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Indesign to PDF Erorrs: how to find the bad page that is stopping the process?

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    • August 2, 2019 at 10:14 am #1178697
      Michael Lira
      Member

      I have a 700 page InDesign file that I want to export to PDF. When I do so, the process begins and then returns with an error that the process could not be finished. How can I figure out which page is the bad seed? I don’t want to go through exporting page by page until I find it (or them, probably more than one page is bad). It’s a simple layout, letter, one placed PDF or JPEG per page, 95% of images are text PDF’s. Isn’t there a log of some type to check?

      Thank you –

    • August 2, 2019 at 9:52 pm #14324374
      Alan Gilbertson
      Participant

      Use “Save As” to create an IDML version. Open that as a new document and try exporting to PDF again. That often solves mysterious problems.

      If that doesn’t do it, export page ranges (say 50 at a time to start with) to narrow the target. You should be able to zero in on one (or more) corrupted pages quite quickly. You could also take the binary approach: export pp. 1-350, then pp. 351-700. Divide the “bad” half into two exports in the same way, and so on, dividing by two each time. You’ll find the problem page in a maximum of 10 steps. (Yeah, nerdy. I know.)

    • August 3, 2019 at 5:54 am #14324372
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Thumbs up on Alan’s answer. :-)

    • August 3, 2019 at 1:44 pm #14324366
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      Yup–what Alan said. I’ve had to do that quite a bit over the years.

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