Maybe you and other Revit customers can convince Autodesk to reach out to us? This is not just “a critical issue for Adobe” but rather, a critical issue for Autodesk that we would like to assist our mutual customers overcome. Again the problem could be in Revit in terms of how it interacts with the print driver, Microsoft in terms of how the PostScript driver is converting the print stream from Revit to PostScript, or less likely, some internal limitation or problem within Distiller. We would need Autodesk's active assistance in terms of providing software and sample problematic files for anyone at Adobe to be able to even begin helping Autodesk to resolve the issue. (5) We have no idea where the issue is since as far as I know, Autodesk has not reached out to Adobe to assist in troubleshooting the issue. (4) Autocad itself acknowledges that the problem occurs with at least one other third party PDF driver / creator.

In the description of the problem Autodesk's article specifically points to model complexity as a major factor in the symptoms occurring or being alleviated. For complex models, the output is just that much more in size and complexity. (3) CAD software typically produces very verbose output, exceptional numbers of line segments and itsy-bitsy filled polygons which in turn produces even more complex PostScript and PDF, even for simple models. It is in either the creation of the PostScript or in the Distiller.

(2) Revit creates PDF with Acrobat via printing to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance in which content provided by Revit is converted to PostScript with the driver itself (a Microsoft component) which is then fed into Acrobat Distiller (a component of Adobe Acrobat) which converts the PostScript to PDF. The variable here appears to be Autodesk Revit, not Adobe Acrobat.

(1) Clearly the problem started with recent versions of Autodesk Revit beginning in 2016 and continuing on through at least the current 2017 release. I have looked at the Autodesk article cited as well as the postings on Autodesk's forums.

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