Photoshop CS3/4 - resolution of images vs text

[ekimeno]

Hi all, I'm trying to make a flyer using photoshop and I'm a bit baffled. I'm saving the PS file as a PDF and using the compression settings to reduce the file size, but still not able to get it down low enough. Typically, the smallest size I can go is around 600KB for an A4 page (downsampled to 150px on 'high' jpeg setting for the image quality).

I therefore tried to go into the image size settings to make the original file smaller, but noticed that if I had to reduce the resolution from 300px to say 100px, the text in the final PDF saved would come out pixelated...

Is this because the text is 'converted' into a graphic? How do I reduce the image resolution without affecting the text/font resolution in the final PDF?

Thanks for any help in advance.
Mike

 

[tiler65]

Don't you need to rasterize the text first?

I think this helps when scaling. (I think, just an opinion)

 

[ekimeno]

Nah, that made the text more pixelated...

It's more to do with changing the image resolution of the whole PSD file then converting to PDF. Without changing the resolution, the PDF converts perfectly...

 

[Chappers]

If you have a Mac you could use the Print to PDF option when selecting print.

I've never been happy with the way Photoshop handles text. On the odd ocassion I had to do this I used an old version of Corel to produce the document, importing the picture into the Corel text.

Use Corel to re size then use either an online PDF generator, or convert to TIFF and reimport to Photoshop, then export as PDF.

Bit messy but a lot cheaper than a full blown version of Acrobat or InDesign