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August 3, 2024
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Bitmap images print pixelated

  • August 3, 2024
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I am creating a booklet using InDesign made up of images from Photoshop.  All images have been converted to 600dpi BMP files.  These print nicely in Photoshop, but come out slightly pixelated when printing either directly from InDesign or when exported to a PDF.

Example from Photoshop:


Example from InDesign:

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Willi Adelberger
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Community Expert
August 3, 2024

With BMP files you refer to 1bit files?

Those need a resolution 4 times as normal images have. E. g. a photo has 300ppi (not dpi), so they would have a resolution of 1200 ppi to get a compareae impression.