Layout 2024 PDF Export Quality Disappointing

LayOut
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Hi everybody

I have just completed my first project after switching from SketchUp 2022 to SketchUp 2024 and overall I am REALLY impressed with the latest version. It just seems so much better in many ways so a big thumbs up to the developers :+1:

However: one disappointment is the quality of the PDF export from Layout and I cannot see a way to improve it.

In 2022 I had the option to set the PDF export output resolution to High and that made a big difference, but I no longer have that option and the resolution now seems to match the old LOW setting.

2022
2022847×793 55.5 KB

2024
2024804×760 43.7 KB

You can see from these exports that the 2024 version is much more pixelated than it was with Layout 2022.

Layout 2022
Layout 20221307×1364 168 KB

Layout 2024
Layout 20241296×1233 189 KB

Layout 2022 Zoomed
Layout 2022 Zoomed2000×1881 180 KB

Layout 2024 Zoomed
Layout 2024 Zoomed2000×1857 186 KB

Just wondering If I am missing an obvious setting somewhere although I have looked pretty hard.

Thanks,

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I think it was in the 2023 version that the settings were moved to the Render Settings in Document setup.

RenderSettings
RenderSettings1298×926 82.3 KB

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That’s perfect Ivan!

Strangely I had looked all over the settings in Preferences…but hadn’t noticed the Render settings in Document Setup :grinning:

Thank you very much :+1:

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That was actually a nice improvement. It allowed the ability to set a low quality for modeling to improve speed in necessary. and not have to go back and change settings for output.

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