Can't get my pdf to save at 300dpi despite flattening and exporting press ready

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July 5, 2020
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I have never had this happen before. I flaten my artwork using 'high resolution'. I use 'save a copy' I define my pdf export as 'press quality' without the 'preserve illustrator capabilities". I use bicubic downsampling to 300dpi. It keeps showoing up as 72 dpi. What am I doing wrong? please help!!!! I'm late on this print job 😞

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PDF files don't have a resolution. Not at all, so don't look for one. Of course, a PDF can contain images, and each one will have a resolution, perhaps different. So you might want to check for the MINIMUM resolution used anywhere in a PDF. Acrobat's preflight can do this, if you set it up right. Now, what are you seeing? Well, a number of apps have a space to show resolution, and they don't like to leave it blank, so they show any old junk! This is terrible design in those apps. Try to ignore them.

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jdanek

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The resolution you are referring to is image resolution and if you set 300ppi i your settings, then that is what you will get ( upon output ). Not sure where you are seeing 72, that may be your preview file. Most direct to plate workflows use 5480dpi / 300ppi for a output halftone screen of around 150lpi. So, if you set your PDF for "press quality", you should be good to go.

jenniferw31022785Author

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Hi jdanek,

Thank you for responding. Would you mind expanding your answer if I give you more information? You're more advanced than I am and it would help me figure out what I'm doing wrong. When I say that it keeps coming out at 72dpi, I think it might be the preview file I;m looking at like you said, I'm attaching a screen shot of what I see. But also, when I upload my picture to my pritnt it says low resolution.