INDD stands for Adobe InDesign Document File Format. These files include formatting information, styles, page content and links for projects created with Adobe InDesign. These files are mostly used for books, magazines, flyers and brochures etc.
INDD files contain data in the form of pages. Each page can be either text or image. Each page of an INDD file stores its own formatting information such as text style, margins, trim size and data classes. The beginning of the file stores metadata about the content inside the file, such as total number of pages, total number of chapters etc.
| File type | Adobe InDesign Document Format |
| Developer | Adobe Systems |
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While searching for an answer to the question - How to open the INDD file? - you probably found websites, which offer software that was able to open any file extension. Do not be fooled, there is no one program that will allow you to work with any file extension, including the INDD file. Each program contains a different type of data and you need specialized software to properly work with the INDD file. Here is a list of programs that are designed to work with the INDD file - remember, these applications are able to open at most a few file extensions, they are designed to work with a specific data type.
If after installing the program from a list, you still cannot open a file with the INDD extension, the reason may be that the file is damaged. The solution may be to find a new copy of the INDD file you want to open
In this case, the easiest way is to use the tool built into the operating system for association of the INDD file with applications to support it. Double click on the file you cannot open - the operating system will display a list of programs that are likely to work with your INDD file. Choose one of them, or select the location on a disk where you installed one of the applications from our list. Windows should then open the INDD file using the program installed earlier.
Entries containing links of the INDD file extensions with applications is located in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. If you do not know how to get to the Windows Registry, or how to make changes in it, ask a specialist for help. Lack of knowledge on the subject may cause irreversible changes on your computer.
There may be a situation when a computer virus passes itself off as the INDD file. In this case, such a file will definitely not be opened. Download a good antivirus program and scan the INDD file mentioned. If the antivirus application detects malicious data, it may signify that the INDD file is infected.
