White Border created in PDF docs from InDesign CS5 -how to get rid of it

On some files I get a white border when exporting the PDF from InDesign. I have gone through I feel like every setting (including bleed) but cannot figure out what is causing it.
Here is a screen shot of what is going on.
White edges on right and bottom sides.

Here is a page from in InDEsign - I can give you the same page if you would like.
Here it is in Acrobat (same page)

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How can I maintain multiple white spaces in a PDF written from InDesign?

I need to have 2 white spaces maintained (within a part #) in the PDF I write, but when I open in Acrobat it converts it to one space.
I've tried word spaces, set spaces and applying "no color" to a placeholder character and nothing is working!
Any ideas or suggestions?

I am talking about normal white space. Multiple fixed widt spaces are not a problem. How the space is handled in a PDF depends on how it is created.
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Wilhelm Georg Adelberger
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Am 21.08.2014 um 12:01 schrieb Peter Spier <[email protected]>:
How can I maintain multiple white spaces in a PDF written from InDesign?
created by Peter Spier in InDesign - View the full discussion
It may not be a great idea to use multiple spaces, but it certainly is not prohibited and sometimes is necessary -- you might want a 2em space, or a thin space before and after a tab you underline in a form.
I'm able to select the multiple spaces just fine in Acrobat 9 using the text touch-up tool.
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I created a PDF file from InDesign and the printing company wants me to convert to curves...

... I don't have Illustrator, so I don't see how I can convert the file to curves and I really don't understand why I should have to. The file prints fine from my printer and when they proofed in on their printer there were no errors. So, why would they want me change it to an Illustrator file and convert to curves? This seems like the technology is going backwards instead of forward to me. Does anybody have any answers besides telling me to buy Illustrator (or subscribe to it) or telling me to recreate the document (which I don't have time to do? Thanks.
JB

You should never convert font to outlines in InDesign, because:
You loose automatic numbers and bullets,
you loose paragraph rules,
you loose underline and strikethroug
you loose automatic follow up numbers
you loose text frames stroke and color.
Outlining is not possible with objects from the master without overriding, overiding will change the result in many cases, outlining on the master will either delete text or outline placeholders.
Outlining will be a huge problem with threads as you cannot outline the whole thread in one single step.
Peters method will not work without problems as such a preset had to be created in CS4 or earlier, it will not work with CS5 or later.
The only working method is to educate your printer.
Ask him why he wants to outline the text? How does he open your PDF? The only program he is allowed to open it is Acrobat or Reader.

Problem with creating/viewing PDF's from InDesign CS3

I have a problem with our PDF workflow and just cannot seem to resolve it.
The problem is as follows: My coworker and I (both designers running CS3 on iMac's running 10.5.6 Leopard) work daily on producing documents and graphic layouts.
Internally we can view and print PDF documents we create just fine with no troubles with the exception of our supervisor, who is running a mac with Tiger operating system. Our office environment is both Mac and PC. On may occasions he cannot print PDF's we create. Many times his prints will contain garbled characters, drop italics and formatting, replace fonts, or just print slowly.
This problem is also happening to our editor who is offsite. This is a fairly serious problem for her, considering her job relies heavily on being able to view and open PDF files we create. She was able to send a PDF file which shows the garbled mess her printer spit out when she printed. Apparently there were pages upon pages of messy garbled text. When documents do print from her, they are usually very slow in printing, taking up to a minute or more to print each page.
The sample of what she sent me is attached, and can also be found on my MobileMe iDisk at: http://public.me.com/rlcollier (document entitled Print Results.PDF)
My question really to the community is obviously what might be causing these problems. Its very frustrating not being able to determine if its something we're doing ourselves thats causing some incompatability or corruption in these files, or if its the users systems themselves. I can say that Debra our editor has can have a garbled mess of a 4 page file from us, and then turn around and print a graphic heavy 90 page PDF with ease from Boeing. Our PDF's seem to be the only ones she struggles with. That being said, my inclination is that its something on our end.
Any ideas of where to start looking? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated and welcomed. Thanks!

