I thought it might be helpful to see some examples of what the in-session Appearance settings looked like and what the time differences and file size difference are.

Time Saving Tip

In a nutshell, unless you are printing 3d views for final prints, you can probably get away with Low for the raster settings for Appearance.

Hardware

In this test I am using the Clarity PDF driver the Task Server on my laptop

• Windows 11
• 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13850HX 10 GHz
• 64gb Ram
• NVIDIA 6gb gpu

Clarity 2025

Same set each time with Raster set to Color

Clarity PDF driver

Raster Quality                       Duration                     File Size

Low                                         2:49.5030000              19.24 mb

Medium                                 3:56.0840000              24.52 mb

High                                        7:23.0530000              38.56 mb

Presentation                          21:36.2370000            48.08 MB

Graphic Differences

I don’t see a noticeable difference between Low and other settings until I get to Rendered views.  Even imported images look fine at Low.

All screen shots are from pfds scaled to 100%

The next few pages have screen shots from Plan Views, Images and 3d Views.

PLAN VIEWS   

LOW

Medium

High

PRESENTATION

IMAGES

LOW

MEDIUM

HIGH

PRESENTATION

3D Views

LOW

MEDIUM

HIGH

PRESENTATION