stitchingfairy Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Hi, Can someone help me regarding how to flatten a document to export as pdf, I have some images that are commercial use which I am required to export only if they are flattened. I did try to rasterise but that made them blurry, the images are vector and I want them still to be crisp and clear when flattened. I also tried merge down but that did not appear to flatten them so the images could not be extracted when exported? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted July 5, 2023 Staff Share Posted July 5, 2023 @stitchingfairy If you want to retain vector quality, you can't fully flatten/rasterise your design when exporting to PDF. That being said if you do rasterise everything it should look correct at 100% (intended view) and should only start to pixelate if you start zooming in past this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchingfairy Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 2 hours ago, Lee D said: @stitchingfairy If you want to retain vector quality, you can't fully flatten/rasterise your design when exporting to PDF. That being said if you do rasterise everything it should look correct at 100% (intended view) and should only start to pixelate if you start zooming in past this. Thankyou Lee for clarifying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 If vectors look blurry after rasterizing, you can try to increase document dpi. Paul Mudditt 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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