Image quality
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Hi all,
I imported an image into SU where it looks fine and crisp. I send the SU file to LO and the print (to pdf) at best is very fuzzy.
This is partially a non-LO question because if I could get a decent output from SU I would just use it, despite a couple of advantages I wanted in LO like scale and cropping.
What I need is a pdf of manageable size and reasonable quality. I can output a small crisp pdf from my CAD application but when I output equal clarity from SU the file is over 50 MB which is useless for distribution. When I send through LO the quality goes down and the size is still pretty high (over 20 MB)
The reason I use SU on this is for the Google location feature. I am using all images to be able to use a CAD site plan.
Thanks for any workflow ideas
Peter
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Well I ended up NOT using SU or LO this time.
Below is a SCREENSHOT of a pdf picture using CAD method.
Compared to one using SU (and file size almost four times larger).
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This is probably unreleated, but I wanted to share this anyway. I've been comparing the Nitro Reader PDF to Adobe when exporting from Layout. The Nitro PDF is far superior in quality. It's free and the new pro version will even export to Powerpoint.
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yeah.. i've had this problem before (and the same thing was happening in pages.app)
what i did to begin fixing it was switching a preference in Preview.app..
there's a PDF pref in preview which says something like 1px in document = 1px on screen.. try switching to that then view your PDF..
what was happening to me was i was unknowingly scaling down the images in layout then looking at them in preview at at blown up size..
(and i can't really check right now in order to make more sense of my post.. sorry)
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Could it be an issue of the scale of the SU model (size of image) in Layout?
Jeff, I'll look into what you say about Preview, but the file size issue remains. I think one part may be taking a vector image in one app as opposed to a raster image in another and directly making a pdf of them.
I have not tried taking either png or pdf from my CAD directly to LO. I think I wouldn't be able to scale as easily as I can in SU (using tape measure tool).
In the "good" example above I have to take the background into CAD and scale that. Sloppy.
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