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JuliaRenee
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August 4, 2026
Question

Export to PDF is shrinking certain components of my design

  • August 4, 2026
  • 3 replies
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I am using illustrator to make figures, which involves adding in several rectangular images of my results and aligning them. I have tried both copy and pasting these in, as well as directly importing them individually. They look fine in illustrator, but when I go to export to PDF, the resulting PDF has several of the rectangles shrunk down. It is not all of them but several for each figure is distorted. Any help is appreciated.

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    Harshika Verma
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    August 11, 2026

    Hi JuliaRenee,


    Hope you're doing well!

    We would like to follow up on your issue. Are you able to resolve the issue? Please feel free to update the conversation to assist you further.

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    We will try our best to help.


    Thanks,

    Harshika

    Joely10623436
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 5, 2026
    1. Pls tell us the Illustrator Version and Operating System
    2. Can you share the AI and PDF file, please?
    Ton Frederiks
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 4, 2026

    Can you show an before/ after example?

    Do these images have the same resolution? What kind are they, jpeg, tiff …?

    What PDF preset do you use as export setting? Any resampling involved?