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September 23, 2024
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Issues with Pre-Flight Checks for Illustrator Files in InDesign

  • September 23, 2024
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Pre-flight shows that an illustrator vector image has too low effective resolution, however there's no way to change this, as there is no effective resolution ofr vector files.  It tells me the fix is to "correct the resolution in the source file."  Which is not possible from what I can see.

 

It also shows "strole weight too small", for 4 AI files, none of which have any strokes.  So I guess a weight of 0 is too small?  It tells me the effective stroke is 0.187 though...

 

It also gives me numerous bleed and trim hazards, however none of them are close to safe margins even.  And many of them are not even visible. Also, clicking on the page number doesn't go to that page, and doesn't highlight that item...

 

Overall, the pre-flight seems to be pretty broken at the moment!

 

 

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Abhishek Rao
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 23, 2024

Hi @wcn_dave,

 

I’m sorry to hear you’re experiencing these issues with the pre-flight warnings—it sounds quite frustrating! To assist you better, could you please share the version of InDesign you’re using and the details of your operating system?

 

If possible, a screen recording demonstrating the issues would be really helpful. Additionally, it would be great if you could package the InDesign file and share it with us for testing. You can find instructions on how to package a file [here](https://adobe.ly/47Etef6).

 

Thank you for your patience, and I’m here to help!

Best,  
Abhishek Rao

wcn_daveAuthor
Inspiring
September 23, 2024

I am using InDesign 19.3 x64

Windows 10

Here we can see an example of something that is "too close", however it's quite a way inside the margin...

 

Below, on the left you can see the image has "too low a resolution", which can't be because it's an illustrator file. Also in the panel on the right you can see that it's given no resolution, and no effective resolution.

 

 

wcn_daveAuthor
Inspiring
September 23, 2024

Pre-flight shows that an illustrator vector image has too low effective resolution, however there's no way to change this, as there is no effective resolution ofr vector files.  It tells me the fix is to "correct the resolution in the source file."  Which is not possible from what I can see.

 

It also shows "strole weight too small", for 4 AI files, none of which have any strokes.  So I guess a weight of 0 is too small?  It tells me the effective stroke is 0.187 though...

 

It also gives me numerous bleed and trim hazards, however none of them are close to safe margins even.  And many of them are not even visible. Also, clicking on the page number doesn't go to that page, and doesn't highlight that item...

 

Overall, the pre-flight seems to be pretty broken at the moment!

 

 

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Doug A Roberts
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 23, 2024

What preflight are you talking about here? Acrobat's?

wcn_daveAuthor
Inspiring
September 23, 2024

So I created the post in the InDesign section, and it's been moved to Illustrator... sorry.

Will try to create it again.