topic Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf in Revit Structure Forum

Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

Moshe-A — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 14:03:10 GMT

Hi Guys,

it looks like Revit 2017 produce poor quality (less clear) of pdf files comparing to R2016/R2015)

we print by PDF Creator driver (and I have tested doPDF 8 the same results) the same view sheet in R2016 produce good print and under R2017 not

Workaround \ FIX?

thanks

Moshe

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:04:42 GMT

Hello @Moshe-A

Use Bluebeam Revu

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

Moshe-A — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 09:22:13 GMT

thanks but did not work

it looks like the problem is not a pdf driver but Revit 2017 it self

i'm talking about window 7/64 pro, can some one tell me if in windows 10 this is fixed?

Moshe

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 23:16:44 GMT

Hello @Moshe-A

Window 7/64 pro is not the problem here I'm guarantee you, because right now I'm using window 7/64 pro and I'm not having the problem same as you have.

Can you post some PDF here so I can see personally the outcome?

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 22:53:36 GMT

Try switching between the Vector and Raster option in print settings sometimes Raster option produces poor quality prints don't see the point in it raster to be honest maybe for Rendered model views. If you suspect printer driver try CutePDF its is free and super easy to use similar to DoPDF but more stable in my opinion.

http://www.cutepdf.com/

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

Moshe-A — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:50:15 GMT

arjay,

attached a zip file contains 2 pdf files:

1. from R2016

2. from R2017

it's the same sheet (view)

thanks

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

ShawnV83 — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 13:36:14 GMT

Did you try adjusting your DPI to a higher value? I think default is 96, set it to at least 300

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

-FDC- — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 16:51:00 GMT

The size of the 2016 file is double (in megabytes) of the 2017 file!

Something is changed (dpi, raster quality,...).

Are you using the latest Revit 2017 update (2017.2 !)

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

shefypattambi — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:00:39 GMT

Hi,

This issue is currently investigating by Revit development team. Please refer this link

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/revit-2018-2-pdf-printing-quality-issue/m-p/7533324#M170263

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 08:49:46 GMT

I had the exact same problem.
I found out that for some reason, the quality is very poor when i use the adobe PDF printer, but when when i changed the printer to the standard inbuilt "PDFCreator" the quality is good.

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

alobodin — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:36:29 GMT

same with Revit 2019.2 and Revit 2020.2

Re: Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

mckinnon.grae — Fri, 27 May 2022 14:38:06 GMT

Try changing the scale of the drawing from your viewport. Usually if I have this set 1:1 - then print setup as scale to fit page - The image quality is seriously degraded. If you change it to say, 1:50 or something larger, then print as scale to fit page, the image is better quality (since it is degraded less). Makes sense?