PDF Slow to Open

[jvalaleducation]

Hello - Any PDF I create in revit is super slow to open and my clients aren't too excited about the experience. The file is only 20MB and no matter what PDF program I try to open in it, hogs all the computer resources. 

Any help??

[syman2000]

It is because the PDF reader have to process all those dense hatch. Try to remove them or change to different hatch if you can.

[jvalaleducation]

really? Even though the PDF's only 20MB? 

Will give it a go. 

thanks

[ToanDN]

Only 20 MB?  That PDF should be around 200 KB.  Get rid of the gravel pattern or make it way less dense.

[jvalaleducation]

I changed the hatch, but didn't compress it at all now. It's back up to 40+MB, still slow to load.

[ennujozlagam]

have you try any PDF driver like cutePDF writer and see if helps? thanks

[jvalaleducation]

Yes, I've tried a few options to shrink it. Though there should be no issue with even a 20MB file. I can get the file down in size, but it's still slow to open and still probably shouldn't be 20MB. 

[syman2000]

Still the hatch is there. When I am import the PDF into AutoCAD, it shows the file has over 2 millions lines.

[jvalaleducation]

You can see I reduced the hatching. Is there a way to figure out what's generating all the polylines??

[syman2000]

Try turning off the hatch for the floor and do a PDF print. Tell us the size without those hatch.

[jvalaleducation]

Got it! Wasn't the exterior hatch. Was an interior one.  That being said. A 20MB file still shouldn't be that resource intensive. IMO.

thanks all

[mhiserZFHXS]

It wasn't the file size... It was the hatch. Did you see the comment above that there were over 2 million lines?