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    Active Contributor
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    Registered: ‎04-05-2006

    Printing to PDF from ADR

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    07-21-2010 02:55 PM

    Hello-

     

    I'm testing a new machine our department plans to upgrade to in the near future.  One issue that I've come across is when I attempt to create a pdf from Design review using the Adobe PDF printer.  I always get a message statinng "the printer is not available for printing".  This is the only application I have found this issue with, creating pdfs from documents, spreadsheets, etc. has posed no issues, only in design review & it's a very convenient feature that we rely on hevily to send pdfs to consultants who haven't been "inspired" enough to begin using DWFs.  It keeps file sizes down and there aren't the "missing font" issues that we have when creating a pdf directly from ACA.   We have Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional, v9.3.3.  Here are my system specs:

     

    Lenovo Thinkstation S20

    XP Pro x64 Edition SP 2

    Intel Xeon Processor- W3520 @ 2.67 GHz

    6 GB of RAM

    Nvidia Quadro FX1800- 768MB

    ADR 2010

     

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

     

    Todd

     

     

     

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    Employee
    Posts: 106
    Registered: ‎06-08-2009

    Re: Printing to PDF from ADR

    07-22-2010 02:42 AM in reply to: Tallans422

    Thank you for reporting this issue.

    I can’t reproduce this issue.

    Please try to print your file by: right click on your file and select print.

     

    Please let us know if these worked for you.



    Ben Wu
    SW Engineer
    PSEB-GE-ACRD
    Autodesk, Inc.
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    Active Contributor
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    Re: Printing to PDF from ADR

    07-26-2010 01:47 PM in reply to: Tallans422

    That didn't work any differently for me.  It has to be an issue with Adobe Acrobat, I downloaded a free pdf creator on the web and my file was created without issue.

     

    Any other ideas?  I'll probably have to contact adobe.

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    Employee
    Posts: 130
    Registered: ‎08-05-2009

    Re: Printing to PDF from ADR

    07-27-2010 11:22 PM in reply to: Tallans422

    I was unable to reproduce your issue too.

    Could you please try to check whether there is any other printing task blocked in queue?

    We can get "the printer is not available for printing" prompt while some print jobs are executing on other print drivers.

    Try to clean up all existing print jobs and reboot your computer.

     

    Hope it helps,

    -Dicky

     

     

    Dicky Shu
    SQA Engineer 
    DWF Writer Customer Support
    Autodesk

     

    Dicky Shu

    SQA Engineer

    Autodesk Design Review Customer Support

    Autodesk



    Dicky Shu
    SQA Engineer
    PSEB-GE-ACRD PSEB
    Autodesk, Inc.

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    Employee
    Posts: 338
    Registered: ‎03-05-2008

    Re: Printing to PDF from ADR

    04-10-2012 11:10 PM in reply to: dickyshu

    It's probably a compatibility issue for printing a document in a 32bit application on a computer that is running a 64bit version of Windows. Please install this Microsoft service pack and try again.

     

    Hope that helps.



    Herbert He
    SW Engineer
    PSEB-GE- ACRD PSEB
    Autodesk, Inc.
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