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Geíza Barbosa
Participant
February 11, 2026
Question

InDesign 21.2 PDF Export Error on Windows 11 (25H2) – Page Error on Every File

  • February 11, 2026
  • 3 replies
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Whenever I try to export a PDF, an error screen appears on some page. Even after checking each link individually, the error persists. It continues to happen even if I delete the page in question. The error appears on any other page and in any file I'm working on. Creating a pack or working offline doesn't help either.

 

    3 replies

    Abhishek Rao
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    February 13, 2026

    Hi ​@Geíza Barbosa,

     

    Thanks for posting the issue. To help us investigate further with the team, could you please share the information requested by the experts above, such as your InDesign version and your OS details, and whether this problem happens with specific files or all of them. Additionally, you might find the suggestions in this help article useful for troubleshooting PDF export failures: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/unable-to-export-pdf.html. Please try the steps there and let us know if it helps resolve the error.

     

    Looking forward to your update.

    Abhishek

    Abhishek Rao
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    February 19, 2026

    Hi ​@Geíza Barbosa,

     

    I hope the suggestions in the Helpx article helped resolve the issue. Could you please confirm if you were able to try them? If not, I’d recommend giving them a try and also testing after a complete manual preference reset by following the steps in this video here: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/setting-preferences.html.

    It would also be helpful to test the export in Windows Safe Mode to rule out any third-party software or extension interference. Ref: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode-in-windows-92c27cff-db89-8644-1ce4-b3e5e56fe234.

     

    Please let me know how it goes. Looking forward to update. 

    Abhishek

    Community Expert
    February 12, 2026

    You mean to say every file reports an issue with the same link? The issue persists even if you delete the link?

    -Manan
    Geíza Barbosa
    Participant
    February 18, 2026

    That's right, regardless of the file and the link, the error always appears when trying to export the PDF.

    Peter Spier
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 11, 2026

    What is your exact version of InDesign and your OS?

    Geíza Barbosa
    Participant
    February 18, 2026

    Indesign 21.2 and  Windows 11, version 25H2