Display's issue with Indesign

[ninetymax]

Hi everyone,

I have a display's issue with Indesign. Actually, I work with a 4K screen connected to my macbook. Everything is working but not the display of pages. I've to work at 300% cause if I'm at 100% the size of files is too tiny. I'm creating for digital and print also, then it's impossible to work at real and true size.

Macbook pro – 2019  •  Adobe CC – 2020 . • Screen 4K Samsung LU28R550UQUXEN 28" 

Thanks for help !!

[Ashutosh_Mishra]

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out. InDesign has various options under Display performance in order to gain a performance boost.

InDesign has three options for how images/graphics are displayed, which you can access via View > Display Performance.

• Fast: Displays a gray box and you won’t see the image at all
• Typical: Shows a low-resolution proxy
• High Quality: Shows a high-resolution proxy

Viewing images at high-resolution (High Quality Display) forces InDesign to constantly re-draw elements as you move around the document, increase the CPU usage. Setting the default to Typical (InDesign/Edit > Preferences > Display Performance) renders the images at a screen-friendly resolution.

Please try "Typical Display" and let us know if it makes the display better.

Regards,

Ashutosh

[catherinec12564734]

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[rob day]

I'm creating for digital and print also, then it's impossible to work at real and true size.

By default InDesign’s 100% view on the main monitor is the physical output print size—if you show rulers 1" should measure 1". To get the 100% view of the physical print output InDesign gets the main monitor’s PPI from the OS, so the print display on a 2nd monitor wouldn’t be accurate unless it happened to have the same PPI resolution as the main monitor.

Prior to CS6 InDesign’s 100% view matched Photoshop’s—a 1:1 ratio of the monitor and image resolution. It is possible to change the 100% view via scripting, and there is a long discussion from 2012 here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/indesign-cs6-resolution-for-pixel-documents-not-the-same/td-...

This script sets the 100% view to the old 1:1 ratio

#target indesign

//100% view as 1:1
app.generalPreferences.customMonitorPpi = 72;
app.generalPreferences.useCustomMonitorResolution = true;
app.activeWindow.zoomPercentage = 100;

//reset to print version
//app.generalPreferences.useCustomMonitorResolution = false;
//app.activeWindow.zoomPercentage = 100;