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I just had this happen to me on 4/17/2013 and I am using Revit 2013. Many times I am successful at printing a Combined PDF, but this time it tried to print the combined set of 8 sheets, eight times. Thanks for posting - I'm not going crazy afterall. I have Adobe Acrobat 9 and use the "Adobe PDF" driver. Just to clarify the "number of copies" is only set to 1. Has anyone found a solution for this?
Thanks! Sometimes the buttons at the bottom of the forum for "Page 2" of the thread are so small I don't pay attention to them.
Have had this problem at several different offices with different versions of Revit. Only today did I learn that the solution is to click inside the active drawing window before printing. That would have saved me hours in the past! Anyway thanks for the solution.
I also have the multiple pdf creation problem.
It tries as many times as I have drawings.
This does happen every Revit project or everytime I plot to PDF.
I am using Acrobat PDF
Danny
rdfogle - check out the previous posts on the prior pages (it's annoying that this forum breaks up responses into pages). The fix is to make sure that prior to starting your print command that you click inside your active view to "deactivate" the Project Browser. For some reason, if the last thing you click on prior to hitting "PRINT" was your project browser, it get stuck in that printing loop.
The tip about clicking on something other than the project browser is a good one. I also make sure my current view is not a schedule. It needs to be a view that is printable.
So I found this thread as this is happening to me right now. I have 43 sheets which means I'll have to cancel 43 times. It takes about 2 minutes to cancel each time so I'm looking at an hour and a half of this. I can't force quit either because I haven't synced in a long time. Very frustrating. I was hoping there was a solution to sync or save inbetween these printing cycles!!!
I'm very suprised this is so "NEW" to Revit users.
This has been happening since I've been using Revit in 2009. They still haven't fixed the problem, no matter what patch. Just happened to me again. Work for 2hours gone, just because I tried to batch print to a combined PDF of 20+ sheets. I can't spend 40 minutes cancelling the print.
So what have I been doing to avoid this constant issue? Make sure you save locally everytime before you print. Try not to sync, especially with a big file, everyone knows how long a sync can be sometimes.
-Ben
This happened to me for the first time today...I'm kinda surprised I've never tried printing while in a schedule before. I'm glad I found out why it's doing this but I'm bummed i'm gonna be sitting here for the next hour waiting for this to print 56 times...
Edit: so... I just clicked in the bottom corner where the cancel button usually is and it let me cancel out of the print job! it even gave me the pop up window asking if I'm sure I want to cancel. YES I WANT TO CANCEL.
So for anyone that this happens to, click the bottom corner where the cancel button usually is even though you cant see it.
This happened me today, I'm on Revit 2016, I was trying to print a few sheets in PDF to a single file while I had a schedule open. It kept printing the single file over and over. I closed the schedule and opened a sheet view and it fixed it