: Better way to save photos in InDesign so that they print in higher quality when turned into PDF's? I create my newsletter in InDesign, and then save it as a PDF. I typically print a few

@Cugini998

There are a couple of things to address here, the most important being the initial quality of your images. If you say yourself that the images are of low-quality, that should be an indication in itself that you need to source some higher quality images.

Just because the images look decent on screen (72 PPI), does not mean they will look good in print (300 DPI). An image that you may have placed in a certain layout in ID may look ok on your computer, because the screen is only 72 PPI. When you print that document at 300 DPI, you are essentially stretching a small image to fit the dimensions that its 300 DPI version should have had, causing the pixelation.

You should be using 300 DPI CMYK TIF photos, for raster images.

The second issue to address is how you've configured your PDF export settings. To ensure the highest quality images as possible, assuming file size is not an issue, disable all compression.

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