What could be making publish so slow?

[helen.jobe]

My autocad is consistently slow when publishing.  If I print each sheet manually using my default page layout they print right away.  But if I use the publish command, using the same page layout as I used for plotting for all sheets, it takes a really long time.  Just now I tried to publish a set of 5 sheets (Clip 1), and it got to the last sheet and then froze.  I did a test run plotting each of those 5 sheets individually and it took 2.5 minutes, including opening time, and flipping to the correct layout.  Admittedly, there are some x-refs in some of these drawings (3 MB max) but shouldn't it take the same amount of time (if not less) to publish as it does to plot?  Another thing to note is that the file with the last sheet (the one that publish froze on) didn't have large x-refs.  It was a 4.6 MB file, with 4 x-refs in it: 0.76 MB, 0.01 MB, 0.66 MB, and 0.5 MB.

I've also attached the page setup settings (Clip 2) used for both plotting and publishing, as well as the pdf options used for both (Clip 3).

Does anyone have any suggestions on settings that might be throwing it off?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> run a repair on my autocad

Valid step, let's know if this helped.

- alfred -

[helen.jobe]

The repair didn't work.  I still don't understand it but after all this time troubleshooting I think I just have to accept that it won't work on my machine and I'll have to use workarounds.  Thanks so much for your time.

[mmoon]

Try resetting BGCOREPUBLISH variable to (off). The retry publishing again.

[mauriceEGSBH · Accepted solution]

Publish in background throwing error about not finding the plot style and PDF's created are in color

December 18, 2020

Ryan WunderlichRyan Wunderlich

When Publishing a Sheet Set or via the Publish Command in an AutoCAD-based Vertical (like Civil 3D AutoCAD Architecture, etc.), the publish command completes, however it shows an error about not finding the plot style. Regular plotting works fine and when Publish in Background us unselected, it also plots correctly.

This generally occurs when you have multiple versions of AutoCAD based programs (and AutoCAD) installed as well.

Here's where the issue is coming from, and how to correct it. When Publishing in the Background, the software will launch a separate instance of acad.exe (basically launching another AutoCAD you cannot see or interact with). If you not launched and configured all the AutoCAD based software on your machine, that acad.exe may be using the AutoCAD default configuration, and not your specific settings for the Plot style path you have set in the vertical you are using.

You can correct this via one of two methods.

Method 1: Launch all AutoCAD based Software and in Options, set the same plot style path to match the working one in your vertical.

I generally recommend that you set these all the same as your primary software (so any AutoCAD based program you open uses the same information)

The first method was what finally fixed it for me.

[collin_lyleZMDRS]

TLDR;  Deselect "Publish in background"