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

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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

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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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