AutoCAD LT2019 Publish to PDF: ERROR:Error

[michalGVBNA]

Hello Everyone,
I used to publish files without any problem with both multiple layouts into a single sheet using the "Publish to: PDF" and with each layout into a separate PDF with the "Publish to: Plotter named in page setup".

I am not sure what happened but recently my "Publish to: PDF" stopped working. I have not touched any of the settings and I do not even think the AutoCAD itself had an update (I am prettu sure "Autodesk Desktop App" did at some point but I can't think how that would have had any effect on the fail). It might be worth mentioning that I have tried it with the "multi-sheet file" box both ticked and not.

As attempting to publish files i am getting an "ERROR:Error" which does not help in identifying the problem. 
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix that? 

[vinodkl · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Set the system variable BACKGROUNDPLOT to "0" and then publish.

[michalGVBNA]

That helped, but means the plots are done in the foreground which stops me from working during the publishing process and with some of the larger publishes that could mean a significant amount of time, is there some fix that still keeps the publishes in the background?

[vinodkl]

In that case set it to "2" or "1"

[michalGVBNA]

Setting the value to 2 results in the same error. 

Setting the value to 1 puts the plot and not publish to the background. - Though weirdly enough the plot does work in the background.

[vinodkl]

There is always been problem with the background plotting. So I would recommend to keep the background plot off. The background plotting takes more time to publish than foreground plotting.