Indesign quits when saving to pdf

I really need help here - Every time I save my file to any pdf format indesign quits. The pdf is made but has an error so wont open. There are no errors listed and all files are cmyk or pdf. Ive embedded all the links but still no good, all the colours are cmyk.
Im at a loss to know what it can be. The files embedded are pdf psd ai and tiff.
Can someone please help as Im running out of time for my deadline!!
Angie
using indesign CC on a mac osx 10 .8 .4

Sometimes images get corrupted and need to be resaved so that the structure of the file can be intrepetted correctly.
Yes it would be nice if there was a function like that - plus a dozen other functions that Adobe have neglected to add, tweak, improve on etc. over the years
I see in Indesign CC they put a preview of the page that you're creating in Real Time - yet in nearly 10 years it's never dawned on any of them to allow the user to change the Units of measurements they wish to work in...

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Process:         Adobe InDesign CS6 [12488]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe InDesign CS6/Adobe InDesign CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe InDesign CS6
Identifier:      com.adobe.InDesign
Version:         8.0.1.406 (8010)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [306]
User ID:         987924570
Date/Time:       2013-09-03 18:44:29.309 -0400
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report:          4441 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           2
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 2077 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   2
Anonymous UUID:                      5DA3F709-52E9-5A6B-391E-20200699B324
Crashed Thread: 36
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
terminate called throwing an exception
abort() called
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Try Adobe Community: File Crashing on Output - printing/PDF/other
And next time, please put your crash report on Pastebin.com and give us a link....

When saving a pdf the objects on the page appear offset of the page boundries.

This happens mostly in illustrator but it just happened again to me while printing a .ps booklet out of indesign and converting to a pdf using distiller.
See the image below:
The left shows my InDesign Document. On the right is the pdf that results from the save. As you can see the page boundaries are being completely disregarded when saving the pdf and everything is equally shifted down and to the right.
Here is an example of me having the same problem in illustrator:
As you can see there is sometimes zero correlation between what is on the artboard and what page the objects end up on in the pdf.
This problem also has another strange symptom, it seems to have to do with dragging images from firefox onto an artboard in illustrator. The image is place automatically in the center and all objects in the file move together in one direction. see before and after photos below:
Before:
After image dragged in:
You can even continue to drag images in and it will move in the same direction the same amount every time:
I'm running Adobe CS6 on OSX 10.9.1.
Thanks in advance!

In so many words: We can't know. You have not provided any details about your exact settings, what version of Acrobat, your placed images, color settings, color profiles and a million other things including perhaps providing your test fioles for inspection by other people. That aside simply ask in teh relevant ID/ AI/ Acro/ PDF forums. This place here is a dead place and only meant for general sales, install and activation questions, not specific workflow questions.
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The thin lines around the rings are an artifact in pdf preview. Thi si the saem problem http://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/thin-white-dark-lines-stitching.html
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HELP! When saving a pdf the objects on the page appear offset of the page boundries.

This happens mostly in illustrator but it just happened again to me while printing a .ps booklet out of indesign and converting to a pdf using distiller.
See the image below:
The left shows my InDesign Document. On the right is the pdf that results from the save. As you can see the page boundaries are being completely disregarded when saving the pdf and everything is equally shifted down and to the right.
Here is an example of me having the same problem in illustrator:
As you can see there is sometimes zero correlation between what is on the artboard and what page the objects end up on in the pdf.
This problem also has another strange symptom, it seems to have to do with dragging images from firefox onto an artboard in illustrator. The image is place automatically in the center and all objects in the file move together in one direction. see before and after photos below:
Before:
After image dragged in:
You can even continue to drag images in and it will move in the same direction the same amount every time:
I'm running Adobe CS6 on OSX 10.9.1. Please let me know what other settings you might need to know to help solve this problem.
Thanks in advance!

