Jagged font when I covert PDF to image (tiff or jpg etc.)

Hello,

I have experienced the same issue converting an 80pg pdf to jpegs. Changing the resolution to 600dpi makes no difference. The text and vector lines still appear jaggered.

As someone who also doesn't have time to open the file in Ps or Ai or InDesign, I found a quick work around for my needs. Crzy that an online engine can do what a paid subscription to Adobe CC can't, but here we are.

I needed images exported for case study purposes. A quick and easy solution. I Googled "PDF to image" and found this free online engine: pdftoimage.com

You don't have control over the resolution, but a tabloid-sized sheet output at 3400px x 2200px at 200ppi which was perfect for my needs. Anti-alisaing on these exports is perfect (art optimized I would guess). Now I don't recommend this for sensitive files, but for documents already in public circulation you should be fine.

Hope this helps in the meantime.

I'm curious as to what version of Acrobat your colleague has. Unless they exported at a higher resolution (600 ppi), there hasn't been anti-aliasing in any version I have worked with.

As far as you are concerned, you should also export as 600 dpi. The "standard" 300 dpi, which is good for images for high quality print, does not work well for type, as you have noticed. Since you are saving as JPEG anyway, your design has a lot of white space so the resulting files won't be much bigger.

You need to go into your preferences and tell Acrobat what resolution you want the TIF to be in. Otherwise it will do Default which may not be what you want (and apparently is not).

The screenshot below should show the steps. Just note that the greater the resolution, the larger the file size will be. It's one or the other, you cannot have both. 300 is probably a good number for what you want/are doing if you're printing to a laserwriter or for a quality printing. For looking at on the screen or printing via an inkjet, 150 ppi is fine.

Good luck!

Not a direct answer but a tip: if you happen to have Photoshop, it does a much better job.