save as pdf crash

[Stephen Dolbee]

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?

[Karl Ottenstein]

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

[Stephen Dolbee]

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?

[Karl Ottenstein]

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

[dhaval7shah]

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?

[Stress Co_]

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

[Erich]

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

[dhaval7shah]

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.