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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
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
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
this is from indesign
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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?
This is an export to PDF/X-4 with Downsampling Off, viewed in Acrobat at 400%:
The default PDF/X-4 with Downsampling turned on:
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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