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Renato35758293a9qa
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March 24, 2024
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Possible cause of failure is present on spread with page number 8 - InDesign

  • March 24, 2024
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Having trouble exporting indesign document to PDF. Says 'possible cause of failure is on page 8' but when I remove elements from page 8 is says the failure is on another page? There are no errors or missing links/fonts

 

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    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Legend
    March 25, 2024

    Is text reflowing to other pages - the next problematic one?

     

    If not - is the index of the next problematic page higher or lower than "8"? If higher than you have more problems.

     

    Links might be not missing - but might be corrupted.

     

    Or your INDD file is corrupted - how often do you do SAVE AS with a new name - or only CTRL+S?

     

    Try IDMLing - export as IDML, open, save WITH A NEW NAME - do not owerwrite your original file!!

     

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      Renato35758293a9qaAuthor
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      March 25, 2024

      Hi @Robert at ID-Tasker 

      1. There is no overset text in the document 

      2.  If I delete whats on page 8 it does go higher to page 10 as being problematic.

      3. Is there a way to target of identify whether certain links are corrupted? Its a catalogue with many images so hard to know what would be problematic.

      4. Has been created through saving as with new versions but never encountered an issue with saving as

      5. Have saved as IDML and exported from there but same prompt appears.

        Robert at ID-Tasker
        Robert at ID-Tasker
        Legend
        March 25, 2024

        OK, now we know what kind of file you have.

         

        1) I thought that you have a "text" file with text flowing between pages.

         

        2) Then page 8 is just the first one.

         

        3) Only by removing objects one-by-one on this page and doing Export again - but you can speed up the process - export only this 8th page instead of the whole document. Could be speed-up with scripting.

         

        4) There is no problem with SAVE AS - but people often only use SAVE / CTRL+S - for weeks / months - that can lead to corrupted INDD files.

         

        5) Then you have a problem(s) with linked files - or fonts in linked PDFs?

         

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