Import from Illustrator looks terrible in InDesign

[nilleg57851248]

When I place graphic files in InDesign it looks terrible. Normally it works perfect. What is wrong?

I tried to change from Mac to PC, but that did not help

[nilleg57851248]

Hurrayyy

It was the handling/clipboard thing

Thank you for so many good advises 😄

[nilleg57851248]

Thank You all for all your good support.

What a relief

Wish you all a wonderful and inspiring week

[ralstond_mx]

InDesign  17.4   Preferences > Display Performance > Adjust View Settings > Vector Graphics: Slider all the way to the right (High Resolution)

[Naima26152819r8el]

For me, the quality was great when I imported my vector file into inDesign, but would pixelate when I would try to export as PDF. I realized that when saving the document, I could change the compression of the images. So I changed it to JPEG2000(Losless) and increased my resolution to 300ppi and that worked for me 🙂 Hope this helps! 

[lindam78074167]

I am having the same issue.  I purchased a vector .ai file from Adobe and it looks aweful.  I did a test print and it prints terribly as well.  I am placing the .ai file in InDesign, not pasting it.  All of my setting are set to high quality and it doesn't change how the image looks or prints at all.  This is for use on a 16' x 4' banner so it will be very large.  I have NEVER had this issue before with a .ai file looking like a small jpg when placed.  I checked the options when placing the file and it shows no PPI as it should because it's a vector file, but still the file is poor quality.  I have re-downloaded the file.  no change.  I converted it to SVG and that showed up blank.  I have several different .ai vector files (I opened them in Illustrator to be sure I was downloading a non-vector file saved as .ai and it is vector when opened in Illustrator.  I have wasted hours on this and nothing helps.

I recently updated my operating system to Monterey and updated InDesign to 17.4.  These updates were done to solve another problem with InDesign and it did fix that problem.  My settings were not reset to default after the download.