Very Small Bitmaps (8 bit style icons) Scaling Up without blurring

[danberlyoung]

I want to place some very small bitmaps (32x32 pixels for example) in Publisher and scale them up to a reasonable size (2" for instance). When I do though, Publisher uses a blurring effect which I'm sure is great for low resolution photos but not so great for 32x32 icons. How can I turn this effect off?

 

[Old Bruce]

Use an integer scale factor, plus make certain that the pixels are pixel aligned, change the Units of Measurement to Pixels and check in the transform panel that the x and y co-ordinates are integers (enter actual integers to be certain).

[danberlyoung]

I found a solution. I was placing the image as a .afphoto document. When I exported it to a .png or a .jpg and then placed it again, it displayed hard edged.  .PSD, .EPS, .PDF and .afphoto documents all display blurry.

[debraspicher]

2 hours ago, danberlyoung said:

I found a solution. I was placing the image as a .afphoto document. When I exported it to a .png or a .jpg and then placed it again, it displayed hard edged.  .PSD, .EPS, .PDF and .afphoto documents all display blurry.

That's strange. Maybe document DPI related? (source)