IND 2019 suddenly exporting as AI instead of plain old pdf?

[funkitabanana]

Indesign 2019 is exporting my files as Illustrator documents instead of regular pdfs. I don't even have Illustrator on my system. Is this a new glitch? How do I get it to save as pdfs?

I also just "updated" to a 2015 iMac. Could it be a system glitch? I'm not finding anything on the forums about this issue, so I'm thinking it's Id 2019......

Thanks!

Nita

[dave c courtemanche]

Are you saying the extension is .ai not .pdf? You have a variety of export options from Indesign, but .ai isn't one of them. .eps is, which would default to opening in Illustrator, if you have illustrator installed, but you say you don't. Can you clarify what is happening when you export? screen shots help.

[Frans v.d. Geest]

I’ll bet it is a file extension to application OS mapping thing. The OP is double clicking the PDF file to open it and that tries to open it in Illustrator. No way there is an export with actualy .AI file extension and file type 😉

[dave c courtemanche]

That would be my thinking as well, but I didn't think the file would open with Illustrator if the app was not installed. It would think it would state "what app do you want to use to open this file". That's what my Mac OS does when I do not have the app installed.

[BobLevine]

There was another thread on this somewhere, not too long ago.