Export to PDF Issue - .pdf showing edges of a placed .png

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August 29, 2022
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I'm working in Illustrator 26.4.1. (64 bit)

The light blue image shown here was made in photoshop. I cut out the sillhouette from a high res photo, and did a solid color fill adjustment layer. I exported it to .png with a transparent background, and placed it into Illustrator. At this point, all looks great! Until.... I export to .pdf (as a High Quality Print).

When I export to .pdf, you can see a dark border around the edges of the shape. This does not disappear when zooming in.

Any suggestions?

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

The sillhouette examples you showed are very good as vector artwork.

You may want to try Image Trace to convert a high res image to vector.

The result may need some refining but will be scalable without showing pixels.

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html

Ton Frederiks

Correct answer

Community Expert

The sillhouette examples you showed are very good as vector artwork.

You may want to try Image Trace to convert a high res image to vector.

The result may need some refining but will be scalable without showing pixels.

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/image-trace.html

Met1

Legend

"I cut out the silhouette from a high res photo" - how?

Also, I assume you are planning on doing something else in Illustrator?

M

Marley C.Author

Inspiring

Thanks for the reply. I selected the part of the image I wanted to make into a silhouette and removed the background. Refined it using select and mask. Then I did a solid fill color.

"I assume you are planning on doing something else in Illustrator?"

[Not sure what you mean by this question. The answer is yes, I workin Illustrator almost every day.]