Comments on: Nasty CS4 Bug: Missing Master Items in Placed .INDD

By: Devin

Devin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:45:27 +0000

Rufus Deuchler – Thank you very much! I am on satellite internet so i have disabled updates completely through out the suite, this was the answer that fixed my problem!

Overall my problem was the left or even numbered facing pages would only export the background instead of all the artwork on top of it. Update your software and your left facing pages will display all of the artwork/etc in the master template.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:24:58 +0000

Thanks a lot Chris! (http://indesignsecrets.com/nasty-cs4-bug-missing-master-items-in-placed-indd.php#comment-476933) I had this exact problem in CS4 with a two-page master layout, and when I split the overlapping image into two images one for each side, the problem resolved. Yay!

By: debbie-lee

debbie-lee — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:24:17 +0000

have experienced the same / similar master page bug without placing another in design cs4 doc into a current one.

have created a master page in one doc and copied the items onto a master page in a 2nd doc, when exporting to pdf, in the first case everything on the master just disappeared…in another case certain objects on the master just moved totally out of place in the pdf??? took them out of the master and pasted them directly into the doc and now it exports fine. doesnt do it with all the docs (all created from the same doc too) seems to just be random. absolutely bizarre!

By: Christian Silk

Christian Silk — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:36:50 +0000

I had a similar problem where the footers from the master pages were not showing up on the pages when I exported them to PDF. I fixed the problem by creating a new layer and moving all of the footers to that layer. Not ideal, but a pretty easy work around.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:01:53 +0000

I have InDesign CS4 and I have managed to fix this by splitting the two master pages by putting a 1 pixel gap between the two pages. This bug only exists for me if I have a shape or image or text overlapping the two pages so if you split it it fixes the problem hope this helps anyone in the future.

Just don’t have anything overlapping the two master pages!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:14:20 +0000

Yes sorry to say I have Indesgin CS4 6.0.1 and I had the problem today.

Made a border for the pages of my catalogue and shapes that I created in Indesign CS2 and pasted in the master page would appear transparent on the left hand side page only. Also any text on top of the shapes were also transparent when exported to pdf. Didn’t check if they printed like this.

Tried creating the shapes from scratch and everything else I can think of and nothing. Put the shapes on another layer and it was all good.

Had a similar problem in CS2 when I tried to use one master for the left hand side page and another master for the right hand side of a spread. The left hand page would loose all text when exported or printed. I had to create twice as many master pages as required, one for every section page change. Would have been ok except this was on a 1000 page book!
Haven’t checked to see if it is the same in CS4

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:43:57 +0000

I’ve come across this problem quite a bit. To solve it, I put the master items that were disappearing on a new layer in InDesign.

This worked for me.

By: Angela Snyder

Angela Snyder — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:51:23 +0000

Even after the 6.0.1 update, I’m still seeing missing master page items (verso only) when exporting the InDesign file to PDF. The master items print fine from ID but don’t show up in a PDF.

By: Rufus Deuchler

Rufus Deuchler — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:42:38 +0000

Yes, I guessed that if the update was being broadcast through the Adobe Update Manager, that those would also be available for download at the same time. Which is kind of important for users who need to update more than one machine. Anyhow, I am pretty positive that the links above will get you there very shortly. Cheers.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:29:15 +0000

Um, that’s great, Rufus, but the CS4 update that you’re referring to doesn’t appear to be posted at adobe.com yet. I do see it in Adobe Updater, though. It’ll probably show up on the Web site soon.