I currently had our editor test printing of some of our files using both Foxit and Adobe Reader (as was suggested) in order to see if either made a difference in her printing ability and here is what she came back with:
I tried to print out both these pdfs (David's is the one you reworked and Lisa's HESSM-3, both sent yesterday).
With Adobe: David's first page printed quickly, but it had errors (part of his pants didn't print, and there's an arbitrary shaded box in the text). Page 2 didn't print--every time I tried it had a different "offending command" code. Printing Lisa's HESSM made it up to page 7 before problems showed up (stock photo only partially printed), and it stopped on page 8 (with the random "offending command" code).
With Foxit: Both David's and the HESSM pdfs printed completely and without error...but it took a long time. David's 2 pages took about 3 to 4 minutes, and HESSM's 16 pages took close to 20 minutes. The time is in the transfer of data to the printer; the physical printing goes pretty quickly.
I cant say that I believe email is the problem, although I cant rule it out. I've tested emailing vs. passing through our workgroup with my supervisor, and it does not make any difference in his ability (or lack of ability) to print our files. He was able to print to a different printer (an HP 4650 as opposed to a 4100) without troubles. He refuses to believe its a printer problem however because PDF files originating from our office are the only ones he has trouble with. Never has he had any trouble with a single PDF file produced from any other source. This is also the case for our editor who only has trouble with PDF files originating from either mine, or my coworkers systems.
PS: I've attached both files that were referenced by our editor above for viewing/testing.

Very strange anomaly in PDFs generated from InDesign CS5

This is going to take some explaining, so bear with me. I have a bog standard InDesign file, same as every other file I've handled since we upraded to CS5. The file features lots of text in a 2-column format, which has been styled using a defined paragraph style sheet. On generating a PDF of the file for printing, a couple of random chunks of text (as in about two-thirds of one line in separate places) appeared to be bold. Initially, I assumed it was because they were in 4-colour black (it had that kind of appearance), but rechecking the file showed that the text was clean - the only thing was that the paragraph style applied had been deviated from slightly by the application of a different tracking value. So nothing there. As the original source of the text was a placed InCopy file, I also extracted that and viewed its XML, again, it showed no obvious differences applied to the text that appeared bold. Cleaning the paragraph style in InDesign, however, (alt shift click) resolved the problem.
Wanting to know more, I took the PDF into Illustrator, and there the reason for the bold text became obvious. Those sentence fragments had the same letters repeated and pasted over the top three or four times. Even more interesting, if in InDesign I changed the format from 2 to 3 columns (thereby forcing the text to reflow), the PDF worked perfectly. Switching back to the 2-column format made the problem come back again.
Now I have never seen anything like this, and I am stumped as to what might be causing it. I can't see what might have been applied to the text in InDeisgn to generate this as an outcome. Has anyone got any ideas???
Here is a screen shot of the text in the PDF:
And here is a screen shot of the text in Illustrator, showing the repeated characters that were tacked up to create this effect:

I didn't need to export to INX. This happened to random lines of text, and checking in Acrobat Pro revealed the text strings were doubled.
Nice one: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3299371 mentions this problem and the OP could solve it himself. Doesn't mention how tho'
(No use in further googling without any more to go from -- this was one of "about 37,500 results" )

Client can't print PDFs exported from InDesign CS5.5

They say that the 'flattening' fluctuates up and down then hangs. Exporting Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4) Can someone please advise?

Try exportiing to Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3) that should flatten before sending.
Seems like it's trying to flatten on output and is hanging. If you do PDF 1.3 then it will already be flattened and might stop the error.

PDF Bookmarks - Change Default Width When Creating PDF File from InDesign

When creating a PDF file (from Indesign CS4) I automatically create the PDF bookmarks based on the InDesign document's Table of Contents.
But by default the width in the bookmarks is always set at "Fit Page".
Is there a way to change the default to "Fit Width" in Indesign before the PDF is created?
It's too much trouble to change every bookmark in the PDF after it's created.
Thanks for any help in advance!

Thanks, Steve. I have actually previously done what "fogharty" suggests and it does work if I want to set the pages to "fit width" or a variety of other options. However, none of the options is inherit zoom which is what I, and many other from the sound of the thread, need and want. We want to respect our end users--not dictate how they must view our PDFs. Hopefully, Adobe will listen and make this option available soon.

