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Konrad5CB3
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June 21, 2022
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Finding actual/effective PPI in illustrator is confusing

  • June 21, 2022
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Hello everyone,

 

In Indesign in the Links menu it's quite easy to see the actual/effective PPI of a linked image. It just says the actual PPI number.

 

However in Illustrator, it says, for example, 143x166. And I'm not quite sure what this means. How do I calculate the actual PPI from that?

 

Thank you!

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Much discussion, and a link to vote for it to be improved, here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/illustrator-changes-the-ppi-of-an-image-when-i-rotate-it/td-p/11390028

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Monika Gause
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Monika GauseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2022

Has the image been rotated?

If not, then this tells you that the image has been scaled unproportionally.

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    Konrad5CB3Author
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    June 21, 2022

    They have been rotated, yes!

    Okay so I see that if I rotate it suddenly changes from 300 PPI to '175x513'. Isn't there a way to keep this displaying the PPI size? Or why is it changing the number in the first place? Indesign doesn't do this, as far as I'm aware. Very confusing.

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    June 21, 2022

    Much discussion, and a link to vote for it to be improved, here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/illustrator-changes-the-ppi-of-an-image-when-i-rotate-it/td-p/11390028

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