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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

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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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hannahydaviesAuthor

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

leo.r

Community Expert

just in case: what are your versions of InDesign and macOS?

Peter Spier

Community Expert

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

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hannahydaviesAuthor

Participant

This setting is already off in my settings!

James Gifford—NitroPress

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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.

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hannahydaviesAuthor

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It's a coffee table book so mainly images with some text that'll be printed out professionally. So image quality for printing must be extremely high

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Yes resolution is on typical quality and the TIFFs are fine in other locations, it's just InDesign that they show with the black lines/ halves

ID is a relatively old engine/core, much older than Illustrator and Photoshop, I believe. It's single-core and almost everything is multicore these days.

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