Placed PDF Quality

[Guest]

I am placing a PDF of a rasterized image from Photoshop. The rasterized image had spot channels added that specify spot colors in InDesign. The spot color stuff is working just fine.

I have generated the PDF directly from PS as a "Save As" and have printed it to Acrobat 8. In either case, the PDF looks great in Acrobat, Photoshop, or Apple's Preview. They print fine from these apps as well.

When I place it in ID, I get all sorts of pixelation, jagged edges and what not. It looks terrible both on screen and printed.

Anybody have any clues as to what might happening and how to fix it?

TIA

Bob

[Larry G. Schneider]

Have you tried it with the Overprint Preview on?

[Guest]

Interesting. I placed another PDF, looked the same on screen, set overprint preview, and the screen version looked pretty good, not perfect, but pretty good.

Printed it, and the output looks great. So now I've placed the one that looked bad, and printed it, and it looks great printed. I have no idea what just happened, but I'll take it.

Bob

[_plumeragent_]

Have you checked your object level display resolution setting?