Large PDFs from Indesign CS5 under Lion

Has anyone noctived the incredibly large PDFs exported from Indesign CS5 under OS X 10.7 Lion?...
When OS X 10. Snow Leopard all was great, though now I have noticed HUGE differences!!??
crazy. example Indesign exported to pdf 106mb
Print to file, then Distiller: 32mb
BIG DIFFERENCE
anyone else?
thanks

Ok lets forget the Distiller part of this story, sorry.
My issue is that under Lion PDF's are WAY larger than in previous OS X (Snow Leopard etc)
I don't have any Mac on Snow Leopard to now show a comparison only previous PDF's made before Lion was installed and they are signifcantly smaller.
I just tested I think it is new documents made in Indesign CS5 in Lion.
Testing a indd file previously made in Snow Leopard I exported a PDF it produced the same size PDF as in Snow Leopard, so now I am confused slightly hoping I am wrong. Then I exported that same .indd as a .idml opened and saved as .indd then exported as a PDF it is 150kb larger... small difference yes, though ot enough to worry about, so I tried with previous larger files... only to have them create the satisfactory sized pdf.
Ok, I am wondering if newly created documents are the issue?...
Moving on I found then I found this.. http://www.creativepro.com/article/drop-20-pounds-indesign
I have just done a space audit most of the file is the images, my only conclusion is that the images are containing meta data that is hogging?...

Exporting to .pdf from InDesign CS5

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Hi Tom,
I looked up the Spreads option in InDesign help to see what you were referring to... I see most of the options described, but the Spreads option doesn't appear to available in the "Export to Interactive PDF" pop-up box.
The options I've chosen are: Pages-All; View after Exporting; Embed Page Thumbnails; View-Default; Layout/Single Page; Presentation-Open in full screen Mode; Page transitions-None; Buttons and Media-Include all... I don't believe that the Image Handling section would be the issue, but I chose, JPEG (Lossy), Maximum quality and a resolution of 300.
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Create unlimited folios today with InDesign CS5 and 5.5!

Adobe's official statement
http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/2011/10/create-unlimited-folios-today-with-indesi gn-cs5-5.html
Did you know…
Customers with InDesign CS5 and CS5.5 can now create an unlimited number of .folio files for no additional charge.
You already know that InDesign CS5 and CS5.5 integrate with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to allow customers to publish apps to tablet devices such as the iPad, Xoom and PlayBook. But for InDesign CS5 and CS5.5 customers who are interested in creating content for tablet devices but are not yet customers, it is now easier than ever to try digital publishing before making the financial investment in the Digital Publishing Suite solution that meets your needs.
InDesign CS5 and CS5.5 customers can now:
Create an unlimited number of .folio files in InDesign
Preview them on Adobe Content Viewer – including interactivity – to see how they will render when published to a tablet device
Share them with colleagues or clients on a 1:1 basis via the Adobe Content Viewer
Further, customers can now access the Folio Producer Service in the Digital Publishing Suite with a valid Adobe ID to manage and edit their .folio files. All of this can be done before purchasing Digital Publishing Suite.
If you are interested in learning how to create an App directly from InDesign CS5 or CS5.5, without writing code or depending on a developer, feel free to try it. You can pitch ideas to your client or your boss; or you can build a portfolio of your work and preview it on a tablet device. Practice makes perfect, and with an unlimited number of .folios, you can practice as much as you want! When you’re ready to publish to an app store, you can select the Digital Publishing Suite solution that is right for you.

