topic Yet another PDF export error in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524641#M5672 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've got an mxd with about 3300 point features as my DDP index.&nbsp; The index layer also has a joined Excel table to populate dynamic text on my layout.&nbsp; Each month I update attributes on about 10-30 of those features based on the activities of our city maintenance crew and export new PDFs.&nbsp; It takes hours to export the entire set to PDF so I only export the pages with recent changes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I try to export the selected pages I get this message: "Export failed.&nbsp; An unexpected error occurred while trying to Export the Map."</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This doesn't happen if I export a page range and type in the page numbers manually.&nbsp; It also doesn't happen if I remove the table join, but I need that data on my layout.&nbsp; There is no error code to look up.&nbsp; Does anybody have a solution to this?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:04:24 GMT TrishRice 2012-12-10T23:04:24Z Yet another PDF export error https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524641#M5672 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've got an mxd with about 3300 point features as my DDP index.&nbsp; The index layer also has a joined Excel table to populate dynamic text on my layout.&nbsp; Each month I update attributes on about 10-30 of those features based on the activities of our city maintenance crew and export new PDFs.&nbsp; It takes hours to export the entire set to PDF so I only export the pages with recent changes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I try to export the selected pages I get this message: "Export failed.&nbsp; An unexpected error occurred while trying to Export the Map."</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This doesn't happen if I export a page range and type in the page numbers manually.&nbsp; It also doesn't happen if I remove the table join, but I need that data on my layout.&nbsp; There is no error code to look up.&nbsp; Does anybody have a solution to this?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:04:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524641#M5672 TrishRice 2012-12-10T23:04:24Z Re: Yet another PDF export error https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524642#M5673 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>If you only export the pages that have changes and typing in ranges or numbers manually works then where is it failing on you?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does it fail all the time or only on specific pages?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Have you tested moving the excel data into a GDB table - does it fail then?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:19:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524642#M5673 JeffBarrette 2012-12-11T13:19:42Z Re: Yet another PDF export error https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524643#M5674 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks for the quick reply. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span> Also I forgot to mention this is in version 10.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">If you only export the pages that have changes and typing in ranges or numbers manually works then where is it failing on you?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>"Failing" isn't the right word.&nbsp; It's extra steps in what is supposed to be an automatic process.&nbsp; Since this is something that I do each month until forever, it's getting old fast.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote"><BR />Does it fail all the time or only on specific pages?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>All the time.&nbsp; It doesn't matter which pages are selected.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote"><BR />Have you tested moving the excel data into a GDB table - does it fail then?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>Yes.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:59:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524643#M5674 TrishRice 2012-12-11T14:59:21Z Re: Yet another PDF export error https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524644#M5675 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You'll need to open an incident with support services.&nbsp; They'll be able to help isolate the issue and identify what is causing the problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Jeff</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:41:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524644#M5675 JeffBarrette 2012-12-12T19:41:37Z Re: Yet another PDF export error https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524645#M5676 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>OK, thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:37:29 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/yet-another-pdf-export-error/m-p/524645#M5676 TrishRice 2012-12-13T19:37:29Z