REVIT STILL CANNOT IMPORT .PDF FILES?!?!?

Ok - based on a 'Timesaver' clip from 2010 I just found, Autodesks flagship architectural/engineering design software was (and apparently still is) incapable of importing a .pdf file - but if you can listen to this motherfuckers squeaky-ass voice for a few minutes, you will find out that you use a 3rd party application like snagit to make a .jpg and import that instead (searching for 2013 Revit import .pdf comes up with nothing - so I assume it's still fucked):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9FpECXMqw

Presented by Patrick Villella, LEED AP, AEC Application Engineer:
 







Now - clipping tools are one of the most awesome advancements I've seen in recent years, light years ahead of trying to do screen-shots and edit them.  The fact that they are basically free (unlimited trial) is hard to conceive of, especially when you consider that they come in tiny files that download quickly, install fast, function flawlessly, and accomplish the tasks that they claim to be able to.  For free - in a world where a $5,000 a seat set of bloatware is what we are expected to do our actual design with.


Obviously, this guy is coming at it from the architectural perspective - which is that you now have linework that you can snap 3d walls to.  I can use the same trick to import stuff into my electrical drawings that I just need to see, and that is apparently what I am stuck doing since nobody gives a fuck about compatibility with one of the most common file formats that I receive or have access to for information/details on various pieces of equipment, fixtures, etc.

Falling back on the creative use of 3rd party applications seems to be a common theme in the 'practical' use of Revit (if anything this ass-backwards can be considered 'practical'.  Now they can sit back and try to pretend like there was never a gaping hole in the functionality of their software that had to be filled with the ingenuity of someone else.  So - one problem solved.  But now we are on the the next problem, and the next problem. 

It's never ending with Revit.  I have had to fake it so much on this project that I feel like Patrick Villella's wife.

Fuck Autodesk, fuck Revit, and if you don't like it, FUCK YOU.