topic Re: Published PDFs Never Appear in Documentation

Published PDFs Never Appear

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:10:58 GMT

I've been trying to publish a single PDF. The publisher report tells me that the status is saved, but no pdf appears in the Finder.
This has happened in the past, but is now recurring.

When I do a Spotlight search, there is no record of the drawing anywhere.

I have tried changing the destination and that has no effect.

If I create a new folder for the drawing, the finder tells me that the folder is empty, but also that the size of the folder is 8.2 MB (the size of the drawing).

Does anyone have any ideas?

Re: Published PDFs Never Appear

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:39:21 GMT

Image of publisher report attached.

Re: Published PDFs Never Appear

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:40:34 GMT

This is the view of the finder (note identical file path) showing an empty folder.

Re: Published PDFs Never Appear

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:49:53 GMT

Okay - I feel like a bonehead. I fixed it.

Instead of dragging a folder over from the tree by subset in the Organizer, I dragged over a single drawing.

It did NOT like that.

Leaving this here in case someone else has the same problem.

Re: Published PDFs Never Appear

Barry Kelly — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 01:34:13 GMT

Is it anything to do with the full stop (period) at the beginning of the file name?
Sorry, I know nothing about Macs but on a PC the full stop signifies the end of the file name and the beginning of the file extension.

Barry.

Re: Published PDFs Never Appear

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 01:56:21 GMT

If I remember correctly a (.) before a name makes the file invisible in MacOS

Re: Published PDFs Never Appear

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:29:04 GMT

I had no idea. Thank you y'all. It was driving me crazy.

Re: Published PDFs Never Appear

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 13:50:03 GMT

BTW tou should erase the folder or use an utility like Onyx to turn invisible items on so that you erase all of the invisible files
That you might have created

Re: Published PDFs Never Appear

Barry Kelly — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:50:33 GMT

Or if Mac OS is anything like Windows you should be able to tell it to show (or not hide) file extensions and then you will see the file extension at least.

Barry.