topic Re: empty Pdf in Documentation

empty Pdf

cocoloco — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 23:11:06 GMT

Hi!

I am trying to save some drawings in pdf and when I do save it, it worked first today... and second, third and fourth time pdf showing black (white) page. Nothing on it. I am also trying saving as jpeg/png but can't select one drawing it saves as whole plans instead so completely useless.

anyone else with archicad errors?

Re: empty Pdf

Frillex — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:36:37 GMT

Do you publish them? Or do you Print and and then save them as PDF?

Do you use the marquee tool? I think you will need to be more specific if u want help.

/Felix

Re: empty Pdf

cocoloco — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:59:33 GMT

no we don’t print and then save them as pdf. We save them as PDF and then print. We don’t publish.

we saved the same drawing in pdf 10mins before this one without issue in fact it’s a same drawing so we just re-saved it after doing adjustments but it show blank page. I repeat that, the same drawing was ok 10 mins before in case it gets lost again.😂

Re: empty Pdf

Frillex — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:23:03 GMT

By print i mean do you use the "save as PDF" from the print option?

Why don't you try to publish the drawing as PDF, it might solve this.

I think we lack some important information here.

Re: empty Pdf

cocoloco — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:30:53 GMT

Yes we use “save as”. I don’t understand why publishing may solve the issue? We never used it for the last 5 years and certainly don’t have reason start using it. We always “save us” whatever we do. Certainly it should work whether we use publishing or not.

Re: empty Pdf

Lingwisyer — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:20:31 GMT

What is the file size of the blank pdfs?

Re: empty Pdf

Frillex — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 12:31:36 GMT

Then I suggest that you certainly don't try to use publish to find out if that works in order to find out what may be causing this problem. I wasn't even trying to help, i was only trying to annoy you.

Good luck.

Felix out.

Re: empty Pdf

cocoloco — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:42:09 GMT

65kb . its interesting because on the icon itself, it shows there is some drawing but then I open it and its empty . usually the pdf shall have around 1-3mb its literally just a floor plan 200m2.

Re: empty Pdf

cocoloco — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:44:45 GMT

I probably came rude, and I am sorry. We work certain way (saving drawings as pdf) and publishing should not be only solution to saving pdf files as long as save as pdf is the option.

Re: empty Pdf

Lingwisyer — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:58:51 GMT

Preview shows something... have you tried a different viewer? Though 65kb is too small to contain much... Can you print fine from your model?

Re: empty Pdf

cocoloco — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 02:31:51 GMT

Usually it Would be a few MB as we save in 4300 kvality. After I was trying to re-save into pdf old projects and same issue, with some showing completely wrong scale.. I restarted the computer and it solved the “unknown” problem. Which sucks actually…. I wish to know what this bug is so it can be fixed

Re: empty Pdf

cocoloco — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 23:25:21 GMT

Restarting computer helped 😾