Revit 2017 poor quality print to pdf

[Moshe-A]

Hi Guys,

it looks like Revit 2017 produce poor quality (less clear) of pdf files comparing to R2016/R2015)

we print by PDF Creator driver (and I have tested doPDF 8 the same results) the same view sheet in R2016 produce good print and under R2017 not

Workaround \ FIX?

thanks

Moshe

[Anonymous]

Hello @Moshe-A

Use Bluebeam Revu

[Moshe-A]

thanks but did not work

it looks like the problem is not a pdf driver but Revit 2017 it self

i'm talking about window 7/64 pro, can some one tell me if in windows 10 this is fixed?

Moshe

[Anonymous]

Hello @Moshe-A

Window 7/64 pro is not the problem here I'm guarantee you, because right now I'm using window 7/64 pro and I'm not having the problem same as you have.

Can you post some PDF here so I can see personally the outcome?

[Anonymous]

Try switching between the Vector and Raster option in print settings sometimes Raster option produces poor quality prints don't see the point in it raster to be honest maybe for Rendered model views. If you suspect printer driver try CutePDF its is free and super easy to use similar to DoPDF but more stable in my opinion.

http://www.cutepdf.com/

[Moshe-A]

arjay,

attached a zip file contains 2 pdf files:

1. from R2016

2. from R2017

it's the same sheet (view)

thanks

[ShawnV83]

Did you try adjusting your DPI to a higher value? I think default is 96, set it to at least 300

[-FDC-]

The size of the 2016 file is double (in megabytes) of the 2017 file!

Something is changed (dpi, raster quality,...).

Are you using the latest Revit 2017 update (2017.2 !)

[shefypattambi]

Hi,

This issue is currently investigating by Revit development team. Please refer this link

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/revit-2018-2-pdf-printing-quality-issue/m-p/...

[Anonymous]

I had the exact same problem.
I found out that for some reason, the quality is very poor when i use the adobe PDF printer, but when when i changed the printer to the standard inbuilt "PDFCreator" the quality is good.

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[alobodin]

same with Revit 2019.2 and Revit 2020.2

[mckinnon.grae]

Try changing the scale of the drawing from your viewport. Usually if I have this set 1:1 - then print setup as scale to fit page - The image quality is seriously degraded. If you change it to say, 1:50 or something larger, then print as scale to fit page, the image is better quality (since it is degraded less). Makes sense?