resullins Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 I have some drawing sets for a project... and the project managers and some other people are complaining about the slow page rendering speed when scrolling. I use Bluebeam, and have done all the things that they suggest to speed things up, but I feel like maybe I need to start with the CAD output. What can I do to minimize PDf size and speed up scrolling without sacrificing PDF quality? Are there plot settings I'm missing? Should I use AutoCAD's PDF driver or Adobe/Bluebeam's? What should I check here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maratovich Posted March 7, 2022 Share Posted March 7, 2022 Use the "DWG to PDF" printer to print Set the quality to 600 dpi or less in the printer settings. Turn off transparency when printing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
densan Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 If transparency is not the issue, I wanted to share a solution to a similar problem I had when creating PDF files from AutoCAD. If the text in your drawing uses fonts with the extension .shx AutoCAD converts some of the text as PDF comments if you have the variable "pdfshx" set to one. Changing "pdfshx" to zero will not add comments to the final PDF. The PDF file with comments is slow to open, so the problem grows exponentially when adding multiple slow files to an extensive set. Please look at the examples I posted and check the comments for each file with Adobe or Bluebeam. I hope this helps, PDF w PDFSHX set to 0.pdf PDF w PDFSHX set to 1.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberAngel Posted March 22, 2022 Share Posted March 22, 2022 13 hours ago, densan said: If the text in your drawing uses fonts with the extension .shx AutoCAD converts some of the text as PDF comments if you have the variable "pdfshx" set to one. Changing "pdfshx" to zero will not add comments to the final PDF. 356.71 kB · 0 downloads Wow. You can learn something every day about AutoCAD. I always wondered where those comments came from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resullins Posted March 23, 2022 Author Share Posted March 23, 2022 I already thought about that, but we only use TrueType fonts, specifically Arial, and PDFSHX shouldn't have any affect on those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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