Why does InDesign keep failing to export PDF?

Posted on by Emilia Duggan

Why does InDesign keep failing to export PDF?

So, the usual practice is to scale down a 600 dpi image to 50% for effective resolution and export. Such PDFs fail during export because of the downsampling of the images.

How do I export a regular PDF from InDesign?

The PDF looks just like your InDesign document, and anyone with a free PDF reader can view it:

  1. Choose File > Export.
  2. In the Export dialog box, change the name of the file, choose Adobe PDF (Print) for the format.
  3. Click Save.
  4. In the Export Adobe PDF dialog box, set any options, then click Export to output the PDF.

How do I turn off downsampling in InDesign?

How Downsampling Works

  1. Choose Job Options from the Settings menu (Figure 5). Figure 5. Choose Job Options from the Settings menu.
  2. Click on the Compression tab in the Job Options dialog box.
  3. Uncheck the Average Downsampling at checkboxes (Figure 6). Figure 6.
  4. Click the OK button.

Why is my InDesign PDF empty?

1 Correct answer your exported PDF is blank, because you did your artwork on master B that was not applied to any document page. Cut/Paste in Place your contents to the appropriate document pages. The message you are seeing has nothing to do with the blank PDF.

Why won’t my InDesign File save?

For each open file that you can’t save, choose File > Export and select InDesign Markup Language as the format. Choose Apple Menu > Force Quit (Mac OS) or press Command + Alt + Delete > Task Manager (Windows) and force InDesign to quit. Relaunch InDesign, open the IDML files you exported, and save them as new .

How do I open a failed PDF?

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  1. Right-click (Windows) or control-click (Mac OS) the link to the PDF file.
  2. Choose the appropriate save or download option for your browser:
  3. Make sure Adobe Acrobat Document is selected for the file type, and save the file.
  4. Locate the saved PDF, and double-click the file to open it.

What formats can InDesign export?

File > Export formats

Extension Filename Version
jpg JPEG
xml Extensible Markup Language
txt Adobe InDesign Tagged Text
icml Adobe InCopy document CC

What does do not downsample mean?

Now with the file that was not downsampled, you can zoom right into the small photo’s on the cover and will it retain the native pixels and with the compressed version once zoomed in you’ve obviously got less pixels.

Why is my background white when exported as PDF in InDesign?

The Paper swatch is meant to imitate your paper color for when you are printing to colored paper. It’s like “non-printing color” as in the resulting background is really transparent. In your example image, the “white background” is just the background color of acrobat.