When setting up a Revit PDF task and defining the Page Setup area of the task, you can use a Named Page Setup, or define the settings in the task [In-Session]

It is important to know that the PDF driver that is used is set on the Task Server in the Clarity Task tray, unless you are using the Revit Export settings in this task (Revit 2022+)

The only PDF driver that can run in multiple sessions of Revit aside from the Revit PDF Export, is the PDFx driver. 

All other pdf drivers can only run in one instance of

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