Many choices between pdf makers. Wondering what people’s experience has been.
Thank you.
Hi Costa - for printing from Rhino, Adobe Acrobat has been problematic. I use Cute myself, and I’ve used 995 and PrimoPDF as well; all have been fine I’d say.
-Pascal
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I have used PDF Creator with great success for a few years now.
It’s open-source - the free version has ads only in the setup process- not while using the program.
you could set the page size to whatever you want in the (virtual) printer settings dialog. the setting for the size is called postscript.
I’ve actually sent a few big things (a few feet big) in a PDF file to print using rhino and had a great experience (always made the 2D graphics in rhino as well).
The only thing to mention here is making sure you get the free (not plus) version and during the installation to disable the extra installation for “PDF Architect”.
I don’t have any experience with another solution but I’m very happy with this one so I never looked elsewhere 
Here is how it looks:
Free Pdf creater has ads 
It doesn’t.
From the PDF Creator website:
Please note that we display advertisements during the setup to cover our
costs. If you do not like advertisements, we also offer PDFCreator Plus, which gives you access to our ad-free setup.
So it’s just the setup… not while using the program itself, nobody should care about skipping two pages during the installation. it’s a great software.
Do any of the PDF printers support printing to PDF while also preserving units etc?
Hello @pascal and All of you struggling with Acrobat PDF.
I posted a fix for the freezing problem on the Adobe forum back in 2013 which might be useful to some of you here.
See link below 3rd last entry:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058522
This also solved NOT RESPONDING issues in general. - Michael VS
I regularly print architecture layouts through Adobe PDF and the only time having any trouble was when printing data with satelite image in PictureFrame.
Hi Michael - thanks, good to know.
-Pascal
The Adobe PDF driver is really the only driver that I’ve gotten crash reports from. I have never been able to pin down the exact cause of the crash in the Adobe driver, but I do know there is a setting that is on by default to smooth curve data. That setting can cause problems with the data that is generated from Rhino.
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The “Microsoft Print to PDF” that is built into Windows 10 has work well for what little printing I do…
– Dale
Hi Dale - It seems to have very limited paper sizes, do you see that? I don’t know if that can be modified or not…
-Pascal
@pascal, you can use sizes other than Letter. But you cannot use a large format (e.g. D, or E) size as far as I can tell.
@dale @pascal
There might be a way to allow adding more presets to that list but it involves tinkering with files and it’s not certain to work or to be reliable, I don’t think its worth the effort but you can take a look at this article:
It sure could be nice if that Microsoft Print to PDF driver would’ve offered the option to select a custom page size on the fly, that would’ve been even better then creating presets in advance in my opinion (or both).
It does, but last I tried it lacked lots of paper sizes.
I use Adobe PDF driver and never has issues with it. Win10.
Oh, just noticed that others had posted the same…
Bullzip (free) is good, works like a printer
Kevin
The new Windows 10 update has added some more paper sizes, but they are mostly international. Here is a handy guide of sizes. A3, A4, A, B4, and B5