InDesign CS 4 - Placing image problem

In InDesign CS 4, when I select 'place' from the file menu and choose an image, the cursor is loaded; I can either click once on the document to place the entire image, or I can click and drag the cursor to place the image.
Clicking and dragging the loaded cursor automatically resizes the image to the size of the box created by dragging. This is a problem. In CS 3, this did not happen. Is this a preference that can be turned off, or is this a bug?
Thanks,

Clicking will put it at 100% with the upper left corner exactly where you click, just as if you clicked and dragged down and to the right in CS3, the only difference being that dragging a frame in CS3 might have cropped an image, or left a frame with empty space. In CS4 you get the whole image by clicking, as in CS3.
Holding the Shift key while dragging in CS4 releases the shape constraint and sets the fitting property to fit to frame proportionally and centers the image (which probably isn't too helpful), and if you have smart dimensions turned on your operators can always watch the numbers to see when they've reached 100%.
I don't recall a way to get back the ability to drag a frame with the loaded cursor and place a cropped image at 100%, but you can pre-draw the frame(s) and then issue the place command, dropping into the frames and they will be placed at 100%.
Peter

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InDesign Crashes while placing images on document.

Hi All,
I am facing problem and i am stuck at this point.
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Regards
Tahir.

Does it happen in other files withthe same image(s)? How about in a new user?

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Solution:
Delete or remove the "FontExplorer X for Illustrator CS5.aip" plugin from the Adobe Illustrator > Plug-ins folder and all will be fine again.

Geoff,
Thank you for sharing.
There has been another report of FontExplorer disturbing Illy recently.
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InDesign Settings When Placing Image Screen Cap from SnagIt

I've already tried obtaining assistance from the SnagIt people, but they feel it's an InDesign setting I'm missing, which is likely since my skill with InDesign is very beginner level. Thank you kindly for any assistance.
I produce training materials for software and need to take screen captures that will then be inserted into InDesign. I do the production myself and then give to a printer.
I cannot, for the life of me, get the images to look half decent in InDesign. I save at 96 dpi, 300 dpi, tif RGB, tif CMYK, PNG etc. and to be honest, the captures look worse once they hit InDesign than if I took a basic windows screen cap.
The screen caps should be presented at a reasonable, readable size in InDesign as they are for instruction purposes. Professionally printed computer manuals is the quality I'm looking for.
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CPU: Intel Core 2 Series Processor (2400 MHz) -- THIS IS A QUAD CORE
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OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit (Build 7600) -- ULTIMATE VERSION
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
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Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.17.0011.9562
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Sincerely,
Alexandria

You don’t say what’s wrong with the screen captures, but since you list several different resolutions I can guess. You are resampling and Photoshop is trying to produce smooth results, assuming the image is a photograph and that aliased (pixelated) details are undesirable.
Screen captures look best when they are not resampled. Save them in a lossless format like PNG or TIF and place them unmodified. If you edit them and add any layers or text (Layers panel shows anything but a single Background layer), then save as PSD or Photoshop PDF. Some print shops might either flag those low-res files as problems, or try to “help” you by upsampling them. You can avoid these issues by resampling in Photoshop using Nearest Neighbor interpolation. Use full 100% increments, ie: not from 72 ppi to 300 ppi (416.67%) but 72 to 288 ppi (400%).
Other tricks to explore are changing the antialiasing method of your display. Sub-pixel antialiasing is often used for LCD displays, but when enlarged and printed (look at the noise around “Font Family”) can be ugly. On a Mac you can turn this off in the Appearance Preference Pane.
Black can be a nuisance with screen captures. Your screen captures are probably saved in RGB. When they are printed the RGB values are converted to CMYK by the print shop. Normally, this is not something to be concerned with. But Black in RGB (0,0,0) is usually treated as a rich black or photographic black, and is converted to a colour with lots of each CMYK ink in it. For the fine type, dialogues, and lines of a screen grab, that is undesireable.
I have my own way of dealing with this, and I know others who have similar, but not identical, workflows. All require Photoshop. If you want further help with this, please ask either here or in the Photoshop forum.

Placing images problem

I don't know if it's related at all but since the last update to Yosemite, images added to folders won't show up while using the Place command. The only thing that I found that will make that file show up is to quit Illustrator and then re-open the file. That is not normal.
Any clues as to what's going on here?

That's probable I don't have a mac so I would not know how the drivers are updated. In this case, you could either wait for another update or go to Apple's site and report the issue so they can be aware of it and then hope an update will be sooner than later.
Other than that if you can figure out how to do a system information report it should tell you who makes the video card. Then you might be able to figure out how to update the driver yourself directly from the manufacturer of that video card. Or at least you should be able to.
Again all I can do is guess. Sorry about that.

Placed image scaling problem

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just need one advice from the gurus out here.
i have placed few images in adobe indesign , now after placing image in indesign if i scale the image to 102 or 103 or 105% will it effect printing quality in offset printing ??? i mean i am increasing the size by 1% or 2% or 4% will it effect printing ? becuase scaling in photoshop is going to take lot of time because i have 1500 different products and all have different scaling issue so i thought of scaling bit more in indesign itself, please advice.
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If you know what line screen you're printers is using then you can calculate your minimum PPI.
The general rule has been to multiply the LPI x 2 = ppi | Which a lot of people take to assume that the LPI will be 150 in most cases, and that's where the 300 ppi for images originates.
But in truth different mediums would use different line screens, like newspapers, magazines, high-end art books etc. And the x 2 rule is a safe play, but it really should be 1.41 (or 1.5 to keep it simple).
Newspapers generally at 85 - 105 lpi
127.5ppi to 157.5 ppi
Magazines generally around 133 - 150 lpi (some high end magazines may even use 175lpi)
199.5 ppi to 225 ppi
Art books - high end printing etc around 175 - 200 lpi.
262.5 - 300 ppi
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But the next time your printer tells you that your images are 250ppi and not good enough for printing you tell him that his halftone cells are rotated 45 degrees and that a2 + b2 = c2

My InDesign program is printing my placed images lighter than illustrator.

