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I did a test pdf without doing “fit” and it seemed to have printed clearly.
We had put the text to the edge and done “fit” because we were trying to get as many words on the paper as we could. But it looks like it’s messing things up.
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Comparing the quality of the PDF and the photo of the print tells me that the problem is happening between the PDF file and the printer. In other words, changing the export settings on Photoshop may make no difference at all to the final result. What program are you using to print? The printer settings didn’t get changed to “draft” for the program you are printing from, by any chance? Is “print as image” checked?
It’s sized to print on legal paper. When we set the printer to “fit” it doesn’t cut anything off. (I just thought of this, could that be were we’re getting the compression artifacts?)
Yes, that could absolutely be the problem! You need to create your design EXACTLY the way it should be printed (including margins), and not rely on the printer driver to scale or “fit” things for you. You can decide much better than a computer program how to make everything fit on the page. 🙂 If the printer driver has to “fit” things on the page, it’s actually having to resize the entire PDF slightly, which can make things look slightly blurry because of the way resizing algorithms work. It’s not usually very noticeable in photos, but for things that SHOULD look crisp like small text it becomes much more noticeable.
Thanks for uploading the sample PDF file. As you can see in the attached screenshot, when I zoom in to 1200% the font is clearly being rasterized into little pixel blocks instead of staying smooth as it ideally should.
The 2nd PDF file is correct. When I zoom in to 1200% the text is still perfectly smooth. (See the 2nd screenshot). So Photoshop definitely CAN export proper PDFs with embedded fonts, the question is why things are getting rasterized.
If you make a copy of the tract, delete all layers except the text layer, and then change the font to the same one you used for the 2nd PDF, can you get a clear export?
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