Washed out PDFCreator files

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Dear all,

I searched on this forum but didn’t see this problem mentioned, so here goes:

Since a few months, all the files I scan and then convert using PDFCreator come out unsharp, kind of washed out.
I’ve tried uninstalling PDFCreator and install old versions, but the problem persists.

I use a Canon All In One and the native Windows 7 scanning software to scan documents etc into JPGs, and then use PDFCreator to convert them to PDFs. This used to give great results untill a few months ago…

The scanned files look sharp, but once they’re converted by PDFCreator they look bad, kind of showing a lot of noise.

I checked to see if it has anything to do with Adobe Reader, but the PDFs look just as bad when viewed in other software.

PLEASE HELP!
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Hi,

have you tried using the high quality profile or reducing the compression for PDFs in the options (options->formats->pdf->compression)?

regards,

Robin

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@Robin.W

The compression was indeed 'on' but setting it 'off' unfortunately did not solve the problem.

Must be something in the settings though...

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It seems to be a Windows problem after all. The scan and print profiles don't seem to use the same DPI (anymore), so once I made sure both were on the same DPI the problem was solved.

Wacky MS.

Thanks for the help Robin.W