Hi all, I am relatively new to CorelDraw. My first major project using the software was designing a new brochure for the museum where I work. (I am not a graphic designer/artists...it is just a many hat organization.) We have CorelDraw and I've been slowly learning how to use it. I seem to be having a problem upon exporting the file to a PDF, which is very image heavy. All of the images in the file are at least 300 DPI if not much, much larger. However, when I export to PDF the image resolutions are very low. When I sent it to the printer (who does not accept CorelDraw files so it has to be PDF) they remarked upon the low resolution and you can tell the quality is terrible on the proof. When I print a copy of the brochure on just our color printer at work (same size as the brochure...it is not larger) the images are completely fine. What am I doing incorrectly?
Another suggestion - When you get your final photo into your artwork at the size you are going to use it, right click on the picture...click on properties. That will bring up the properties box. Go to the far right tab...and click on it....that will show you the actual resolution of the photo. Your picture may start out at 300 dpi, but after you manipulate it, it may end up somewhere nearer 180 if you resize it. Just a thought. I'm a novice, too. So, I'm just remembering some of the crazy mistakes I made when I started.
Thanks for the suggestion - I did as you suggested with all of the images and they are all above 300 dpi. In fact, the photo that jumps out as looking the worst is 1640x1640dpi. I had to extract all of the images from their powerclips to check, but the resolution looks good.
I will try your suggestion of changing the format of the images. Just to clarify, you said changing the color to Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "CMYK 32-bit, then "Save As" .tiff files" will make the images "brighter." Will this change the resolution of the images as well? It is the resolution I am having such an issue with.