Crystal Report Image resolution still not improved

Good idea to change the printer driver and try the export again.  I was thinking about an alternate way to get the PDF file, but with a different printer driver, maybe the export will produce better results.

 James

Hello,
Thanks both for your input.
Let try to explain what I am trying to do with the CR reports.
I have a plain book cover as in jpg image which I use it as a background in CR and then load the customers data dynamically for their details to appear on the page before expoting to the PDF.
Please see two files attached to it, the jpg image which is about 235 DPI resolution when I export this file with the data to the PDF, the image quality is very low.
Please advise
Thanks

files.zip

hi gkford
i am not resizing the image at all, the CR is been configured to print slightly bigger than A4 using Xerox printer.
i am adding the image straight to the report without making any size adjusments.
thx

When I add your image to a Crystal Report, it is 13.13 inches by 9.45 - I didn't resize it and exported it (from the designer) to a PDF just to test, and the image quality is better than the PDF that you attached.  I've attached mine - please disregard that the image is larger than the page size that I had selected for my report.  I don't know whether or not this will help - just an observation.

Test.pdf

Hmm.  I don't really see anything wrong with the PDF file that you posted, but maybe it's just me.  Can you point out something specific about the image that makes you say that the quality is "very low"?

 Your PDF actually looks a little better (sharper) to me than the one posted by gkford.

 James

Please view my version of PDF in the photoshop and zoom it to 300%, you will note the difference..... its much visible when i see the printed version of the book...

thanks for looking

We actually went to using .PNGs instead of .JPGs a while ago because Crystal seems to handle them better - you could try this and see if it helps...  We don't actually use images in Crystal for anything that is expected to be production quality - just reports and invoices and such.

I'm not surprised that you see some artifacts when you magnify the PDF to 300 %.

 Have you tried the earlier suggestions to try other printer drivers or a virtual PDF printer?

 gkford's suggestion to try another type of image is also interesting.  Maybe some scale better than others.

 James

Yes, I have tried but I am not finding any improvement in the resolution. I have upgraded with CR SP4 but still no luck...

Hmm.  I don't know what else to suggest.  I've been quite happy with the PDF's produced by CR, but I'm not trying to do anything like what you're doing.  It may just be a limitation of CR.

 James

I dont understand either, I even dont know if I can try anythign else now .....

thanks anyway

folks,
i just want to close this question although i have not found the answer to my problem yet but you deserve for the time you guys have spent on this for me...
thanks