Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications

Automatic Recovery

As you work, InDesign keeps track of what you’re doing; without impeding performance, it keeps a private version of your working file. This is the same mechanism that gives you unlimited undo capability, and it can be a real lifesaver.

If your system crashes for any reason—power outage, corrupt font, system crash—let InDesign recover as much of your document as it can. Resist the panicked urge to reopen your original file. Instead, reopen InDesign and marvel as your document reappears. You may lose the last few things you did, but you won’t lose everything you did in that session. That’s because InDesign keeps your most recent operations in memory so you can quickly undo, and it may not have time to write those to disk as ...