Comments on: Deep Clean with InDesign Interchange Format (.inx)

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:56:49 +0000

When exporting the .indd file to .inx file the order of the pages mass up!!!! any idea why that happening

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[...] should also mention that this is possible in CS3 and perhaps even in CS2, using the INX feature (instead of IDML). You can open the INX directly in a text editor (no unzipping required). [...]

By: William Ma

William Ma — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:58:50 +0000

I’m trying to fix an inx problem. The original inx is successfully opened with ID CS3, but after translated into JA through trados 2007 sp2, the cleaned inx can’t be opened with ID CS3. ID CS3 stopped when referring a eps file.

The other languages are correct and successfully opened in ID CS3, so I think it’s error in inx. But I can’t find the reason and solution till now, anybody can help me?

Thanks very much!

By: Phantom InDesign User

Phantom InDesign User — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:36:00 +0000

I’ve tried using the exporting to .inx trick to get rid of my phantom fonts but no luck. Are there any other tricks to try?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:28:15 +0000

This also worked for the annoying missing plug-in messege I was recieving from the Cacidi Extreme BarCodes plug-in I no longer use. The .inx file seemed to remove the code added to the files created while the plug-in was installed even if I didn’t use it in the file. Thanks

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:16:03 +0000

A solution to Comment number 5 is to do a collect for output first then inx the collected ind file – a pain but it works.

By: Grade One

Grade One — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:25:36 +0000

The one thing I’ve found .inx to fail miserably at is precisely what it was coded to do – translate to earlier version of ID. I’ve repeatedly had to remove all placed graphics from CS2 docs, which my associate has to replace in CS – even after installing the patch.

By: Harvey McARTHUR

Harvey McARTHUR — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:27:59 +0000

This is useful when you open a PageMaker file in InDesign and then have unexpected problems problems. Like a perfectly good script won’t run for no apparent reason. Exporting the file to .inx and opening again in InDesign cleans up whatever corruption there was in the file. A lifesaver!

By: Branislav Milic

Branislav Milic — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:26:11 +0000

Also when you are absolutely sure that the imported graphic file that contained the spot color has been deleted from the InDesign document but the spot color can’t be deleted, exporting using this INX trick also solves the problem.

By: Steve Werner

Steve Werner — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:44:56 +0000

I also love the INX format. It’s a good solution for what I call the “phantom font” problem, where a font is listed in an InDesign file in Find Font, but you know it doesn’t really exist. Saving as INX gets rid of any reference to the ghostly font.

INX is also the basis for Snippets, another useful new feature in IDCS2.