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PDF and printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:08:30 GMT

Hi,

I'm having issues when creating PDF's on a particular project and was hoping someone had a fix.

The first (and worst) issue is that dashed lines appear to have duplicate black lines over, when using 'Vector' processing.

If I use 'Raster' processing this cures the duplicate line issue but the print quality is terrible and not suitable for linework.

I've attached a screen shot showing the issue.

The second issue is that insulation batting lines print as green instead of the defined colour.

I've just tried using a new PDF creator to see if that helped but I'm getting the same results!

If anyone has any ideas of how to cure these, it would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Andy

Re: PDF and printing issues

DanFaba — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:14:21 GMT

Hello, Andrew,

I have reviewed the images you have attached, and I think this may be related to graphics more than PDF setup. Have you verified that you have a Graphics card that is compatible to the version of Revit you are working with?

Check the certified Graphics Cards by Autodesk.

If you do have a Graphics Card, another issue may be an outdated driver, in which case you can download yours from the same page.

Re: PDF and printing issues

RDAOU — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 20:52:55 GMT

Can you post a screenshot of your Print Setup?
Which PDF Printer you are using and which Windows OS do you have? Lots of PDF creators are experiencing problems with vector processing on windows 10. Adobe Acrobat DC seems to work though...You might need to check if you have you applied all updates; otherwise try to remove your PDF printer and Install trial version from Adobe to see if it solves your issue
Raster Processing if set to High or Presentation it should give you a 90-95% similar quality to Vector Processing...Most of my PDF prints I do using Raster...and its quite surprising to see someone say its that terrible.

Re: PDF and printing issues

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:24:17 GMT

Thank you guys for your help and advice.

I am using Windows 7 64-Bit, with an AMD Radeon R9 200/HD 7900 series graphics card. Also, I'm now using PDF Architect 4 to produce my PDF's.

As DanFaba and yourself pointed out, I needed to update the drivers. Once these were installed it cured the majority of cases.

The colour issue has been fixed for all prints. The strange dashed lines do occur, but only on odd drawings, so I'm content to use Raster for those.

I have attached a couple of screenshots showing my printer settings, just in case I'm missing something.

Thank again, much appreciated,

Andy

Re: PDF and printing issues

RDAOU — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:40:50 GMT

Good to know your problem was solved 🙂

Cheers

Re: PDF and printing issues

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:22:04 GMT

I have this issue currently. I updated the driver but it didn't fix the vector PDF. The batt insulation shows up green on my PDFs. I use Bluebeam to create PDFs. My graphics card is NVIDIA Quadro K620. I would prefer not to print all the sheets using the raster setting as line weights appear very light.

Re: PDF and printing issues

db — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:52:15 GMT

I had the dashed line problem a couple of days ago and ended up having to add a detail line. And yes, raster print quality is terrible. If Autodesk supplied a rvt to pdf facility surely some of these issues would be resolved? I think it's pretty poor service of Autodesk not to provide this.

Re: PDF and printing issues

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:00:03 GMT

I should add that my issue is that batt insulation is print previewing as green and showing up on colour PDFs as green. Nowhere do I make the batt insulation green in any part of Revit.

Re: PDF and printing issues

ToanDN — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:10:04 GMT

@Anonymous

Can you try to disable Hardware Acceleration and see if the batt insulation prints as intended?

Also, some default Line Styles are in green. Maybe change those to black see what happens. It could be some glitch causing the printer to substitute the correct Insulation line style with a default line style.

Re: PDF and printing issues

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:08:35 GMT

Well. I just solved my own problem. I decided to actually check >additional settings>line styles to see what was going on. Apparently my "Hidden Lines" under "Lines" was set to be some green colour. I changed it to grey and voila! Problem fixed. Silly rabbit.

Re: PDF and printing issues

ToanDN — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:11:17 GMT

Doh! See above 😉

Re: PDF and printing issues

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:41:07 GMT

Ha! It looks like I was doing exactly as you show as you were responding. Kudos to you to!