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PDF output in plotmaker 9

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:26:52 GMT

I have been less than happy with the new PDF save option in archicad and plotmaker 9. Often times when using this new feature I get one or more sheets that "fail" according to the progress dialog box. Most of the time these failed sheets appear to output correctly but it does leave me wondering. Today however I was not able to get a merged group of three sheets to output at all. If I output them individually the pdf files are created (although one of the three sheets "fails" in the progress box). When I output them with the merged box checked, a different sheet "fails" and the file is not produced at all. If I go back to my old ways of printing to a pdf I can create the desired merged pdf. Have others had problems with this? Are people using the new "save" to PDF in publisher or have you chosen to go back to the old ways? The new save method does always seem to pick up the correct page size which has been nice. Thanks for any feed back

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:10:06 GMT

Mike,

I have had exactly the same experience and have been unable to deduce the reason or solution. Have you gotten any further response to this issue?

Thanks,

Tim

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:37:26 GMT

I have not found any solution and based on the lack of response I thought I was alone in these problems. I have reverted to outputting PDF's as I had done before. It would be nice if it worked consistently because I like the concept. Perhaps it is one more feature that was released before its time

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Thomas Holm — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:28:01 GMT

I've seen no such problem, on the contrary, Plotmaker9's Publish to pdf option works very well and the pdfs print much better than printing (or print to pdf) directly from Archicad or Plotmaker. This IS a problem, though. I guess this is platform-specific.

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:46:44 GMT

I guess this is platform-specific.

Are there any PC users out there who are using the new method of outputting PDF's via publisher successfully? As I indicated in my initial post I get errors for certain un-predictable sheets and have had merged sets not output at all.

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Djordje — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:19:06 GMT

Mike wrote:
I guess this is platform-specific.
Are there any PC users out there who are using the new method of outputting PDF's via publisher successfully? As I indicated in my initial post I get errors for certain un-predictable sheets and have had merged sets not output at all.

I did have a few problems, like sheets marked Failed when they did happen. Not too much research, but the failsafe method each time was to change the publishing method from Save to Print.

Warning: ALWAYS set the Amyuni margins to zero in Printer default settings!!!!

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Andy Thomson — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:14:05 GMT

I have found it to be a Plotmaker-publisher-PC-thing. I never get 'failed' x's with the mac, so when comes time to output a larger PDF set, I give it to one of my mac-head colleagues...but I will try 'print' vs. 'save' next time.

A

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:30:49 GMT

I have had Adobe's Acrobat for a while now. I favor it over the included amyuni pdf converter. I simply input my page size, set my pdf dpi to 144, and viola. . .complete project documentation in a nice small file. (I have been able to have 10 page ARCH D plots be under 1.5 megs with Adobe's Acrobat, vs. a much larger file size up to 3 times that with the Amiyuni pdf printer).

On another note. . .you can purchase Acrobat, and then share the print driver out on the network from a single platform. . .effectively eliminating buying it for every work station.

BTW, I use this version of Acrobat

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Laura Yanoviak — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:40:53 GMT

I'm on a PC and have had the same problem -- I've updated to Acrobat 7.0.7 to no avail -- 3 sheets out of 10 marked "Failed", but seem to output correctly...

archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=8387&highlight=plotmaker+publishing+failed

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Rick Thompson — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:47:27 GMT

I could not see any reason to publish to pdf. It requires more steps than a simple print to pdf (mac at least). Why bother?

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

__archiben — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:10:44 GMT

Rick wrote:
I could not see any reason to publish to pdf. It requires more steps than a simple print to pdf (mac at least). Why bother?

once it's set up, repeated publishing of PDF revisions to archive is made into a simple process.

~/archiben

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Djordje — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:24:51 GMT

Rick wrote:
I could not see any reason to publish to pdf. It requires more steps than a simple print to pdf (mac at least). Why bother?

If you have a standard PlotMaker template set up, all you have to do is change the desitnation folder in the publishing set properties. All else is already set up.

Unlike printing.

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Rick Thompson — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:06:02 GMT

Still makes no sense to me, maybe just habit, as well as how simple it is to print to pfd (at least on the Mac). All I do I select the sheets to print (still do the same in publisher after opening it, or print all), then select print to pdf, and the output is a book, not a bunch of sheets I then have to assemble, which is what I get via Publisher.. maybe I am missing something with the book, but still, it can't be simpler to print to pdf on the Mac, do know about PC's though?? I really print pdf lkb's everyday too.

Now, I do have my template set up to publish DXF files, hair and full, just wish plotmaker could remember display options

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:59:17 GMT

Even on a Mac, I like publishing to PDF. You can get it to print to a book (not loose sheets) by selecting the right options.

If nothing else, I don't have to navigate through any folder hierarchies to get the pdf's into the right location. Once established, publishing with a single click puts CD's where they belong, SK's where they belong, Proposal Requests where they belong, etc.

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Rick Thompson — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:31:49 GMT

RobertNichols wrote:
Even on a Mac, I like publishing to PDF. You can get it to print to a book (not loose sheets) by selecting the right options.

What options are you setting to make a book? I have tried all I see, but must be missing something as all I get are pages.

My needs are pretty simple really. I always print to the desktop and then email them out, so going via print dialogue works fine, 6 of one, half dozen of the other:) (in my case, I am not doing all the SK's, proposals etc, just email out a book for someone, so no navigating required. But i would like to know how you are generating books, rather than sheets. Missing that probably set me on my habit.

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

TomWaltz — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:42:25 GMT

There is an option to combine into one book.

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Rick Thompson — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:51:02 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
There is an option to combine into one book.

HAAA now there's another obscure GS bit of info. If you don't drag the whole book over, you are not give that option!!!!

thanks

Re: PDF output in plotmaker 9

Petros Ioannou — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:23:24 GMT

All you need is to have a folder on the publish set and then PlotMaker (or ArchiCAD) gives you an option (by selecting the Folder) to combine its contents into a single PDF book.

Petros