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1. Re: How do I find an "unresolved or out-of-date" cross reference?
sandeecohen Apr 14, 2009 7:55 AM (in response to RodneyA)It's a fascinating puzzle, one I've never run across. (Of course x-refs are relatively new so who knows what problems they have.)
The only thing I can think is to export the file as an .inx (InDesign Interchange Format) and then reopen.
That might get rid of the errant x-ref in the print algorithm.
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2. Re: How do I find an "unresolved or out-of-date" cross reference?
Marvin Sable Apr 14, 2009 7:56 AM (in response to RodneyA)In the hyperlinks panel (fly out menu) is Update hperlinks and or update cross reference grayed out?
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3. Re: How do I find an "unresolved or out-of-date" cross reference?
RodneyA Apr 14, 2009 8:15 AM (in response to Marvin Sable)In the hyperlinks panel (fly out menu) is Update hperlinks and or update cross reference grayed out?
Yes. It's as though there are no cross references. But I get the error when I try to print. I realized that it's possible that there ARE no cross references, I certainly can't find where they'd be, but I didn't write the material. And I did have the earlier error where the cross-references fell apart and didn't refer to anything.Anyway, I tried exporting as inx, then opening it, and I get the same message (except that the file name is "Untitled"). I also tried deleting the paragraphs one by one in a test file, and it came down to a paragraph that doesn't seem to have any special characters or cross-references in it. I exported as tagged-text, and there's nothing particularly odd that I can see in that paragraph.Anyway, I finally reimported the tagged text file (which lost all inline graphics, this file has a lot of equations), and it behaved properly. So, I copied the mystery paragraph out of the tagged-text round-tripped file, and placed it in the non-exported file, and it seems fine.Hmmm. -
4. Re: How do I find an "unresolved or out-of-date" cross reference?
RodneyA Apr 14, 2009 8:51 AM (in response to RodneyA)Well, another data point -- I have been trying out a script that's supposed to turn all URLs and email addresses to hyperlinks, which I need to do for publishing PDF files (Acrobat can't properly make links to URLs that break across lines, at least in two-column text). I just noticed that this script also deletes all cross references, so I expect it starts out by deleting all links before recreating them, and that could be the cause of my links breaking. Unfortunately it's a compiled script, so I can't look at it. But perhaps it leaves some tracks that are also messing up the printing. Obviously I need to stop using it!


