Take the 2-minute tour ×  I've designed some popup banners
(output dimensions 840mm x 2000mm @ 300dpi) and used vectors
throughout with the exception of some stock photography for
their backgrounds. I've been Linking all rasters as usual, and
only when I reviewed my first export at 100% in Acrobat did I
notice that Illy doesn't antialias the raster graphics.  Even at
the largest resolution available - £70 worth of stock
photography per time - the images still required some upscaling
to be incorporated into the banner artwork, so regrettably this
was unavoidable.  Annoyingly Illustrator doesn't seem to either
want to / be able to antialias these raster graphics on PDF, EPS
or raster export, with upscaled raster graphics simply having
their PPI reduced (not 'upscaled' in the manner Photoshop would
resample) - am I missing some buried config option? The images
are so large attempting to use the Rasterization feature that
Illy complains about being out of memory (on a fairly meaty 4GB
quad core box) and in Acroba