I believe it may be a font issue. However, I've change the font in both the document itself and all mention of it in the style sheets and now the new font is causing the same problem. This document has elements taken from another document. Are they still linked somehow? I can print it from another Mac after a crash and an adjustment or two but I can't print it at all from my Mac. This will eventually become a 200 pg catalog (I hope) so I hope I can get this solve
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Document crashes when I try to print
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...have you tried printing only certain pages at a time? try just doing a few, you may be able to hunt down the problem page by process of elimination...
...may be worth trying to print only odd pages first, then if this fails, try even pages, if this fails, try something like 5 or 20 pages at a time...
...does export to pdf fail too?
andrew
...may be worth trying to print only odd pages first, then if this fails, try even pages, if this fails, try something like 5 or 20 pages at a time...
...does export to pdf fail too?
andrew
Depending on your machine and printer, you might need an updated printer driver for the printer or an update of Indesign - especially if you've updated OSX.
You could also have a corrupted font cache. OSX uses caches to avoid corrupting an entire font in the case af a crash. It is very rare to have a corrupted font in OSX unless you brought an already corrupted font. Adobe apps create their own caches. You can use Find (in finder) to search for "AdobeFnt" - using "contains" as the parameter. You can trash anything that come up with ".lst" as the extension after quitting any Adobe apps. New caches will be created as you use the programs and you should trash these caches on a regular basis.
To clean other font caches on osx, there are various utilities that find and delete them. I use Font Finagler - availabe at versiontracker.com.
There's also a posibility that the prefs for your printer could be corrupted. Take a look in hard drive/user/library/preferences for prefs for the printer and trash them.
You can also export to pdf and try printing out of Acrobat, Reader, or Preview.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
You could also have a corrupted font cache. OSX uses caches to avoid corrupting an entire font in the case af a crash. It is very rare to have a corrupted font in OSX unless you brought an already corrupted font. Adobe apps create their own caches. You can use Find (in finder) to search for "AdobeFnt" - using "contains" as the parameter. You can trash anything that come up with ".lst" as the extension after quitting any Adobe apps. New caches will be created as you use the programs and you should trash these caches on a regular basis.
To clean other font caches on osx, there are various utilities that find and delete them. I use Font Finagler - availabe at versiontracker.com.
There's also a posibility that the prefs for your printer could be corrupted. Take a look in hard drive/user/library/preferences for prefs for the printer and trash them.
You can also export to pdf and try printing out of Acrobat, Reader, or Preview.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
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