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Can I stop VW re-rendering everything on PDF export?
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When I make up sheets with Renderworks rendered viewports, I'll do the render(s), then make a copy of the viewport, which I convert to group to make into a bitmap, and that bitmap goes onto the page layout. The original viewport sits outside the print area so that it's still there if I want to change things and re-render.
So, you'd think that if I then export to PDF and specify to export the print area, VW doesn't need to worry about the viewports outside the print area. But it does, and as far as I can see goes ahead with re-rendering *all* of them regardless. This can take a long, long time and there seems to be no way of cancelling the process either. So if you've forgotten this annoying habit and have asked to export you then have the dilemma of waiting for an unknown amount of time for the rendering to happen, or forcing VW to quit, quite possibly losing some work in the process. This situation caused a not inconsiderable amount of cursing and swearing here the other day.
So, is there any way around this? Do we have to make a duplicate sheet layer, without any 'live' viewports on it, each time we want to do an export?
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