Has this bug been sorted yet? Perhaps its because there isnt any way of assigning the PDF output, it just defaults to the OS printer settings? So, as I am working on a sheet of A2 then that size is not recognised and I get the error. All seems a bit dim and limited.

This comment will be of little use to you…Mac users don’t have to face this issue as macOS has this built in functionality that all apps utilize.

Since the update (today) of SU 2021 to the newest update (21.1.299) I now have this problem… never an issue before. I can’t export any LO file - even files that worked fine for me previously. I have tried saving PDFs to various destinations (including desktop, one drive, external disk etc) nothing…

also screwed on my desktop as well as laptop…

Well I was half right about the defaults. Setting up to print to a PDF allowed other paper sizes to show up, and I thought yay its fixed… but no, still not working

This seems to be related to something other than just the LayOut version. I’ve not had any problems exporting to PDF on my computers with any version of SketchUp/LayOut. I am currently using the latest release of 2021 (21.1.299).

@DaveR I too have not been able to export to PDF, and only PDF. This wasn’t the case with the first file I exported a few weeks ago but certainly is now, also using ver21.1.299. I am new to the program so can’t guarantee that the fault is not mine with something I may have done to my file, but I had…

I just updated SketchUp/LayOut to 21.1.299 and when I export to PDF in LayOut, it messes up some of my text bullets… The first image is what it looks like in LayOut and the second is the PDF it creates. [image] [image] I created a PDF last week that was fine, but realized I had to make a change i…

[image] Layout to PDF font issues Technical Problems Hi all, the update on this issue is that we have identified the problem and we are actively working on a fix for this. We hope to have it resolved soon. Trent

@PaulMcAlenan This is why I usually wait several weeks before updating ANY software. I was weak this time, and got sucked in. Is there a workaround? I need to export this project NOW!

If you have a PDF printer installed on you machine (there should be the Microsoft one) then do print to PDF instead - just make sure you set the settings to your requirements, e.g. paper size. I have not been able to find a way to get larger than A3 out of the Microsoft PDF printer. I use PrimoPDF…

2021 Layout PDF Export. 'There was a problem exporting to this file'

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