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Problems making a PDF from Indesign CS5

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June 1, 2010
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Hi friends. I have recently switched to CS5 and I find that I usually need to close the program and then reopen it before I can make a PDF. It says it is working in the background but all it does is spin without creating the PDF. Anyone else having this problem?

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bamit

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Same problem for me. This is really shocking. Whose idea was it to make pdf creation a background process? I upgraded to CS5 and found out I couldn't make a pdf from indesign in the middle of a freelance project...

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TimUrchin

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Yeah!
Screwed me right at the end of getting a whole mag to print! I'm having to export eps files and re-export from illustrator like a shmuck!

They have to fix this!!! Some dumb ass at Adobe told me it was a licensing problem. WTF? Yeah we just paid $2000 for it and you want another $680 to be able to make PDF's?

Monarki Creative

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I would also like to know when this issue is going to be fixed. I am having a lot of issues exporting pdfs (print). The problem is the same one described in the post...the export in the background just spins continuously, and i have to force quit. Once I restart indesign, I am able to export one pdf. the next pdf I try to export again goes to the perpetual spinning. Its becoming extremely frustrating! COME ON ADOBE!

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Teddy_Boi_TorontoAuthor

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Hey Everyone.

Well it is nice to see I am not the only one having this issue. So the next question is to Adobe asking... "when are you going to fix this problem?" It is very frustrating.

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TimUrchin

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Yep same problem. Called Adobe Australia and the guy was zero help! Reparied disk permissions, no change. Not using a PDF preset, still no good. Has anyone fixed this yet? What's going on?

Also, postscript 3? OS 10.4 doesn't have it installed as a pdf .ps printer... And the adobe website just sends you round in circles trying to download it... If anyone has the installer file can you please send it to tim@urchin.com.au

Thanks,

Tim

Daniel Cilia

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I am having the same issues as well with exporting to Pdf's in the background. And why did Adobe put in a cancel button in the background panel that does not work? Yet if you are doing a book export from the book panel, InDesign CS5 does not go to background printing, but works in the same way it used to do in CS4. If you have a lot of documents put them into a single book (switching off numbering) and output to Pdf from there one by one and the background Pdf 'printing' does not kick in.

Yet I hope Adobe solves this Pdf issue. It sure has to do with the new background Pdf export which is great since one can continue to work. One other thing I have noticed is that for me many times the processing stops at 9%. Once it goes over 9% than I know InDesign CS5 will not stall the export to PDF.

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portersmith

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I'm havinig this same issue. It's now April of 2011.....has this been fixed by Adobe? Thanks for any help. I'm beginning to go insane!

claidheamdanns

Participating Frequently

Have you turned preflight off? That continues to be the best solution for me. Almost no crashes or hanging during PDFing with the preflight tool turned off.

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Jebovah

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I've found that if I make an interactive PDF, InDesign has no problem exporting the file. However, if I try to make a print PDF using any of my settings (including the defaults), InDesign usually creates one PDF successfully, but after the first export, all of my additional exports show up in the background tasks pane and never start up until I force quit and re-export the file.

designerBeans

Participating Frequently

That's the same thing that happens to my documents in CS5.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

There are a number of similar reports surfacing here. I've had some trouble using older custom presets, but using a new default preset and modifying to the same settings seems to work fine.

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ulib2010

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I have the same issues. ID seems to go in an endless loop of Background tasking.

@Peter: What are the presets you are talking about? I have the same problem with newly created ID files and legacy CS3 files opened in CS5.

I would love to see a workaround and eventually the "old" PDF distiller graphics back so that I know what's going on.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Over the years I've accumulated a number of custom settings files, either supplied by various printers or created by me in earlier versions of ID, that I use for different output situations. I reported a bug on this earlier, but the engineeers apparently were not able to reproduce it using the files I submitted.

In essence, if I used File > Adobe PDF Presets > (and pick one of my custom presets) to reduce the setup time, the export would fail. If, on the other hand, I simply used File > Export... and set up the same settings, even by selecting them from the dropdown in most cases, the export would proceed normally.

The only other failure I've seen that is similar is when I was trying to export several versions of the same file in rapid sucession, changing layer visibility between versions. I've decided that continuing to edit a file that is being exported in the background may not be worth the risk, though there seems to be no problem editing other files.

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