Poor image resolution on print to PDF

[cmdrico7812]

I am using PageMaker 7 to create a layout for a report at work. The document will contain several logos, pictures, and graphics. While I was still finalizing the layout, I dropped a few images and logos in to see how it would pan out. Once in PageMaker the images looked a bit grainy but not terrible. The problem came when I printed to PDF. I opened the newly created PDF and the images look terrible. They are so grainy and pixelated and I don't even want to describe how they looked when I printed them. The images are fairly high resolution and I'm not scaling them very much (because their size matches the final size I want them in the document) and I set the Preferences...General...to High Resolution images. I began using JPEGS but then switched to TIFs thinking that might work but I got the same result. Any ideas on how I can fix this? Thanks so much in advance.

Eric

 

[cmdrico7812]

Ok, so after doing some experimenting. I've been creating my logos in photoshop and then saving them as TIFs and putting them in PageMaker. In photoshop I made the logo the exact dimensions in needs to be in the final document and then dropped it in PageMaker (so I didn't have to resize it once it got to PageMaker). This fixed that resolution problem. Now my logos are crisp and clean. Does PageMaker not like it when you resize images to make them smaller? Is that my problem? Is there a good way to resize TIFs once they are in PageMaker that will maintain their resolution? Thanks in advance.

Eric

 

[BionicJohn]

Yes, avoid resizing in PM wherever possible; create your images to the required size in PhS before placing them in PM.

Also, make sure that in the Print Options for TIFF images, you select "Normal" instead of the default optimised sub-sampling.

File size and time taken are no longer issues when printing.

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