Image Shifts during printing pdf in Revit, since at least 2020 version

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

My problem is similar or exactly the same to the one described here:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/image-shifts-during-printing-in-revit-2018-3...

Every time I print the site plan to pdf the background raster map.jpg is slightly shifted so that revit site boundary doesn't match the one on the raster file. Everything lines up perfectly in Revit. 

The problem occurs in every Revit version - the file was created in 2015 and it still exists in 2020.

The problem occurs with most pdf printers - PDF Creator, CutePDF, PDF Architect. It doesn't occur in Microsoft Print to PDF but setting up a print size of A2 is such a hassle that I stopped before i broke something 

Even more frustrating - a college suggested to shift the jpg background in Revit so it doesn't line up there but the printed pdf will be fine. Nope. The jpg seems to rotate whole degrees incrementally so shifting to the left or right will always result in the site boundary being off to the left or right - e.g. if you shift the image 0.1 degree to the left: on the print it will be shifted 1 degree to the left regardless. 

See the attached picture. 

I'm out of ideas. I can't print this correctly as a pdf at all. 

PS. This also occurs with other file but the error is smaller with smaller sites. Here the plot is 200 m long. 

[MostafaElashmawy]

It would help if you share the file or a similar file with the problem.

[MostafaElashmawy]

This sometimes happen with me when the title block is size A0 for example and I print on A1. 

Make sure that the size of pdf is correct and matching the title block.

Also it would help, if you are using the correct size, to change the zoom to zoom 100% instead of fit to page.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for suggestions. 

Unfortunately it doesn't solve the issue. 

We do use 100% print size (site plan has to be up to correct scale) and print size matching the title block.

I'll try to upload the file tomorrow.

I did manage to print this with Microsoft print to pdf and messing with the registry (adding A1 print size) but the process is complicated and, from what I've read, you can only add already registered sizes. So if a custom size is need we are out of luck. 

[Anonymous]

I'm attaching my project file - just the site boundary and map jpg. 

I'm using A2 Raster hq print profile. Raster printing makes transparent filled region be transparent on the pdf (vector printing makes them opaque against the jpg background). 

I've tried this file with just the jpg and it still comes out rotated on the pdf. Same happens on different machine and regular Revit (I'm using Revit LT on my machine).