having trouble coverting pdf line drawings to jpg with the highest quality

[William2603403114ta]

I'm a patent illustrator. I work exclusively in pdf's. A client asked me to send a set of drawings as jpg's. I purchased acrobat pro, and ran a conversion to jpg. All of the drawings that are b&w came out stepped (pixelated) with shadow artifacts. Is there any way to conver pdf to jpg and keep the same resolution and not create ghosting?

 

[barbara_a]

When saving as PDF, click the Settings button.

Set high resolution. That's the best you can do -- raster files of line art won't look as smooth as vector line art.

[William2603403114ta]

Thank you for your reply. I now know I cannot use acrobat to save as .jpg. They look terrible. I found a way to do it through my CAD software.
Thanks!

[try67]

Why are you using JPEG if you want high-quality images? Use a lossless format, such as PNG.

[JR Boulay]

When exporting PDF from Illustrator, available lossless formats are JPEG2000 and Zip.

[try67]

They are using Acrobat, though. Illustrator is the name of the profession, not the application they're using.

[JR Boulay]

Ah ah, I still need to improve my English.

You make my day!

😉

[try67]

Happens to the best of us! I'm not a native English speaker, either... 🙂

[William2603403114ta]

Because the European patent rules require drawings sumitted specifically as a pdf.

[William2603403114ta]

Because the European patent rules require drawings sumitted specifically as a jpg, not a pdf.