Finding actual/effective PPI in illustrator is confusing

[Konrad5CB3]

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!

[Monika Gause]

Has the image been rotated?

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

[Konrad5CB3]

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.

[Test Screen Name · Accepted solution]

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-...

[Konrad5CB3]

Thanks! Upvoted!