I Don’t fully understand whether my image is saving as a vector pdf or regular bitmap pdf when I export to PDF. can someone explain how to do this correctly? Trying to export to pdf to blow up the image without resolution loss for outdoor banners about 4’x10’. TIA
hi,this is unrelated but I am sustaining major brain damage trying to set up a color blender in draw 2018. where is the freaking mixer tab?? can anyone throw me a step by step? or even a bone? I would be sooo grateful,
Myron said:
Embedding fonts doesn't always work. Better safe than sorry.
Yes, if the design is font heavy it can make for a large file. 99% of our stuff is single page and not font heavy.
Naturally, it depends on the type of work that each one performs. It is not the same to make a book or a magazine as to make a file for large format printing. The fonts embedded in the PDF work well, in more than 99% of the files. Perhaps it is even less than one file with a problem of one thousand. Usually due to restrictions of the font itself, but the same happens in Adobe programs.
The problem is the same, if you send a book of 600 or 800 pages converted to curves, which technically is possible, the result would be an extremely heavy file, not because of its size but because of its complexity.
Also, you lose the ability to edit it in Acrobat. It is not always necessary (moreover, many people do not want to make any changes) but sometimes it is useful. In Pre-Press it is something common and everyday. "The file says June instead of July, do not worry, I correct it using the font embedded in the PDF ... I'm sorry, it's converted to curves, you'll have to do it yourself and send it back to me ..." Sometimes, that loss of time becomes a serious problem.
Therefore, I am not saying that it is wrong to turn a text into curves (we have all done this at some time) but it should not be adopted as a default principle or as a generic advice.
Alright so an update, I have figured out that my files exported to pdf are just fine as long as they a vector images or text and they blow up perfectly. However, if there’s any funky, for example drop shadows, those come across grainy and almost pixelated. How do you think I can avoid this? Thanks!
You need to understand the difference between vectors and bitmaps, Vectors are always scaleable because their definition is mathematical. Bitmaps are just pixels. So If you are using effects that are bitmap based (and most are) they will not scale nicely. You need to design for your final destination. Draw has this ability to create massive drawings at 1:1 scale. You can also export really large drawings to pdf so there should be no need to 'blow them up'
richardA said:However, if there’s any funky, for example drop shadows, those come across grainy and almost pixelated.
Some effects, such as drop shadows, will be rendered as bitmap for a better output, although they were created as vector. So, if you add a drop shadow to a 100 mm object, and the document resolution was 300 dpi, the drop shador will have 300 dpi at the real size. But if you enlarge it, the image resolution wil decrease proportionay (the larger the size, the less resolution). If you need higher resolution on a bigger size, you must update the drop shadow at the final size. CorelDRAW allows to work on a real size, btw for a 8 meters banner you don't need to use 300 dpi,