Hello Bentley,

I would like to have the possibility to create PDFs with a mixture of vector elements and rasterized elements. Or rendered/shaded views and non-rendered/shaded views.

I attached an example showing one of the use cases.

• Having a sheet that includes an isometric view of an object.

• Isometric view should be shaded, other views don't need it.

• There will be text that should be searchable in the PDF later.

Why do I not want to render the whole sheet?

• Text is not searchable anymore.
  Imagine having more complex documents, with many tags and so on, maybe several sheets in one PDF.
  Having the possibility to search for a text in the PDF via CTRL+F is very convenient.
  (Yes, I for myself could search in MS, but people who only have the PDF cannot do that.)

• File size increases. Even in my little example you can see that the rasterized PDF is bigger. Having more complex documents this difference will increase.

• Together with the file size, also the print time goes up for every rasterized sheet.

What do I imagine to have?

• PDFs have the ability to display rasterized elements together with vectors.

• I imagine having only a certain "viewport" rasterized and not rasterizing the whole sheet.

• For example you could define in the properties if your view will be printed rasterized or not.

Attached you can find example PDFs (DGN upload was not allowed).

• one rasterized, other one not

• example is very simple

  • in reality it would be documents with much more texts, for example partslists, detail drawings on following sheets etc.