Hi, Mike, The noggin remark had to be said and I stand by it. When I'm here to try and figure out how to complete a job with a feature that would otherwise be clearly capable of doing it (as evident from the crop sample) and someone comes in and essentially says "do it manually, it's what illustrator makers want you to do anyway" without knowing the job specifics (volume job with hundreds of these) and questions what the client needs them for is a bit insulting. If someone says "this needs to happen" as I have, then it needs to happen, period. In either case, it would have been fine to batch-increase the DPI - would have been simpler, IMO. Too bad AI doesn't handle files like that without adding unnecessary blurs at that resolution. Still doesn't *really* explain how come a crop of the same file works absolutely perfectly, though, wouldn't the same pre-processing take place? This is where it's confusing. Either way, Kris' idea seems like the best option to go forward with, even if it's not perfect. Sure beats doing the job manually, as was suggested xD
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