Large PDF exports (1gb+) in Publisher are corrupt.

[rnmartinez]

Hi everyone

This has been an ongoing issue; normally I solve it by either downsampling my PDFs, or exporting problem pages as a high res TIF with no layers, then opening it in designer and turning it into a PDF, and then adding it back in and re-exporting it. Honestly, it is a bit of a pain, so wondering if someone could have a look and see what I am doing wrong. For reference, this is the input:

 

and the output...

 

I am using the latest version of all the v2 suite on macos; I've attached the source file. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Elisio - FINAL July 2023.afpub

[Oufti]

I exported your file in PDF (Préréglages : PDF pour impression) on my Mac and I don't have the problem you had (only missing fonts). 

 

Perhaps could you post a screen capture of your export presets ? 

[PaoloT]

Most, or maybe the only, issues I have had when generating PDF files from InDesign have been caused by fonts. Very old fonts, corrupt ones. Maybe the same can happen with Publisher.

Paolo

 

[Callum]

This file also seems to export fine for me here, please could you provide a copy of the font used in this document just so we can rule this out?

[rnmartinez]

Hi everyone

The font is Silver Age LC from Blambot. I will post only for the purposes of debugging; anyone wanting to use this font for their own work should buy a license

Thanks for your help! Here are the fonts and the export settings:

SILVERAGELCBB.OTF SILVERAGELCBB_BOLDITAL.OTF SILVERAGELCBB_ITAL.OTF SILVERAGEUCBB_BOLDITAL.OTF SILVERAGEUCBB_ITAL.OTF SILVERAGEUCBB.OTF

[MikeW]

Please remove the fonts. Blambot can be persnickety about such violations. 

Typically it is ok to provide them to application developers privately. 

[Pauls]

you could try disabling metal acceleration and seeing if that makes a difference.