Blurry images while export as PDF

Hi!
I already using Penpot for a year, and it has a lot of useful features as figma alternative app.
Mostly, I’m using Penpot to design social media images and web pages.
I’m starting design a portfolio project for 1-2 weeks ago by converting the layout of web page design to A4 paper size.
But when I export the design to PDF, all image embedded in the design was blurry.
I tried to compare the PDF, JPG, and PNG export results, and the blurry images are only on the PDF export.

Maybe anyone here have same problem with me, or can I get some suggesstions to solve the issue?
Thanks!

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Hello @panji, this is an issue that the team has already noticed. You can follow its development here:

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“Just use smaller images” is a pretty disappointing resolution to this bug.

I’ve spent a couple of days putting together a resume using penpot only to discover its mishandling of images right at the very end when I exported to pdf.

When I’m creating a pdf I want to make sure the image quality is good so that if it’s printed or the person viewing it decides to zoom in, they’re see a good quality image.

Hey i know it’s not ideal but while we are working on fixing this issue (it will be part of the performance work) a user discovered that putting images inside a mask preserves the quality

Thanks Carolina, I’ll give that a go.

You say that it’s being worked on, but the link above leads to a closed “won’t fix” issue. Is it being tracked on another issue somewhere?

Good catch, we moved it here: Taiga

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