: How should I handle vector artwork and images for street pole-sized ads? I am a very junior graphic designer / art director. I try to go through as many Lynda.com courses to equip myself with

I am a very junior graphic designer / art director. I try to go through as many Lynda.com courses to equip myself with knowledge but some things I'm not sure of so please go easy on me here, I'm not a veteran.

I've not handled large artwork sizes and am most intimidated by the chance that my artwork will pixelate or discolour badly.

I've tried to avoid this by creating mostly vector-based artwork in Adobe Illustrator. I've pulled the work across to Photoshop occasionally to add Gaussian blur effects etc. I've built my layouts in Indesign. I drag the Illustrator and Photoshop files onto the Indesign layout which creates EPS files. These seem to drop the quality of the vector art way down and causes pixellation.

Any 'way of working' advice would be appreciated.

Sorry that I can't technically express myself better.

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Once you have all your elements composed in InDesign, export (File>Export) your file to a PDF. Steps to watch out for:

At the bottom of the modal dialog box where you type in the file name, you'll see a drop list to create either an Interactive or Print PDF. Be sure to check Print.
The next dialog box lets you set the compression, color model, bleeds and crops, etc. For a good starting point choose the "High Print Quality" setting.

Open the exported PDF in Acrobat or Preview, viewing both in full screen as well as 100% while panning around. If all your elements look sharp and as you desire, you should be ready to send the poster for printing.

Even with my own in-house equipment, I (almost) exclusively print from PDFs exported from my InDesign files. 99.9% of the time, I can spot problems in the PDF before I commit them to paper. The files print faster and I also have fewer times where my files "blow up in the printer".

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