Poor image quality...

[Gary_Hadfield@adobeforums.com]

Hi all,

I am trying to produce a PDF for downloading from a site. Within the PDF I am placing screen grabs of another web site. I am really struggling to make the screen grabs clear and crisp. The screen grabs are obviously only 72 dpi then they are being scaled down in InDesign and a PS file from there is being placed into Distiller. The screen grabs appear really badly pixelated and messy. Is there any way I can make these screen grabs nice and clear?

Any help would be really appreciated!!

Thanks.

Gary.

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

Gary,

I would try to rescale the image in Photoshop not InDesign. However, you
are working with slim pickings. How are you getting the screen image?
Have you tried to have Acrobat download the page in the site you are
interested in?

Mike

[Eric_Otto@adobeforums.com]

If your grabs from the web are gif or jpg (highly probable), try converting them to psd or tif before placing in InDesign.

[Gary_Hadfield@adobeforums.com]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the reply's much appreciated. The problem I had Mike is that the screen grabs were supplied by the client and in JPEG format. I tried to scale them in Photoshop and this didn't improve the quality.
Eric I opened the JPEGS in Photoshop and converted them to TIF's and this also only improved the image quality very slightly.
Think I may have to accept that that is just the way it is!! Very frustrating!!

Thanks again guys,

Gary

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

Gary,

Why not ask the client for the url of the website?

Mike