Importing PDF drawings and plotting them..

[Anonymous]

I am trying to lay out a bunch of notes and details on a layout in AC 10, but for some reason the PDF drawing with the notes on it wont plot out, despite it being on a printable layer. Everything else prints fine, just not the PDF imports. Is there some setting that needs to be checked over for this to work?

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[Anonymous]

All of my problematic PDF files were ones that were generated out of Autocad (I assume) by my consultants. These include both structural drawings and California specific title 24 energy calculations. Out of curiosity I brought in a full size PDF that was generated from Archicad and the output problem went away. Next I opened one of the problematic PDF files and re-saved it using the "save as PDF" option internal to the Mac print dialog box and the problem was also solved. I hope some of these methods will help your situation as well. I would like to reiterate (if Graphisoft is listening) that these problems did not exist in the 1010 patch of Archicad and only reared it's ugly head after my update to 1176. Clearly a bug in my eyes.

[Anonymous]

Hm...I wonder what would happen if I brought the PDF into model space and created a layout view from that.... I'll try that out a bit later and report back.

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[Anonymous]

Things that I have noted so far- as this has been a really big problem for me and our office lately as well, I have posted numerous times on here too- to little avail.


First - my experience has been that the file size and whether your computer or printer holds the files while printing ( i.e. the memory in your printer/plotter may not hold enough information to print the image)


I read somewhere - That you should be rotating the image before it gets into ArchiCAD- as rotating it in ArchiCAD enlarges the file size of the image.

I have had much better luck publishing to a printer when I have images I need to print. As apposed to just printing or plotting through the file menue.

I have had better luck publishing to PDF rather than just printing to one.


I have also had a PDF made that appears fine, and outside of ArchiCAD if I want to just print my PDF with an image on it- the image does not show up in the printed version ..... That one thoroughly confuses me, as it totally misses the point of a PDF.

I am going to go mess around with trying to get all of the PDFs inside the printable boundaries of a layout and see if this helps me at all, but I have done just a marquee around an Image before and still it will not print.
We do this because my boss likes to see what the Computer drawings look like when laid over his hand sketches.

[Anonymous]

I have reinstalled archicad and only run the 1010 patch. This restored previous functionality, but I suspect my problems might be multi-faceted. The PDF's I now create are not picking up the page size of the layout. I suspect that the 10.4.9 system upgrade might be the other culprit causing me grief. It was not what I would call a highly productive day

[Anonymous]

Jesikuh123 wrote:
I am going to go mess around with trying to get all of the PDFs inside the printable boundaries of a layout and see if this helps me at all, but I have done just a marquee around an Image before and still it will not print.

A marque did not resolve the issue for me. In addition I could not simply crop the placed PDF. The full size of the PDF needs to smaller than the printable boundaries.

[vfrontiers]

I continue to have problems PLOTTING pdf's... I generate a fair amount of schedules in EXCEL...(I am working on getting some back into ArchiCAD).. mostly STRUCTURAL schedules... Beam, Header, Shearwall and it is truly hit and miss on whether they will plot!

All of these schedules are produced by using Amyuni drivers. I have used the one provided with ArchiCAD and bought one from Amyuni directly. Beam and Headers will plot on some projects while the Shearwall schedule will not. Right now the only difference is the size of the Shearwall Sched is 11x17 and the other are letter.

If anyone has any ideas or has heard of a confirmed bug report, please pass it along.

[Anonymous]

Hm..I've had some problems in the past with using PDF's generated from Amyuni Converter, so Ive been using Adobe. The Amyuni pdfs would slow AC WAAAY down for some reason when i bring them in.

oh, btw: I tried resizing the drawing and cropping them to be smaller then the printable margins. Seems to work ok now! I guess we can use this solution for now...

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[Thomas Allan Palmer]

We cannot get TIFFs or JPEGS to plot. Any suggestions. If we made PDFs they show up.

Thanks