I have a large keynote file ~200 pages. When I try and export it as a pdf Keynote crashes. I have tried a few things but to no avail.
Has anyone else had this experience? Is this simply because the file is too large or is there a problem somewhere? Is there a fix or a work around? Extremely annoying.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.4
You are using Keynote v12.1 correct?
Available space on the current storage location where the Keynote file resides. For instance, let's say the Keynote file is on iCloud Drive, and the remaining storage there was less than the size of the temporary space that would be needed during the export operation, and the final PDF storage requirement. That would crash Keynote. So might removing or disabling a font needed by Keynote.
If you have a partial PDF corpse from the export process, remove it. Reboot your Mac, and do a one-time, press and hold the shift key while launching Keynote to prevent it from loading its last saved (crash) execution state. Now, try your export again to PDF and see if crashes again, or just produces the PDF as expected.
You are using Keynote v12.1 correct?
Available space on the current storage location where the Keynote file resides. For instance, let's say the Keynote file is on iCloud Drive, and the remaining storage there was less than the size of the temporary space that would be needed during the export operation, and the final PDF storage requirement. That would crash Keynote. So might removing or disabling a font needed by Keynote.
If you have a partial PDF corpse from the export process, remove it. Reboot your Mac, and do a one-time, press and hold the shift key while launching Keynote to prevent it from loading its last saved (crash) execution state. Now, try your export again to PDF and see if crashes again, or just produces the PDF as expected.
It could also be some element you added to the document that causes the export crash. Try exporting half of the document and see if succeeds. If it does, try the other half.
based on how those go, choose to repeat on half of the half that failed.
Either the medium you are saving to has run out of storage space, or you may be attempting to export directly to Microsoft's OneDrive which if I remember correctly, automatically encrypts content written there, and that may be causing Keynote to bork.
Not OneDrive. When you say storage space do you mean my ssd? I have plenty of space available on my ssd.
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