Need Some Graphics Advice

Joe Wood

I have a new fast computer and am trying for the first time on it to create a 2' x 3' pdf,

1-2x3 Sheet.jpg

but the pdf sheet looks terrible when I zoom in on a particular image.

1 Pdf File.jpg

I exported the tif images at 5,000 pixels wide, with anti alias on! No problem exporting, and they're nice crisp images! I do see some fine jaggies on the edges though.

1 Tif File.jpg

I bring them in to Corel Draw, and grab the corner of each to resize them. Then I Publish To PDF. I don't see anything to change in the Publish pdf Settings.

What am I doing wrong? I know the images should be smaller then 5,000. Could it be the Trial version of Corel I'm using? When I zoom in to the 2' x 3' Corel file, the images look OK but again I do see some fine jaggies.

Rich O Brien

Could be Corel's PDF image resampling when it goes to PDF. I know in InDesign there's a plethora of options when it comes to exporting to PDF when there's embedded images.

I'm not familiar with Corel though. this guy seems to cover the issue a bit though....

Joe Wood

I checked the dpi of an image and it was 509 x 509 dpi. That's way better then the 300 I was going for.

what's another program I could use for this king of work?

Rich O Brien

InDesign. But it's not too cheap.

Or Scribus. That's open source but a bit laggy.

Otherwise LayOut. Since it can turn those SketchUp embeds into vector for crispy clean images.

ntxdave

Have you tried sending them to LayOut and changing the rendering to vector instead of raster?

Joe Wood

No I haven't Tex, I don't even know what vector and raster mean,

I'd really just like to figure out this Corel issue, don't think I want to learn a new program.

numerobis

As Rich said, you should check your pdf export settings. I also think that the export dpi recalculation could be the problem. You could simply disable the recalculation completely to see if this is the case.

(But i don't know Corel, so maybe there is a DPI setting for the layout too.)

Joe Wood

Well, I don't know, ended up creating this on my old computer. I checked the Corel settings on the old and new machine, both the same. Maybe it's the trial version of Corel that's doing it.

Richard

The trial might have export limitations for sure, but I cant see why. There is usually a printer set up dialogue box! Or it could be using the native built in PDF printer on your system and you haven't set this!

BTW Layout is VERY easy!