The resulting image will have an effective resolution of 787ppi when printed – much more resolution than is necessary for offset printing. As you can see in the screenshot at the right, I placed a 300ppi image into my document and scaled it down by more than half.
From there InDesign will inform you of the actual resolution of the placed image, as well as the resulting resolution after you’ve scaled it. To quickly check the resolution of your placed, and subsequently scaled, images once they’re in Adobe InDesign, select your image and hit F8 (which will open the Info panel). Increasing the size of the placed image can result in jaggy images when printed. Reducing the image increases the resolution, thus making the file size larger than it needs to be and possibly resulting in a blurry image when printed. To quickly check the resolution of your placed, and subsequently scaled, images once they’re in Adobe InDesign, select your image and hit F8 (which will open the Info panel). If anyone at your firm decides to switch back to Acrobat, I have a Lynda course specifically for using Acrobat in the AEC industry.When you place an image in Adobe InDesign, then scale the image, you are in effect altering the resolution of the file. That will allow them to be viewed properly.
If all else fails and everyone at your firm is switching to Bluebeam and will no longer have licenses for Acrobat, you may want to ask them to view your PDFs using the free Adobe Reader. – Uncheck the box that says “Fill Anti-Aliasing” – Press “Ctrl+K” on your keyboard to open the Preferences
It doesn’t render them as curved lines, but as a series of straight lines. That will flatten the transparency.Īs far as the jagged edges, it looks like Revu is handling the curved vector lines like a typical CAD program. Try exporting your PDFs with Acrobat 4.0 compatibility. It looks like Revu can’t handle transparency. The first thing that comes to mind is the drop shadow. Apple preview for example, can’t handle transparency or interactive features.
Please see this image for a examples of the issues I’m experiencing (sorry no html options to make link):īluebeam Revu has a lot of great features for AEC that Acrobat doesn’t do as elegantly.īut every PDF viewer will have different capabilities. This is an insane and costly solution in terms of time, file size, and resolution. So far the only solution I’ve had is to export pages as jpg images, and then pasting them back into indesign and re-exporting. exporting with different adobe compatibility versions exporting for interactive with different reslutions exporting for print with different compressions Here are some of the solutions I’ve attempted – but mind you – I need to keep my file sizes small (email size) layered images show a glaring outline of the image behind it. objects with a color fill show a visible edge with no color fill vector linework, especially curved lines, appear ragged drop shadows turning into large solid black shapes
Here are some of the visual issues I’ve encounted:
Everything looks perfect across every other viewing platform besides Bluebeam – but this software is unfortunately here to stay in my industry. This has been my nightmare, because now every presentation I export from Indesign looks god-awful in Revu Bluebeam. I work for an architectural firm as a graphic designer, and recently everyone started using Revu Bluebeam to view pdfs instead of Adobe Acrobat. I’ve searched and searched for this issue, but haven’t found anyone else mentioning this issue.