topic Print Tool Add-In - Improving Print Quality Output in ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-silverlight-questions/print-tool-add-in-improving-print-quality-output/m-p/390547#M1130 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have configured a number of custom print templates for each web application.&nbsp; When printing a map as a .pdf, all of the labels look blurry and some of the lines look jagged.&nbsp; It is almost if the print quality is defaulted to 75 or 96 dpi.&nbsp; Is there a way to improve print quality within the add-in code?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have tested a number of fonts and have printed to 5 printers and print quality looks the same.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:25:13 GMT IanPeebles 2012-12-06T13:25:13Z Print Tool Add-In - Improving Print Quality Output https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-silverlight-questions/print-tool-add-in-improving-print-quality-output/m-p/390547#M1130 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have configured a number of custom print templates for each web application.&nbsp; When printing a map as a .pdf, all of the labels look blurry and some of the lines look jagged.&nbsp; It is almost if the print quality is defaulted to 75 or 96 dpi.&nbsp; Is there a way to improve print quality within the add-in code?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have tested a number of fonts and have printed to 5 printers and print quality looks the same.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:25:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-silverlight-questions/print-tool-add-in-improving-print-quality-output/m-p/390547#M1130 IanPeebles 2012-12-06T13:25:13Z Re: Print Tool Add-In - Improving Print Quality Output https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-silverlight-questions/print-tool-add-in-improving-print-quality-output/m-p/390548#M1131 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Ian, what page do you print out? A3/A4 or A1/A2? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The quality of output .pdf file cannot be better then the cache resolution of your basemap service. In case you want to substitute your data with the source vector data (recommended way to go when demanding high-quality map printing), you might need to consult the </SPAN><A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/Tutorial_Advanced_high_quality_web_map_printing_exporting_using_arcpy_mapping/0154000005z2000000/">Help </A><SPAN>for using the Python code when authoring the Export Web Map GP task.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:41:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-silverlight-questions/print-tool-add-in-improving-print-quality-output/m-p/390548#M1131 AlexeyTereshenkov 2012-12-12T13:41:45Z