Failed to Export the PDF file

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October 25, 2012
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I have a 500 page Indesign file that I would like to convert to a PDF, however, I am receiving "Failed to Export the PDF file". Does anyone have a resolution to this problem?

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jackbrannen

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I have a similar problem, but my document has NO placed or embedded graphics at all. None.

Also, the problem occurs sporadically. I can try to export pages 1–10 (for example), and it will fail twice in a row and then work twice in a row.

I already tried extracting all the text and creating an entirely new INDD file with built-from-scratch masters (the text and object styles, however, did get copied over), so it's obviously not my FILE that's the problem. I'm currently troubleshooting my fonts, but if anyone else has any bright ideas, they'd sure be welcome at this point.

PrintFusion45

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There is no one step solution to this. However, you have to break the InDesign file into multiple parts and then try to export to PDF and test which part is having issues. It is possible that a couple of spreads in your entire 500 paged document is corrupt or behaving incorrectly.

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ppsadmin12Author

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So am I able to combine them into one PDF and not lose my interactive feature.

PrintFusion45

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Breaking the InDesign file into multiple parts is just the part of the test to isolate the faulty page. After you have found it out, you need to check for things like very high resolution images scaled to a small frame, corrupt fonts, etc. Fix the page individually and then combine it back into the main InDesign file. Then export to interactive PDF.

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