image pixelated in pdf

Tom Foster
Tom Foster
in Printing and Plotting

This flower pot, a postage stamp size pencil sketch, scanned at 300dpi makes a 43KB jpg, when Attached looks fine in paperspace, but when printed in CutePDF is all pale and pixelated as a pdf.
What can I do?

Comments

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer

    Usually for PDF exports from CAD Software,
    there is an individual setting for DPI resolution of Raster Images.

    So you can have crisp lines at 1200 DPI while not unnecessarily
    bloat your PDF size by embedded images, by keeping them
    at 300 or even 150 DPI.

    So in Bricscad's Settings :
    Program Options>Files>Export : you will find
    Vector Resolution DPI (2400 DPI here) and
    Image DPI (300 DPI here)

    I would check that first.
    Although I think a 300 DPI Bitmap should not look jagged if you
    don't zoom into your PDF more than 100%.

  • Tom Foster
    Tom Foster

    Excellent - thanks.