How can I make Publisher 2007 output greater than 150dpi?

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Wildman94 - 14 Jan 2008 22:09 GMT

I'm a small business owner trying to print marketing flyers via internet
print company. They say the PDFs I'm sending them from Publisher 2007 are
150dpi which I know must be at least 300 dpi for quality printing. I have
the save as PDF settings set as high as they will go for commercial printing
with the highest thresholds. Is there anywhere else I can change this
sampling rate? I understand how individual graphics work in Publisher, but
I'm talking about the effective dpi of the entire PDF (what would show up if
you opened it in Adobe Photoshop).

Thanks,

Wildman94

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Matt Beals - 16 Jan 2008 21:11 GMT

send me the publisher file. Let me see it first. Are you using the
Microsoft XPS/PDF Export add-on?

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> I'm a small business owner trying to print marketing flyers via internet
> print company. They say the PDFs I'm sending them from Publisher 2007 are
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> Wildman94

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Wildman94 - 16 Jan 2008 21:52 GMT

> send me the publisher file. Let me see it first. Are you using the
> Microsoft XPS/PDF Export add-on?

Yes - I'm using that add-on. I downloaded the PrimoPDF utility and it let
me set the overall dpi for the document. PrintPlace.com didn't have a
problem with this PDF like they did with the ones I generated using the save
as PDF. Also they didn't have a problem with the trademark like they did
with the other. PrimoPDF also does not split hairs over embedding print or
true type fonts. This is my solution until the add-on adopts the same
features: ability to set overall dpi at or above 300 and ability to embed
fonts with a more liberal view of font licensing. Otherwise, the add-on is
worthless for commercial printing (RIP printers and the like - Fiery printers
like your corner print shop can handle it fine).

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Matt Beals - 17 Jan 2008 16:07 GMT

Uhhh.... Not sure where to start... Humor me by sending me the Publisher
file using Pack & Go or what ever it's called.

Regarding font licensing, if a font (specifically TrueType) is set to
not allow font embedding then legally any PDF creation tool is obligated
to honor that. Microsoft and Adobe both happen to honor that. Primo in
this instance appears not to be. I've created hundreds of press-ready
PDF's using Publisher 2007 and the PDF/XPS plug-in. I'm not sure what
the problem is for you. If Primo made everything 300 dpi then I suspect
that it is upsampling the images to 300 dpi. Which really does nothing
for you other than being able to say "yes, they're 300 dpi". Even if
they were originally 72dpi. Making a 72 dpi image 300 dpi doesn't do
anything for the visual appearance/quality. All it does is use more
pixesls to describe the original 72 dpi image. So the problem of poor
quality is still there. Humor me, send me the files.

Matt Beals
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>> send me the publisher file. Let me see it first. Are you using the
>> Microsoft XPS/PDF Export add-on?
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> worthless for commercial printing (RIP printers and the like - Fiery printers
> like your corner print shop can handle it fine).

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