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AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:15:50 GMT

Hello all

We recently got a couple of new workstations with Win7 64bit. Most of our projects are done in AC10. After a bit of hassle we got AC10 to work fine on Win7.
EXCEPT:

It turns out save/publish as PDF is not working. PDF is not even shown as an option in "Save as" dialog.

Called our reseller. First he said, it should work. Then he checked and noticed that indeed it was not working. No solution. Time to ask the forum.

Has anybody, by any chance, any ideas for a hack to get our pdf sets published from Win7 without resorting to manual PDF printing and laboriously setting custom paper sizes?

For now, we just have to go to the old XP machines when publishing time comes...

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Thomas Holm — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:59:22 GMT

We recently got a couple of new workstations with Win7 64bit. Most of our projects are done in AC10. After a bit of hassle we got AC10 to work fine on Win7.
EXCEPT:
It turns out save/publish as PDF is not working. PDF is not even shown as an option in "Save as" dialog

.
Hi Julius.

AC10 is 5 years old. I think you should be glad it even runs on Win7 64bit. Did you ever consider an upgrade?

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:09:56 GMT

See:
http://www.archicadwiki.com/Windows%207

Did you set AC 10 for XP Compat mode?

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:35:33 GMT

OK now I have installed the "XP mode" virtual machine and then installed Archicad on the virtual machine. But I can't seem to get Archicad recognize the Wibu/Codemeter thingy on the virtual machine...

I have installed the codemeter driver and the codemeter enabler. The codemeter icon is showing in the system tray and it's green and it says it has found the stick. But when I start Archicad I keep getting the error "Wibu driver not found".

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Barry Kelly — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:01:17 GMT

I believe only the latest hotfix for 10 works with Codemeter.
Make sure you have the latest hotfix installed.

I still don't think you will be able to Publish as a PDF because the built in PDF converter is not compatible with W7.
You will need an external PDF printer and you will have to print to that rather than save as a PDF.

Barry.

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:42:54 GMT

Hi Barry and everyone. I did install the latest hotfix, and the Codemeter enabler installed without complaints. However when I start Archicad I get the error message "Wibu driver not found".

Printing to PDF is out of the question. We have literally hundreds of layouts and manually setting the paper size for each... well you get the picture. That is why I started the thread in the first place.

When installing AC10 in Win7 / XP mode, it seemed like the PDF converter installed OK. (When installing on plain Win7 I got an error message about the PDF converter.)

Now if I only could get AC to recognize the dongle/Wibu driver in XP mode...!

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Barry Kelly — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:22:36 GMT

I never tried installing in XP mode - just told the program to run in XP mode.
Maybe that makes a difference to the PDF converter.
I will have to try re-installing.

Sorry I don't have Codemeter but it works fine with the WIBU-key.
The WIBU-key drivers are no good for codemeter.
Did you try installing that in XP mode as well?
You shouldn't need to if Codemeter is working with newer versions.

Barry.

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Barry Kelly — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:24:59 GMT

Just a thought.
You did tick the Codemeter box when you installed it and not the WIBU-key option?

Barry.

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:48:28 GMT

Which tick-box are you talking about Barry? I didn't notice one...

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Barry Kelly — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:51:02 GMT

I don't know if 10 does it but in later versions you are asked if you want to use the WIBU-key or Codemeter when you begin the installation.
Barry.

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Anonymous — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:39:52 GMT

Barry,
There is no such tickbox in the codemeter enabler installer for AC10.

I think we may be talking about two different things regarding the "XP mode". There is

a) the option in Win7 to run an application in 98/XP/Vista/etc. "compatibility mode" (accessed through properties dialog)

b) the virtual machine "XP mode" that can be downloaded here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

When I first installed AC10 on Win7 I tried using a). It seemed to make no difference.

Now I have been fiddling with b). So far with no luck. Always when starting Archicad, I get error 501, "wibu driver not found" and the option to run in demo mode.

I dug up an old wibu key and tried that instead of the codemeter dongles, but I got the same error message nevertheless.

Thank you all for your suggestions. I think I will give up on this now.

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Barry Kelly — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:06:38 GMT

The attached image shows the codemeter/wibu-key option for the version 14 installer.
As I mentioned I don't think this option exists in version 10.
So maybe you will need to uninstall the WIBU-key drivers/program.
I was of the belief that the two systems are not compatable but not having Codemeter I can't say for sure.

I am using the compatibility mode (your option a) to run 10 on my Windows 7 machine.
Works pretty well except that OpenGL doesn't work and I can't Publish to PDF.

Is there any reason why you can't open the old 10 files in 14 but keep using the version 10 library?
It means you won't be able to open them in 10 again on any machine but it sounds like you are moving away from 10 anyway.

Barry.

Re: AC10 Publish to PDF doesn't work in Win7?

Anonymous — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:08:56 GMT

Yes in theory we could open the files in 14... But I am afraid to do that, because despite all ostensible compatibility, there may always be some glitches with some objects, presentation styles etc.

Worst of all, according to Murphy's law, the glitches will probably be something so small that we won't notice it at first, until it's too late and we find out our construction documents are messed up!

Our pessimism in this matter is founded on experience, because once we did the mistake of migrating some AC9 projects to AC10 and experienced exactly this. So I will rather continue switching computers when publishing than risk the calamities of version (in)compability.