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The Nice Things Studio
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Jan 22, 2025 12:00 PM UTC
Question

Help Exporting Artboads

This is a very basic problem I'm sure but I'm used to working in indesign. I have a design project with images laid out across a 5 page PDF. When I export the images are coming out blurry. The aspect ratio for each page is 1920 x 1080. Help! 

 

Thanks

Marion

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meganchi
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Jan 24, 2025 10:17 PM UTC

Did you say you dropped in screen grabs? If so, then that is the culprit. Screen grabs are only 72dpi, so they are not high resolution to begin with.

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Ton Frederiks
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Jan 22, 2025 12:29 PM UTC

That 1920 x 1080 size is pixels, centimeters, inches or something else?

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The Nice Things Studio
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Jan 22, 2025 12:56 PM UTC

Document size is pixels so for example the smaller text under 'inspiration' is 15pt. Images are scree grabs dropped in. Various sizes between 127 and 200K.

 

Below is a screengrab of doc in illustrator v's doc on export. Also attached is a screen grab of how I'm exporting.  I'm viewing the pdf with preview on mac after export.

 

 

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Ton Frederiks
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Jan 22, 2025 1:05 PM UTC

Can you click the little cog wheel to check the PDF Preset? I would not be surprised if it was set to Smallest File size.

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Doug A Roberts
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Jan 22, 2025 12:14 PM UTC

1. What size in pixels are the images?

2. What is the size and effective PPI of the images when placed in Illustrator?

3. What are your PDF output settings for images?

4. What software are you using to view the PDF after exporting? What zoom setting?

5. Can you share comparison images before and after exporting?

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