Cannot write file message while writing .pdf file

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John@Beardmore.org.uk

Windows 11
Scribus 1.6.2
Using default settings for scribus .pdf production.

I'm working on two reports, both around 100 pages and growing. Both contain a lot of photographs and diagrams.

Both have the same issue. It's not just my machine, a colleague has the same problem with these files on a different Windows system at another site.

When I try and export to PDF, it runs for a while, then stops with an error message of the form enclosed. Scribus does not crash, and I can go on working. There's over 76 gigabytes of free space on the disk. As a work around, I've been using 'microsoft print to pdf'. This works, and generates a 35 megabyte file. Just once, scribus export to pdf did work, but I can't replicate its working, and I don't know what was different that time.

Other scribus jobs which contain plenty of graphics, and never had this problem, still print without difficulty.

Is this a well known problem ?  Does anybody recognise it ?  Is there a work around ?  Any thoughts on how to diagnose ?

I don't have any special pdf requirements, but my users tell me that they can't copy and paste text out of the pdf files that microsoft generates, so this is an urgent problem, despite being able to generate pdf the microsoft way. They don't have any copy and paste problem with PDFs exported from Scribus.

If it helps to diagnose I can do a 'collect for output' and post a link to the project.

AdmFubar

Quote from: John@Beardmore.org.uk on Today at 12:28:38 AMThere's over 76 gigabytes of free space on the disk. As a work around, I've been using 
Which disk is this? the error message indicates 2 disks, C: and D:.. the issue seems to be on drive C: as it cannot write that particular image file. 
Using Scribus 1.5.8 & 1.6.3, 1.7.0 openSUSE 15.5
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John@Beardmore.org.uk

The 76 gigabytes figure is the C: drive. D has 1.4 terabytes free.

Thanks, J/.

utnik

it could be an issue related to writing permissions or even a corrupt image file...

utnik