Great to know you guys are on it. I agree with Gavin and jdnorman that the hanging is idiosyncratic and doesn't seem related to a particular file. Oddly, when I first installed InDesign CS5 in March of 2010, I don't recall having any problem exporting to pdf. I can't remember exactly when the problem started, but it wasn't until the end of the summer that I remember CS5 hanging when I exported a pdf. Currently I'm running ID 7.0. I will download the latest update to see if that resolves the problem. Thanks. ... View more

I began experiencing the same type of hangup everyone else seems to have when I installed CS5. I finally took the advice of an earlier poster and installed a scripting solution written by Uwe Laubender for exporting PDFs in "foreground" that seems to have solved the problem. My only gripe now is with Adobe for ignoring the issue. ... View more