Layout isn't opening my pdf file

LayOut
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I just recently started using layout and this should be pretty straight forward but for some reason when I’m trying to insert a pdf it’s not working. I have it saved as an Adobe pdf from illustrator but it’s opening in layout. Any thoughts? Am I missing something?

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Look at the insertable file types under File>Insert. PDF is not one of them.

You can export PDFs from LayOut but it isn’t intended to open them.

3

When you look on SketchUp’s website though it says you should be able to
insert a pdf

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You can insert PDF into Layout only if you are on Mac.

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As @jespizua, wrote, that is an import option for Mac but not Windows.

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Very odd isn’t it?

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I am an Architect and long time mac sketchup user. I often need to insert .pdf documents (title-24 compliance, Cal Green checklists, specific product details etc.) into my drawing sets. This has never been a problem for me in the past. I am now working in a mixed platform office and am discovering that collegues working in a windows environment can’t view or plot sheets with .pdfs on them. Is there a reasonable workaround for this?

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Open them in photoshop or equivalent and convert them to JPEG. I’ve done this for years with no issues.

PDF working for Macs is a feature of apple operating systems which is why SU can utilize that feature in LO.