# Export Scene Error Message

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-scene-error-message/1925
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 24, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-scene-error-message/1925 "2019-05-24T16:47:52Z")
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### Author: ![samella](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@samella](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/samella)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-scene-error-message/1925/1 "2019-05-24T16:47:52Z")

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Hi! I’m just trying to export a graphic on a pdf format and I keep getting this error messages:

ERROR: In C:\bbd\7cc78367\build\superbuild\paraview\src\VTK\IO\ExportOpenGL2\vtkOpenGLGL2PSExporter.cxx, line 70  
vtkPVGL2PSExporter (0000009D2E272AD0): Unable to open file: C:/Users/S?mella/Desktop/teste.pdf.pvtmp.pdf

ERROR: In C:\bbd\7cc78367\build\superbuild\paraview\src\ParaViewCore\VTKExtensions\Rendering\vtkPVGL2PSExporter.cxx, line 123  
vtkPVGL2PSExporter (0000009D2E272AD0): Cannot rename exported graphics file.

I’ve tryed to export different scenes in diferent formats, and also a different version of the paraview and I’m still getting this message, so I guess it’s something with my computer. Can anyone tell me what it is?

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/export-scene-error-message/1925/2 "2019-05-24T17:25:44Z")

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Hi @samella, welcome to ParaView.

Unfortunately, this is a known issue with exporting PDFs on Windows: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18816](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18816)