Crashing When Exporting Interactive PDF

[yokai.h]

Hi ID community, 

I have a total 700 page document that I need to make interactive with page jumps and table of contents. I plan to individually finalize each of the 7 chapters, export them as interactive, and use Adobe Acrobat DC to stitch them together. This pdf will be published online.

However, when I do test exports to interactive pdf, I keep running into problems where the file will nearly export, then without fail crash InDesign before it completes. So many people have worked on these separate files it's going to be pretty difficult to figure out exactly what is "corrupt". The exporting problem does get fixed when I convert to IDML and resave as indesign but I'm worried I'm losing data. So I'm wondering:

A) In the reconversion from InDesign --> IDML --> InDesign , what gets lost, what changes? I know that my photos that had missing links disappeared, but my text with missing links, that had additional in-layout edits, seems to have all stayed. Can I work with this solution by updating all the photo links and expect the reconversions to be fine?

B) Any other solutions that might be able to solve this crashing error?

Thanks in advance!!!

[maxwithdax]

Your crashes are likely due to either a corrupt image or missing link. That is why saving to IDML clears those out. As a matter of good file management all links should be resolved before trying to export. Otherwise you are just exporting the low-res preview of the actual image.