Exported PDF is Blank (branched, formerly Re: InDesign CS6 Export to PDF has missing objects)

Just recently went from CS5.5 to CS6 and now when I export files in InDesign to pdf they open and are totally blank. What am I doing wrong?

Jeanne,
I've brancehed this to a new discussion because I'm pretty sure your problem is differnt fromthe one inthe trhead where you posted originally.
What's your OS? Are the PDFs opening automatically at the end of export, or are you opening them manually?
Are your pages blank in ID if you switch to Preview mode?

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InDesign CS6 Export to PDF has missing objects

When exporting to PDF, I have a 6-page document that has missing objects from the master.
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lab.cyke.net/pdf/MissingObjects.pdf
The first and last pages were constructed correctly. All pages in between are screwed up. Any ideas?

@Jongware – I have a case with InDesign CS5.5 7.5.3 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 where master pages based on each other lead to false representation of page objects.
Not only in pdf export, but also on the actual InDesign pages. Made an IDML from it, opened that in InDesign CS4 and the error was gone.
This problem is documented at the German-Swiss forum "HilfDirSelbst" at:
http://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=496285#496285
Some screen grabs together with the IDML are attached there.
After opening the IDML from InDesign CS4 with the error gone, I exported another IDML from CS4, opened that in InDesign CS5.5 7.5.3 and the error was present.
To detect the error look at pages 1* and 4 of the mentioned screen grabs.
Uwe
//EDIT: *the screen grab of the pages palette of InDesign CS5.5 shows the error on page 4 only. The error is present outside of page 1 as well, but cannot show on the screen grab.
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InDesign CS6 exports PDFs wrong.

When I try to export a file from InDesign CS6 as a PDF it always comes out looking like this:
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That's totally useless. We don't know anything about your PDF settings, your version of Acrobat, your document, fonts used, paragraph styles, your system and so on. Ask in the ID forum and provide a lot more of those details.
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Thread 32 Crashed:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib              0x93ad89c6 __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_c.dylib                   0x91240f78 pthread_kill + 106
2   libsystem_c.dylib                   0x91231ce3 __abort + 198
3   libsystem_c.dylib                   0x9122e64a __stack_chk_fail + 253
4   com.adobe.CoolType                  0x010137c9 CTInit + 1626733
5   com.adobe.CoolType                  0x01014053 CTInit + 1628919
6   com.adobe.CoolType                  0x010111ba CTInit + 1616990
7   com.adobe.CoolType                  0x0100f77e CTInit + 1610274
8   com.adobe.CoolType                  0x00f6478e CTInit + 909874
9   com.adobe.CoolType                  0x00ef40a2 CTInit + 449350
10 com.adobe.CoolType                  0x00e726ba 0xe1e000 + 345786
11 com.adobe.PDFL                      0x2cc792e2 PDFontPSFlushIncrGlyphList + 85285
12 com.adobe.PDFL                      0x2d08e898 PDEFontGetWidthsNow + 8752
13 com.adobe.PDFL                      0x2d08ebb9 PDEFontGetWidthsNow + 9553
14 com.adobe.PDFL                      0x2d08fb13 PDEFontGetWidthsNow + 13483
15 com.adobe.PDFL                      0x2d0909a1 PDEFontGetWidthsNow + 17209
16 com.adobe.PDFPort                   0x187ffffe PDFPortInitialize + 560298
17 com.adobe.PDFPort                   0x18800375 PDFPortInitialize + 561185
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19 com.adobe.InDesign.PDF              0x1851cf09 0x184e7000 + 220937
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21 com.adobe.InDesign.PDF              0x185430b8 GetPlugIn + 77368
22 com.adobe.InDesign.PDF              0x1852abb5 0x184e7000 + 277429
23 PublicLib.dylib                     0x01701d7c Command::DoImmediate(short) + 62
24 com.adobe.InDesign.Utilities        0x121ce691 0x121ca000 + 18065
25 com.adobe.InDesign.Utilities        0x121ce8a0 0x121ca000 + 18592
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