High resolution PDF ?

I don't know much about the subject, but I can do PDF files from my Word documents. I found out that just asking for a print and selecting PDF printer would lead me to it. BUT I have just been asked for a high resolution PDF file. What is this? I thought that I had found what I needed. What does that mean and what can I do?
Thanks for helping me with this.

What is normally meant by a "high resolution PDF" is a PDF file in which the image data is sufficient for high quality printing. Generally speaking, that means that all grayscale and color images have a resolution of 300 dpi and monochrome images have a resolution of 1200 dpi. Such high resolution should not be artificially achieve simply by up-rezing images in Photoshop. That doesn't solve anything. Furthermore, for certain image types, such as screen shots that are naturally relatively low resolution, you pretty much need to use the screen shot images "as-is." In the end, the resolution of the images in the PDF file depend on the original image resolution as well as the joboption settings used for downsampling. Also, joboptions should use very conservative compression settings if JPEG is used.
You may wish to move this discussion to the Acrobat forum.
- Dov

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