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Hi,
I'm having issues with drawings exported as pdfs from AutoCAD. When I open the pdf drawings in Photoshop the lines are pixelated which results in pixelated colour fills when I magic wand and fill with colour. However when the pdfs are opened in Illustrator, the lines are much crisper and exactly what I'm looking for. How can I get the lines in Photoshop as they appear in Illustrator. I've attached two images of the pixelated photoshop image and the sharp illustrator image, both were inserted at 300dpi. Thanks
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Did you zoom in over 100% to see the "pixelation" in PS? Everything imported from the PDF is pixels so this sounds just normal. Dealing with line drawings may need you to get to 600ppi or more - or stop zooming in! Illustrator would be a better choice for vectors but isn't meant as a general PDF editor.
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Even when the drawing is at the standard view/100% the pixelation is visible to an extent. So the lines just don't look sharp. It never used to do this and I feel like there was an update and it hasnt been the same since.
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Could you please post a screenshot taken at View > 100% with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, …) visible?
Why so you want to degrade vector data by rasterizing it?