I have a 29 page indesign document that I am trying to export to PDF. One page in particular (pg 4) continually prompts a failure screen that says the application has run out of virtual memory.
  There are two PDF files linked to the page, each approximately 1.75 MB is size, and each having a vector frame. One of the images spills over onto pg 5 and a pdf (3.7MB) from page 5 is partially present on page 4. Pg 5 has no problem exporting.
  I'm running AdobeCS3 with Windows Vista Ultimate on a Dell Precision 4300 (Intel Core2 Duo T7700 2.4 GHz, 3.58 GB RAM, 32 operating system.

I need to fix this ASAP. Any help is appreciated.

Have you tried Dov's suggestion in post #5?

Peter

Just curious. How are we defining "long document" in this thread?

We have an 84-pg. directory, a 32-pg. real estate guide, and will soon have a 200+ pg. book in production. Are all of these "long documents?"

There is a fix in the CS4 6.0.1 update which changes how memory is allocated when exporting with downsampling enabled. I'm not certain that this is what users in this thread are experiencing, but it would be good try try and provide feedback about if it solves your problems.

 

CS4 6.0.1 update did not fix our problems. We are now experimenting by starting to use PSD-format instead of JPEG-format in our picture files. This might cause especially the "Error encountered while reading JPEG image" error.

Samuli,
What is the resolution of your images, and what are the compression/downsampling settings in the PDF joboptions you're using? I'm suspicious of further issues in the memory allocation methods similar to the one that was addressed in the 6.0.1 update.

Thanks!
Matt

Resolution of the linked images varies quite a lot. We always use max. available resolution for the images, since we do use same images for posters and catalogs.

Images are downsampled to 200 pixels per inch using bicubic downsampling and automatic (JPEG) compression. Image quality is Maximum.
PDF compatibility is Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5).

After doing some testing, I'm quite certain that JPEG-pictures are causing the problems and random "Error encountered while reading JPEG image" error. Simply re-saving the pictures as PSD-format solved out all the problems.

So, my suggestion is not to use JPEG-pictures with InDesign CS3/CS4.

Further more, only JPEG-pictures with resolution over 3000x3000 pixels seem to be causing problems. Reducing picture size or changing the format to PSD is the solution.