After 1 hour 38 minutes, InDesign crashed. Sent another crash report. InDesign crashes after every attempt to export to PDF, successful or not. ... View more

There should be absolutely no problem with having a 356 page book with linked photos in InDesign and exporting PDF directly from within InDesign. Embedding 1,367 raster images within an InDesign document could be dicey, though! I just now created another file with all images embedded. Now exporting a PDF from InDesign. In only a couple of minutes it's already up to 10%. Never been that fast with the linked images. Does your printer in Thailand want a PDF file or an InDesign file? Preferably, you should be providing them with a PDF/X-4 file with live transparency, ICC color management, and all fonts embedded. You shouldn't ever need to convert ICC color-managed photos to whatever flavor CMYK! Sending source files (i.e., InDesign documents and if not embedded, linked graphics) is a real crap shoot and looking for problems based on our experience at Adobe and best industry practices. PDF. Yes, PDF/X-4 file with live transparency, ICC color management, and all fonts embedded. However, they did want me to convert all images to CMYK for COATED FOGRA39. BTW, what version of InDesign are you running? 14.0.2 x64 ... View more

It could only be a corrupted InDesign installation if Adobe Cloud isn't doing it's job. I thought it might be a damaged document, but if that were the case, seems like it wouldn't export any PDF files at all, yet I can get 356 individual page PDF files. ... View more

I have many Adobe programs on my computer. I've been a power user for 20 years or so, which is one reason why this problem really is irritating me. I fully comply with (1). As to (2), the publisher/printer is inconsistent as to whether or not they want graphics embedded or linked. I have emailed them for clarification, but they are in Thailand, so the time difference doesn't help. I wanted to embed graphics but their initial Digital Data Creation handbook said no. I'm thinking that with 1,367 CMYK photos in a 356-page book with all photos linked simply isn't conducive to InDesign or Acrobat creating a 356-page PDF. ... View more

After 2-12 hours of converting, InDesign quits and gives me a did not create PDF message. I can't wait around for that amount of time only for InDesign to fail. ... View more

Acrobat Pro DC 2019.010.20100 I click on Create PDF I select the InDesign file After a few minutes I get the error message I posted above. ... View more

I have not. I don't have time to play around trying to determine what the cutoff point is right now. The publisher says that they can use all 356 PDFs if I upload them to Google Drive. After I have the book uploaded, I'll probably take some time to try to figure out what was wrong. When/if I find something, I'll post in the forums here. ... View more

Perhaps I should define "failed." After telling Acrobat Pro to combine all 356 PDFs into one at around 6:30 a.m., Acrobat Pro was still attempting to do so around 6:30 p.m. Twelve hours. That's failed, to me. No message, but I'm sure glad that I have multiple computers to work on, with my two biggest baddest ones sitting side by side. ... View more

I had already done that. All 356 pages exported properly individually, but I can't give 356 individual pages to the author/printer. I also tried using Adobe Acrobat Pro to combine all 356 pages into one file. That also failed. ... View more

I tried exporting/saving as an IDML file, but InDesign won't open the IDML file. Waited for 63 minutes and gave up. ... View more