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7月 2, 2026 10:33 午後 UTC
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placing an image that's the same size as the document page size but somehow got half of the ppi

i created an image in 1600x2400px @150ppi and relink to a 1600x2400 web document with 50px margin, but somehow the effective ppi went down to 75 ppi. Actual ppi still remain 150. This is driving me crazy, Please help.

    leo.r
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    7月 3, 2026 12:13 午前 UTC

    InDesign pixel unit measurements are basically only valid when you place 72 ppi images and do not scale them. It’s totally different from Photoshop pixels. If you switch to physical units (inch, mm, etc.) you’ll get consistently expected results.

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    MonaB作成者
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    7月 4, 2026 8:06 午後 UTC

    Thanks for the explanation, everyone, especially Leo. I understand the logic; it's just taking me a moment to process it fully. The problem is, I couldn’t switch from pixel to inch under the current document setup intent: web. When I switched from web to print, all the content was gone. I am new to Indesign, and I am working on my first ebook. I’m overwhelmed.

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    rob day
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    7月 5, 2026 10:49 午前 UTC

    The problem is, I couldn’t switch from pixel to inch under the current document setup intent: web

     

    You don’t have to change a document’s Intent in order to change ruler units—choose View>Show Rulers and Control-Click on the rulers.

     

    From there you can set the current Ruler Units for the document’s horizontal and/or vertical rulers to Points, Picas, Inches, Millimeters, Centimeters, Ciceros, Agates, Pixels. Pixel units are static and equal 1/72”.

     

    The current Ruler Units also affect many of the menu and palette unit displays.

     

     

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    rob day
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    7月 3, 2026 2:02 午後 UTC

    This is driving me crazy,

     

    Hi ​@MonaB , Also an InDesign page has no resolution—it’s a vector object not an image.

     

    There is a Pixel Ruler Unit, which has no relationship to page’s output or export resolution. That’s more obvious if you change your Ruler Units from Pixels to Inches:

     

     

     

     

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    leo.r
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    7月 3, 2026 12:13 午前 UTC

    InDesign pixel unit measurements are basically only valid when you place 72 ppi images and do not scale them. It’s totally different from Photoshop pixels. If you switch to physical units (inch, mm, etc.) you’ll get consistently expected results.

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    7月 3, 2026 8:05 午前 UTC

    ​@leo.r is correct - just to elaborate a bit

     

    The confusing part is that InDesign pixels are not the same thing as Photoshop image pixels.

     

    Your image is 1600 × 2400 px at 150 ppi, so its physical size is about 10.67 × 16 inches.

     

    But an InDesign document set to 1600 × 2400 px is effectively much larger physically, because InDesign’s pixel unit is based around 72 units per inch. So a 1600 px wide InDesign page is about 22.22 inches wide.

     

    That means when you fit your 150 ppi image to that page/frame, InDesign is scaling it to around 200%. Once a 150 ppi image is used at 200%, the effective resolution becomes about 75 ppi.

     

    So nothing is wrong with the image. The Actual PPI stays at 150 because that is the image’s own metadata. The Effective PPI drops to 75 because the image is being enlarged in the layout.

     

    As Leo says - for predictable results, either work in physical units, or make the image 72 ppi if you want its pixel dimensions to match an InDesign pixel-based document without scaling.

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    leo.r
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    7月 3, 2026 1:48 午後 UTC

    Exactly.

     

    And as an additional demonstration for ​@MonaB, image pixel dimensions remain the same no matter how you scale it and how its dimensions correspond to InDesign pixel rulers:

     

     

     

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