Printing Complex vectors

Hello everyone. I am a digital printer and I am having some issues with a file. The artist created a smoke effect with a tone of vectors. It looks like it was maybe a blend or maybe that spiral graph effect you can do with the tilda key. Either way it crashes my Fiery Rip software. I tried to take it into acrobat and flatten it but that crashed Acrobat DC. I placed it in Photoshop and exported it but then many of the colors  and effect dropped out. Does any one have an idea of how to fix this? Unfortunately the artist is new and has no idea how to prepare documents for printing. This is complicated by the fact my only contact with them is through a less then tech savvy older women.

Attached is a screen shot of the file. The issues steam from the various smoke effects. If I try to rasterize this file in photoshop they all drop out.  I only have access to the pdf of the file  and not the raw .AI file. When I open the file in Illustrator it is missing links. I am using the latest version of Indesign on a Mac and I am RIpping it with Fiery/ Command Workstation and printing it on a Xerox C75.