Vector graphics look blurry...why?

When I import an adobe illustrator file into motion, the graphics look blurry. I want them to look sharp. Here are some screen shots, that show the blurry illustrator file and the various settings. The text is size is 100 points (very big) in the illustrator file. Motion did not rasterize the imported file. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

Select the media tab to the right of the layers tab in the Project Pane.
Then in the Inspector, click on the media tab.
Fixed resolution is checked by default.
Good luck.
Russ

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check my post #20 in this thread http://forums.adobe.com/message/4455955#4455955 I tried to explain what is causing this. Nothing to worry about it won't affect the printed result.
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I have just started using windows vista and i have
noticed that when i
> create
> graphics using fireworks 8 that when i view them either
on dreamweaver 8
> or
> just using the windows viewer that the graphics and
colours in the
> graphics
> look very blurry?? Does anyone know why this should be?
As i was creating
> graphics successfully before with fireworks 8 when i was
using windows xp
> and
> had none of these problems at all.
>
> Any advice would be most welcome.
>
> Many thanks,
> Gordon.
>

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How do you keep the graphics looking sharp?

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fwitt wrote:
> Why do the corners of any rectangle I draw look like
this?
>
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http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/1581/image10kl6.jpg
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> Everything is set to the highest quality.
Never seen that before nor heard anyone else mention it in
here.
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to see
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> I'm using Framemaker 10, Autodesk Illustrator Publisher, Inkscape, Windows Vista.
Is Adobe Illustrator available?
> I have imported some CAD illustrations from Autodesk Illustrator into Illustrator Publisher. There I have labelled them.
Why not label them in Frame? We do, and it has advantages beyond avoiding text rendering and scaling issues, such as being able to re-use the same illustration for multiple purposes with different callouts. We use embedded callouts in our service manuals (the XML engine requires it), and depopulate the callouts (usually just switching off one layer) for re-use of that art in the Frame manuals.
> I have then saved/published them as .svg files.
Let me admit that I have no experience with SVG, due to lack of SVG support across all of our workflow, but we use vector EPS extensively.
> If I import them directly in to Framemaker, they open with the callouts at a strange angle and 3/4 of the picture missing. Therefore I have to open them in Inkscape, bring the whole picture in to frame and line up the callouts.
If SVG has preview/thumbnail embedded images, is there a chance that this is just a preview problem? What happens at print or render to PDF?
> Now I import them into Framemaker. The trouble is, the numbering is difficult to predict. The labelling/callouts/numbering always turns what looks to be bold. But the real problem is resizing the illustrations.
This is one of the downsides of embedded callouts. If the images cannot be pre-sized, either the text will scale arbitrarily, which is ugly, or it won't scale, which is a disaster. More bad news - your stroke weights are scaling too.
> Because there is no way of predicting the size of the output from ...
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> Does anyone else use Vector graphics in their manuals?
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