Trying to download a docs pdf not working

Therefore, the download fails. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? I have a huge Google Docs document shared with a team containing pages, multiple images, lots of equations , drawings, tables, etc.

I don't think the reason is a size limit, because I can download the whole document in ALL the other currently supported formats such as. Why can't I export this document to PDF?

Here's the output of the browser's developer console when such a request is sent:. I just ran head-first into this very same wall. And I can't download it as a pdf. However, I did find another workaround that is not mentioned above:. Open the "Print" dialog. Choose the print to local pdf option. Then section off your document, I did 3 sections: pages , pages and pages Worked like a charm, and then I just did a pdf merge afterwards. Incredibly annoying! At this time there isn't an official document regarding the limits of the conversion of a Google Document to PDF, but there are several reports regarding this in the official Google Docs Help Forum.

Note: Google Documents limit is 1. Text files to be converted to Google Document format should not exceed 50MB. As the OP already mentioned splitting the document in three parts works in the case exposed, but this isn't deterministic, so in other cases the number of parts could be different, by other side, the size of the parts, in terms of pages, could not be the same for each part as it's very likely that it will dependent on the content.

Export the document to another format and use a third party PDF conversion software to convert the resulting file. Sobre browsers, like Chrome have built-in "PDF printer". Apparently this use a different a algorithm and different resources. There are some reports that disabling the browser Hardware Acceleration feature solves this kind of problems.

I have consistently had this issue for over a year. It takes a few seconds to generate, but I have never had a problem getting the PDF. I do find it funny that Google Docs doesn't work well with Google Chrome. Open the document an load all pages.

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