Bad result in indesign and pdf when live tracing in Ai

I have been trying to make a painting in Ai using Live trace, and the outcome is very good in Ai, but when placing it in Indesign the quality turns out bad. You can see white lines between the parted colors. Why does this happen? And how do i "fix" this?
Øystein.

One did you use the the option in Live Trace to ignore white that will turn the white spaces to transparent.
You can turn it into a live color group and fill the white space with a fill of none as well that will make them transparent.
Then in ID make certain you have High Quality turned on for your object review.

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