Problems with PDF's

[brd]

Have any of you experience trouble creating PDF's from Revit? We use the print driver called "Revit PDF Writer 4.2" and usually don't have any trouble. However, our Door Schedule sheet is not coming out right, the schedule text is skewed and stretched across the sheet. You'd have to see it to believe it, so I've attached the PDF. It's doing this to other sheets as well, but only a few of them. Naturally, nobody caught this horrendous error until the contractor got the drawings and made 35 copies... doh! Does anybody know what's causing this, or how to fix it? Is there perhaps a newer version of a PDF print driver?

[dpollard909366]

I recommend CutePDF - its free and the best PDF writer I have ever been able to find....

www.cutepdf.com

never had any problems using it with Revit, and it has all available sheets sizes built in!

[terrysouthern]

The free version of 995 is fairly relaible. With that old driver I always has to set my trutype font seting to "outline" in stead of "automatic" to get good output. I think these kinds of errors is why Atuodesk dropped the pinebush-Revit PDF Writer 4.2 plugin.


Have any of you experience trouble creating PDF's from Revit? We use the print driver called "Revit PDF Writer 4.2" and usually don't have any trouble. However, our Door Schedule sheet is not coming out right, the schedule text is skewed and stretched across the sheet. You'd have to see it to believe it, so I've attached the PDF. It's doing this to other sheets as well, but only a few of them. Naturally, nobody caught this horrendous error until the contractor got the drawings and made 35 copies... doh! Does anybody know what's causing this, or how to fix it? Is there perhaps a newer version of a PDF print driver?

[dpollard909366]

I use CutePDF 100% of the time for everything from Revit, Acad, Photoshop, Word, never had any problems.... even with masking!

I totally reccomend it over free 995, and there are no popups!

[D.Williams]

The only time I've ran into this was when using the Architxt font with the Revit 4.2 pdf writer. Switched to Arial, and things printed fine. Since switching to CutePDF like Dave mentioned above I've had zero problems.

[brd]

Thanks guys! I'll check those out.

[LRaiz]

PDF Writer 4.2 has issues with some text fonts. I will spare you the details of which kind of fonts are problematic. There is a known solution for that.

In PDF Writer properties click Printing Preferences button on General tab.
Next click Advanced and in resulting dialog find Document Options | PostScript Options | TrueType Font Download Option. Make sure that it is set to Outline. This may fix your font problems

See this thread regarding Architxt font http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=2505

[brd]

That did fix the problem, thanks! I assume you recommend we stick with the PDF Writer 4.2 then?

[LRaiz]

I assume you recommend we stick with the PDF Writer 4.2 then?
I did not say that. As a matter of fact I have a relatively low opinion about Pinebush (a vendor that developed PDF Writer). Otherwise they would have set better default options in the printer by default and would not force people to search for a solution. However I am not prepared to recommend someone else either.

[SCShell]

Hey there,
I still use the original Pinebrush printer and I still have to reset to "outline" with every printing process using PDF. And, it still works just fine.
But, I have been bitten. (Never use underlayed plans if one is set to "shading with edges") The two plans don't work and play well together, even though it looks like they do on the print preview screen.

Question:
Does Cute PDF print everything vertically like PDF995 does?

Thanks
Steve

[LRaiz]

I order to avoid having to reset "outline" with every printing job you may want to do it once but not from inside of Revit Print dialog by pressing Properties. Do it in Windows Start > Printers and Faxes. Select the PDF 4.2 Writer and do it from right click menu.

[SCShell]

I order to avoid having to reset "outline" with every printing job you may want to do it once but not from inside of Revit Print dialog by pressing Properties. Do it in Windows Start > Printers and Faxes. Select the PDF 4.2 Writer and do it from right click menu.
Thank you for that one! What a time saver.
(What a great forum)
Steve

[scatter529359]

what are the best settings to use to get the pdfs looking sharp. i need to send some A1 sized sheets to the printer next week, but the lines are always a little fuzzy or too thick - basically it's nowhere near sharp enough for CD's or presentation.

[ejburrell67787]

what are the best settings to use to get the pdfs looking sharp. i need to send some A1 sized sheets to the printer next week, but the lines are always a little fuzzy or too thick - basically it's nowhere near sharp enough for CD's or presentation.I use the Revit PDF writer 4.2 (pinebrush) and set the graphic quality to 300dpi, quality always seems fine for me, however, I typoically only use PDF files for on screen viewing not for printing, so maybe it needs to be higher for printing.

[Arnel Aguel]

what are the best settings to use to get the pdfs looking sharp. i need to send some A1 sized sheets to the printer next week, but the lines are always a little fuzzy or too thick - basically it's nowhere near sharp enough for CD's or presentation.I'm using Cutepdf and its default graphic quality is set to 600 dpi and it looks great in hard copy output.