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Crash on publishing to PDF

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Message 1 of 13
durkie
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Crash on publishing to PDF

In one file Civil 3D keeps crashing when I wan't to publish multiple layouts to pdf.

I have publish in background turned off and I am using Civil 3D 2013

 

When it crashes I get the following Error message:

FATAL ERROR: Unhandled Access Violation Reading 0xddadd6d8 Exception at 771d8359h

 

Please help

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Message 2 of 13
rkmcswain
in reply to: durkie

So you are running the Publish command and choosing "Publish to PDF"?

And the pagesetup is configured for a different printer?

What if you only print the current layout to PDF (using the command: EXPORTPDF). Does that work?

R.K. McSwain     | CADpanacea | on twitter
Message 3 of 13
durkie
in reply to: rkmcswain

Yes that's correct
When I use the export to pdf command autocad crashes as well

When I use the dwg to pdf plotter everythings seems to be fine

Message 4 of 13
IanMcClain
in reply to: durkie

Is the publish command being used in the subject drawing and are any other drawings opend by the publish command?

 

Have you tried purging and auditing as well?

Ian McClain
Message 5 of 13
durkie
in reply to: IanMcClain

Its used on the subject drawning and its opening one xref during the publish command.

I have already purged and audited both the subject drawning and the xref
Message 6 of 13
sboon
in reply to: durkie

Are there any images in the drawing?

 

Steve
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Steve
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Message 7 of 13
durkie
in reply to: sboon

Yes their are two images in the drawing as xrefs
Message 8 of 13
david.zavislan
in reply to: durkie

If you have background publishing enabled, turn it off.  This will allow you to see what is happening, and may even provide more meaningful error messages.

David Zavislan, P.E. | Wood Rodgers, Inc.
Message 9 of 13
sboon
in reply to: durkie

The old DwgToPDF print driver is pretty basic, it makes no effort to optimize the images or anything - just pushes them through to the pdf file.  The newer pdf drivers try to downsample large image files or do other things to reduce the output file size but they can get caught by corrupted images etc.

 

Steve
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Message 10 of 13
IanMcClain
in reply to: sboon

How does one distinguish between the old and new driver?

Ian McClain
Message 11 of 13
sboon
in reply to: IanMcClain

DwgToPDF is the old one.  I believe that it was created by Autodesk and has never been updated.  The Publish command apparently is newer, or at least operates differently.  I have Adobe Acrobat installed, so I can print using their current version and do edits etc. but with images I sometimes have to use the old DwgToPDF also.

 

Steve
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Steve
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Message 12 of 13
IanMcClain
in reply to: sboon

Hmm, I was not aware there was a difference. Typically I use the publish command with layouts specified to use the named plotter, which I have set to DWGtoPDF. Apparantly I've always been using the old driver. It's never given me problems. I have tried adobe's driver, but ran into issues. DWGtoPDF has been solid for me.

Ian McClain
Message 13 of 13
durkie
in reply to: IanMcClain

I have published in background turned off but I still didn't get any more usefull error message I think the file is just corrupt

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