ASSET EXPORT NOT EXPORTING TEXT CLEARLY AT ALL

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February 26, 2025
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Why does text get exported as png so grain??

Import and export

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Hendy,

May I ask whether you saw all the 4 answers to this one?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/rounded-only-on-the-outside/m-p/15172652

H

hendy_5450Author

Inspiring

As far as I can see,
there are only two answers in all the replies.
one is to try 2x resolution or 144 ppi - which I have no idea how to do
the other is to export for screens, and that option exports it even worse.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

thank you for all this information,
I still have a few questions
1. I still don't understand why I wouldn't choose 300PPI as my resolution.
we alway learned that that is the best.

2. what's the option png 8?
Does that mean it's multiplied 8 times?

Otherwise, how do I multiply it more than 4 times?

3. what's the difference between
a. saving in asset export
b. export for screens
c. save for web

thank you for your help

Hendy,

1) I believe this answer from Bobby may give a glimpse of what is needed to ensure clear text (and other artwork) and how print based advice can go against it,

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/pixelated-linked-files-after-exporting-for-screens/m-p/14503451#M401887

2) PNG24 gives you a full set of colours, just like JPEG, where as PNG8 gives you a limited set of 256 colours, the same as GIF, just as Monika said. So no reason to consider it (for decades).

It is quite simple to multiply 8 times, or 16, times, or whichever number, with the Save for Web just by multiplying (*8 or *16 or whichever number) in the Image Size window.

3) You can see more about it here, under Import, export, and save,

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/user-guide.html/illustrator/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html

and you can also look at some of the other subjects.