Text gets cut off in PDF

[Sahay_R]

When sheets are printed to PDF, the text gets cut off like this - 

This looks very shabby indeed. How can this be prevented?

[Anonymous]

What PDF printer are you using?

Also what version of Revit are you using?  Make sure all updates have been installed.

I would also try a different font, like Arial, and see if it does the same thing.  It could be the PDF Printer is not translating the font properly.

[Sahay_R]

We are using BlueBeam PDF and Revit 2017.2. I have never seen this issue before today.

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Sahay_R

Just came across a similar case. Can you confirm your scaling % and windows graphics/ resolution?

Regards,

[Sahay_R]

Hi @Viveka_CD - the PDFs are full scale. Resolution is 1920x1080. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Is there by chance a masking region hiding somewhere?

Can you post a model with the view having issues?  

[Sahay_R]

@Anonymous no masking regions. Things all of a sudden went crazy last week when the model was printed to PDF for QC.

This is what I see in the model (one of many)

This is what I see in BlueBeam

This is all over a 100+ set of drawings. I've tried both raster and vector printing and it looks just as bad.

[Sahay_R · Accepted solution]

OK - don't know WHY this happens, but certainly found a fix for it. Switched to a different text style, then switched back. Switching to a similar text style also worked. PDF print previews are perfect.

[David_Knight]

I'm curious - was your file created in Revit 2017, or did you upgrade it from a previous version to version 2017?

Just wondering if there is an upgrade issue.

[Sahay_R · Accepted solution]

Nope. This was a cursed-event-in-time issue. The text notes got wonky after they were PDFed for QC. I'm going to try to bring in the text style from a virgin project to (hopefully) over write the bad one - AND IT WORKED!!! .

[David_Knight]

Well thank you for telling us your fix.  Going to log that one away for the future.  Very strange behavior.

[Viveka_CD]

Hi @Sahay_R

Glad to know that your issue is resolved.

Can you let us know which text style you used?

Also, which version of windows do you use? Did you log out of your windows and sign in to a new Revit session when you tried to resolve this issue?

Thanks,

[Sahay_R]

@Viveka_CD

1) Windows 10

2) This is one of our proprietary text styles 

3) No, I did not sign out of Revit. I opened a virgin project with our template, went back to the offending project, via Transfer Project Settings I copied the text style from the virgin Project. While copying, Revit did prompt me that the style does exist but is different, and offered me the option to over write

4) To test - I printed to Bluebeam PDF and looked at the print preview. It looked great, so I saved and sync'ed!