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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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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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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:
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In addition to what others have already said, you get the expected results for Medium compression:
Use only Maximum for high quality images.
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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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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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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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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?