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The Nice Things Studio
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January 22, 2025
Question

Help Exporting Artboads

  • January 22, 2025
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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

3 replies

meganchi
Legend
January 24, 2025

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.

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 22, 2025

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

The Nice Things Studio
Known Participant
January 22, 2025

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.

 

 

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 22, 2025

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.

Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 22, 2025

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?