Revit to PDF - Which drivers work?

[barrie.sharp]

I have noticed that AutoCAD 2010 integrates nicely with PDF and comes with the drivers to do it. Revit on the otherhand has not got it's own PDF drivers right? So when I print to a third party PDF driver, the files come out at 16mb a page (give or take) when a 3D view is included.

Clearly the PDF is being created without any raster compression which is nothing short of a nightmare. It would be lovely if client's didn't require PDF but DWF seems to produce blanks looks and no one is interested in downloading the reader :(

I'm sure i'm not alone in having to produce PDF. What drivers seem to work best for Revit?

[iankids]

Hi Barrie,

I have had good consistent results with pdf995.

Cheers,


Ian

[clay_hickling]

Have been using PDFexchange without issue

[PaulB]

pdfcreator is good for us

Paul

[drash]

I primarily use deskPDF, but that is one you have to purchase and there are so many free ones out there.

[SCShell]

pdfcreator is good for us

Paul

Hey there,
Put me down for "ditto".
Great program, supports multiple page printing, lightweight, and free.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Steve

[barrie.sharp]

Hey there,
Put me down for "ditto".
Great program, supports multiple page printing, lightweight, and free.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Steve

Thanks for the link. Works really well! instead of 16mb a page it's 1.6mb for 12pages.

Primo PDF wasn't working out.

Thanks for everyones responses

[psteel]

We use either – Adobe PDF or CutePDF.

The Adobe PDF is the professional version but Cute PDF is OOB. In
both programs you can re-define the print quality from 1200dpi to 72dpi.

Reducing dpi reduces file size, we predominately output A0 pdf’s at 600dpi

In both softwares you can batch print

[Paul Monsef]

I've been using pdfFactory for a loooooooong time. Works great.

[dlpdi5b]

I like acro plot pro, best batch pdf creator.

[Scott Wilson]

CutePDF works pretty well for us.