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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?
 
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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.
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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!
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Why are you using JPEG if you want high-quality images? Use a lossless format, such as PNG.
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When exporting PDF from Illustrator, available lossless formats are JPEG2000 and Zip.
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They are using Acrobat, though. Illustrator is the name of the profession, not the application they're using.
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Ah ah, I still need to improve my English.
You make my day!
😉
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Happens to the best of us! I'm not a native English speaker, either... 🙂
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Because the European patent rules require drawings sumitted specifically as a pdf.
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Because the European patent rules require drawings sumitted specifically as a jpg, not a pdf.