Printing to PDF just creates Text Document, not PDF

Hi
I just tried to print a Book to PDF, and its just created a Text Doc listing the pages instead. This has happened on random docs recently and I can't work out why. I've never seen this before.
Does anyone know what I've done wrong?
Thanks!

*edit - see Peters suggestion above (I didn't see the reply)
Very strange.
Try selecting half of the documents and making the pdf (either printing or exporting or both) and then the other half.
See what happens. It might help to narrow down the document causing the problem.
If you're not getting any errors it could be that the size is just too big or something, and making two separate files works because it should be only half the size (in theory).
If you get errors in one of the half sized pdfs, you can half that again and keep doing until you find the document.
It could be the book file itself that is corrupt though? In the past, I've had to make a new book file and import all the documents again when problems arose.
I can't think of anything else, other than disk space.
If it's creating a text file to me it sounds like there is a problem with generating the pdf and the text file is an error report. Can you post a link to download the text file that it generates?
Usually these reports indicate some sort of font issue or a problem embedding fonts.
It's a little bit unclear what the issue is, but I hope these suggestions help somehow.

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