Cannot create a Photoshop .pdf because of a "program error"

I make Photoshop .pdf files all the time, but today I couldn't create one. The original file was a large .psd image (26 mb). I get this error message: "Could not save as “sandybell for desert shakedown 02.pdf” because of a program error."
It doesn't say what error! However, I wonder if it's because the file is so large. I just tested Photoshop and made a .pdf file of a .png file that was 221k.
Is there a limit to the size of file you can make into a .pdf? If so, what is that limit?

Your file hardly qualifies as a "large file". Its size is not the issue.
The error message is too vague to be of any help. All it tells you that the failure was due to some program error as opposed to an OS or file corruption or hardware error. Could be a missing support file, a faulty installation of the application, etc.

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