topic Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

AlanStewart — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:22:33 GMT

I've newly installed ArcGIS Pro 2.4 and created a bunch of layouts from existing MXDs for testing purposes. So far the product is useless to me as the final result of my workflows is always to generate a PDF and Pro has yet to succeed at this. I am using Share -> Layout Export. The output I am getting is a file where every byte in the file is zero. It does the same thing for TIFF and JPEG exports. I'm only trying to export letter-size layouts at 100 dpi. I have 16GB RAM and 50GB free disk space. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. Pro is not reporting an errors.

Another clue is that when I make a second attempt to export to the same file as an earlier export Pro often complains that it cannot write to the file. However, I have no difficulty deleting the file from the Windows shell, so there does not seem to be another process blocking the file.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:34:23 GMT

Alan, assuming this is your procedure

Export a map or layout—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

How about trying to "C:/Temp"

or what is the destination folder that you are sending to? Local drive? somewhere else? spaces in path?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:37:52 GMT

As an FYI, you might want to upgrade Windows or at least check that you have the Jan 9 2019 update installed

ArcGIS Pro 2.4 system requirements—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

AlanStewart — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:52:04 GMT

Thanks, Dan, you guessed it immediately. I always write to a network share because I need to share these PDFs. Selecting a local disk instead did allow successful export. Is this a known Pro bug?

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:03:51 GMT

I don't know Alan, but I like to think "work local, distribute global"

When you rule out network and "cloudy" locations from the equation, I find that most software behaves as expected.

It isn't too much effort to copy and move to those locations when you are done.

Bug? Kory Kramer w‌ould have the pulse on that one

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

AlanStewart — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:24:38 GMT

Ah, but I am working locally. I'm a software developer working in multiple versions of ArcGIS and multiple ArcGIS products. I work entirely in VMs running on a Mac host. The "network" drive is actually a local folder that is shared across VMs to allow different software environments to have access the same projects. It's necessary for efficiently doing my work. I'd be copying files, and making mistakes while doing it, all day long without this setup.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

MaximPastchenko — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:41:44 GMT

Hi Alan,

Could you please try couple of things:

If you export via the same exact setup, but using Arcmap, does it work? Also, will Pro export correctly to network drive if you ran Pro as admin? This will help narrow down, if it is permissions issue of some sort.

Thank you

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

AlanStewart — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:55:55 GMT

Maxim.

ArcMap 10.7 on the same VM has no problem exporting PDFs to the same drive. ArcGIS Pro fails whether run as administrator or not.

I'm using VMware Fusion 11.1.0, the drive is a shared folder.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:06:51 GMT

Alan, you saw the notes about ArcGIS Pro 2.4 and macs

Run ArcGIS Pro on a Mac—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

Running ArcGIS Pro in a virtualized environment—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop

I assume that isn't the issue, but just checking

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

AlanStewart — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:40:49 GMT

Thanks, Dan. I've been running ArcGIS Desktop and Server either in Parallels or VMware Fusion for almost 15 years now.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

AlanStewart — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:31:45 GMT

BTW, to be clear, Pro has no issues that I've observed with saving or reading projects to/from the shared drive, only performing exports to it.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

Anonymous User — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:38:03 GMT

I recently updated my copy of ArcGIS Pro and I can no longer export maps to PDF either. On export the files won’t open and show only kb worth of data.

Running as Administrator has no effect.
I've tried saving to a different section of my drive – still no luck. Removing spaces from the file/folder names has no effect.
It’s not a space issue.

Any assistance with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

Anonymous User — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:34:49 GMT

Hi Jaimys, to confirm, did you update ArcGIS Pro to the latest version - 2.6? Additionally, are there any tiff files in your layout?

The reason I ask is that there is a known defect in this version: BUG-000132706 - Inserting a .tiff file into a report or layout results in incorrect behavior on export.

This bug will be fixed in Pro 2.7. Workarounds include:

Use PNG, BMP or JPG file format for images instead of TIFF file format.
Select Print from the Share tab of layout, and use Microsoft Print to PDF, and save the file.

I hope this helps!

Thanks,
Gillian

Re: ArcGIS Pro 2.4 cannot export to any format

Anonymous User — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:15:30 GMT

Hi Gillian,

Thanks for your response. I called through to Nicholas Goh at ESRI Australia and he diagnosed the issue. It was as you've said - tiffs in my map layout were affecting the export after updating to 2.6.0, where previously this had not been an issue.

Frustrating though it is, I'm glad to have a workaround.

Warm regards,

Jaimys