HELP!! my illustrator images are blurry on a pdf when set at 300dpi what can I do?

[clairep75152668]

HELP!! my illustrator images are blurry on a pdf when set at 300DPI

Really desperate!!

[kglad]

[ moved from Adobe Creative Cloud to Illustrator]

[Garry Bradley]

Hey Claire

Vector work should come out sharp but any placed graphics might need you to check some settings. Check that your PDF settings are correct when exporting from Illustrator. Two settings I always check are in the screenshots.

[Monika Gause]

Please show.

[clairep75152668]

Thank fo helping me folks. I don't know where to find the compression /preset page. The lines are distorted and blurry

[Bill Silbert]

Are you actually talking about viewing your art in Illustrator and seeing it blurry? If that’s the case then try turning off GPU Performance. Click on the rocket ship in Illustrator’s top menu bar to access it.

[Monika Gause]

clairep75152668  schrieb

Thank fo helping me folks. I don't know where to find the compression /preset page. The lines are distorted and blurry

And this is the PDF? In Acrobat?

What happens when you zoom in?

[Garry Bradley]

Claire also check you haven't got Pixel Preview turned on.

[clairep75152668]

I wil check pixels. What is the best to have?

Here are the 200%

[Monika Gause]

What you see looks like pretty usual rendering of a vector stroke.

[clairep75152668]

I have done all the above and still like this. Is there any way to stop the distortion?

[Monika Gause]

As I said: I don't see anything abnormal there.

[Test Screen Name]

It's often the way - to a creator a problem is huge and awful -  but to the rest of us everything looks fine. Please tell us EXACTLY what the problem is and EXACTLY where to look to see it.

[Ton Frederiks]

Are what you call Illustrator Images vector objects or pixel images?

If it are vector objects, there is no need to set them to 300 ppi when saving as pdf, the should stay vector.

Did you convert them to pixels?