I'm sorry EvBurk, what you want is intended not to work.
All Adobe's promotional material concerning InDesign and Digital Publishing (including the above "official statement") carefully uses verbs like "create" or "produce". But they never mention "distribute" or "spread", without explicitly referring to their exclusive hosting services. The whole Folio thing (in contrast to the former "issue" format) revolves around not giving you any chance of physically exporting, managing or owing the folio file itself. It's always somewhere on Adobe's or Apple's servers, or on your iPad, which is also as shut as a vault. So there's no way to export a folio file and toss it around like a pdf or jpeg. All you can do (without a paid distribution) is "share" your folio with some others, under the idea of "testing" and "reviewing". But this can be a cumbersome method. And even when paid (for the app), it's still difficult to distribute it outside Apple's or Android's market.
More than a year ago (in the middle of the Flash-on-iOS debate) Adobe users, developers, bloggers, and evangelists heavily criticized Apple's "walled garden". Adobe literally stated "We Love Apple - What we don't love is anybody taking away your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it, and what you experience on the web." Well, you could say now: "I love Adobe, but what I don't love is Adobe taking away my freedom to own my files, and distribute them on my own terms." They let us create, but not spread our ideas. It's like giving you a typewriter and copier, that only works with Adobe stock paper. Like giving you a voice and an instrument, but only allowing you to sing and play in some walled gardens (dress code: Apple ID) or secluded shed (invitation only).
I really wonder why they so fiercely protect 'their' Folio file. Why do they either have to be "under protection" or be turned into apps? I understand why Apple wants and needs to curate apps, but they don't mind me spreading my own ePubs, mp3 or jpegs. Why doesn't Adobe let me put my folio's on my own server, or send them off to someone with my own preferred service? The Content Viewer could easily be an Acrobat-like reader and let the iPad open folio's (by web links or mail enclosures) into it. If I see how many questions, worries, and problems creators and users have due to this whole closed technique and business, it would be easier to just let go and see what happens. Is it money? Of course it is. But my guess is that Adobe would eventually benefit more from it.
So I hope Adobe declares the Folio as an "open" standard soon, but they're definitely not in that stage. Maybe the specification of the file format just isn't ready yet. Maybe some managers need to remember again how to "Spread the Love"...

I can't do pdf's in Indesign (CS5.5) anymore

Today I discovered I can't do pdf's from Indesign (CS5.5) anymore. I was told to update/install Extension Manager, but it didn't work with my OS X (10.6.8).
Is this Adobes way to make sure I buy Creative cloud already, or is there any way I still can use CS5.5? I'm of course annoyed I can't deliver the material I was supposed to and hope somebody please can explain why this is happening and how I can fix it. I rather not buy the upgrade.
Thanks in advance! /Amy

You have not provided any proper technical details. This has nothing to do with CS5.5 per se, something is just wrong on your system.
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I created a pdf form from a Word doc with 9 pt aerial font formatting; the text on the pdf form is aerial 9 pt, but the fields are formatted in courier 12 pt - How do I reformat the font in the fields??

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You can set up a temporary button (or link, bookmark, etc.) and add the following JavaScript action:
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Why does black turn grey when creating a pdf from InDesign CS5??

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Unfortunately, things like this are rarely glitchy little programming errors but deep, by-design, problems with using colour management. Usually you are getting exactly what you asked for, just not what you want, and the more colour management options there are, the more likely this is.
There are many possible causes, but one of the easiest to do is and hardest to spot is applying a CMYK profile in InDesign export, and a different one through Photoshop settings. This is actually demanding that colours be converted for the worst! Since your print workflow will be different, a work-around of rich black is likely to make things worse.
So the first thing to check is whether the colours you indended made it to the PDF, indeed. Output Preview is the first tool to use (as well as inspecting plates, you can hover over points to check the colour mix).
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How can i create a pdf file from Indesing, whit out loosing resolution...

How can i create a pdf file from Indesing, whit out loosing resolution...
in linked images (bitmap) idon´t know where or how can i keep the same resolution "image" that is from the original file ......

In the export settings there is a panel called Compression. You can set downsampling and compression, or lack thereof, there.

PDF files turns white after exporting from InDesign CS5

Hi all
When I export PDF files fom inDesign CS5 they turn out all white when I open them in Acrobat Reader (I´ve tried both in version 9 and the latest version). When I first open the PDF it seems to be ok but as soon as I zoom out it turns white. Anyone have a clue or have experienced the same issues?
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Is this something you can share? Put the PDF on a server someplace and post a link here, if you can. If you don't have your own server, you can use a service like YouSendIt.com.
What settings are you using for the export? What happens in ID if you go to Preview mode?

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