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300 ppi still blurry

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Apr 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020

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Hello all,

 

I have used Indesign many times but I am having an issue I have not had before.

 

Some of my images are 300 ppi yet they are appearing blurry. My performance display is typical and it looks the same on high. below is a screen shot of the image with the info saying 300 ppi

Screen Shot 2020-04-21 at 3.01.19 PM.png

 

when I convert it to a PDF it looks just like it does above. Some of the images are this some are not. 

any ideas?

 

thank you 

David

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Community Expert , Apr 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020

Can you package your InDesign file along with the image and share it via your CC account or some other cloud service like Dropbox?

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What’s your Zoom magnification? Actual Size or 100% shows the magnification for the actual print output.

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when i right click and hit zoom it says actual size

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Actually your Effective PPI is 1047PPI. Increase the resolution in PDF.

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How would I do that? when I export?

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The Effective Reolution is very high. It looks like the image may have been upsampled in Photoshop—it started as a low resolution and was sampled up in order to get to the 300ppi Actual Resolution?

 

You can export the full 1047ppi Effective Res by turning off Downsampling in the Export>Compression tab, but if the image was sampled up in Photoshop that won’t have much effect.

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I did not process these in Ps. It is possible someone else did though.

 

I will do what you recomended and see if it works.

 

Thank you

David

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Is the Link Status Normal? You should be able to open the link in Photoshop and show us a 100% view there.

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I just turned it into a PDF after turning off the downsampling. theses are 2 examples of how came out

Screen Shot 2020-04-21 at 3.58.22 PM.png

Screen Shot 2020-04-21 at 3.58.02 PM.png

 

this is from indesign

Screen Shot 2020-04-21 at 3.58.52 PM.png

  

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You can see the images were upsampled before you placed them in InDesign—nothing you can do about that.

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Could you show a screen capture of the image or part of the image in Photoshop at 100%?

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Photoshop 100% 

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Can you package your InDesign file along with the image and share it via your CC account or some other cloud service like Dropbox?

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Make sure the Link Status is OK. What version of InDesign are you using?

 

Screen Shot 1.png

 

This is an export to PDF/X-4 with Downsampling Off, viewed in Acrobat at 400%:

 

Screen Shot 2.png

 

The default PDF/X-4 with Downsampling turned on:

Screen Shot 3.png

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it is version 15.0.2

 

The link might be the problem. it is missing. I am working off of a server. The Indesign templates were in the server and I copied them out of the server. When I converted to PDF I can not be certain the server was connected and If that is wher ethe images originated....well that could be it.

 

I will attempt to redo it with the server connected and see if it works.

 

Thank you for your help. I will update when I figure it out.

 

David

 

 

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thank you for the help. It was the links. I made sure I was logged into the server, then creadted the pdf and it worked.

 

thank you again

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