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Image resolution issue whilst exporting

New Here ,
Feb 02, 2025 Feb 02, 2025

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Hi!

 

My team and I are facing an issue with the quality of images when exporting a document from InDesign or Illustrator. Despite the images being high resolution when added to the working file, their quality decreases when converting the file to a PDF. We have tried exporting the file in high resolution, but nothing seems to fix the problem.

 

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After:

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Before:

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Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

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@sakina_8260 

 

InDesign and Illustrator each have their own forums and we can only move your post to one of them. I've moved your post from Creative Cloud Desktop to the InDesign forum.

 

Can you show your settings in the Export to PDF dialog from InDesign?

 

Jane

 

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Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

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sakina_8260_0-1738586944937.pngsakina_8260_1-1738586960889.png

 

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Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

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Thank you for the screen shots, although you only need to post them once instead of three times. We can all see them.

 

As others have said:

  • Export to Print, not Interactive
  • Enable hyperlinks
  • Export to 300 ppi instead of 72

 

Jane

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Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

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In addition to what others have already said, you get the expected results for Medium compression:

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Use only Maximum for high quality images. 

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Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

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Instead of screenshots of the files - which are downgraded / resample during uploading here anyway - could you please post screenshots with the export settings? 

 

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sakina_8260_0-1738587022512.png

 

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Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

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  1. How did you import images to InDesign? Do you place or copy & paste?
  2. What is the effective resolution?
  3. What file types are the images?

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sakina_8260_0-1738587066693.png

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Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

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@sakina_8260

 

You're exporting as 72ppi. 

 

And you're exporting INTERACTIVE PDF - not for PRINT. 

 

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We usually do have alot of hyperlinks in my doc, however exporting it as interactive does it affect the quality of pictures?

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@sakina_8260

 

You can export Print PDF with Hyperlinks - you just need to check the checkbox.

 

What is the intended purpose for your PDF - Print or web? 

 

Final resolution affects quality.

 

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Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025

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Your basic problem is exporting to 72ppi, thereby making the image too low-rez and crunchy. Increase that to the number you wish. Old industry habits are 300ppi for print.

For digital print, I generally opt for 200ppi, but each project has its own needs/arguments.

Also, you are using the export to interactive PDF. Is that what you want? Or are you trying to make a PDF that is suitable for the commercial printer? Or are you trying to make a PDF that is suitable for linking on a website, as well as also suitable for the end-user to print?

Mike Witherell

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