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I am trying to export a trifold I created to pdf. I have created several of these in the past but this is the first time the pdf is blank. No clue what I messed up.
I will try to provide all needed info.
I am using ID CC in Windows 10.
here is a screen shot of ID and my export settings.. I use smallest file size to send out and press quality to send to the printer.
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pg2
thank you for any help you can give..
MikeP
Double-click on each layer and make sure that "Print Layer" is checked in the Layer Options dialog that comes up.
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Double-click on each layer and make sure that "Print Layer" is checked in the Layer Options dialog that comes up.
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It works 🤟🏼
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Thank you Bill!
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Hi there,
We're glad to see that you were able to solve the issue with Bill's suggestion. We'd also recommend you to check out this help article to know more about layers in InDesign. Hope it helps.
Regards,
Ashutosh
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Hi vball1,
I would like to know if the step suggested by Bill worked for you, or the issue still persists.
Kindly update the discussion if you need further assistance with it.
Thanks,
Srishti
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I came here with the same problem 10/20/2020: out of nowhere my PDFs were exporting blank on a new (much simpler) project. When I opened files I had created before the problem was new in those files, too.
I applied the solution, offered by Bill Silbert above, to the new file I was trying to save as/export as a PDF.
IT WAS A SUCCESS! 🙂
Then I went and checked the older file and the Print box was selected and PDFs were no longer blank coming out of Illustrator. All is well!
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Besides your problem, you file is extensive complicated. This is not the source of your problem, but it makes it easier to cause such problem.
Your file should not done this way, it would be better:
If you would work in a clean way, many other problems now, and later in printing, could be avoided. I would strongly recommend to start with this project again. As it is now, it makes me a terrible expression. There are also a lot of terrible typographic failures, like space on line beginning, lost bullets, multiple returns in a row, multiple spaces in one line. You can only win to make this again properly.
And normally a printer does not require Press Quality, use a PDF/X-standard for printers.
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Hi! Another possibility is if you have complex vector in your page, pasted from illustrator, it may cause the page to get blank in the PDF.
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What to do in this case?
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Yes, what to do if you've imported a complex illustrator file?