High quality, untouched logo blurs when inserted into Photoshop PDF

Hi all,
Been having mega problems with this. I am creating a 'label' for work to be used as a promotional tool using my old Photoshop CS2 . I created a PDF and manually inserted all of the text, and insert my logo by dragging the layer onto the PDF. When I print, the text comes out extremely clear and the logo is always blurry. I have tried resizing it 100 different ways, and even created a brand new logo where I ran into the same problems. If I print the entire label as a JPEG, the text and logo are equally blurry and nothing is clear or crisp like it is in the PDF..... I cannot post the PDF here, but the JPEG is below to get a picture. The blue square logo in the middle is what is giving me problems with the PDF. The JPEG looks OK on the screen but looks terrible when printed.
If anyone can point me in the right direction is would be tremendously appreciated!
Thank you !!

You say you have tried resizing, but what are the pixel dimensions of the graphic in your logo, and what siz would you like to print it? What I often do in similar situations where a graphic is too small for printing, is to stretch out the graphic layer with Free Transform, and use that as a template to recreate the graphic using the Pen tool. That would be scaleable to any size, and you could also save it as a Shape for future use.

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FNAME_TX           NAME_T,
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Scott,
Time to 'fess up':
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KIM

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SELECT   accsta.account_number
,        actply.party_sysid
,        RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY actply.table_sysid, actply.loanac_latype_code ORDER BY start_date, SYSID) ranking
FROM     activity_players actply
,        account_status accsta
WHERE    1 = 1
AND      actply.table_id (+) = 'ACCGRP'
AND      actply.acttyp_code (+) = 'MHLDRM'
AND      NVL(actply.loanac_latype_code (+),TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(accsta.account_number,9,2))) = TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(accsta.account_number,9,2))
AND      actply.table_sysid (+) = TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(accsta.account_number,1,8))
) mhldr
WHERE    1 = 1
AND      ap.lenapp_account_number (+) = TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(mhldr.account_number,1,8))
GROUP BY mhldr.account_number;      When run as a query, this code consistently returns 2 for the num_apps field (for a certain group of accounts), but when run as an INSERT INTO command, the num_apps field is logged as 1. I have secured the tables used within the query to ensure that nothing is changing the data in the underlying tables.
If I run the query as a cursor for loop with an insert into the applicant_summary table within the loop, I get the same results in the table as I get when I run as a stand alone query.
I would appreciate any suggestions for what could be causing this odd behaviour.
Cheers,
Steve
Oracle database details:
Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production
CORE 10.2.0.2.0 Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.2.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.2.0 - Production
Edited by: stevensutcliffe on Oct 10, 2008 5:26 AM
Edited by: stevensutcliffe on Oct 10, 2008 5:27 AM

stevensutcliffe wrote:
Yes, using COUNT(*) gives the same result as COUNT(1).
I have found another example of this kind of behaviour:
Running the following INSERT statements produce different values for the total_amount_invested and num_records fields. It appears that adding the additional aggregation (MAX(amount_invested)) is causing problems with the other aggregated values.
Again, I have ensured that the source data and destination tables are not being accessed / changed by any other processes or users. Is this potentially a bug in Oracle?Just as a side note, these are not INSERT statements but CTAS statements.
The only non-bug explanation for this behaviour would be a potential query rewrite happening only under particular circumstances (but not always) in the lower integrity modes "trusted" or "stale_tolerated". So if you're not aware of any corresponding materialized views, your QUERY_REWRITE_INTEGRITY parameter is set to the default of "enforced" and your explain plan doesn't show any "MAT_VIEW REWRITE ACCESS" lines, I would consider this as a bug.
Since you're running on 10.2.0.2 it's not unlikely that you hit one of the various "wrong result" bugs that exist(ed) in Oracle. I'm aware of a particular one I've hit in 10.2.0.2 when performing a parallel NESTED LOOP ANTI operation which returned wrong results, but only in parallel execution. Serial execution was showing the correct results.
If you're performing parallel ddl/dml/query operations, try to do the same in serial execution to check if it is related to the parallel feature.
You could also test if omitting the "APPEND" hint changes anything but still these are just workarounds for a buggy behaviour.
I suggest to consider installing the latest patch set 10.2.0.4 but this requires thorough testing because there were (more or less) subtle changes/bugs introduced with [10.2.0.3|http://oracle-randolf.blogspot.com/2008/02/nasty-bug-introduced-with-patch-set.html] and [10.2.0.4|http://oracle-randolf.blogspot.com/2008/04/overview-of-new-and-changed-features-in.html].
You could also open a SR with Oracle and clarify if there is already a one-off patch available for your 10.2.0.2 platform release. If not it's quite unlikely that you are going to get a backport for 10.2.0.2.
Regards,
Randolf
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