I have published the 6 pages from corel draw to PDF but the pictures are pixilating and I resized the pages to fit pictures.

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June 25, 2026
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How can I make the pdf not pixilate

Correct answer Bobby Henderson

Was any of the artwork actually created in CorelDRAW? When I open pages of the PDF in Adobe Illustrator the artwork on each page is a flattened, pixel-based image. Each image is pretty low in resolution too. Using the Publish to PDF export filter won't do anything to change the nature of a pixel-based image -except maybe degrade it further, depending on the image compression and re-sampling settings used.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

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(The PDF attached has CorelDraw X6 as the creator in its properties)

As mentioned, you need to be working with vector objects. If you HAVE Illustrator, you might want to move your files into that…. e.g. save your Corel files as .ai files then open those in Illustrator.

You will also have to add bleed as your designs will definitely need that.

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Bobby Henderson

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If the original artwork is purely pixel-based and needs to be re-built with text objects and other graphics objects in vector form I would recommend doing that within Adobe Illustrator.

Currently there is a pretty big problem involving moving artwork from CorelDRAW into Adobe Illustrator. Any .AI files exported by CorelDRAW that contain any live text objects will fail to open in Illustrator versions 30 and 29. The app will display a message “Illustrator could partially read this file” and yadda yadda yadda. A blank document opens. That’s still the case with the 30.6 release and 30.7 beta. It takes having a version 28 install of Illustrator to be able to open Corel-saved .AI files that contain any text objects (and then there are still issues that have to be repaired with those text objects). PDF and EPS files exported from CorelDRAW exhibit their own variety of problems when those files are opened in Illustrator. The .AI format is still the best option for sending artwork from CorelDRAW to Illustrator, despite the text object issues.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

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Indeed.

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Bobby Henderson

Correct answer

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Was any of the artwork actually created in CorelDRAW? When I open pages of the PDF in Adobe Illustrator the artwork on each page is a flattened, pixel-based image. Each image is pretty low in resolution too. Using the Publish to PDF export filter won't do anything to change the nature of a pixel-based image -except maybe degrade it further, depending on the image compression and re-sampling settings used.

Monika Gause

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Everything is supposed to be an image, even the text?

The images would probably work with low resolution, but not the text.

So what you need to do is separate that and do the typesetting in a layout or vector app.

Are you really referring to CorelDRAW? This is the Adobe Illustrator forum.

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