topic Re: publishing errors in Documentation

publishing errors

Dave Brach — Thu, 25 May 2023 22:13:13 GMT

Ever since I started using 19, occasionally when I try to publish a series of Layouts, the last layout fails to publish. when I click on it I get the generic message "item cannot be published. may be in use by another application or person". I try to delete the layout in the publisher set and transfer it over again. I also try to just re-name it but it still refuses to publish.

Re: publishing errors

Dave Brach — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 20:41:59 GMT

after more investigation I see that this happens when I publish to PDF as a single file and it is trying to overwrite an existing pdf. The only solution is to rename the file, or go and delete the existing file. Normally archicad overwrites an existing file but not in this case unfortunately.

Re: publishing errors

Barry Kelly — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 01:30:25 GMT

Try taking the "#" symbol out of the name.
When ever I have trouble publishing the first thing I look at is the characters used in the names.

Barry.

Re: publishing errors

Dave Brach — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 01:54:35 GMT

the # doesn't make a difference (I actuallly added that in to see if renaming the layout made a difference) The problem is that when publishing multiple layouts and saving them all as a single pdf file, if the file name already exists then the last layout will fail to publish, instead of just overwriting the file.

Re: publishing errors

Barry Kelly — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 02:31:25 GMT

It should overwrite unless the PDF file is open.
At times though I have fond that just having the file selected in Windows Explorer (not sure what you call the Mac equivalent) is enough to make Archicad think the file is open.

Barry.

Re: publishing errors

NCornia — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 14:44:44 GMT

Dave,

In the past I have seen cases where if a user on a Mac publishes a PDF; opens it in Preview; and then simply closes the PDF without Quitting Preview this error could happen. Even after the PDF file itself has been closed Preview continues to send a signal that it has the PDF in use. After the user quit Preview completely the publisher would work fine and overwrite the existing copy of the PDF without issue. I believe the problem was prevalent in a previous version of OS X/Preview. To my knowledge this is not a common issue with recent releases of Preview.

Are you using Preview? If so, is it the version of Preview (8.0) that ships with OS X 10.10? Or maybe you are using a previous version of Preview? If you Quit your PDF viewer and then publish from ARCHICAD does the problem occur?

Best regards,

Re: publishing errors

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:20:30 GMT

If I remember correctly using QuickLook, selecting the file and using the spacebar, might also cause this.

Re: publishing errors

Katalin Borszeki — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:47:35 GMT

We have contacted the user and believe that NCornia's answer has solved the issue. Tx

Re: publishing errors

DGSketcher — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:19:00 GMT

On Yosemite if the file is displayed in Finder and showing a preview it will cause this. Open the Finder window and switch to a different directory to free up the file. Close preview if you are viewing the file as well.

Re: publishing errors

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:10:08 GMT

I've got a similar problem. When trying to publish and overwrite an existing pdf I get an error message saying "A-43.4-001 was published successfully, but has been renamed as: ___." and no PDF is created. Only a file with no file extension named ___.

The problem is solved if I go to Publisher set properties and browse for the path and just click OK on the same path I used before. But it is a bit annoying to do this every time I open the file.

The problem is in Archicad 18 and I'm on a Mac with OSX 10.9.5

Re: publishing errors

Eduardo Rolon — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:44:26 GMT

Also PDF Publishing fails if you have the Finder showing the folder were the PDF resides. You have to close the finder window and then it works.

Re: publishing errors

Barry Kelly — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 02:33:28 GMT

ViktorE wrote:
"A-43.4-001 was published successfully, but has been renamed as: ___."

I would try not using full stops in your file name.

Barry.

Re: publishing errors

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:07:52 GMT

I have the exact same problem as the original poster.
If the existing drawing is already in the same location it will not override and instead tells me it can't publish because the item is already in use from another user. It is incredibly frustrating. I'm using V20 on Mac OS Sierra.

I will try quitting preview each time to see if it helps, but this should not be considered an acceptable work around... and no matter what, the error message should just tell me it doesn't want to override, why the cryptic error message?