Revit-to-PDF Postscript Error

[cwride]

One day I was able to print to PDF (using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro & 10 Pro distiller) and the next day I wasn't. After a week and a half of research by myself and two of our IT folks, we uncovered the problem.

The Error

When I printed from Revit to PDF, I would get the following error message:

[ ProductName: Distiller ]
[ Error: undefinedresult; OffendingCommand: imageDistiller ]

Stack:
-dict-

[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]
[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ]

I could print to PDF from other applications (Word, etc), just not from Revit. The problem persisted over multiple machines and over multiple files.

What Changed

Our IT department pushed an Adobe update AND a Revit update. Not sure which (if either) of these changes caused the issue.

The Solution

In the Adobe print settings (Start > Printers and Faxes > Adobe PDF Properties) go to the Advanced tab and ensure that "Enable advanced printing features" is checked. Mine wasn't. Enabling it solved my print-to-PDF problem.

I hope that this post saves somebody else the week-and-a-half headache it caused me.

[g00030595145166]

Hi I tried to fix the printer properties but it didn`t work for me...it stops saving as pdf..and i keep getting same error...can u please help..i really need to print as pdf??

[Silleke]

Give DoPDF7 a try. It is free. I had this problem before.
Read my blog:
http://revit-it.blogspot.com/2010/08...g-to-pdfs.html

HTH.

[cwride]

The other factor that may have caused my error, I recently discovered, was a graphic in my title block family. We placed the company logo in the title block as a jpeg image (because our logo has a graphical element and because we can't re-create our logo natively in Revit because Revit will not draw lines shorter than 1/32" in length). When I removed that jpeg logo from the title block family, my remaining print-to-PDF issues went away.