Framemaker 9 writes to PDF at high zoom; text is clear, images blurry

the resulting PDF opens automatically at 1400 percent. At this resolution, the text appears rather clear though kerned strangely.The images appear very pixelated and blurry.

Scaling ANY PDF up 14 times is going to show clear text and pixelated images, unless the images are very high resolution. For example, if the image is 300 dpi at its physical size on the PDF page, viewing it at 14 times is equivalent to displaying it at about 25 dpi or really 25 pixels per inch. Screen resolution is about 100 pixels per inch. So, a 25 pixels per inch image displays pixelated.

Check the Acrobat settings when you create the PDF. On the main tab, there is a setting on the magnification that the PDF should use when it is opened initially. I set this to Fit Page. I think the default is DEFAULT. It is possible that you set this to a large percentage. In any event, I doubt that what you experienced is a FrameMaker bug.

Van