publish to PDF WITHOUT overwrite previous versions

[Claudio Lima]

hi !

is there any way to publish, and at that time, ArchiCAD tell me that that file already exist and if I want to overwrite ??!

when we have multiple versions of the same project, that can generate hundred of PDF per version, the human error can be fatal !!!

tnks in advanced
claudio

[Anonymous]

To avoid this happening we use a dedicated PDF output folder per project and then move the PDFs to the drawing directory after we have appended the revision number to the file name
Scott

[Claudio Lima]

ok, but I have 8 files, 130 PDF files as result per file, publishing all at the same time, one little error writing one caracter, or choosing a output folder, can be a nightmare...

[Laszlo Nagy]

Scott,

If you append those file names you will probably be happy to know that this can now be automated in ArchiCAD 18:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bKxs-PIpH4

[Anonymous]

Laszlo: This feature will save much time, takes a while to append issue info to more that 200 drawings in my current project.

Claudio: the output folder for the publisher is set up when you first create the publisher set, I would not output directly into the 'final' location for your files to prevent them from being accidentally overwritten

Scott