InDesign to PDF Error

I'm trying to export my InDesign document to PDF, but even though i select all the pages, it only exports the last page. What can i do?

Version of InDesign? Operating system? Are you choosing File > Export > Adobe PDF (Print) or PDF (Interactive)? Is the problem only with one file or with all files?

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Recently, we have had two separate incidents where the creation of an InDesign CS5 PDF failed to export certain vector art elements. The elements are not shared between jobs and the files were physically created in different locations (entirely different servers) within our organization. The elements are pdf and eps and appropriately linked. On the PDF, we're not even getting a low-res version of the artwork. When looking at the PDF in NEO, the containing box of the graphic is not present. One the most frustrating aspects of this is we haven't been able to repeat error in order to fix the error. The next time (or 50 times) the document is exported, the vector art is fine.
Has anyone else had a similar issue?

@rickphot
I've had this same problem just today. I have a 64 page INDD that when exported to PDF (print) from CS5 (with no elements on my page set to "non printing elements"), only some of my vector shapes get exported. They are all merely 0.25pt Black Lines used to direct a reader from a comment to a matching illustration, and some pages exported them just fine, and some other pages will not work. I've tried moving them to a new layer, cutting and pasting in place, copying and pasting in place, changing the transparency modes, etc...nothing works...EXCEPT to just redraw the lines.
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Do you work for Adobe? Can you offer any advice to this problem yet?
Thanks all. Glad I'm not the ONLY one going crazy with a bizzare problem like this one.

Failed to open pdf error on every document

Today I came and started placing pdf documents in Indesign CS3 like I always do, and suddenly I start getting "failed to open pdf" errors on every pdf file I try and place. I have tried all the suggested tactics of selecting show import options, changing the crop to bounding box, etc. Nothing working.
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Hold the Shift key as you click Place or turn on Show Import Options in the Place dialogue.
I get this from time to time. Here’s what I think happens: You placed a PDF with Import Options showing so you could select a different crop method, like bleed. This becomes the new default import option for PDF files. But if you import a file with no bleed data InDesign gives an error message instead of either jumping to import options or telling you the default crop options are unavailable for this file. I would call it a bug. I have encountered it from at least version 4 (aka CS2).

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Did you get this error in the initial landing page?
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This iview should have a webdynpro application.

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InDesign CS3 - Application Error

Hi,
I work with CS3 Design Premium Suite. While working with InDesign CS3 sometimes I receive this error and the application closes after clicking the ok / cancel to the error window
Error Windows:
DDE Server Windows: Indesign.exe - Application error
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Win XP prof, SP3, 4 GB RAM, Quad Core 2.50 HP Workstation: HPxw 4600
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Did you also install any new fonts? That looks like a font error.

Printing issues from InDesign CS4 pdf file

Good morning,
Could you help explain and possibly resolve an issue I'm having with an InDesign CS4 pdf file where the text and image drop shadows (40%) are printing as solid black blocked shapes from a large format printer. The file encompasses 1 overall image, 1 image with drop shadow, 3 text frames with drop shadow effect applied to the text and 1 group set of simple rectangular and ellipse objects with a glow.
My colleagues in graduate school experienced the same with their files and the output bureau's rasterized the pdf file in Photoshop where it printed out with good resolution. Shouldn't this be resolved first in InDesign rather than rasterizing the file?
I appreciate any help and insight you could offer myself and my colleagues.
Thank you, Kathryn

The printing service uses Acrobat 8 Pro and HP large format printer. My InDesign CS4 document is in the color mode of RGB and color type as Process. I saved it as a pdf file using the standard settings as follows: Preset: High Quality Print, Standard: None and Compatibility: Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3). Are there options I should be paying more attention to when creating the PDF file? Also, I was reading up on Peter Spier's response links.
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InDesign to PDF - Client wants clickable ads

I'm laying out a magazine with ads in InDesign CS4 that will be converted to PDF for online distribution.
The client would like the reader to be able to click on the ads to be taken to the advertiser's website. I'm not making up the ads myself; I'm just placing provided image files.
How would this be accomplished either in InDesign or in Acrobat? I'm striking out on searches, since I don't know what the feature is called.
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Michele

THANK YOU! That's the information I needed.
Michele
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From: SavvyPop <[email protected]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:22:14 -0600
To: Michele DeFilippo <[email protected]>
Subject: InDesign to PDF - Client wants clickable ads
You can easily do this in the already created PDF providing you use Acrobat
Pro...I assume you do.
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InDesign to PDF Background Layer Image Resizes

In exporting a file from InDesign to PDF for Illustrator, my main background image comes up small and in the upper-left side of the PDF, normally it fills the page when viewed in InDesign. I am using ID v5. I have run into this before, and the problem resolved itself, it is doing it again. I have to get documents to a printer that are for Illustrator. I have tried embedding the image to no avail, removed the tagged option, tried a variety of methods to no avail. Help!

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I realize this question is vague to the point of being unanswerable, but here I go anyway.
Our department's publication person sent me a number of chapters of our book in progress so that I could print an uncorrected proof to show to our funding source. She emailed me .pdf files generated by InDesign CS2, probably, although it might have been CS3.
She also emailed me the indesign file for the frontmatter because I had some things to add, so the .pdf for that I generated myself.
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Yes, I'm sorry, I do realize that this isn't enough to diagnose a problem. I was hoping that this might be something that has come up before and someone would recognize.
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Background missing when exporting from indesign to pdf

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I believe export is an ID option, not an Acrobat option. In that case, you probably should ask in the ID forum.

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Hi everyone,
One of the agencies I work with has a client who wishes XPS for web development. The native application files are InDesign and the agency has used the XPS driver. They have been successful exporting from InDesign and PDF to XPS, but the embedded hot links will not work once in the XPS format.
Does anyone know of a means via a third party application, script, witchcraft <smile>, or what have you to export from InDesign and/or PDF to XPS with hot links intact?
Thanks in advance!
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%pdf error in downloading pdf from Function module

Hi,
I am trying to download pdf from a LinkToaction UI element.
I recieve %pdf" error when trying to download using below code. from backend perspective ABAPer said they are able to download PDF from ABAP program. Lokks like I am doing some mistake somewhere in below code.
From the backend, pdf is coming in a table in the form of SOLI-Text Line (TLine - SO_TEXT255)
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Indesign getting "serious error"

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