This was extremely helpful. I crashed about a dozen times after updating from ID3 to ID4 before discovering this fix. I still don't exactly understand why this worked—I'm dim that way—but it did.

That worked. Thanks so much. You just saved me an unbelievable amount of work.

Hi, I'm not seeing this option in CS5 under File>Export. Am I missing something?

My CS3 file went from 2mb to 1,7mb in CS5. Sweet

Yes.

BTW: I have had no crashing problems since updating to CS5.

I have several documents that I export to PDF using data merge. All of the documents have been exporting very nicely each and every time I use them with the exception of one. Today when I tried to export it, CS5 crashed. So I cut and pasted and made a new document, thinking that might work, but it still crashed. So I tried exporting the document as a IDML. I opened the IDML file and tried to export it using the data merge to PDF and it still crashed. Any ideas on what else I might try, besides redoing then entire 23 page document?

To my knowledge, (through CS4) you cannot Data Merge to pdf, but rather create a new file. I have exported to pdf immedialtely after creating a merged doc, but at that point it is not saved.

Are there images contained within the merge doc? I would look at those first.

Hunt and conquer method - Start eliminating half the document pages or elements at a time.

Thanks. I will do that tomorrow. I have some other projects that I need to work on for work right now. But I did say I was using CS5 and I am using Vista as my OS.

How about if you are working on a book?  Export is not

an option once you are in InDesign screen with the book file open but none of the component files open..  I have to export all 11 documents it is composed of?

Using CS5.    That would be File>Export and in that window, Save As Type> in popdown choose IDML (index design markup language), right?  Then I link the new files to the book and delete the others????

Thanks for your help.

wow 2 min to get an answer, very impressive!  It's a TOC problem

, won't recognize the headings in the section its in.  Sometimes erases all the other text except the TOC-- like maybe I did something when adjusting the frames and it thinks the whole document is part of the toc.  (it used to work just fine)   Someone suggested maybe minor corruption, so I was looking into your proposed solution..  I just had the frames idea in the past few min.

.   Where should I post this and what would u suggest as a heading

btw is there a seach function on this site?  can't find one

Great tips Peter. We recommend exporting to .inx (now .idml) as well to folks contacting us with corrupted InDesign files. If all fails, or if that is not even possible though, we as Markzware offer the Markzware InDesign File Recovery Service, whereby we attempt to salvage and recover your file for you. Just thought it important to mention this.

Friendly Regards,

David Dilling of

Markzware

Deleted the hyperlinks and the file got tuned.

What do you do if your crashes are caused when you're exporting to idml?

This is what's happening to me everytime I try to save back from CS6 [on my home Mac] in order to open in CS5.5 on my office's Mac. My copy of CS6 crashes on export to idml. I'm left with a 125 byte-sized idml 'file'. I've sent reports to Adobe several times now, and scoured the web for an answer with no success.

By the way, CS5.5 worked fine when saving to idml.

Hi, is CS6 crashing with EVERY file you try to export to IDML? Or is just one specific file? Make sure you have InDesign 8.0.1, which you can Update via the Adobe Applications Manager.

Cheers, David