Print to PDF slow on Windows 11

[Michael_Gia]

Hey all. 
 

I’ve been praising my new switch to Windows 11 from macOS with respect to PBR but printing a set of plans to PDF is excruciatingly slow on a pc compared to a Mac. 
 

The Mac is at least twice as fast. 
 

is there some trick to this?

 

I have used both the Chief pdf print option and the windows pdf option. 
 

Am I missing something?

[DBCooper]

I'll just ask the obvious first, are you using the same DPI?  Did you try it with the same plan on both machines?

 

I have not used a mac myself so I don't have any thing to compare to.  I have seen some big differences on windows though when I have a layout with live views or when I tried to set my DPI too high.

 

[Michael_Gia]

4 hours ago, DBCooper said:

Did you try it with the same plan on both machines?

Yes I compared the same plan. 
 

I use 144 dpi which is not too high.

 

68 seconds vs 138 seconds. 

 

[tundra_dweller]

6 hours ago, Michael_Gia said:

68 seconds vs 138 seconds. 

 

There almost has to be something in your layout/plan causing this I think. I opened up the Chief sample plan/layout "Bachelor View" layout and printed to pdf using Chief's "print to pdf" and it took 6 seconds at 300 dpi using the Lenovo desktop in my signature. Most of my layouts take 3-4 seconds to print to pdf. Unless I'm misunderstanding what your process is.