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December 7, 2017
Question

Transparency - no preview in Indd

  • December 7, 2017
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Hello all, quick question;

I'm starting to get more & more documents which don't preview any transparency - though they export fine to PDF. It's not all documents, and ones that preview normally will have the transparent element stop previewing properly if brought into a non-previewing document. This seems to affect anything under transparency & effects, eg Gradient Feather, Drop Shadows, etc.

It does print and export correctly - so not a massive problem - but I have no idea why this is happening. Is there a setting I've been messing up occasionally?

Notes:

Mac Sierra 10.12.6 + Indesign CC 2018

Preview within Document (The Black Box is set to Multiply with 40% Opacity)

Preview out as a Low-Res PDF (Black box appears correctly)

Settings for the effect - Preview is checked!

1 reply

Erica Gamet
Inspiring
December 7, 2017

I've noticed if I have weird screen redraw issues, turning off my GPU Performance seems to help (Preferences > GPU Performance > Uncheck GPU Performance box). That might work. If not, possibly trashing your preferences? But I like to leave that as a last resort.

Community Expert
December 7, 2017

Hi Erica,

hm…

Could it be that the preferences for display performance option—High Quality—is set in the wrong way?

That displaying transparency is turned off with that?

Regards,

Uwe