Revit 2018.2 PDF printing Quality Issue

[shefypattambi]

Hii,

 I have a problem when printing to PDF in revit 2018.2. Please see the attached pics. The bars and other lines are bulgy. it is always printing with the  line weight even if I select the  ''Thin line'' option.  its is not what I see in revit. I tried with cute pdf, Pdf creator, DoPDF, Bio pdf etc. and even checked with DWF exporter. Still the result is same. I don't have any problem with pdf printing when I was using revit 2017.

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:

the view was 'consistent colours', not realistic.  will that still effect vector vs. raster?

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If you turn the shadow on then it will print as raster, doesn't matter if it is hidden, shaded, consistent colors, or realistic.

[Anonymous]

I´m having the  same issues as well. How is it possible to get a good looking elevation with realistic view shadows turned on? Is it worse when the scale gets bigger? I could get the dpi to up to 4000 with adobe pdf but when I try to crank it up to more than 600 the printing doesn´t even start, it says "Revit could not start the print job because it was unable to connect to the specified printer. Check your printer connectivity and try again.". 

I changed the printing to raster and presentation as instructed before, with that the 1:100 is ok, not great but okay but still the 1:300 looks just awful. Papersize with the 1:300 scale is A3 and 1:100 is 1470x594mm.

Is there any way to make the A3 look better? How can I get Revit to print with bigger dpi?

I attached photos that show the quality I´m getting.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Okay nevermind, just when I ended up posting I solved this by myself.. When I changed the default settings it allowed me to crank up the dpi up to 3600.