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
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?
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
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?
Are there any images in the drawing?
Steve
Please use the Accept as Solution or Kudo buttons when appropriate
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.
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
Please use the Accept as Solution or Kudo buttons when appropriate
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
Please use the Accept as Solution or Kudo buttons when appropriate
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.