Phil
09-24-2008, 12:20 AM
Please help. I am abut at my wit's end.
I have prepared a 55-page Deluxe photobook using the All Photos layout. All layout was done using InDesign. The pages look great (if I may say so) in InDesign, and the PDF's that I've made are terrific.
All pages are layed out as 15"w x 11.5"h.
The problem creeps in when I create a JPEG file. The text is always fuzzy in MyPublisher. When zooming in, the area around text seems to have a "cloud" around it. I have tried several workflows:
1. InDesign directly to JPEG (using the [print] options under Export settings. This produces the most legible text; however, I cannot make the file large enough to get a blue line when the resulting jpeg is moved into MyPublisher (it's only about 162KB). I have to reduce it about 50% to go from a red border to a blue border.
2. InDesign to EPS (postscript print file). Then EPS processed by Adobe Distiller to create a PDF. Then the PDF is opened with PhotoShop to resize it from 4500 x 3540 pixels at 300 dpi to 4200 x 3200 pixels at 300 dpi, after which it is saved as a new PDF and as a JPEG.
The resized PDF is crystal clear under high magnification.
Upon opening the resulting JPEG in Photoshop, I can see (at high magnificiation), a number of faint artifacts around the text characters. these artifacts do not appear until a JPEG is created. I believe that these artifacts are what make the text look fuzzy.
3. After receiving a suggestion from MyPublisher Support about the file sizes possibly being too large, I tried changing the resolution from 300 to 200 dpi. I also experimented with changing the resampling setting in Photoshop from Bicubic to Bicubic with Smoothing. This had no discernible effect.
So...I guess the big questions are how to avoid artifacts when creating a JPEG from a PDF, and how to make a JPEG file large enough when creating it directly from InDesign.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to send me a PM if you prefer. This is my first book, and I need to have it in my hands by October 12. Thanks in advance.
Phil
I have prepared a 55-page Deluxe photobook using the All Photos layout. All layout was done using InDesign. The pages look great (if I may say so) in InDesign, and the PDF's that I've made are terrific.
All pages are layed out as 15"w x 11.5"h.
The problem creeps in when I create a JPEG file. The text is always fuzzy in MyPublisher. When zooming in, the area around text seems to have a "cloud" around it. I have tried several workflows:
1. InDesign directly to JPEG (using the [print] options under Export settings. This produces the most legible text; however, I cannot make the file large enough to get a blue line when the resulting jpeg is moved into MyPublisher (it's only about 162KB). I have to reduce it about 50% to go from a red border to a blue border.
2. InDesign to EPS (postscript print file). Then EPS processed by Adobe Distiller to create a PDF. Then the PDF is opened with PhotoShop to resize it from 4500 x 3540 pixels at 300 dpi to 4200 x 3200 pixels at 300 dpi, after which it is saved as a new PDF and as a JPEG.
The resized PDF is crystal clear under high magnification.
Upon opening the resulting JPEG in Photoshop, I can see (at high magnificiation), a number of faint artifacts around the text characters. these artifacts do not appear until a JPEG is created. I believe that these artifacts are what make the text look fuzzy.
3. After receiving a suggestion from MyPublisher Support about the file sizes possibly being too large, I tried changing the resolution from 300 to 200 dpi. I also experimented with changing the resampling setting in Photoshop from Bicubic to Bicubic with Smoothing. This had no discernible effect.
So...I guess the big questions are how to avoid artifacts when creating a JPEG from a PDF, and how to make a JPEG file large enough when creating it directly from InDesign.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to send me a PM if you prefer. This is my first book, and I need to have it in my hands by October 12. Thanks in advance.
Phil