Possible cause of failure is present on spread with page number 8 - InDesign

[Renato35758293a9qa]

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

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

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!!

[Renato35758293a9qa]

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]

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?

[judypwdy]

I was having this problem all morning and was troubleshooting all of my images / fonts etc. Turns out your final suggestion to export as IML and then Save with a new name fixed it. Thank you!

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I was having this problem all morning and was troubleshooting all of my images / fonts etc. Turns out your final suggestion to export as IML and then Save with a new name fixed it. Thank you!

By @judypwdy

You are welcome. 

Are you doing Save As with a new name? Or only Save? 

[judypwdy]

I saved as IDML with a new name and then just exported from the new IDML file and it all worked fine.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I saved as IDML with a new name and then just exported from the new IDML file and it all worked fine.

By @judypwdy

No, I mean when you work on your file - how often are you doing Save As with a new name? 

Because, if you only do Save - then sooner or later your file could get corrupted again. 

[judypwdy]

Oh, sorry. I don't change the name at all so what you are saying makes sense. I only ever Save rather than Save As. I'll change my practices based on your suggestion, thanks.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Oh, sorry. I don't change the name at all so what you are saying makes sense. I only ever Save rather than Save As. I'll change my practices based on your suggestion, thanks.

By @judypwdy

Depends on the frequency - use a date or counter. 

I would suggest at least daily - at the end of the day. 

Another bonus - you'll have a backup copy. 

[judypwdy]

Yeah that's very true. I think introducing a date into the title will help keep on top of it. Thanks for the tips!

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Yeah that's very true. I think introducing a date into the title will help keep on top of it. Thanks for the tips!

By @judypwdy

Always happy to help. 

Not sure what is the date format in your country - but I always use yyyy-mm-dd - helps when sorting "by name".