save as pdf crash

Stephen Dolbee · ‎2011-10-31

Every time I try to save as pdf, AC13 crashes. I have not had this happen in AC15. Could this be an issue with Lion. It never happened before (except with the Java problem a while back). Anyone else experiencing this?

AC19(9001), 27" iMac i7, 12 gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4850 512mb, OS 10.12.6

Karl Ottenstein · ‎2011-10-31

I cannot reproduce this - tried 13 with OS 10.7.2.

I never use File > Save As > [select PDF file type] though - which is what it sounds like you were doing? That's what I tried now.

On Mac, all Print dialogs have a PDF option in the lower left hand corner. Do you also crash if you attempt to Print and then choose the Print dialog's PDF > Save as PDF option? If so, maybe it is related to fonts or something... so try a small marquee of your project and enlarge the marquee area until you find out what causes the crash...

Cheers,
Karl

AC 28 USA and earlier • macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
One of the forum moderators

Stephen Dolbee · ‎2011-11-01

Thanks Karl,
Yes, I was using (and always have used) File, Save As. I tried the method you suggested and it worked-no crash. I wonder why?

AC19(9001), 27" iMac i7, 12 gb ram, ATI Radeon HD 4850 512mb, OS 10.12.6

Karl Ottenstein · ‎2011-11-01

No idea why File > Save As crashes for you, Stephen. Maybe (?) it uses a different PDF generator than the Mac system one (used by the Print dialog)... No clue.

Glad Print > Save is working for you. Might still want to contact tech support to see if they can track down the crash from the crash logs...

Cheers,
Karl

AC 28 USA and earlier • macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB
One of the forum moderators

dhaval7shah · ‎2011-12-20

Same problem here,
From ArchiCAD 12 with OS 10.6.6 onwards, crashes while savings/publishing PDFs. But the Printing PDFs works.
But with the older OS (10.5.8 ) it can save/Publish PDF.

Here Printing as PDF is not advisable/Faster option for creating Multiple PDFs.
Does anyone know the right solution?

Dhaval Shah
Upto AC 22
iMacs and MacBookPros: Mac OS X (10.6 to 10.12, Intel core 2 Quad to i5, i7, 8 GB to 16GB)
Win 10, AMD Opteron 6-Core x 2, 16GB, FirePro W4100 2GB
& ThinkPad E550
& i7, 8GB

Stress Co_ · ‎2011-12-20

It may be your Java Version ??
Hot fixes are in the article .

Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina) //// Mac OS 14.5 (Sonoma)
Processor: 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9 //// Apple M2 Max
Memory: 48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 //// 32 GB
Graphics: Radeon Pro 580X 8GB //// 12C CPU, 30C GPU
ArchiCAD 25 (5010 USA Full) //// ArchiCAD 27 (4030 USA Full)

Erich · ‎2011-12-20

You can set up a publisher set for PDFs to get multiple pages to print to a single file.

Erich

AC 19 6006 & AC 20
Mac OS 10.11.5
15" Retina MacBook Pro 2.6
27" iMac Retina 5K

dhaval7shah · ‎2011-12-21

Erich wrote:
You can set up a publisher set for PDFs to get multiple pages to print to a single file.

Even then It crashes while publishing, as i described in my question. Thanks.

Dhaval Shah
Upto AC 22
iMacs and MacBookPros: Mac OS X (10.6 to 10.12, Intel core 2 Quad to i5, i7, 8 GB to 16GB)
Win 10, AMD Opteron 6-Core x 2, 16GB, FirePro W4100 2GB
& ThinkPad E550
& i7, 8GB

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