Quality of exported slideshow is...

Has anyone else had problems with the quality of the exported slideshows? When playing the slideshow from Lightroom the quality is great, but the exported slideshow played back in a PDF is terrible, with artifacts and 10 times the noise. I've played around with different resolution settings, but nothing seems to make a difference. The quality is set to ''100%'', so that isn't a factor.



What gives? I wanted to send a slideshow to a client, and don't dare since the quality is so bad.
Quality of exported slideshow is...
I get the same problem. Not sure why. Maybe has something to do with the continued degradation of jpegs rendered in anything other than the develop mode with every adjustment.
Quality of exported slideshow is...
''Maybe has something to do with the continued degradation of jpegs rendered in anything other than the develop mode with every adjustment. ''



Not at all. . .there is no degradation due to Develop settings adjustments...don't know where you would get that from.



The only thing I can think is that you are trying to create a PDF slideshow before rendering either standard previews or 1:1 previews...

A ''slideshow'' mode should be smart enough to render whatever it needs, so there shouldn't be any downside to not specifically rendering previous through the menu system. The 100% view, for example, will render if you attempt to view it.



Maybe its a limitation of the the PDF format, but there's a bug there somewhere.

Jeff



Understand there is no degradation to the develop settings, thats kinda the point of LR. But there is definitely degradation to the jpeg previews in every mode (except the develop mode). i was fishing to see if this may have crept into the export.

I created, viewed and sent several sideshows rendered into a PDF format. When viewing on my PC the adobe file looked as good and in the LR develop mode. I sent them to my son and he mentioned that they were grainy and not very good. I wondered if it is the viewer version, so i looked and highly compressed shows and Nighest resolution shows of the same content in both the adobe ver 6 PDF maker pgm as well as the newest ver 7 viewer, and could not discern any difference. they both looked as good as the rendering would allow. One file was 13Meg and the same in lower resolution was reduced to 5 meg.

My conclusion is that the rendering is as good as any I've seen.

George

So, we've established it looks good for someone, so there's some other issues contributing to poor image quality seen by myself and your son apparently. The most recent version of the Adobe Acrobat is 8, which is what I'm using, and what I would think Lightroom would use since its an Adobe product.

I have been making slide shows in Lightyroom since the last beta with no problems whatsoever and the quality has been excellent. I am only using 13 to 15 images in each slide presentation and get a pdf file size of around 1.5 megs. It depends on the quality of the pdf file that I make. I am on a pc (Dell) with XP Pro. (I also have Acrobat 8)



My only complaint, which has been aired numerous times, is that we cannot export music with the slide presentation. Maybe in future releases.



Tunney

Sorry about my error. I am using Ver. 8 of the acrobat viewer not ver. 7

george

Wondering if anyone has solved this issue? I am experiencing the same problem, when i export the PDF Slideshow it looks like crap. I've tried multiple times and have set the output quality to 100%



Any help is greatly appreciated.



Thanks,

Cris...

I'm seeing the same problem....lots of noise in PDF slideshows.

Tried viewing each @ 1:1 first and then exporting - no improvement.

Pete

Same here! Any help available? I have a big presentation this week and need this to work!

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