Or are you using InCopy?

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Pat

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Pat Bensky

Expertise

My specialty is database publishing: using InDesign to produce publications such as catalogues, directories, price lists, classified ads etc. - anything that's based on data from a database or spreadsheet.

Experience

I have been working with page layout programs since the very first first of QuarkXPress back in .... 1987? I've worked with InDesign since it first came out and have helped many clients to create their publications using database publishing methods, and have written an application to streamline the process (CatBase).

Publications
As I used to be a journalist working for an international news agency (in a previous lifetime) I have been published in many publications around the world. As for technology writing: I was Editor-in-Chief of a Mscintosh magazine (MacGuide) and have written for various other publications on a freelance basis, such as The LA Weekly and InfoWorld.

Education/Credentials
College: Certificate in computer programming and information Processing University: Post-graduate diploma in IT (Liverpool University)

Past/Present Clients
Barclays Bank, Stanley Tools, Europa Components, The American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham), and many others. My software (CatBase) has also been used by design firms to produce publications for such clients as Kellogg's, The English Tourist Board. and numerous others.

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