Printing to PDF to rezise Scanned item Lowers Quality

[jacobo37870622]

I'm trying to size a scanned drawing to a standard size after cropping the scan due to excess white space. Every time I print to PDF from Acrobat the quality is immediately lowered. Even when I don't crop the drawing and print to the same size it is originally the quality drops. I am using Acrobat Pro2017.  The two samples before are: 1) original zoomed to 200% 2) Printed as the same size of original zoomed 200%.

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[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

Assuming you have Acrobat Pro, you don't “print to PDF” to eliminate white space. There are numerous tools within Acrobat Pro, including the cropping tool and various Preflight fixups that can be used for resizing your content without losing quality.

“Print to PDF” is by its very nature a lossy process.

          - Dov