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Page content gets squished when exporting to a pdf

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
May 7, 2025
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(The page is longer than the others in the deck) When I export it, the content gets squished to the top of the page. Screenshots attached: one image as how it looks in InDesign, the other, what it looks like in the pdf in Acrobat.

Import and export

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I've been watching this for a day now, and one thing that nobody else has mentioned, as far as I've noticed, is that everyone, including me, who has successfully exported the PDF has, obviouosly, been working with the .idml file you posted.

Have you tried exporting that file yourself? It's quite possible that your original has some sort of corruption that was removed through the export to .idml.

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You're right it was assumed. By me that this was tested. As they opened in previous version and still got same result.

Now the new user account is throwing a different error. Which in my speaks to corrupt install files, which can be common files against versions.

Either the idml clears it up or the cc cleaner tool is required.

I know it says for advanced users but it's not hard to do.

christinechoiAuthor

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What are possible problems I might create by trying to use the cc cleaner tool?

Robert at ID-Tasker

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What platform, OS and InDesign versions?

Can you post some screenshots with your PDF export settings?

What if you export as JPEG?

christinechoiAuthor

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I'm running on Sequoia 15.4.1 and InDesign 2025. I've attached the PDF settings. When I export it as a jpg, it looks fine.

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It's so big because it's the homepage of a website. How can I export it 50% - 2x resolution?

It worked fine for me so strange it's not working your end

If it's for a website homepage why are you making a PDF?

Can you export it to PNG or jpg?