export is blurry

[cassiopoia]

Hi there, 

I'm making a business card that is 55 mm x 88 mm. One side is just text so it exports fine. The other has a jpeg image on it that looks fine in AD but then when I export as a PDF it comes out looking blurry. Any help with this would be appreciated. I attached a picture of the export settings, it was 300 dpi. Let me know if you need more details. 

 

 

businesscard_butterfly.pdf

[telemax]

Hi,

It doesn't look blurry in the PDF, it looks good 👍

I imported it into AD to check. 55 x 88 mm, the butterfly is 300 dpi, its image is sharp.

[cassiopoia]

Hmmm really? It looks sharp from farther away but when I zoom in closer it is blurry...

 

[telemax]

What PDF viewer do you use? Can you take a screenshot from this program?

Many web browsers support viewing PDFs. You can try opening the PDF in different web browsers or other programs. 

[cassiopoia]

I'm using preview on a macbook. It doesn't look like this for you? 

[telemax]

This looks like bilinear resampling. Many viewers use the bilinear method by default.

But you don't need that much magnification, just look at the actual size in pixels (100% zoom) when 1 px of the image equals 1 px of the screen.
 

[cassiopoia]

I think I understand what you're saying. If I look at the actual size at 100% zoom in AD, that should be what it will look like when it's printed, and will be crisp. But the photo you posted looks blurry to me still. Weird?!

 

[telemax]

11 hours ago, cassiopoia said:

But the photo you posted looks blurry to me still. Weird?!

It looks like the original photo was larger than 375 dpi, and the export reduced it to 300 dpi.

If for some reason you want to keep the original image, which was over 300 dpi uncheck this: