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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??
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.
really? Even though the PDF's only 20MB?
Will give it a go.
thanks
I changed the hatch, but didn't compress it at all now. It's back up to 40+MB, still slow to load.
have you try any PDF driver like cutePDF writer and see if helps? thanks
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.
Still the hatch is there. When I am import the PDF into AutoCAD, it shows the file has over 2 millions lines.
You can see I reduced the hatching. Is there a way to figure out what's generating all the polylines??
Try turning off the hatch for the floor and do a PDF print. Tell us the size without those hatch.
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
It wasn't the file size... It was the hatch. Did you see the comment above that there were over 2 million lines?
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