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poor quality graphic in indesign

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Oct 06, 2012 Oct 06, 2012

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I am not sure why when I insert a jpg graphic in indesign, the quality looks so poor. I design my graphic in Photoshop with high resolution. How do I fix it. Thanks

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Oct 06, 2012 Oct 06, 2012

Check the Display performance under View-->Display performance and set it up for High Quality.

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Check the Display performance under View-->Display performance and set it up for High Quality.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH. I was really wondering if i was mental...

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Even though i already bloody set it to that before it cured my frustration at 4am, god bless you 

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Oct 06, 2012 Oct 06, 2012

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Set the display preferences to High. I think it's under View>Display

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Oct 06, 2012 Oct 06, 2012

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Are you using High Qualtity Display?

View > Display Performance > HighQuality Display

What is the "Effective PPI" value when you select the image and open the Info Panel?

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Oct 06, 2012 Oct 06, 2012

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I did put it in high quality. Where is the info panel?

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Oct 06, 2012 Oct 06, 2012

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Window > Info

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Oct 06, 2012 Oct 06, 2012

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When you save an image in photoshop the resolution you specify is essentially meaningless exxept to tell an application like InDesign how large a space to use to to palce the image at 100%. If you scale the image in ID the effective resolution, the resolution at which the image will print, changes in inverse proportion to the amout of scaling.

If your image in Photoshop is 300 x 300 pixels and saved at 300 ppi, it must be used in ID at 1" x 1" to have an effective resolution of 300 ppi. If you scale it up to 4" x 4" the effective resolution drops to 75 ppi and the image will look pixelated even at high quality display.

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it is 300ppi. But it does not look like it. See attachedtmp.jpg

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Oct 06, 2012 Oct 06, 2012

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Why don't you draw it in InDesign (or Illustrator) as vectors?

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Oct 06, 2012 Oct 06, 2012

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Actually, that does look like 300 ppi. ID uses a preview image, not the actual pixels that you see in Photoshop, for onscreen display. The actual pixels are used for output.

Type and lines, especially sloped lines, need to be much higher resolotion to aviod jaggies, and vector would be much better. If you have to make this in Photoshop, leave the type and stroked paths as live vectors and save it as a Photoshop PDF rather than a jpeg and place that.

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it looks pixelated when I printed out.

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In the print dialog, under Graphics, change the Send Data dropdown field to All.

But it probably looks pixelated when you print from Photoshop as well. 300 ppi is too low for line art and type.

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Jun 24, 2015 Jun 24, 2015

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1. Use PSDs for your high quality images and 2.) make sure your images are properly"linked" inside your In Design file to its Links folder.

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Sep 30, 2021 Sep 30, 2021

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There can only be three possibilities.

InDesign is set to 'Typical' (faster) display mode. I always work in this mode - high quality in a large image-heavy document is too slow.

Original image quality is too low.

The link is broken / needs updating. Check for red (missing) or yellow (updated) icons in the links panel.

All three would result in a pixellated preview.

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Explorer ,
Dec 01, 2022 Dec 01, 2022

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I am also having this problem recently. HIgh quality display set in preferences, and in view settings, images are high res, vector graphics are doing this too. Images are linked. Sometimes i reimport the file and it works, sometimes it doesnt, Getting very frustrated, almost ready to do a clean re install of ID. Newly imported hi res file is looking like this and I cant get it to display hi res... I had to open the image in photoshop, resave it and went back to indesign and it looks good. I cant see doing this on every project I work on.

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Dec 01, 2022 Dec 01, 2022

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That looks very much like either the links are broken (and re-linking being a cure supports this) or that the images have been scaled too large. I recommend adding the Effective PPI column to your view of the Links Panel so you can easily see that as well as when links are showing as broken.

 

I'd bet these files are not stored locally and that may be why InDesing is having trouble with the links.

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