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Jeremy bowmangraphics
Jeremy bowmangraphics
Inspiring
October 14, 2023
Question

InDesign 19 crashes when exporting book to PDF

  • October 14, 2023
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Including hyperlinks between individual documents in the book makes it crash every time. My work has come to a complete standstill.

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    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Legend
    October 14, 2023

    Have you tried IDMLing?

     

    Export as IDML, open and save with A NEW NAME - of course do not overwrite original INDD file(s).

     

    Jeremy bowmangraphics
    Jeremy bowmangraphicsAuthor
    Inspiring
    October 14, 2023

    Yes, I've just tried that — quite a chore, as the book contains 39 documents! This time, InDesign did not crash, and it appeared to generate the PDF. But the end result was an unreadable file:

     

    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Legend
    October 14, 2023

    Would you be able / willing / like to share your whole project on priv?

     

    Of course I won't share it with anyone else.

     

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