Google docs doesnt download all the elements as pdf

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I allowed Canvas to access my Google Drive. However, users who use the application to convert their documents are usually met with a number of problems, which might be … I have seen people using a download script based URL before and it seemed to work for them. Does this not work with Google Doc Viewer anymore? Any suggestions? Any help appreciated, thanks! Programmatically download a Google Doc? Go to Google Docs. I can not download neither all documents, nor the selected docs.

Download does not start automatically and when I click to the download link, only the clear I can not download neither all documents, nor the selected docs. Think again. Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 10 months ago. Active 2 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 57k times. I didn't find any relevant stuff in the official documentations. In detail I have a huge Google Docs document shared with a team containing pages, multiple images, lots of equations , drawings, tables, etc.

Problematic workarounds There are some workarounds, although unfortunately they produce other problems: if I split this document into at least 3 parts as separate documents, I CAN download the whole thing as PDF it is obvious that it is a very uncomfortable solution we want to edit the document as ONE large doc.

Here's an example: equation in Google Docs correct : equation in. Improve this question. Sk8erPeter Sk8erPeter 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges.

Google recently added the export as ePUB see googleappsupdates. Please consider to give it a try and share with us what happened. I just downloaded the mentioned document in. So it seems like PDF format is the only one which has some sort of restrictions or exporting problems with such a large document. I still don't understand why. I'll try to create a similar document and share it with all of you to be able to show the phenomenon I wouldn't like to share the original document.

I don't think that we could do anything to make the Google Docs file converter to be able to convert a large PDF file. Unfortunately the limits regarding file export are not clearly documented, but I think the limitation is related to the execution time.

This produces a huge document, but it does the job at least. I mainly need the functionality to produce a PDF document to get a complete document which does not have its equations messed up and is in a portable format. Did you already tried to print to PDF instead of export? Show 3 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. However, I did find another workaround that is not mentioned above: Open the "Print" dialog. Improve this answer. Eeron Eeron 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges.

Thanks man! I wan't member of this specific community but just became one to upvote this! And the question of course. Add a comment. Explanation 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.

Workarounds 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. More alternatives Export the document to another format and use a third party PDF conversion software to convert the resulting file.

Try disabling Hardware acceleration There are some reports that disabling the browser Hardware Acceleration feature solves this kind of problems. Community Bot 1. To be honest, you basically just summarized what I already wrote down and what I! Sorry, but I can't accept this as an answer.

Actually, to do a summary, was one of the purpose of the above answer. As you can notice, I mentioned a couple of times that the following statement was mentioned by the OP.

It worth to say that you said that you didn't find any official documentation about the limits on converting Google Doc to a PDF.

You didn't found it because there isn't any. Maybe you want that I or someone else say something different but at this time, that it's not possible, I think. I would like to know some information about the whys or possible convenient, really working and efficient workarounds - splitting the document into 3 isn't convenient; exporting to any other format still isn't a solution, because equations get messed up in some formats, so simply converting those to PDF doesn't work either.

If someone would like to find a summary, there is my question, which is already very verbose and contains all the known information so far. I think it unfortunately contains more useful information than your answer. For example, as a possible workaround, one can write a Google Apps Script, which collects all the information and creates another document in Google Drive in a custom format. I started to write one which exports the document in Markdown format, but it still contains some errors.

I'll share later what I have so far, maybe someone will be able to help me write a useful script to solve the problem. For me downloading as PDF seems to be an issue with Chrome. I tried Edge instead and it worked.