Application Built-In Trapping Fails

[Sara37015108x8m9]

When I try to print my Post Script file and use the application built in trapping I recieve this "Export Error: The Adobe Print Engine has failed to output your data due to an unknown problem."

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

What is the reason that you are not exporting PDF directly from InDesign? 

[Sara37015108x8m9]

Because we send post script files to our film printer.

[Steve Werner]

Your printer is living 2 or 3 decades in the past. Commercial printers these days accept PDF files which have many advantages.

Here's an article I wrote in 2006 in InDesign Secrets (now incorporated into Creative Pro Magazine) comparing using PostScript/Distiller and exporting PDF:

https://creativepro.com/creating-pdf-export-or-use-distiller/

[Sara37015108x8m9]

I am a new employee at the printer. I am well aware that they are living in
the past. I am trying to utilize technology that we already have and slowly
bring them into this bright shiny new world the rest of us are living in.
That is why I am trying to use InDesign's trapping and output it as a post
script. I'm trying to make our lives a little easier until we have time to
do a bigger dive into what we can change about the processes.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Because we send post script files to our film printer.
By @Sara37015108x8m9

What version / level of Postscript do you print with? And what PPD file? 

[leo.r]

I wonder if this thread helps:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/remove-application-built-in-trapping-if-it-has-b...

[rob day]

Hi @Sara37015108x8m9 , apparently there is a bug with CC2020 and later on Windows-- read through the link @leo.r  posted. If there are any machines running on MacOS at the printer, see if you get the same error-- I'm not seeing the problem running CC2024 on Ventura.

[Sara37015108x8m9]

I have read that thread before. I have tried all kinds of different
settings in InDesign, Acrobat, and Illustrator. None of them have been
successful.

When I did it on our shared Mac it did technically give me a post
script file without error... the only problem was the file was empty. 0KB

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Sara37015108x8m9

Is there a problem with a single file - or all files are affected?

[rob day]

Are you using the Adobe PDF 9.0 PPD? That's working for me with all versions of InDesign--with CC2021 on Mojave and CC2024 on Ventura

[Sara37015108x8m9]

no, we are not using the Adobe PDF 9.0 PPD. Do you know where I can get that? Do you have a link?

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Here it is:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fhnvventjc7vxpzzmft5f/AKwgMb_SlYYf5JUfSfpr2nk?rlkey=e7ruj0dh52vvwku98...

The installation folder has to be exactly this:

[Sara37015108x8m9]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

This fixed my problem (on our Macs and that is good enough for me)!