CS6 InDesign - Default display is high-quality. Four placed images are Illustrator files. Three images look the way they should - high-quality. One image looks pixelated. Why?

InDesign CS6 - Default display is high-quality. All four placed images are Illustrator files. Three images look the way they should - high-quality. One image looks pixelated. Why?

Not sure if this will help, but what is your inDesign file's "Transparency Blend Space" set to? It's under the edit menu.
Also, when you are placing your images, are you selecting "Show Import Options" and making any selections there?

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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sorting_bookmarks_alphabetically

I just got a new macbook pro, i had cs6 on my old macbook, i downloaded cs6 on my new computer today. When I open my illustrator files with vector images they appear blurry on the new computer. I have had this issue in the past and I don't

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cnsst,
Are we talking Edit>Preferences>General>Anti-Aliased Artwork?

Re: MBP Retina with CS6, does OpenType display at print-quality?

Preface:
I'm a Graphic Design major. I have to work with a lot of text and with InDesign, obviously. On a non-Retina display, I can't trust my computer's screen to display text at print-quality. This means that I have to potentially print dozens of pages while working with text to be sure the kerning and adjustments I've made will print correctly.
Question:
I'm considering purchasing MacBook Pro the Retina version, but I need to be sure it's a good investment. I know Retina is suppose to "rival" the printed page. But are Retina and CS6 compatible and designed well enough that I can trust my computer screen to display text at the exact same quality as I would see on the printed page?
Background:
To give an idea of what I have to deal with on a normal computer screen: If I have InDesign open on a non-Retina display and I type out a line of text, if I then zoom the screen in and out and watch the text closely while doing this, it will appear as though the relative width of some lines and the distances between letters are changing. (You should easily be able to confirm this on your own computer.) For example, the stem of one letter might appear to become fatter than the stems of others at one moment, and then may appear skinnier than others at another moment.
Obviously this means I can't trust what I see on the computer screen when I'm working with text. And that's a serious issue for me.
I assume this occurs as a consequence of the conversion process between vector-to-pixel format for OpenType text combined with the low resolution of the computer screen I'm working on. Going to Retina display may help eliminate one of those issues, but if InDesign CS6 was not designed to take full advantage of the Retina display, then this problem may still persist on the higher resolution screen.

Thanks for that quick response Dendrek.
It is so hard to convince myself not to give in to the expensive temptation of the Retina MBP when I have all but completely convinced myself that I really need it! I probably will go for it anyway - since I am upgrading from my mid 2007 17" Macbook Pro which is currently at Apple Service, awaiting final verdict on whether I will need to pay for a new display, the decision seems to be a lot simpler for me. Will buy the rMBP and hope that the Adobe team catches up soon enough (and that an update to InDesign is part of their "make CS Retina optimized" plan for later this year). Like you said, it is just a matter of ID pixel-doubling everything.
On a side note - Until such an update arrives I was thinking of trying to use my (3rd generation) Retina iPad with Air Display as a second "preview display" for InDesign documents - using the document in "New Window" feature of InDesign, which allows you to have a duplicate view of the same document at its own zoom settings, with live changes. Am not sure if this configuration works as logic dictates it should (since the latest version of Air Display is apparently Retina optimized and should therefore show the document at full resolution), but will give it a shot as soon as I have access to a Mac again. Have you ever tried this setup to achieve the "print-quality" preview that you and I (and many others) want to see? Would need a Retina iPad of course.
Thanks again for your input.

CS6 crashes every time I try to watch an image sequence. Why?

I am trying to make an image sequence but after it is made and i put it in the time line when i go to watch it Premiere crashes. Here is the crash report.
Process:         Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 [6126]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe Premiere Pro CS6/Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Identifier:      com.adobe.AdobePremierePro
Version:         6.0.2 (6.0.2)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [159]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2013-06-26 22:50:57.626 -0600
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report:          866 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 121 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
Anonymous UUID:                      3D69C4ED-68B1-41BE-F9EB-6F38DD520703
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000

1st, please do not post entire crash reports... only send those to Adobe engineers if they ask for the information
2nd, read Photo Scaling for Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/450798
-PPro Crash http://forums.adobe.com/thread/879967

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Hello Peter,
I'm starting lesson 8 so far !
It's not that difficult, compared to the latest Quark Express version we used.
I have to admid (so far...) InDesign seams to be more "user-friendly" !
We decided to start with InDesign, for the simple (logical) reason having the benefits of the real compatibility between other Adobe products.
We use (since decades) Adobe products: Illustrator & Photoshop mostly.
What i deplore by Adobe, is the lack of client concerning. BUSINESS is THE major aim they have in mind !
How many products Adobe decided to stop with...? While thousants of users insisted to keep it on the market ?
No way, they like to prove they have the power !
Adobe Dimensions : Adobe Streamline : Adobe LiveMotion : Adobe Type Manager...SVG : Remember ? How many others ?
We live in a technical evolution, correct, but not necessarely justified. Except for Financial Managers...!
And the human people is under influence of those manipulated situation, and is in a real trowback period !
Sorry for these comments (nothing to do with this forum) but i'm a perfectionist, responsable of a company devoted to Industrial Quality Control, and remember much better times. Respect, living in harmony with family, and much more SAVE periods !
Difficult times we live !
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Just got a new iMac. I am using CS5.5, everything except InDesign is working. I can't open it. When I try to run the installer it says that "Adobe Suppor Advisor is no longer in use". I am then led to the online site for 'help', but I can't find anything

I transferred everything over with an ethernet cable. All my apps are working... Photoshop... Illustrator... InDesign won't though.

adobe products are especially prone to problems when 'migrated'. they should be properly install using the installation files.
at this point, uninstall your cs 5.5, clean and reinstall using the proper installation files, Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6
if you need the installation files:
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Download and installation help for Prodesigntools links are listed on most linked pages. They are critical; especially steps 1, 2 and 3. If you click a link that does not have those steps listed, open a second window using the Lightroom 3 link to see those 'Important Instructions'.

