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Placed illustrator files not to original scale

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August 1, 2020
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I am placing illustrator files into indesign by clicking, this should keep the image at the original scale correct? But its not, when I check the illustrator at 100% the dimensions are correct, but in the indesign file it is smaller to some weird scale.

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ezariah

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Hi, I would like to revive this thread. I am importing .eps files (Illustrator 28.2) into InDesign (19.2) at 100%, Mac OS 12.7.3.

It does not matter if the files are .eps or .ai … the objects are larger (according to the Properties info) in InDesign. For the example I am including, the difference is 0.177 mm. May not sound like much, but these are _supposed_ to be 1:1

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ezariah

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I tried opening these .eps and .ai files in Photoshop, and they also come in too large…also at 44.8 mm

rob day

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Hi @ezariah Can you share the AI file? I’m not seeing a problem when I set Crop to: to Art:

rob day

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Yes they are the same, but... I am not sure if it works like this, but when I set the zoom to 100% in indesign, using a physical ruler to 'measure' the screen, the dimensions are not as the original.

If you set your InDesign Zoom magnification to 100%, and the Ruler units to inches or millimeters, do the inch or millimeter marks mesaure accurately with a physical ruler? If they do not try resetting your InDesign Preferences. Starting with CS6 InDesign’s 100% view is the print output view where a screen ruler inch should match a physical inch. InDesign looks to your system to get your monitor resolution in order to display the accurate print output. If that’s not happening either your prefs are corrupt, or ID can’t get the monitor specs

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Are you assuming that "100%" will mean the same size on screen in multiple apps? This is a common but dangerous assumption.

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individualistic_fan5FDDAuthor

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Hi,

Yes, does it not work like that? Then this might be the issue!...

rob day

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What versions of ID and AI are you using? The current version of AI has a Pixel Preview where the 100% view is the same as Photoshop’s, which is a 1:1 ratio between monitor and image pixels. With InDesign and Illustrator with Pixel Preview unchecked, the 100% view is the Print Output size

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Laubender

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Hi jj9977,

does this also happen if you create a new InDesign document and then place the Illustrator file?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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individualistic_fan5FDDAuthor

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Hi Uwe Laubender,

Yes the images/illustrator files are still resized(smaller) in new documents, but are to scale in the original picture(exported png) and illustrator file,

Thank you,

Jj

rob day

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Is the difference in the display’s Zoom Magnification, or the output dimensions? Have you checked the output dimensions using the application’s Transform panels? Here Illustrator shows the output dimension is 4" x 4", and in ID the output dimension is also 4" x 4" when the Transform scale is 100%: