Please wait for printer connection or cancel connection.

[stoneunturned]

Just a bug heads up to the devs - not sure if this is the correct place to post.

I get a recurring prompt upon opening the ArchicadStarter as per the title and screen grabs below. Every time I select 'open project' or double click from the list BEFORE this prompt displays, the project will never open - it's a 100% occurrence. The cursor will just blue cycle until I force quit. If I cancel the prompt and then double-click open a project quickly it will open with no problem; if I wait a few more seconds until just before the same prompt shows up again, it will freeze again as above. Perhaps it's a Windows printer issue, but probably something GS should get onto as it disrupts the working day.

More recently a crash prompted the same message at the bugsplat window and it was unable to finish sending (or so it appeared) and I was unable to cancel out.

It 100% happens every time I start Archicad so I'm happy for a dev to get in touch and work through diagnostics for a solution.

Side note:

I'm unable to see & edit my signature while creating a new post to see if all the necessary info is there; i understand that it's located elsewhere, but I would put to the forum builders that a better location is at the bottom of 'create new topic' where it would load your signature and enable editing, and auto store it for next time. It can be kept up to date more easily that way.

[Laszlo Nagy]

@dzandre,

Did you try any of the suggestions made by @OtariM above?

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Please-wait-for-printer-connection-or-cancel...

[stoneunturned]

Hi Lazlo,

Since setting to Microsoft Print to PDF, the messages no longer appear and the bug splats send properly.

I'm reluctant to Accept as Solution as bending default windows settings as lifesupport for AC is not a solution.

It's printer settings. Most arch offices dont even use printers anymore.

The only solution here is for GS to solve how AC can crash without archaic hardware/software tripping it up, and in an infuriating way at that.

If they could also figure out how to copy and paste text between text boxes without it randomly changing 0.001323 smaller each time would be awesome as well.

[Laszlo Nagy]

@stoneunturned,

I did not expect you to accept any answer as a solution; I was just curious if any of the offered workarounds worked for you.