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Klaus5F8D
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May 15, 2024
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Jagged and blurry text in Illustrator

  • May 15, 2024
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Hi All,

As a photographer I usually work in Photoshop but occcasionally use Illustrator to prepare a graphic for reproduction when requested as EPS or Illustrator PDF.

I've seen several previous posts reagding the problem, as in turning off GPU in preferrences and preview, and also some more dubious ones "checking Appearence" or "Checking Layers"... without seening any options there. 

Anyways, non of these work ... still jagged and blotchy text after Tracing a flattened PNG image to high quality photograph, highest color setting. Gradations come out quite ok but the text is always jagged and blotchy, regardless of GPU setting.

Image/graphic comes from Photoshop, PSD, flattened, saved as PNG, 300ppi, large size ... super quality

Any suggestions anyone?

PS: I'm not talking about some level of pixelation / step-like edges on diagonals due to extreme magnification. Jaggedness is irregular and interwoven with blotchy, blurry shadows, visible even at 25 - 50%.

Thanks

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    Ton Frederiks
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    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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    May 15, 2024

    I am afraid that's what you get with image trace, I don't know the size of the text or the tracing method, but I am not surprised.

    The image you show would have been simple to create in Illustrator with paths, strokes, fills and text.

    Did you make the text in Photoshop? If so, save the files as .psd and in Illustrator, show import options when placing the file embedded. This will allow you to convert layers to objects and keep text editable (where possible).

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