: InDesign: how to export Photoshop created pdf's without losing quality? I'm trying to create a pdf, the kind where you can zoom as close to the text as you want without it getting blurry.

@Phylliss782

You can keep vector data for Photoshop Text and vector shapes created in Photoshop: Export your document as Photoshop PDF

However, please note that imported smart objects (like an Illustrator logo) will unfortunately be rasterized. So if you want to keep the sharpness of such elements, you'll have to place them directly in Indesign

Then just put your Photoshop PDF into Indesign using File > Place. Exporting to PDF from Indesign should retain vector datas.

NB: Export profile will be crucial, check the output carefully.

Hope that helps

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@Shanna688

You can't control how Issu will render a document. Online apps have their own rendering issues, some of which are documented. It might be useful to first look at this article from their tech support.

If that won't work, try is to export everything in the best possible quality from Photoshop and avoid compressed formats like JPG. Try to save PSD or TIFF files of your pages/designs, then link these in InDesign, then export a PDF from InDesign using the 'High Quality Print' or 'Press Quality' export presets.

For even more quality, disable the compression in the InDesign export panel, by choosing 'Do not downsample' via the Compression tab for both color and grayscale images.

Uncheck the 'Compress Text and Lineart' feature at the bottom of the Compression tab.

Caution: depending on your artwork, this can result in a very large pdf.

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