In so many words: We can't know. You have not provided any details about your exact settings, what version of Acrobat, your placed images, color settings, color profiles and a million other things including perhaps providing your test fioles for inspection by other people. That aside simply ask in teh relevant ID/ AI/ Acro/ PDF forums. This place here is a dead place and only meant for general sales, install and activation questions, not specific workflow questions.
Mylenium

CS3 - Illustrator and InDesign quits when trying to print

Hi.
I have posted this on the Illustrator forum as well.
I have just bought a new iMac i7 running OSX 10.7.2. I have reinstalled my version of CS3 and I can open all elements - Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.
The problem I am having is that Illustrator and InDesign quit when I try to print. It happens when I use 'command P' and when I go through the file menu. Photoshop doesn't quit when printing.
I can make PDFs of the files and I can print those (although sometimes the PDF won't print through my RIP software).
OS is updated to the latest version. All printer software and RIP is the latest version. InDesign also quit a couple of thimes when I was just selecting a line of type. i
It did it a few times when selecting the same line. I restarted the Mac and all seems OK with that now but I still can't print.
Can anyone shed any light onto this? I tried Adobe and they don't support CS3 any more and their Technical Department suggetsed I try this forum.
I don't want the expense of upgrading my CS3 at the moment.
Thanks
Roger

I have had a reply on the Illustrator forum and it has worked for me.
Link - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/912/cpsid_91254.html
Thanks to Monika Gause
Cheers
Roger

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Disk space is sufficient! 100GB of 250
A few weeks ago it was no problem to save as PNG. But now! (Perhaps from last update?)
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When clicking "Ignore":
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Version 11.0.09

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When saving a PDF from a FrameMaker book, is it possible to set document filenames as bookmarks in the PDF? Currently when I have a Framemaker book that I want to save as a PDF, I choose Save Book As and then choose PDF for the file format. A dialog box comes up in which I can choose the Bookmarks tab and choose which tagged content I want to be made into bookmarks in the PDF file. What if I would rather have the filename of a document rather than the chapter title be a bookmark in the PDF? Is that possible? Where would I choose that option? Thanks!

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3. Create a paratag to use for the filename and set the font colour to use the invisible colour.
3. In the title of each chapter file, drop an anchored frame that is set to be outside of the text frame [so it won't interfere with any other content].
4. In that AFrame, insert a text frame and use the invisible paratag defined in step 3.
5. Insert the Filename (Short) variable in that text frame.
6. Repeat steps for all files to be included in the bookmarks.
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My indesign crashes when making a pdf. I have tried disabling sync export ( a suggestion in a discussion) didn't help.
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I am using Photoshop CS4 on Windows 7, and have designed my own business card.
When saving to .PDF to send to printers I am finding that a small section of text is saving with a white section to it, for example out of the 3 lines of text on the card the bottom left hand corner of the & sign I have in the design is coming out white, the rest of the text is a golden colour.
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Thanks

Mylenium wrote:
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Mylenium
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I guess you need to fix it
Or if you would like some help provide some information - there are no mind reader supporting this forum and we can only work with the information you give us - right not that is "it does not work"
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Hi Folks,
I'm wondering if anyone else has come across this problem, or perhaps it's just an issue with my installation. I get occassional strange issues when saving as pdf, though i think it happens in other cases too. In the dialog (after choosing the file name and clicking save), some of the buttons are missing (see attached file). The title bar is also sometimes missing the title, but in the attached file it isn't. Alt-tab functionality in windows is impaired when this is happening, I can't launch ctrl-alt-del, etc. Lots and lots of strange issues until i manage to kill illustrator and start again.
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Thanks for your reply. I actually don't think the problem has anything to do with actually saving as a pdf per se, since it happens in other situations too. You'll notice that the Save buttons at the bottom were missing in the first image i posted. I'm posting another image of how the dialog *should* look.
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Ever since updating whenever I try to save in any iWork program it quits. (Not fun as I am currently writing my MA thesis!) Deleted Pages, Numbers and Keynote to try to reinstall, but only Keynote showing up in my purchases to reinstall. Did that and it appears to be working fine. Put back Pages and Numbers from trash. Still can't update in Appstore (even though they are up to date). And still quiting whenever I try to save.

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