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missing pdf writer

Anonymous
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i installed v11 onto my new computer last week (from original disc), a day or so after R1114 update was issued; therefore, i installed update immediately, prior to having used archicad. i've noticed that the amyumi pdf does not appear to have been installed...has anyone had similar occurrence? is it possible to download amyumi from website and install seperately (for free)?
Any advice/recommendations regarding this appreciated as i need to get several sets of pdf drawings sent in the next day or so.

Thanks in advance.
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Barry Kelly
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kombibob wrote:
i installed v11 onto my new computer last week (from original disc), a day or so after R1114 update was issued; therefore, i installed update immediately, prior to having used archicad. i've noticed that the amyumi pdf does not appear to have been installed...has anyone had similar occurrence? is it possible to download amyumi from website and install seperately (for free)?
Any advice/recommendations regarding this appreciated as i need to get several sets of pdf drawings sent in the next day or so.

Thanks in advance.
The PDF writer is now built into Archicad 11 and does not install as a separate printer as it did with previous version.

There is an Amyuni website where you can download a trial version but it adds a watermark to the PDFs.
The full version costs.

There are other free and trial PDF writers available if you search the web.

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vistasp
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Barry wrote:
The PDF writer is now built into Archicad 11 and does not install as a separate printer as it did with previous version.
According to the AECbytes review of ArchiCAD 11, "The quality of the PDF output has also been improved, with high resolution arcs and circles and enhanced gradient fills". I'm still with 10 so can anyone confirm that?

Robert, in the meanwhile, from all the free PDF printers I've tried, the one that has the best output (while keeping file size down) is TinyPDF. Your mileage may vary.

Go to :: http://www.tinypdf.com/
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Anonymous
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thanks for replies;

vistasp, i'll check out tinypdf, thanks for the tip; i've tried various similar pdf creators in the past with varying resuts...

in the meantime, time to step back and go the obvious solution ...dig out the v9 or v10 disc and install.
Thomas Holm
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Did you try publishing from AC11? Unless you need to print to pdf from some other program. you won't need Ayumuni any more.

But if you still want to purchase an independant PDF creator, I'd recommend full Adobe Acrobat.
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vistasp
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kombibob wrote:
in the meantime, time to step back and go the obvious solution ...dig out the v9 or v10 disc and install.
Sorry, didn't know you had older ACs

If you're still on XP, that's fine but on Vista, the Amyuni virtual printer which came with v.10 will not work.
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Anonymous
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Thomas wrote:
. . . . I'd recommend full Adobe Acrobat.
I recommend that everyone in professional practice have at least one copy of Acrobat Professional (or whatever they are calling it now). It is tremendously useful to be able to assemble, extract, mark up, and otherwise manipulate PDFs from all manner of sources.
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Matthew wrote:
Thomas wrote:
. . . . I'd recommend full Adobe Acrobat.
I recommend that everyone in professional practice have at least one copy of Acrobat Professional (or whatever they are calling it now). It is tremendously useful to be able to assemble, extract, mark up, and otherwise manipulate PDFs from all manner of sources.
I second that, and if you can afford it, add Illustrator too. You can do even more deep-going PDF manipulating with that.

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