RE: Poor quality graphics when I PDF from MS Word 2007

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It may be a problem with Acrobat Reader in the rendering of the images. As
noted above, the printing output is fine, but I also noticed the images that
are pixellated at the 100% view become less distorted when zooming in. For
the several documents I've made, zooming in to 150% makes all pixellation
disappear from the affected images.

It's not a solution, but maybe a new direction to research the problem....

"postman" wrote:

Apparently, it's just the electronic version on the screen that's affected.
When I printed out a page of the affected graphics in the PDF, it printed
fine.

"postman" wrote:

I did some further testing and found that if I resize any images in Word
smaller than 90% of their original size, when I convert to PDF, it degrades
and becomes very pixellated.

Resizing larger than its original size isn't as bad. There's some
pixellation at 150% or more, but nowhere near as bad as when shrinking the
image.

I tried both inserting images of various types and copy/pasting--everything
produced the same results.

"NM French" wrote:

I am having difficulty getting good graphics resolution when I PDF from Word
2007 (Small Buisiness) into Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard. My graphics look
perfectly sharp in Word at any size, but become "pixelated" when I PDF them.
I have tried using the Acrobat "High Quality Print" setting in Word, but this
gives only a little improvement.

I discovered that the quality of the graphic in Acrobat depends on the type
of graphic file I originally inserted into Word. PNG and GIF graphics PDF
poorly, and JPEG graphics PDF better. My problem is that I need a transparent
background for a logo, and the JPEG format apparently doesn't support that. I
also need to keep the size down, which eliminates BMP and TIF files.

I have never had any trouble PDFing graphics in earlier versions of Word, so
I'm not sure why this is suddenly a problem. I did some tests, and there is
no problem with the graphics when I PDF the same document using an earlier
version of Word.
.

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