Black Lines and Squares on TIFF files on InDesign

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April 8, 2024
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Every time I place a TIFF file onto my InDesign page, it appears with black lines or squares. I have tried so much and nothing works. JPEG and other files are fine to place but not TIFFs which isn't great when I need high quality images in my document. I have edited these images from CR2 files on photoshop, then saved them as TIFF files - layers flattened too.

Any help please as this is for a UNI final project ://

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

This does sound like a GPU issue. Also: check that you haven't saved your TIFFs with a compression: e.g. LZW... this can cause an issue with ID trying to generate previews (especially with GPU). Also check the color depth... 16-bit images can be problematic as well, especially with LZW. (CR2 files tend to open as 16-bit)

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hannahydavies작성자

Participant

Hi, GPU is off, no compression on the TIFFs, and color depth is fine 😕😕

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Indeed. there is absolutely no issue with TIFF... it's still the preferred image format in the prepress world. I see no need to go to the extra work to export JPGs. There could just be a minor corruption in the file. Where are the images stored? if they are on a network server, try move one to your local drive and see if the issue persists.

Well, yes, TIFF is fine, TIFF is wonderful, TIFF is probably the pro's baseline standard... but TIFFs have always been by far the bulkiest file format, and I've seen issues with sheer resource overrun iteratively over the years.

And as noted, cameras (either real ones or voice chat devices with a lens) have gone to ridiculous/insane native resolutions in recent years.

So —

Art photos shot at these extreme resolutions;
Processed through raw./CR2 to TIFFs intended for "art book" results;
Placed in an ID doc in some not-trivial number;
On what can be inferred to be a student-grade laptop or system, perhaps a few years old...

Leads me to bet my wooden nickel on sheer resource exhaustion, at the bottom of it all.

There has been no answer/response to some key questions on this above. But the generality of high-end prepress work using some prior generation (much smaller) TIFF files on muscular systems may not be relevant, here. And switching to a less processing intensive format, at reduced sizes optimized for the end result, and perhaps splitting the project into multiple files... is suggested as a solution.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

If you are on Mac, try turning off GPU acceleration in the InDesign Prefs.

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hannahydavies작성자

Participant

This setting is already off in my settings!

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

TIFF often has issues, the more so as time goes by and apps modernize and the format does not.

Convert to another format that works better. As for quality, you should have no issues with JPEG of the same pixel dimensions and saved at a medium-high quality level. If you're seeing significant reduction in quality, you're doing something wrong with your image or export management.

A few more details about your project would help give more precise answers.

ETA: It may be that the files are simply too large. You don't need to cram extreme resolution into InDesign to get 300ppi, or even 600ppi export. I have the feeling you might be using these at native camera resolution, which these days is into values ridiculous for anything but giant art prints.