Neither is precisely correct, but both are close enough to true for the average user.
#Save as vector in photoshop cs5 mac pdf#
When producing a PDF for screen use, it is conventional to assume that screens are 72 or 96 dpi. Depending on your print provider, you might also need to make sure that your illustrations use only in-gamut colors for the intended print process. Depending on lots of other factors, it may be important that the image be sized to an integer multiple of the actual print resolution for best results. At 300 dpi, a 2x3 inch photo must be at least 600x900 pixels. When producing a PDF for print, you need to have all of your graphic elements sized so that layed out on paper, at least as many pixels are available in the image as on that much paper.
I have never been happy with that approach, myself, because of the kinds of problems you are having. Your problem with things looking pixilated is almost certainly the result of the settings used for image compression when Photoshop transformed your page image into the bitmap image layer of a PDF page. It is a large and complicated tool that is really intended for high end publishing, but it will get the job done. Scribus is in many ways a better producer of high-quality PDF documents than any of the Adobe tools.
#Save as vector in photoshop cs5 mac free#
On the free and open source side of the divide, consider Inkscape for line drawings and Scribus for page layout. Sticking within the Adobe family if you have deep enough pockets, you could look at InDesign for page layout and Illustrator for vector artwork for figures and logos. Photoshop really isn't the best choice for publishing tasks such as design of leaflets and posters. If you're wondering how this helps, Adobe Reader/Acrobat tend to display PDF's at 110ppi by default, so by creating the PDF to reflect this (yes, it's 1ppi off) it looks 100% at 100%.Īgain, this is what worked for me, hopefully you have the same luck. But from my experience, for whatever reason, 109 worked better. In the "Scaled Print Size" box area change the scale to 66% (which should make the print resolution read 109 PPI).Ĭlick "Print", save your document and hopefully your PDF looks much better!Īs a side note, you could try using 110ppi instead, calculating your size and changing the scale to 65% to match. Make sure your new paper size is selected from the "Adobe PDF Page Size" dropdown and hit "OK." Then for the size divide your document width by 109 (ppi) and your height by 109 (again ppi) and enter the resulting values in their respective locations (making sure inches is selected).Ĭlick "Add/modify" to close the dialog. Name your new paper size "doc" (or whatever you want really). Still in the print settings dialog, go down to "Adobe PDF Page Size:" and click "Add." (Or click "Edit" to the right and make sure your image quality is set to max). Then in Photoshop go to File > Print and select the aforementioned printer.Ĭlick "Print Settings." and select "High Quality Print" from the default settings box. Note: this is assuming you're working off of a 72ppi Photoshop document (I'm using CS5).įirst ensure you have a PDF printer installed. It isn't perfect but it produced much better results than anything else I've tried so far. I realize this question is a few years old but thought I'd offer a possible solution for anyone else having this issue.
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