Revit text problem

[ayman_tamimi]

Dear all,, greetings.

I am currently facing a problem with writing in Arabic fonts and exporting the sheets from Revit into CAD.

" The problem I face is only with the Arabic fonts ", which is the words often appear either in a larger size, or the words are overlapping in top of each other.

you will understand the problem more with the pictures.

Thanks in advance.

Text in revithow it became after exporting to DWG.

[HVAC-Novice]

i don't know how to help with how to properly show it in dwg... but one advice is to re-think why you do part of the work in dwg (AutoCAD, i assume)? Maybe you can change the workflow and keep the design in Revit?

i know this wouldn't answer your original question, but would eliminate the problem. 

[ayman_tamimi]

well, unfortunately, the municipality upload system is not working properly with the PDF files that are extracted from Revit directly, so as a workaround, we usually export all the sheets to CAD, then print them as PDF again which is a headache.

[JL.FCG]

Iv seen this text problem before, and the user had the screen resolution set to 150%.

Changed it back to 100% and export worked fine!

(This setting was changed as the user was VPN'ing from his Home PC to a work PC)

[HVAC-Novice]

Did you try the Revit export-to-PDF option, or did you try different 3rd party PDF printers? Did you talk to the 3rd party PDF printer vendor in case that still didn't work? Did you use reputable 3rd party printers, or just free ones? Someone here had brought up a PDF plugin called diroots recently.

Having to go through AutoCAD to create a PDF sounds like a big hassle and makes it worth to fix the PDF issue you are having.

I know this doesn't address your original problem stated in your OP. but your original problem isn't actually what you stated, it is PDF creation from Revit. 

And yes, 100% scaling as the other poster said would be Autodesk's official advice as well. 

[ToanDN]

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@ayman_tamimi wrote:

well, unfortunately, the municipality upload system is not working properly with the PDF files that are extracted from Revit directly, so as a workaround, we usually export all the sheets to CAD, then print them as PDF again which is a headache.

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Do you know what exactly is not working properly?  Maybe there is a simple fix in Revit or with a PDF editor rather than the workaround you are doing.

[ayman_tamimi]

Well, I am using the recommended size, which is 100%; therefore, I think the problem is located somewhere else.
anyway thank's alot.

[ayman_tamimi]

Exporting PDF files from Revit has no issue with me; it's working more than perfect.
But as I have mentioned, those exported files seem to not be supported by the municipality system, which always has scale issues; sometimes the drawings are not appearing at all.
So as a workaround, we changed the export workflow to be "Revit > CAD > PDF".
regards.

[ayman_tamimi]

When they open the pdf sent from Revit, sometimes the drawings are not appearing, and sometimes they are facing scale issues, as they have mentioned in their notes.

[HVAC-Novice]

But for you (in your PDF viewer) they work OK inc. viewport links? How do they work for other engineers/architects (not in that municipality)? Did you use Bluebeam or other good software to print out of Revit?

Sounds like a "them" problem and their likely outdated software. Did you ever talk to them what they use? On very rare occasions I got PDF from a vendor that look fine in bluebeam, But when I send these very same files to our accountants, who use Adobe, they showed me screenshots how they look blank or all scrambled. My workaround was to "print" them from Bluebeam. I talked to that vendor who sent those, and they reported they use a proprietary accounting software that creates those (I don't think the person was computer-literate, though). So yes, there can be file format issues, but not on up-to-date software. Maybe create the PDF out of Revit, and then print it from Bluebeam. Or use one of the Revit plugins (diroots etc.). Some people use very odd and old computer setups (fonts etc.) and such issues can happen. 

You probably can crate a PDF of the very same set from Revit, and one with AutoCAD and have someone knowledgeable look at both files and tell what the difference is on a file formal level. 

Before spending time on AutoCAD, I would explore ALL options to create acceptable PDF in a more direct way.