Folio creation: InDesign keeps hanging on Exporting Folio - Optimising links

Question

Hi,
I have the problem since today that when trying to update and/or creating a new article, the folio creation keeps hanging at the point "Exporting folio... - Optimising links". OSX shows that InDesign is not responding.
After about 5-10 minutes, some of the articles will finish as others will not. Those who finished have an additional error: The upload has failed. Network failure.
- I have tried it in CS5.5, CS6 and CC
- I have tried updating my current article (what should be the case) and I have tried adding a new article
- I have tried creating a new folio
- I have tried a new offline folio
Always the same result. InDesign keeps hanging. The same files worked yesterday without problems.
Thanks for your help!
Yves

Answer 1

Phew, you're going from one format to another, hopping through techniques as if everything can be put in a magical media blender, and expect it to work. With these emerging new media, you have to keep the formats and techniques apart. You can't just design any visual and interactive idea, since all formats have different possibilities. And there's no easy conversion available. Yes, PDF seems a relatively 'old' trick, and SWF and HTML can do a lot, but compared to the flexibility we got used to after five centuries of messing around with paper, these new media are stubborn and largely detached from eachother. And folio's are just another branch on the wildly winding tree.
Like Bob says: familiarize yourself with the DPS/folio techniques and try to work out an (new) idea upon that basis. Of course, you can repurpose many of the elements and content you also used for other formats, but you do have to rework them.