File not behaving correctly
If you find your InDesign file is misbehaving, sometimes it won't save properly, sometimes something else is wrong, like not displaying text, or swatches not being able to be deleted, or a myriad of other issues.
The best thing to do here is to us File>Export and choose IDML
IDML is InDesign MarkUp Language - it's basically a derivative of XML.
You can open the IDML file directly in InDesign - and it should open as either Untitled or the last file name it used.
Either way - you'll have to save it as a new InDesign file.
This usually clears up 99% of InDesign files where something strange is happening.
Not Exporting IDML
If you find the file won't export correctly, as above the File>Export to IDML doesn't work - there might be something else wrong - but we can get around that.
There's a free script available to Batch Convert your InDesign files.
With this script - and no documents open - run the script and follow the steps - you should be able to make an IDML file now.
Not Exporting PDF (or other format)
Sometimes PDF or other file format exports go wrong, perhaps a corrupt image, or corrupted text frame, or a corrupted page... anything can cause the PDF engine to stop producing your PDF. It's frustrating, as the warnings aren't obvious!
A technique I like to use - Divide and Conquer!
Export half the amount of pages (if it's 120 page book - then export 60 pages)
If that exports ok - try exporting the rest.
Whatever half it fails on - keep dividing the Export to 30 pages each, then 15 each - etc.
You can narrow down the rogue issue in minutes.
Always back up your file!
Once you find the offending page - start removing things one at a time and exporting just that page and see where it fails.
Once you have it narrowed down - you can fix the issue and export everything just fine.
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