Recurring Amyuni problem

[Anonymous]

This problem has happened on nearly every machine in our office, at some point in the last 6 months. And for no apparent reason, it's happened on some machines more than others. Here's the problem:

We have Amyuni set up to ask you where you want the PDF it's creating to be saved. But it keeps resetting itself, so that it's destination is 'predefined by user' and the predefined destination is 'My Documents'. When ever this resetting happens, whatever programme you're printing from freezes and needs to be forced to quit. grrr.

I then have to go back into printer settings and change the destination to 'Prompt for File Name'.

There seems to be no pattern to this resetting? And, as I said, it happens on more computers than others, for no apparent reason either...

[Link]

Tom,

Are you setting your printer preferences via Start>Printers & Faxes>right click on Amyuni>Printing Preferences?

Using this method should set any printer up for all applications. It's like going straight to the source, instead of repeating it for various programs. If you re-install ArchiCAD this will of course need resetting.

If you are really having trouble, you may want to consider saving to PDF instead of printing to PDF.

Cheers,
Link.

PS. Twizel hey? We broke down in Twizel for 3 days earlier this year. It's the only where we went to the pub to rent movies! Nice lake though!

[Anonymous]

Hi Link,

Yeah, I've been resetting through Start > Printers etc...

When using publisher we've been using save to PDF, and it's never been a problem. It's just PDFing everything else that's a pain, and not everyone in the office can be bothered trying to understand publisher. Oh well.

Twizel - what a place to get stuck in. The architectural capital of New Zealand

[Barry Kelly]

Isn't there a "temporary" PDF converter that installs only when Archicad is running and then deletes itself when you close Archicad?

Could it be this that is being used instead of your installed PDF converter?
I assume the defaults of the temporary one would reset every time Archicad is started.

Just a guess.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:
Isn't there a "temporary" PDF converter that installs only when Archicad is running and then deletes itself when you close Archicad?

Could it be this that is being used instead of your installed PDF converter?
I assume the defaults of the temporary one would reset every time Archicad is started.

Just a guess.

Barry.

Good thinking - I forgot about that temporary PDF converter, so I had a look and found a sentance at the very bottom of this page:
Archicad Wiki which says, when the temporary PDF converter is disabled "Properties will be inherited from the last published document."

We have the PDF converter disabled on all our machines, so I guess that's what the problem was.