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.

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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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Hey so here I am exactly at the same point as you—I completed my portfolio only to realize that after PDF export images are very low quality. @carolina.portugal I see that the ticket you linked has been closed. The solution is not here though :confused:

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Hi,

I’m in the same situation. Spent several hours to move my resume to PenPot to discover in the end the images are really not good enough to publish the document this way.

And changing the definition of the source image doesn’t impact the result.

Any clue about the progress on this topic?

Thanks.