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July 20, 2021
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New to Indesign, text is pixelated.

  • July 20, 2021
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Hello everyone. Like I said, I am new to Indesign. I've been trying to learn it in order to design a game rulebook. I've gone through the fonts in the program and added some new ones. However, what I noticed is that the text was somewhat pixelated. Nothing too bad. Like, you can still clearly read it. However, I obviously want sharp and clear text. The program usage is intended to make a good looking rulebook, which doesn't seem possible atm. 

I am going through some tutorials and I found that images are shown with poor quality in order to low cpu usage (I presume). I have changed that to show high quality images. Is there anything like that for text too? 
If not, could there be something else? I read that Indesign sometimes has issues that can be resolved by starting with a fresh... what was it. Setting thing. I forgot what it was called. Anyway, I did that, but it didn't help. 
Any help is much appreciated. If it helps, its CC 2015. 

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Participant
February 10, 2024

It may be on GPU Preview... Click View > Preview on CPU and see if that helps

Community Expert
July 20, 2021

have you checked overprint preview?   I know there's thinkgs that look very pixelated while working normal in InDesign,  but it all clears up when I click Overprint Preview, where it looks more like the way its going to do so when it prints.  Granted, it slows down drastically when its active.

Participating Frequently
July 20, 2021

How do I do that? I am completely new to the program

Dave Creamer of IDEAS
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 20, 2021

What does your text look like in Acrobat if you make a PDF of your document?

Is the text coming in with imported graphics?

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
Participating Frequently
July 20, 2021

Good question. I checked it, and when I export it to pdf it is looking good again. I should make a screenshot. 

@Test Screen Name Yes in the app itself. As Creamer Training proposed, I exported it to PDF and there it looks good again. 

Participating Frequently
July 20, 2021

Seems I can't edit the comment for some reason. I don't know exactly how this forum works, as I can't enlarge it to it's actual size unless I click on it and open it as another tab. On the image you see now, it looks worse than it is as it is barely readable. In reality, it can clearly be read, however, it is just much less sharp than what you see in the pdf. Especially the words 'Inhoud' and 'combineer' are unclear. 

In Adobe Illustrator I know that the designs there are vector-based and as such, can be enlarged without making it look distorted or pixelated, but I'm guessing it isn't the case in Indesign. 

Legend
July 20, 2021

As a new user, where did you get InDesign CC 2015, and why are you using this old version??

Where are you seeing the pixellated text - in the InDesign app? Or in an end product - what end product? (eg PDF, ePub, JPEG, Publish Online...)