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Dave Brach
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Surface texture in elevation won't publish to pdf

When I publish this  layout to pdf and open it in Acrobat Pro, all of the surface textures and colors are bogging down and will not display on the pdf.  I have actually had this problem for years, ever since I started publishing elevations with surface texture fills and colors.  I sent the plan set to the client and he could not open the elevation layouts either.  How do I make sure that all the graphic information in my elevations publishes easily to pdf?

 

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Dave Brach/architect AC28 Macbook M4 Pro OS Sequoia
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Lingwisyer
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Set your max image resolution to like 72dpi, via the PDF export settings or in the texture itself, and do not open them in Adobe... Adobe deals with Archicad image fills the worst...

 

Half baked feature that they still have not cleaned up...

 

Ling.

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Karel Landa
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What version of Archicad localization are you using?

There was a problem with some texture in different localization of Archicad that caused some textures missing in PDF export.

If you try saving the texture image from the library to designated folder on you PC and load that folder as a library and replace the texture, is the PDF going to show it?

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Dave Brach
Expert

I am using AC29. 29.2.1 (5101) usa full.

 

setting to 72dpi seems to help a bit.  I have two elevation layouts: and one hesitates, then shows, the other shows an error.

 

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Dave Brach/architect AC28 Macbook M4 Pro OS Sequoia

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