Hi everyone, I have searched these posts and not found an answer so please forgive me if this has been discussed at length.

I suspect that the problem lies in the original photos and how xara handles them but would like some clarification if possible .

I have some fairly high res pics that I am trying to lay out for my portfolio.

I have a document opened with a US letter format (8.5 x 11 inches).
I then bring in my images (usually much larger than the document).
I then use the selector tool to grab a corner of the image and then I pull it down to a suitable size.
The images then have heavy anti aliasing (hairy) edges
When I export to pdf (either high quality or for web) the pdf has distortion as well.

Is there a way to compress the images in the document so that this distortion does not occur? Or is there something else that I am missing?

Thanks folks!!
Cary