PDF Purgatory

[PB]

We are now on Archicad 29 and PDF creation is as painful as ever !

What is the point of having image textures (which are great for bringing the project to life on screen) when PDF output is so problematic? Currently trying to publish drawing sets and complete BIMx sets and every time the publication process hangs as soon as it reaches the first sheet of sections/elevations. We can, painstakingly, publish them one sheet at a time. However, every attempt to publish a set hangs (spinning beach ball). Perhaps it would eventually publish if left to run for a sufficiently long spell but that ties up the workstation.

I'm not sufficiently technically knowledgeable to know why Archicad PDFs are so large, cumbersome, & problematic, but its driving us insane...and its hardly a new problem. (layers & project info deselected, images & curves limited to 150dpi. Lossless images compression)

...A3 sheet with 4 sections of a small project hangs publication. Published individually it gives a 26MB file that both Preview and Nitro PDF Pro struggle to open.

Are we missing something? Doesn't everyone come across this problem? And, why on earth hasn't it been resolved yet?

Any advice that might help, please?

Edit:

Graphisoft: Please add the option to publish "flattened" PDF files to a user defined resolution. Would this not resolve a large part of the problem, and let us benefit properly from the "surfaces" in Archicad?

[PB]

Thank you Eduardo for the heads-up on Affinity: It looks most interesting. I shall explore to see if it can open the Archicad PDFs quicker Pixelmator.