How to Prefent the Poor Quality When Placing a PDF File in InDesign

Forum|Forum|15 hours ago
February 22, 2026
2 replies
21 views

Please advice how to solve a poor quality problem (Artefact) when placing a pdf files (with contents graphics) in InDesign, even the Adjust Scalling Percentage was unchecked, display Enable Anti Aliasing was checked, Display Performance all Higher.

I attached the screenshot.

Result by another apps:

Please advice how to resolve it. Thank you in advance.

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @FLORENCIA25155671urn5 , It looks like the HOLY MATRIMONY text in the PDF might be an image not vector text? If that’s the case scaling would affect the output resolution. Can you share the PDF?

M

Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Not a direct answer but display within InDesign is just a preview what matters is the actual quality of the exported PDF out of InDesign. Is that also bothersome in your case?

-Manan

F

FLORENCIA25155671urn5Author

Known Participant

The All screenshot I have attached is not the InDesign display, actually the result of the PDF file I was designed it by InDesign, this is the result of PDF file.

M

Manan Joshi

Community Expert

Ok, I will misled because you were tinkering with properties that affect the display of the preview inside InDesign document. So you place images onto InDesign and then export PDF out of it and those images are not up to the mark? I would say then you would need to play around with the PDF export preset settings like image compression and all

-Manan

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded