Printing Sheets to PDF issues

[TSAV_andrewnorris]

I am running on Revit 2018, and trying to print my sheets to PDF.

I am having an issue, where it seems like the font size/spacing is being changed during the pdf process.

I have tried both with, and without the checkbox for "Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts," among just about every other check-box combination at this point.

Attached below are some screenshots of what I'm seeing:

Directly from the Revit screen, how it's supposed to look:

Notice how everything is within their columns, and spaced out

This is how it looks when I print to PDF (I have mad sure that all my drivers and the like, are all up to date)

same photo as above, but with some highlight-circles to show some of the issues. As is easily noticeable, all the text is now spilling over into the next columns. but also I find it strange, that the section view/tags seem to have some of their text cut off:

I'm at a complete loss as to what this might be happening. I wish it would just export the sheet to pdf as if it was an image, and just make an exact copy, just in PDF form.

Also to note, one other detail I tried to troubleshoot via, was to change the paper sizing, but the error was unchanged.

[RPTHOMAS108]

If you have font width factor set to less than 1 for the text type in Revit then perhaps that isn't supported by print driver?

Probably is more to do with what print driver supports. Try printing to XPS then you'll know it is the PDF driver and can take it up with them. I believe when you change width factor it will embed a custom font to represent that but I'm no expert on PDF (just what I've seen previously from missing font errors in adobe reader).

[jeremytammik]

Dear Andrew,

Thank you for your query, and many thanks to Richard for his sound advice.

I do not have anything to add to that, I'm sorry to say.

I hope Richard's suggestions help.

Please let us know how you end up resolving this.

Thank you!

Best regards,

Jeremy

[TSAV_andrewnorris]

Your suggestion really gave me hope haha

But sadly using the XPS writer resulted in an identical export as before with the pdf export.

sooo....

I uninstalled, and reinstalled, my Adobe Acrobat DC. made sure the drivers and pdf printer were all up to date. Same result.

My final test, was taking the same uninstall/reinstall of DC on my home desktop, as opposed to the (quite powerful) work laptop that these exports were made from.

Re-did the print to pdf on my desktop, and it came out perfect.

I guess that means this is some kind of hardware issue. Though, admittedly, This laptop is just as, if not better spec'ed than my desktop is.

[Anonymous]

Hello Andrew.

I have the same problem, did you find a solution? Or just on another computer it worked.

Thanks.

[brosJAFJR]

I've been having similar issues 

It seems to be working upon installing the paid xrev transmit add-on to revit,

although I would love to know a solution how to print a good pdf with a free pdf printer