Design checker question

[Craig Schiller]

I often get an "error" in design checker that says "Object is not
visible." When I right-click and choose "Go to this item", nothing
apparent happens. When I choose "Fix: bring object to front", nothing
happens, and the error message does not go away.

What am I missing here?

Craig

 

[Mary Sauer]

Select all, give everything a line. Does the phantom object show up? If it does,
make a note where it is and do an "undo." At least you will know the area where
to try to delete the object.

 

[Craig Schiller]

Thanks for the response. But I don't understand what you mean by "give everything a line". Could you please explain?

Craig

Mary Sauer wrote:

Select all, give everything a line. Does the phantom object show up? If it does,
make a note where it is and do an "undo." At least you will know the area where
to try to delete the object.

 

[Mary Sauer]

When you select everything on the screen and apply a line (border) every object
will have the border.

 

[Craig Schiller]

Okay, thanks. Tried that. No phantom objects. Any other ideas?

 

[Mary Sauer]

I have no other ideas. Do you get a strange print? Are there objects on the the
scratch area? What happens if you select all, copy/paste to a new publication?
Does the object show up then?

 

[Craig Schiller]

Thanks for the insightful questions.

1. No, the printout is fine.
2. No, the scratch area is clean.
3. I tried a select all and copied the page to a blank page in the same
document. It generated the error messages for the new page, as expected.
But here's the weird thing. I then went back to the original problem
page, and deleted each object one by one. At the end of this process I
had a perfectly blank page on which nothing could be selected (with
Select All). And the error messages did not go away. Design checker
still showed three instances of "Object not visible" errors!

Which leads me to the musical question: WTF?

Thanks for your help,
Craig

 

[Mary Sauer]

I'm sorry I couldn't be more help. It is a mystery...
Convert the page to a web site, then do the Design Checker. Is the phantom
object there?

 

[Craig Schiller]

Yes it (or rather, they, since there are 4 error messages) are.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Hey Craig, It will be one of those cyber things we will never figure out.

 

[Craig Schiller]

Like so many other things in my life. Oh well. Thanks for trying.

C.