topic Re: publish to PDF WITHOUT overwrite previous versions in Documentation

publish to PDF WITHOUT overwrite previous versions

Claudio Lima — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:13:14 GMT

hi !

is there any way to publish, and at that time, ArchiCAD tell me that that file already exist and if I want to overwrite ??!

when we have multiple versions of the same project, that can generate hundred of PDF per version, the human error can be fatal !!!

tnks in advanced
claudio

Re: publish to PDF WITHOUT overwrite previous versions

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:16:24 GMT

To avoid this happening we use a dedicated PDF output folder per project and then move the PDFs to the drawing directory after we have appended the revision number to the file name
Scott

Re: publish to PDF WITHOUT overwrite previous versions

Claudio Lima — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:08:40 GMT

ok, but I have 8 files, 130 PDF files as result per file, publishing all at the same time, one little error writing one caracter, or choosing a output folder, can be a nightmare...

Re: publish to PDF WITHOUT overwrite previous versions

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:16:04 GMT

Scott,

If you append those file names you will probably be happy to know that this can now be automated in ArchiCAD 18:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bKxs-PIpH4

Re: publish to PDF WITHOUT overwrite previous versions

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:40:50 GMT

Laszlo: This feature will save much time, takes a while to append issue info to more that 200 drawings in my current project.

Claudio: the output folder for the publisher is set up when you first create the publisher set, I would not output directly into the 'final' location for your files to prevent them from being accidentally overwritten

Scott