Issue saving as a PDF

Starting today, every time I save a file in illustrator as a *.pdf the software freezes. The rest of my laptop works fine but I can't minimize or maximize illustrator. In task manager the mem usage freezes at what ever it was at when i tried to save. I can save as a *.ai file without issue.
All that I think has changed since my last good save was an install of Wacom intuos4 large tablet and yahoo messenger.
I uninstalled messenger and rebooted and am still having the same issue.

I have the exact same problem with a Wacon Intuos 3 and Windows 7.
Save as PDF woks fine in all other Adobe programs and have found other solutions on the web pointing towards the Wacom drivers and suggestions to roll back the drivers to version 6.1.0.6 which unfortunately didn't work for me.
The only solution I have found is to totally uninstall all Wacom drivers and not use my tablet !!
This is just not good enough for me, so what I'm doing now is create my AI file, transfer it to my Mac and save it as PDF..... I worry about what would happen if I connect my tablet to my Mac!?!
So I have a solution which works but then again doesn't really work for me.
From what I hear it is a Wacom problem but they apparently doesn't recognize this, so it might be a long wait until this is solved!

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You must convert the images to cmyk in photoshop first before placing them in Illustrator or convert them after but since they are linked the conversion has to take place in photoshop by using the link panel to edit the original.
Now it should work as expected but I did this without the using a black key line on the rectangle I used for my clipping so once you have the rectangles position if you still find you have this problem then go bak and redo the clipping mask without the black stroke.
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Juan

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Greetings all,
I am experiencing a problem uploading any documents, which include embedded OTF (Postscript) fonts, to a Cloud based collaboration tool called Crocodoc. The problem/failure appears to occur during the document conversion from PDF to HTML5. It is important to note that this problem is not specific to Crocodoc because I have tested others (i.e. Zoho).
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Hello TSN,
Test Screen Name wrote:
Picking just one point: PDF -> EPS -> PDF. This could not possibly do more than one page, because EPS is absolutely by definition a single page format. Therefore you must choose a page when exporting PDF to EPS.
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a) Flare has a problem handling some OTF fonts or cannot error correct (the way other programs do) for marginal fonts or font errors?
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DC,
Possible cause is because my .ai work got saved as CS6 version at school.
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 01:29:45 -0600
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Subject: Issue when scrolling a pdf - There was a problem reading this document (135)
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