Print Revit Sheets

[Anonymous]

Hello BIM 360 Forum activists!

Am I the only one having the blurry printed pdf's using the print function?

The sheet looks very good in BIM 360:

Then the sheets becomes raster in print dialog:

And the print result is bad as well. For M 1:100 it is unusable. I have tried saving to PDF directly (Google Chrome option and Printing to pdf using Custom PDF from CutePDF, the result is the same)

Questions:

1.Am I the only one having this result;

2.What should be in order to overcome this?

We are now piloting BIM 360 usage on site. If this makes us publish pdf's instead of Revit drawings, that will be a "good" motivation!

[anil_mistry]

Hi @Anonymous,

Thank you for participating in our community! I was wondering if you can add one of our developer to your project for further investigation. You can remove him once we are done with the investigation. Please let me know if you can then I will send you his email address via private message. 

Thank you and have a great day!

[Anonymous]

Yes, I can add this person

[anil_mistry]

Hi @Anonymous,

I just send you Private message. Once I get more information I will keep you posted. 

Thank you and have a great day!

[Anonymous]

Hello, @anil_mistry 

I added the person You sent me specifically to the bim 360 folder where the revit model is. The model is Puces_19_UK.rvt

[doreen.dvoretz · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous , 

Thanks for reporting and sharing a sample file with our development team. 
When printing vector 2D sheets from BIM 360, they indeed get converted to high-resolution raster image.
Then, this image is printed by the browser. Different browsers may have slightly different results when printing an image. Unfortunately, we're limited by the browser's printing capabilities. 

In your case, here's what the high-resolution image captured in 'Print' looks like:

The image itself is not blurry at actual size, but we did notice when it's printed to PDF through Chrome the result is slightly blurry at 100% zoom. Perhaps it's the difference in scale, but we weren't able to reproduce this with other test files.

We also noticed that when the resulting PDF is viewed in different PDF viewing/editing software, the 100% zoom setting doesn't produce consistent results - some seem sharper (Adobe Reader), and some slightly blurrier (Preview), as you can see below:

Unfortunately, since we're quite limited by the browser's image-printing capabilities, we don't have a fix for this issue at the moment. We recommend trying to view in different PDF viewers, as some seem to have better results than others.

Best Regards,
Doreen Dvoretz

[anil_mistry]

Hi @Anonymous,

I'm just checking in to see if you need more help with this. Did the suggestion that @doreen.dvoretz  provided work for you?

If so, please click Accept as Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.

Thank you and have a great day!

[Janne_Boman]

Hello

what would be your recommendations to mitigate this issue? Settings to apply? Browser recommendations?

Thanks

-Janne

[jeff_howard2]

Has this issue every been addressed by Autodesk?

Can we Print PDF's that are the correct size and Scale from BIM360?