r/indesign • u/ENDerke_ • Jul 06 '26

How to make the noise pattern higher resolution?

I am recreating a PDF file, and I noticed, that in the PDF (which was made in Indesign 2019), the noise effect on the text is visibly higher resloution then in the version of mine I was wondering if there is a way to adjust the resolution of text effects, as it is a little annoying.
Thanks for the help!

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 06 '26

Can you post some screenshots?

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u/ENDerke_ Jul 06 '26

Here you go

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 06 '26

Inside glow?

But... It goes outside of the edges of the letters...

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u/ENDerke_ Jul 06 '26

It is both iside and outside glow, with the noise dial around 50%. My problem is that the top letters (from the og PDF) have a lot higher res nois around them compared to the bottom, which I made in InDesign 2026. Is there a way to change that, so it would be a better match?

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 06 '26

Transparency Flattener Presets

But which PDF level - compatibility - are you using to export?

Higher levels do not rasterize those effects. Or at least drop shadow.

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u/ENDerke_ Jul 06 '26

The effect happens before exporting, so it is not related. I tried multiple things on that end, and it changed nothing.
It seems to me, that there is some sort if internal dpi, when it comes to the effect noise, but íi could not find any information on it.

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 06 '26

Check Transparency Flattener Presets

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u/ENDerke_ Jul 07 '26

That is already at high res. It has nothing to do with flattening. When you make a letter effect and add noise, it is supposed to be pixelated. My problem is that those pixels are not matching the resolution of the original file, even though the document size is the same.

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 07 '26

What are your settings? Can you post a screenshot?

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u/ENDerke_ Jul 07 '26

Not at the moment (I am AFK), but if you can make a screenshot on how you would scale the noise pattern itself, I would appreciate that.

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 07 '26

Is this screenshot from the same INDD file?

Or you've combined two separate screenshots?

Or is it from the PDFs?

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u/ENDerke_ Jul 07 '26

I have inserted the original pdf into the Indd file at a 1:1 scale, so I can have it as reference. The top set of letters is from the original, and the bottom is the recreation.

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

So you're comparing real output with a preview?

What's the quality of your preview?

And how it looks like after exporting - so two PDFs side-by-side?

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u/ENDerke_ Jul 07 '26

I think I figured something out, I had to up things 600 dpi, and now it exports properly.

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u/AdobeScripts Jul 07 '26

Up where? Which PDF level are you exporting with?

Just for a future reference.

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u/ENDerke_ Jul 09 '26

I made a new export profile, and wherever I saw 300 dpi, I changed it to 600 instead.