Max,

I worked offline with the original poster. The problem was that
the barcode generation program he was using was exporting EPS
with a grayscale image representation of the barcode, not a
text or vector representation. To make things worse, the subsequent
PDF was being created with joboptions that resulted in that grayscale
image being medium quality JPEG-compressed yielding artifacts that
caused the "fuzziness" to occur.

Distilling with Automatic - max quality should force those particular
images to be 8-bit ZIP-compressed. The fallback of course would be
joboptions to force 8-bit ZIP for all grayscale in those jobs.

Of course, that barcode generation program should have used vector
EPS or if they really had to use images, use monochrome images
instead!

- Dov


At 8/29/2003 10:17 AM, Max Wyss wrote:
>This set of answers makes me believe that the points mentioned by Dov Isaacs in his message are just about that, and that you are using PDFWriter (curse it) when you "create PDF" directly.
>
>If this is really not the case, you would have to recheck the settings which are used for that "create PDF" option.
>
>Hope, this can help.
>
>
>Max Wyss
>
>>There are a few questions about this.
>>
>>1. Is that barcode still fuzzy when the document gets printed out?
>>YES
>>
>>2. Is the barcode still looking fuzzy when you zoom in?
>>
>>YES
>>
>>3. Does that barcode creating program really create vector data?
>>
>>I don't know but I do know that the output of the barcode software works
>>fine when printed directly from PageMaker and also in previous versions of
>>Acrobat.
>>
>>4. Is the barcode symbol in the correct size?
>>
>>YES


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