topic Bitmaped Images losing quality or become Hatched on exported PDF maps in Mapping Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/bitmaped-images-losing-quality-or-become-hatched/m-p/704987#M7624 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We have had a tiresome problem with images placed on our maps.&nbsp; Occasionally (frequently) some of the images not all become hatched, blurry or unreadable when exported to a PDF from arcGIS.&nbsp; This occurs when any type of bitmap image is used, PNG,GIF,JPG, BMP or&nbsp; TIF.&nbsp; This is very random nothing related to size or memory.&nbsp; Our work around is by trial and error to slightly move one image or slightly rotate one image/re-export to find the "trigger" image that produces this behavior.&nbsp; (Reason why this is tiresome!)</P><P></P><P>Has anyone else run across this?&nbsp; Are there better workarounds or predicting which image will cause the effect?&nbsp; The only other workaround I have seen is to export the map as a TIF image and convert that into a PDF.&nbsp; This takes longer than our hunt and peck method and vector quality suffers.</P><P></P><P>Example of the effect:</P><P><IMG alt="Sample.png" class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/94818_Sample.png" style="height: auto;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 May 2015 16:59:19 GMT TedKowal 2015-05-05T16:59:19Z Bitmaped Images losing quality or become Hatched on exported PDF maps https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/bitmaped-images-losing-quality-or-become-hatched/m-p/704987#M7624 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We have had a tiresome problem with images placed on our maps.&nbsp; Occasionally (frequently) some of the images not all become hatched, blurry or unreadable when exported to a PDF from arcGIS.&nbsp; This occurs when any type of bitmap image is used, PNG,GIF,JPG, BMP or&nbsp; TIF.&nbsp; This is very random nothing related to size or memory.&nbsp; Our work around is by trial and error to slightly move one image or slightly rotate one image/re-export to find the "trigger" image that produces this behavior.&nbsp; (Reason why this is tiresome!)</P><P></P><P>Has anyone else run across this?&nbsp; Are there better workarounds or predicting which image will cause the effect?&nbsp; The only other workaround I have seen is to export the map as a TIF image and convert that into a PDF.&nbsp; This takes longer than our hunt and peck method and vector quality suffers.</P><P></P><P>Example of the effect:</P><P><IMG alt="Sample.png" class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/94818_Sample.png" style="height: auto;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 05 May 2015 16:59:19 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/mapping-questions/bitmaped-images-losing-quality-or-become-hatched/m-p/704987#M7624 TedKowal 2015-05-05T16:59:19Z