How to Remove Grid Lines in an InDesign Rectangular Pattern in InDesign?

[Francisca Guzman]

Hey everyone!

I'm trying to make a pattern with rectangular shapes, but when it comes to visualizing them, there are some lines that appear to be grids. What are those lines, and how can I remove them?

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

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[melissapiccone]

How are you making these shapes? Are you just using the rectangle tool? Are the shapes 100% opacity - no blend mode? The lines aren't other objects interfering? 

[Francisca Guzman]

Hello,

Actually, the opacity is 85%

Why is that a problem?

Thank you in advance

[Peter Spier · Accepted solution]

Changing opacity should only be used when there is content behind with which you want the object to interact. If it's just a color lightening you want you should use a tint instead.

Transparency can introduce all sorts of potential color shift and unwanted vector and text rasterization issues on output.

[Francisca Guzman]

Thank you, Peter!

[Peter Spier]

You're welcome

[Peter Spier]

Are you on a Mac? If yes, try turning off GPU performance in the prefs...

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Hi @Francisca Guzman,

Thank you for reaching out, and sorry to hear you are seeing grid lines while creating rectangular patterns in InDesign. In addition to what our expert has suggested and asked, you may also try turning off Grids settings under Preferences, as shown in the screenshot.

Let us know if that helps.

Thanks,

Harshika

[Peter Spier]

These don't really look like grid lines in the screen capture. They are not evenly spaced and don't appear in the space between the shapes.

[Frans v.d. Geest]

They look more like GPU rendering errors indeed...