How to Solve the “Missing plugins” error in Adobe InDesign

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Adobe InDesign is useful software and therefore has a significant number of users. However, several InDesign users have recently reported the message “Cannot open the file. Adobe InDesign plug-ins are missing. Please update your plugins to the latest versions.” It appears when users try to open a file created with Adobe InDesign on their computer.

What causes the Adobe InDesign Missing Plugins error?

• The error occurs after installing a third-party plugin for Adobe InDesign.
• When using certain plug-ins included with InDesign.
• Errors associated with plug-ins associated with certain documents.
• Sometimes the error indicates that certain “plug-ins are missing“.
• The error also occurs when referring to a specific plug-in in a collision log file.

How to fix the “missing plug-ins” error in Adobe InDesign?

Remove the plugin information from your file

1. Open the InDesign program.
2. Click File, then choose the Export option.
3. Export the file in .idml format.
4. The .idml file format can be opened in any previous version of Adobe InDesign.
5. After opening the file in InDesign (for example, CS3), simply save it as .inx and export it as a “.indd” file to remove all of the plugin information stored in that file.
6. After completing this process, check to see if the error message appears again.

Tip: This method should help if the program reports a plugin missing (model.indesignplugin channels) error. The problem occurs when you try to open an old .indd file.

Using InEXUtils for Adobe InDesign CC2017

1. Download and install the InEXUtils plugin.
2. After installing the plugin, open the file in InDesign.
3. Next to the help button at the top of the screen, you will notice a new menu called InEXUtils.
4. Select it and choose the Ignore missing plug-ins (All documents) option.
5. Save the InDesign files again.

Updating Adobe InDesign

As a rule, new versions of the product fix problems with previous versions and add many other interesting features.

The latest version of InDesign includes a new and improved editing process with new editing tools such as “Select Text”, “Insert Text”, and “Strikeout Text”.

Another important feature of this tool is the detection of corrupt documents. Once it detects that a document is corrupt, a tooltip appears and you can choose to have the document restored on Adobe’s servers.

1. Visit the official Adobe website and download the latest version of Adobe InDesign.
2. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation process.

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