InDesign 2024: Incredibly slow export of simple PDF documet

[stepant54867341]

Hi there!

I'm pretty new on CCs (had CS6 for ages). I have a serious problem with the PDF export. It takes ages (10 minutes) to export 50 pages of text only document into a PDF. I'm on the newest Windows 11 and new i7 13th gen Intel with 16 GB of RAM. Could someone help me? Thank you.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

How big - in MB - is your file? 

How long have you worked on it and how often have you been doing Save As with a new name - or just Ctrl+S?

You could do IDMLing - export as IDML, open and then save with a new name. This will do a general "housekeeping" - maybe it will help.

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi @stepant54867341 ,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. In addition to the details asked by Robert, can you also share the version of InDesign & OS? Is this happening with a specific file or multiple files? Are you saving the file locally or on any network or shared drive?

Thanks

Rishabh

[stepant54867341 · Accepted solution]

Thank you all! I've found the issue. There were QR codes in svg (generated by Adobe's own Adobe Express). As soon as I converted them to EPS, it was again a matter of fractions of seconds to generate the PDF.