When fine print must survive real-world magnification
Footnotes in medical reviews, callouts on engineering plots, and disclosure lines on financial tables rarely fail at thumbnail scale—they fail when ink meets paper or when conference posters enlarge slides tenfold. Exporting near 300 DPI gives anti-aliasing kernels enough pixels so strokes remain intelligible instead of stair-stepped. The trade-off is honest file growth and RAM pressure: hundred-page masters balloon on disk, and browsers reclaim tabs that look idle during long renders. Ai2Done foregrounds progress and pragmatic limits messaging so you pilot cover pages, the densest table spread, and the appendix tail before committing to the entire corpus. If downstream workflows rescale repeatedly, pick one canonical raster resolution to avoid moiré from successive down-upsampling chains. After export, preview at true print percentages—not merely fit-to-window—to confirm hairlines and superscripts survive your stakeholders’ loupe tests.
High-resolution PNG in three steps
- Derive target DPI or pixel width from viewing distance and print vendor specs.
- Upload the PDF, enable high-DPI / ~300 DPI rendering, and pilot a short range.
- Zoom-test footnotes and hairlines, then batch-export while monitoring disk and upload budgets.