ChatGPT 4o can't create PDF's very well and hangs (via website via Windows10 PC)

ChatGPT Bugs
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Testing 4o via website chat, and asked to create a simple 3 page PDF document (with Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 text on each page). Then tried various “automations” of the PDF via requests to add a checkbox or a URL file compare with a value, etc.

4o went through various issues, perhaps some 8+ different Python attempts to generate the solution, using different Python Library tools. It was still impressive that it kept catching itself being unable to complete the task, although it eventually would fail (all in a single response).

A few attempts produced a PDF with no code. Then several attempts ended up hanging at the analysis stage (after several internal re-tries)… it sat there trying for literally hours (until I returned). Another time, it seemed to crash the whole session and reset my login, to where it didn’t recognise my previous user details and I had to enter username and password fresh to re-login. When I returned the result of the query was comlpeted (which I hadn’t seen before the reset), but wasn’t a complete solution.

It just plain struggles with Python libraries and not being able to access various code options which it seems to understand how to acheive a solution - but just can’t as it’s not permitted, not accessible in it’s environment.

Weird to have all this ‘power’ and still be limited for “library” reasons :rofl:

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The following stumps ChatGPT 4 and 4o :

Generate a simple 3 page PDF document with some sample text on each page (ie. big text in the middle of page showing - Page 1, Page 2, Page 3). Place a checkbox on page 1, and if selected, it would obscure page 3 with a 50% transparent white box, full page size (over the Page 3 text). If the checkbox on page 1 is unticked, then the Page 3 white box is hidden.

Be interesting if anyone runs it and finds a solid solution? I just get variations of -

It seems that there have been persistent issues in the attempts to create and manipulate PDFs using the tools and libraries available in this environment, particularly in the correct application of annotations and JavaScript.

… going on to present some tips on how to acheive it, but it can’t output it.

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Ive never had a successful attempt to generate PDFs with 4o, I try often.

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I am a total newbie but I can create pdf on chatGPT 4o on mobile but not desktop.

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I asked it make a pdf document with a table. It tried three times and gave up.

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Just adding that I to can not generate PDF files.

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Unable to create a graph or a PDF from information fed through a docx and a pptx on both the desktop and the mobile versions. It can analyze the data but cannot convert it to anything except for plain text.

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Same here. A nightmare trying to save in a document the work done. Excel, pdf, or Word.

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I just finished a couple hours of interaction with 4o which was nearly 9,000 words.

I asked 4o to generate a Word doc of the entire chat and it tried and failed four times, politely apologizing and promising to get it right each time.

Has anyone seen any discussion from the development team about this?

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That doesn’t need any discussion. The model is limited to 2048 generated tokens in ChatGPT (similar to words). It cannot send large outputs as tool call to Python.

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Just adding my 2 cents.

I cant export pdfs either. It trues, but does not work. 40 page documents comes out to a 2 page pdf.

Kind of annoying. The fact that it is suppsoed to do this was one of my main factors of doing paid.