Pdf export range indesign cc 2014

I saw that there are several threads dealing with that problem with the drop down menu saying CUSTOM V. usualy people can type in there, the problem is that what ever i type in that little box (for example: 3-7) indesign gives me the following error:
Cannot find the specified page number(s). If using alternate layouts, type the layout name followed by a colon, and then the page number(s). For example 'iPad H:1'. If using a section numbering, type the section prefix in front of the number(s). For example: 'a1'. You can also type a plus sign ( + ) followed by the absolute page number.
BUT i neither used alternate layouts nor section numbering. does anybody know what to do about that? does anybody have the same problem?
would be happy to find a solution.

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Dear all,
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Finally it should then just be a case of selecting the correct layers and publishing.
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Thanks Daniel but this did not work for me perhaps because the following step was greyed out for me so I wasn't able to complete all the steps. I did try Claudia's advice to print image, that worked but it's getting a bit pixilated.
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Maybe it's the way I created my original document, not sure.
Thanks anyway!
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Hello, I am having a bit of a frustrating problem.
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I would have normally designed them in Illustrator but ALL my graphics are in InDesign and we just found out once we started on production that he needs AI and needs our trim path set up for our irregular shapes.
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Workaround for 1 Spot Color in Gradients (Converts Spot Color located in Gradient to CMYK – all other Spots stay intact)
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Workaround for 2 Spot Colors in Gradients (Converts Spot Colors located in Gradient to CMYK – all other Spots stay intact)
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Object Type: Smooth Shade (this tells Acrobat to hone in on Gradients only)
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Expand Document Colors on the right and Select the DeviceN spot color that is located in the Gradient in Color Spaces then click ok
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I had a similar problem a few months ago where SOME cross-references within a document weren't taking you to the right place when exported to PDF although they appeared to work fine in InDesign (the "source" and "destination" arrows took you to the right place). Someone suggested exporting the file to IDML and importing again, which worked fine.
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I am currently trying to produce a document with a level of interactivity I have achieved many times before.
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SOLVED BY A COLLEAGUE:
You can (no longer) use full stops/decimal points in button naming. Menu was hierarchically labelled as 1, (1.1, 1.2), (1.1.1, 1.1.2) etc.
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Thank you for reporting this.
I would consider this a bug in InDesign CC v9.x and v10.x and would report it:
Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
(Cannot test it right now.)
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