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Creating PDFs for on line viewing in Photoshop


Connolly

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Hello,

I'm trying to convert a PSD to a PDF in Photoshop but lose a lot of picture clarity each time I do so. I've tried to directly saving it at low res (72) and saving it first for web then re-opening the jpg and saving that as a PDF but neither worked. I've played around with all the PDF save options, with the pre-sets and compression but either the file ends up far too big or very unclear. Am I missing something, or is PS CS 6 just not good at this sort of thing? The best end result I've managed to get is here.
http://www.doughtysonline.co.uk/shop/RoadShowDiary.pdf
But when the page first opens it appears massive and pixelated.

Any help greatly appreciated,

Matt.

I've attached a copy of the PSD if that helps (sorry it's so large!)
 

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It's a trade off I'm afraid. In order to get a higher image quality you need to sacrifice file size. It's not that Photoshop isn't good at compressing it to pdf, it's that the type of compression used for pdfs isn't very good.
 

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