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Participant
January 19, 2023
Question

Gifs with rounded corners on Publish Online

  • January 19, 2023
  • 4 replies
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I’m having an issue with adding gifs with rounded corners in InDesign. 

 

I added it to the page and changed them to rounded corners, and it looks fine in InDesign, but when I upload the PDF to “Publish Online”, they’re all changed to sharp corners again.

 

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

4 replies

Participant
May 2, 2025

Oh you have no idea how much i hate adobe

 

BobLevine
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 19, 2023

Are you using PDF or Publish Online. They are not the same thing.

Frans v.d. Geest
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 2, 2025

That one is indeed confusing in the OP message, I guess he simply means Publish Online, but could also mean the downloadable pdf from there (in that case I suspect a transparency flattening problem).

Rishabh_Tiwari
Legend
January 19, 2023

Hi @Natalia24186566tsz0 ,

 

Thanks for reaching out. In addition to the suggestions shared by Willi, you can also refer to this similar discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-to-keep-gifs-inside-circle-when-publishing-online/m-p/11945849#M420921 

 

Let us know if this helps or if you need any further assistance.

 

Regards
Rishabh

Willi Adelberger
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 19, 2023
  1. Don't use GIFs in InDesign projects.
  2. If you need an image with rounded corners, make the frame round corner

 

Why would you want to use GIFs?

 

Participant
August 19, 2024

You're a community expert and your advice is dont use GIFs?? What an obnoxious response. Why would you bother replying as you clearly dont know

 

There are so many uses for GIFs on Indesign. As far as getting rounded corners on them and for it to show on Publish Online, the only route I've found is to create a png on Photoshop with the corners the same colour as your background and then have it sit over the top of the GIFs. A bit of a nuisance process unfortunately, but successful. Best of luck.

Participant
August 20, 2024

Thank you! Yeah, seems like it's the only way to get around it, but that does work – thanks!