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Creating Pdf in Photoshop CS6 - blurry at maximum quality setting

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March 14, 2013
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Hi,

I just tried to create Pdf.

I used high quality jpegs and chose a 100% quality setting and at 300 dpi.

I also chose the same pixel dimensions as the original documents.

But the outcome is blurry - as if the original had been highly compressed. The sum of the sizes of all files is about 40% larger than the final pdf file.

How can I get rid of this compression and create a pdf document whose pages are as sharp and high quality as the original?

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compression (center box)

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Pacific 29Author

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Gator Soup, are you using Adobe Acrobat for pdf creation?

Because in Photoshop CS6 I only have four check boxes for options, and not the two sections below (including tagging).

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Pacific 29 wrote:
Gator Soup, are you using Adobe Acrobat for pdf creation?

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What program and workflow are you using?

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Pacific 29Author

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The original document is a TIFF file, created in Photoshop CS 6.

There is also text, created with the type tool in Photoshop CS6.

I create a flattened TIFF file, then a JPEG from this file, using "image processor" in Bridge CS6.

Then I go to "output options" and create the Pdf.

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Anonymous

Bridge only creates a PDF of the previews in Bridge and this functions to create a contact sheet. So the quality is not best.

If you save the files in PS as a PDF you can create a multipage PDF document using Acrobat Pro or other PDF viewers. The simple application Preview on a Mac has the option to drag and drop pages to a document and change the order. Don't know if Acrobat Reader also can do so.

And if you use text on images in the PDF the fonts also should be included and the color profile should also be looked at.

Here is one person's workflow. I use PS for the layout of 1 page (a spread) and add all images and other to this file as a smart object in layered PSD files. When finished and satisfied about the whole project I flatten and save as jpeg with filename 1, 2 etc as per order of the pages and add this pages to the album software which then is a piece of cake.

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