You could try bumping it up to 150ppi (if you can) just to see if that improves anything. It may be downsampling all of your images to 72ppi, which would cause that pixelation. Based on what I have read about the Interactive pdf exporter, it doesn’t give you much control over the downsampling in the way the print presets do. If your links are all in order, the next thing that stands out is the 72ppi – which is far too low for print, and imho even for screen/monitor except for the most basic of uses (and it’s actually irrelevant, but that’s a whole other discussion). It also uses that copy to print if it can’t find the original image it’s linked to. When you link as opposed to insert an image it still places a small, low-resolution copy of the image into the InDesign file, which is what it uses when you don’t have the high-quality or overprint view setting enabled. ![]() Looking at the first image being set to maximum, my first thought is it looks like a broken link in InDesign. On the contrary, there’s a huge difference between those two images – the second shows a great deal of jpeg artifacting from high levels of compression. You may need to use multiple preset settings to generate different quality levels of your document depending on purpose. Downloading is a different story, since it depends on how large a file you think your audience is willing to wait for. There are other options that affect that ratio, but it’s entirely possible you won’t be able to get the quality you want, or at least the same level as for print, in an emailable file size. And for the most part I make sure the pdf writer doesn’t do much in the way of compression because I’ve already done it to the images myself before linking them to the Indesign document.īeware that this is where things are going to start getting tricky with quality vs file size. I don’t have the interactive option (though there are some interesting results Googling for “pdf interactive vs pdf print”) so I can’t see what things are set to nor do I know anything about your original files, but I create my own preset for pdf generation based on the High Quality Print preset so I know what all of those things are set to. There are two factors that affect quality for each of three types of images – downsampling, where if your original image is over a certain ppi it will reduce it to a lower ppi and image quality, which sets the level of loss in lossy compression formats (like jpgs). In particular, the options in the Compression group. If you have any questions whether or not your art is print ready, feel free to email us and we will let you know.The most likely issue is the Adobe Preset for pdf that you’re using. This also helps against any issues with the fonts not reading properly when printing. This helps us if we need to fix anything with the file, since we do not own all the fonts and may not be able to open it because of that. Please include the bleeds when designing, so we do not have to scale the art up (which depending on how close content is to the edge, might not work) or for us to have to create it ourselves. We will be able to more accurately match it that way. For 4 Color Digital - If you need us to match a PMS color, please leave it and do not covert it to CMYK.Please don't rename spot colors, or create your own.Acceptable colors are Black, CMYK, and PMS.Scaling up artwork to fit a new size is also not recommended. They will appear pixelated and/or blurry. Using images taken from the internet will not work because they are a low resolution of 72 dpi. Under Properties select Press Quality and Save your PDF IMAGE RESOLUTIONįor high quality printing, the resolution must be 300 dpi or greater. Under File, Print, select Adobe PDF writer ![]() If you do have the full version of Adobe Acrobat PDF please follow the steps below. If you don’t please download and use our Adobe Job Ready Program. ![]() You will need to have the full version of Adobe Acrobat PDF. Export your file as an EPS using the below settings:.Convert all your text/copy to outline fonts.Saving your Corel Draw file as an Adobe Illustrator EPS NOT recommended, but we will accept: Word Docs, and Excel file formats.(Outlining all the fonts will also be helpful since some fonts do not like to work even though they have been packaged.) InDesign - export & package the file so that all links & fonts are included.EPS & AI - make sure to embed all links & outline all fonts.JPEG - make sure that it is in CMYK & that the resolution is at least 300 dpi.
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