PDF Rendering

[Grimfire]

Does a video card have anything to do in speeding up graphic & text rendering in a PDF document? Or is this something that the CPU and loads of Ram will help with? I would imagine that a graphics card has nothing to do with rendering 2D images in a PDF document, but I'm hoping you guys will have some feedback.

 

I have attached the file in question that takes foreeeeeeeeever to render. I know that sometimes the engineer just adds too much color or doesn't optimize well when converting from Autocad to a PDF format. But any suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated.

 

Linus....Your youtube videos are awesome!

(maybe this topic is something you could cover in a new video?, I know, PDF's are boring LoL)

 

Thank you,

 

Grimfire

S-2.1.pdf

[WereCatf]

It's more a function of the PDF-viewer that you're using: some viewers are really slow, some are fast, some fall in the middle. I opened your PDF in my favourite, the Foxit Reader, and it took around 2 seconds to render, which I wouldn't consider bad for such a complex document.

[MrMarriarty]

The only thing i get a spike on is CPU usage opening that file

which would make sense its made up of an INSANE amount of layers

 

From my experience of adobe products (20 years in print and design) choosing optimal PDF settings for the document when its created will yield the best improvement in rendering, if you want help with that let me know how this is being created

[Grimfire]

Thank you all for the quick feedback! Especially the response from MrMarriarty. Unfortunately, as a Subcontractor I have no control over how the Architectural & Structural Engineers optimize an Autocad dwg when converting to a PDF.

 

I use Bluebeam as my PDF viewer / editor, although when I went to the layers tab, nothing showed up. How did you unlock the layers?

 

Grimfire

[Zodiark1593]

That document definitely took some time to render on my phone, maybe about 8-10 seconds for it to load clearly, though zooming in causes it to render again. Unfortunately, I don't have the means to log cpu usage. Will try on my Intel Atom system next though.

[Grimfire]

The painful nightmare I face is that when I'm using Bluebeam Revu to measure Lineal & Square feet, every time I move the document it has to re-render. Sometimes it glitches out the measuring tool.

[Takamine]

I use Bluebeam on my desktop at work and it does just fine because my desktop is a retired gaming setup that is total overkill for what I do. Looking to buy a laptop and I am curious what component(s) are most important to focus on to get smooth pdf rendering in Bluebeam. I believe single thread cpu speed is a critical factor, but want some confirmation.