Printing in Layout 2025.0.570 problem

LayOut
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Updated to Sketchup 2025.0.570 yesterday.
MacMini M2 OSX Sonoma 14.6.1 16GB memory

Previously Layout kept crashing with re-rendering set to automatic.
Seems like that bug has been fixed at least so far.

Been using the latest update for a couple days now and have noticed two things:

  1. It takes a long time for the print dialog to open even on small files ~20-30 seconds).
  2. Printing to pdf results in files that are more than 10x the size of what was previously normal.

For example, printing a 216 KB Layout document with an embedded pdf results in a 24 MB pdf output.
Printing the same 216 KB file in 2024 results in a 1.8 MB pdf and no delays in the Print dialog so I don’t think it’s my system.

In addition, once the print dialog finally opens in v2025 any operation results in a ~10 sec delay and spinning beachball. It takes a lot of waiting to print anything.

So, once again, v2025 is unusable for me and I’ve had to switch back to v2024.
Fortunately the few 2025 files I had are able to be opened in v2024.

Regards
Paul

2

Are you printing to PDF or exporting?

What happens when you export to PDF?

3

Never used that option before but it printed normally with more reasonably sized files (12.7 MB instead of 195 MB).
Still doesn’t explain why printing from Layout has become unresponsive in v2025.

Paul

4

I have no idea, but I’ve never printed from LayOut, I have always exported to PDF.

Might be something with your print driver?

5

Works fine in v2024

Paul