What's best: placing images in Photoshop or InDesign?

Hi guys
Since I hear different things about creating for example posters etc. is this my question: What do you think is best to do when designing a poster or flyer (or whatever) with a nice background, bursh effects, pictures and text?
I do it like this right now:
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add the adjusted images of the artists etc. in InDesign
add text in InDesign
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Some say creating the whole poster or design in Photoshop (even cutting out the pictures of the artists and rasterizing them) is better than placing each of them separately in InDesign?
Anyone who has a good website or explanation for me to answer my question? Tips and tricks are welcome!
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If the background is the same behind all images then you better do it in Photoshop because the file size of the background itself when flatten will be similar with or without all images added on top of it. Other reasons that you may choose to do it as separate images is if you want the different images with different resolutions, for example if the background is some blurry clouds or some abstract gradients you don't really need to be very high resolution and if the images on top have some fine details you may decide to have them with higher resolution. The other consideration is if you want more flexibility with the composition in inDesign in case of eventual changes. So, it all depends on different things. The text you should do in inDesign.

Can you open an existing illustrator file with the application default settings?

I need to open a customers illustrator files that he sends me with the default application settings, not the setting he saved with his file.

CS6 (Mac) but soon CC.
What is happening is they are saving the files with among other things, print scaling set to something other than 100%. If one of our operators does not catch it, the plate files are ripped at a smaller size than what they should be.
This customer does thier own production work and sends us "plate ready" files but sometimes forgets to change this setting back to 100% (he changes the scaling to something that will fit on a letter size page so he can check his separations).
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Packaging an InDesign document with Placed Illustrator Files which contain PLACED GRAPHICS!

I've got an InDesign document 215 pages long. Each page contains a placed Illustrator document... and each Illustrator document contains a placed TIFF.
When I package the InDesign Document the Illustrator files are gathered into the new location, but InDesign does not gather the TIFFs. I need to get this material to the book designer, but relinking 215 pages is going to be a very risky and time consuming process--one that will have to be done OVER and OVER again as the project moves from one location to another. Can anyone recommend a solution? Why doesn't InDesign look for nested files?
Does anybody understand what I'm talking about?
--Jay

The reason behind link (.psd in layers) means in the future it can be edited.
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CS6 AI hangs when trying to directly copy an image into CS6 PS

Hi All
Firstly thanks for taking the time to read this.
I have a few users which are all experiencing the same issue. They didn't seem to have this issue until upgrading from CS5 to CS6.
Basically AI stops responding (usually permanantly hangs and requires restarting app) for at least 30 seconds when trying to copy an image from AI into PS. The method they're using is to directly select the image from AI and then simply paste directly into PS (I know there are other methods of doing this but this is apparently the way they have always done it).
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RAM - 8 to 32GB!
CPU - i7 INTEL
GPU - Standard (but compatible) and has latest drivers but disabled by PS as i suspect it's not quite grunty enough?
Win7 has been fully updated as well as all Adobe products / Drivers etc...
I have tweaked both AI & PS (including the File Handling & Clipboard setting which enables AICB) for better performance.
I think I have basically tried everything and confused as this wasn't a problem when they were using CS5?
Am not a design expert at all so would appreciate any suggestions anyone may have?
PS - have recreated their preferences too many times to remember too :-)
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Could be a scatch disk issue that is it may be the scratch disk they have selected is to fragmented or too full.
Could be a font issue even though there may not be a font involved.
Could be a font cache problem that is a font is not reacting to CS6 as well as it did to CS 5 and causing the font cache to bloat
Could be that you have trash the Illustrator settings Folder and the com.adobe.illustrator.plst and not just the preferences.
Possible if you have third party plug ins to be one wih a conflict.
Possiily there is a conflicting software no one is aware of isnlled on all the computers involved.
If you have some users that are not exppereiencing this problem then compare that computer(s) with the ones that are experiencing the problem.
All you need is one that is working well. Look for fonts being installed or used, scratch disk configuration, network settings,plug ins, applications installed or application used by the others not used by the one with no problem.
Perhaps you might think of things like what I mention that would i ahve not thought of.
Good luck.

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Thanks,
John

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I'm hoping someone can clue me in here... I've just updated from Indesign CS3 to CS5. I was hoping in the upgrade Indesign would give you an option for placing images in picture frames at an exact scale (like you can in Quark), for instance if you place an empty picture box on the master pages and enter 55% scale you would drop in images on each page of the layout at 55% scale.
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Anyone know a work around here, or any tips?
Thanks in advance.

As far as I know, you can't set scaling for a empty frame. You can use a placholder image and scale that, and if you turn off relink preserves dimensions relinking to a new image would preserve the scaling, but only if you do it one at a time through the links panel. Using the Place command and replacing theimages will not preserve the scaling, so through the interface there isn't much help.
On the other hand, I think this could be scripted. If you need all the images to be the same scale it should just be a matter of looping through the document images and setting the scale. If none of the scripters are taking notice here, ask over in the scriping forum.

CS6 InDesign - Default display is high-quality. Four placed images are Illustrator files. Three images look the way they should - high-quality. One image looks pixelated. Why?

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