Image resolution issue whilst exporting

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February 3, 2025
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Hi!

My team and I are facing an issue with the quality of images when exporting a document from InDesign or Illustrator. Despite the images being high resolution when added to the working file, their quality decreases when converting the file to a PDF. We have tried exporting the file in high resolution, but nothing seems to fix the problem.

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Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Your basic problem is exporting to 72ppi, thereby making the image too low-rez and crunchy. Increase that to the number you wish. Old industry habits are 300ppi for print.

For digital print, I generally opt for 200ppi, but each project has its own needs/arguments.

Also, you are using the export to interactive PDF. Is that what you want? Or are you trying to make a PDF that is suitable for the commercial printer? Or are you trying to make a PDF that is suitable for linking on a website, as well as also suitable for the end-user to print?

Mike Witherell

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

How did you import images to InDesign? Do you place or copy & paste?
What is the effective resolution?
What file types are the images?

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sakina_8260Author

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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@sakina_8260

You're exporting as 72ppi.

And you're exporting INTERACTIVE PDF - not for PRINT.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Instead of screenshots of the files - which are downgraded / resample during uploading here anyway - could you please post screenshots with the export settings?

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sakina_8260Author

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jane-e

Community Expert

@sakina_8260

InDesign and Illustrator each have their own forums and we can only move your post to one of them. I've moved your post from Creative Cloud Desktop to the InDesign forum.

Can you show your settings in the Export to PDF dialog from InDesign?

Jane