Poor picture quality when creating pdf

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NorwegianNewbie

Hello!
I am having trouble creating pdf-s from my 2007 Publisher. I have tried
printing using the Adobe PDF-printer, converting using the "publish as
pdf/xps"option on the "file"menu and the "pack and go"option for commersial
printing. No matter how I do it, the reult is the same: A PDF with really
poor picture quality. The pictures look "hairy" or "bleeding". (I hope that
is a understandable description.)

I have tried different file formats for the pictures: JPEG, TIF and PNG, but
the result is the same for all of them. I get a better result with the
EMF-format, but Photoshop, which I have to use creating most of the images,
does not save pictures in that format. Anyway, even the EMF-pictures does not
look good enough in PDF, only better than the other formats.

The publication looks good in Publisher, both on screen and printing on
paper. It's only when converting to a PDF-file that the pictures look bad.

I have made sure that the picture resoultion is good enough. (300-600 dpi.)

Could it be the printer drive that is causing this problem somehow? How do I
fix it?

Thanks in advance!
 
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NorwegianNewbie

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DK1

So, did you find a solution? Please share - I have the same problem - image
in PDF looks fine on print but not on screen ...
 
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Leah

Did you find the soulution? I also am having the same problem-looks fine in
publisher but distorted in pdf.

I am also having trouble when converting a publisher file that has a semi
transparent picture. The picture transfers correctly to pdf until I set the
bleed marks in publisher and then it wont convert correctly. It is not semi
transparent in the pdf file.


HELP
 
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DK1

It's a Publisher thing. I replaced the bitmaps in the.pub document with
vector graphics and all of a sudden it looked much better. If you have the
option of using illustrator graphics instead of bitmaps then that will give
you much nicer PDFs. In printing it looks almost the same in my experience,
but on screen there is a big difference.
 

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