Old Indesign File Won't Package Without Missing Plugins
November 14, 2011 / Updated: November 14, 2011 / Lena Shore
Filed under: Ask Lena, InDesign, Print Design
Question
I’m trying to package a file in Indesign, and get this message: “This document cannot be installed due to missing plugins. Please install or activate these plugins.” I don’t have the plugin asked for. The original file is really old and I don’t have a way to get those plugins. What can I do?
Answer
You can strip the document of plug information easily. Although, it matters which version of InDesign how you do it.
- If you have an older version of InDesign (CS4 or older) you can export your file to an INX document and that will strip the plugins.
- If you have CS5 you will need to export your document as an IDML (InDesign Markup Language) file.
After you export a version of the document in question, you can open it with InDesign and then package your document normally.
Many thanks! Perfect solution 🙂
Worked very well for a file we were really struggling with. top tip
Thank you! This saved me so much time =)
I Love it! The most simple way I’ve find to solve that problem. Very thanks for share.