topic Re: save as pdf crash in Installation & update

save as pdf crash

Stephen Dolbee — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:53:35 GMT

Every time I try to save as pdf, AC13 crashes. I have not had this happen in AC15. Could this be an issue with Lion. It never happened before (except with the Java problem a while back). Anyone else experiencing this?

Re: save as pdf crash

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:29:05 GMT

I cannot reproduce this - tried 13 with OS 10.7.2.

I never use File > Save As > [select PDF file type] though - which is what it sounds like you were doing? That's what I tried now.

On Mac, all Print dialogs have a PDF option in the lower left hand corner. Do you also crash if you attempt to Print and then choose the Print dialog's PDF > Save as PDF option? If so, maybe it is related to fonts or something... so try a small marquee of your project and enlarge the marquee area until you find out what causes the crash...

Cheers,
Karl

Re: save as pdf crash

Stephen Dolbee — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:17:35 GMT

Thanks Karl,
Yes, I was using (and always have used) File, Save As. I tried the method you suggested and it worked-no crash. I wonder why?

Re: save as pdf crash

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:02:03 GMT

No idea why File > Save As crashes for you, Stephen. Maybe (?) it uses a different PDF generator than the Mac system one (used by the Print dialog)... No clue.

Glad Print > Save is working for you. Might still want to contact tech support to see if they can track down the crash from the crash logs...

Cheers,
Karl

Re: save as pdf crash

dhaval7shah — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:22:29 GMT

Same problem here,
From ArchiCAD 12 with OS 10.6.6 onwards, crashes while savings/publishing PDFs. But the Printing PDFs works.
But with the older OS (10.5.8 ) it can save/Publish PDF.

Here Printing as PDF is not advisable/Faster option for creating Multiple PDFs.
Does anyone know the right solution?

Re: save as pdf crash

Stress Co_ — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:58:56 GMT

It may be your Java Version ??
Hot fixes are in the article .

Re: save as pdf crash

Erich — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:34:25 GMT

You can set up a publisher set for PDFs to get multiple pages to print to a single file.

Re: save as pdf crash

dhaval7shah — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:05:17 GMT

Erich wrote:
You can set up a publisher set for PDFs to get multiple pages to print to a single file.

Even then It crashes while publishing, as i described in my question. Thanks.