Stippling/poor texture during light engraves

[Jules]

Have you tried saving them as an SVG file type instead of a PDF?

PDF might have some sort of compression artifacts built into the format - that looks like something along those lines. Try one from an SVG file and see.

Settings should look like this when you use Save As:

Glowforge Interface - Correctly Save a File as an SVG for the GFUI

For All Programs: If you want to engrave a bitmap (raster) style image and include it inside a vector SVG file, you need to Embed the image in the file if you want it to stay aligned inside the SVG file. Otherwise you will need to re-load the raster file and use the camera to align it visually. (That’s fine, but you will completely lose the benefit of more accurate alignment that you get from the design software.) There are instructions for how to Embed raster images for some of the main 2D…