Bad, corrupted or crashing Adobe InDesign documents are unfortunately a reality. Hopefully this will not be something you experience, but if you do, here is a great work-around for recovering flaky InDesign layout files.

These are the instructions, with inventory list of software (XTensions and Plug-ins) needed. It is a work-around, however one which is working quite well…

* = You need it
-= What to do

Have you ever had a QuarkXpress project go bad on you? Could not open it, was crashing or gave errors like bad file format [70] -70, [39] or [108]? You are not alone and you have no need to stand as such, for Markzware has a fantastic tool for fixing or recovery bad Quark files called MarkzTools. Watch how easy it is to salvage your damaged or dead XPress file via this video demo: