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ellisak60721542
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May 10, 2017
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Exporting my indesign document to pdf shows blank?

  • May 10, 2017
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When I try to export my indesign file to pdf it comes up with a notification (shown in attached image) and when i click continue and open the pdf it is completely blank. Please help! I need this as a pdf!!

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      Correct answer Laubender

      Hi Ellisa,

      your exported PDF is blank, because you did your artwork on master B that was not applied to any document page.
      Cut/Paste in Place your contents to the appropriate document pages.

      The message you are seeing has nothing to do with the blank PDF.
      What is your document's transparency blend space?
      What is your PDF export preset you are using?

      Regards,
      Uwe

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      LaubenderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      May 11, 2017

      Hi Ellisa,

      your exported PDF is blank, because you did your artwork on master B that was not applied to any document page.
      Cut/Paste in Place your contents to the appropriate document pages.

      The message you are seeing has nothing to do with the blank PDF.
      What is your document's transparency blend space?
      What is your PDF export preset you are using?

      Regards,
      Uwe

      Steve Werner
      Community Expert
      Steve WernerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 11, 2017

      Uwe's answer is correct.

      When I teach my InDesign classes, I always teach beginners to pay attention to what page you're working on. There are two ways to tell: (1) If the Pages panel is open, always notice what page or spread is highlighted. In your screen capture, you can clearly notice that B master is highlighted. (2) If the Pages panel is not open, check the status line at the very bottom left of the screen. It will always show you the page you're working on. That's also visibile on your screen.

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        kellew40561820
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        December 7, 2022

        Your Parent pages are all two-page spreads as shown in the screen capture. It's the dcoument page that is a single page, as all one-page files are. To have both sides of the Parent page reflected in the document you will need to add pages to the document.

         

        Rather than moving the content from the B to A you could simply assign B to the document page, but I suspect the real problem here is that you are putting content on the Parent pages that does not belong there at all and should be moved onto the document pages directly. Only content that is to appear repeatedly on multple pages (things like page numbers or running headers, for example) should be put onto Parent pages. In your screen shots above only the page number marker, and possibly some empty placeholder frames for the photos and text belong on the Parent page. The actual text and images shouold be added on the document pages.


        Thank you!! I got it worked out - I had to start over with a new file.
        Then, add pages, then deselect "Allow to shuffle", and then click and drag
        the bottom page to attach to top page so that they would be facing in one
        spread.

        Then, I had to figure out how to export the PDF so that they would come out
        as a spread.

        Whew!! It took some time, but there was a video
        <>that
        I found that helped me figure out how to create the 2-page spread ... in
        case anyone else is going around in circles like I did ...

        Thank you & thanks Adobe Community!! 😄
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