I am trying to print a colour logo in Indesign with black type on my inkjet printer. The colours are appearing fine on screen and so is the black but when I print everything is washed out. I tried just printing a black box and it appears black on screen but in print it is grey. I have tried changing the preferences Appearance of Black to rich and accurate but that did not make a difference. Do I need to do anything in color management I am using Indesign CS2. How can I solve this problem?

Acrobat worked, thanks for that advice. I set my Convert to Profile under the Edit Menu to Color
Match RGB. That helped a little bit but it is not printing like the
pdf. I would like to get this problem resolved. I normally use
illustrator most of my work. But I would like to have InDesign working
properly as I need it to do other jobs.
Take Care,
Jen
Take Care,
Jen
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:24:47 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: My InDesign program is printing my placed images lighter than illustrator.
Jen,
This is a problem that you have no time to fool with, correct?
When printing from InDesign and all looks hopeless, export to PDF and print from the PDF.
Why?
I don't know for sure but it seems all printers made recently accept PDF better than straight from InDesign. It could be the printer driver and it could be InDesign but you don't have time to mess with it now. Wait for some free time to sort it out, but for now output to PDF and print from Adobe Reader or Acrobat.
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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:
Create the background in Photoshop
place the background.psd in InDesign
add the adjusted images of the artists etc. in InDesign
add text in InDesign
Save as PDF
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!
Thanks!

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.

Placing Image - InDesign vs InDesignServer

I have a script that correctly places images in tagged rectangles via script in InDesign, the script then exports to PDF. All is well.
When I run the same script with the same image path folder structure in InDesignServer, the exported PDF does not show the 'placed' images. I'm getting no errors in my console.
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In all other aspects the script works the same on ID as IDS. I'm starting my ID CS6 server with InDesignServer -previews
I suspect I'm missing something with the PDF export preferences, but have no idea why it's working on ID and not on IDS.
Any help greatly appreciated.

I'm not able to post all the code, but here's a stripped down version with all the important parts... The only line that differs from ID vs ID Server is the first line...
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It works fine in ID, leaves the images empty(blank) when performed in IDServer. Both are up-to-date current versions - although IDS is still in 90 trial period.
Any help appreciated.

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.
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Placing images at an exact scale in Indesign CS5?

Hi all,
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.
In Indesign CS3 the closest I could get to that was to place an "FPO" image in the picture boxes on the master pages at 55% scale, then when I'd replace each FPO on the layout pages with my images they would drop in at 55% scale. It worked pretty well.
With CS5 I'm finding that when I replace an FPO image it will still drop in at the same scale the FPO is at, but ONLY if you load and place one image at a time... if you load, say, twenty images and drop them into the layout replacing the FPO images, they come out as prorortionally fitted to the picture frame... NOT as 55%.
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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.
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Problem with photoshop automatically resizing placed images

Hi,
I have PS6. I have images that are 144x100 px. When I use file>place ps resizes the image to 108x75. I can't figure out how to make ps quit resizing my pictures. Anybody know?
Thanks

When Pasting, Dragging, copying and placing an image Photoshop will copy all of the image being duplicated original pixels to preserve the image pixel quality the image quality. If the receiving document has a different DPI resolution the image may look a different size in the receiving documents because of the number of pixels added to the document that has a lower or higher dpi resolution. If the image is being placed in if the image pixels exceeds the receiving documents canvas size. Photoshop may scale the smart object layer to fit within the canvas that depends on the users Photoshop's preference. All of the images original pixels are still there in the embedded object. In my Photoshop Collage Scripts I always transform all placed images to 100% size incase Photoshop scaled the placed image. For you can not get the scale percent Photoshop used. Once I know I have the image at 100% size I can use the layer bounds to get the actual number of pixels there are in the placed image. Once I know that I can calculate the scale I need to use to resize the image to fit the area being populated in the collage template. Once resized I center it into place and mask off any excess image pixels.

Add Strokes to Placed Images in Illustrator

Hi All,
I'm having a problem to add a stroke "frame" around my tiff image in Illustrator. My image is a "traced picture" from Photoshop. I used the following technique:-
Technique: Use an Effect
Choose File > Place and select an image to place into Illustrator document.
Choose File > Place and select an image to place into Illustrator document.
The image is selected. Open Appearance panel and from the Appearance panel flyout menu, choose Add New Stroke.
With the Stroke highlighted in the Appearance panel, choose Effect > Path > Outline Object.
However, the result I got was the stroke around the image NOT the frame around the image.
How do I achieve it. Any help and tips are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Technique #1: Use a Mask
This technique requires Illustrator CS3 and works only when your keyline will be rectangular in shape.
Choose File > Place and choose an image to place into your Illustrator document. You can either Link or Embed the image. Once you've chosen the image, click the Place button.
The image is selected (if your image already exists in your document, select it now), so if you look in your Control panel at the top of the screen, you'll see a button labeled "MASK". Click on it. This creates a mask at the exact bounds of the image.
Press the "D" key for Default. This gives the mask a black 1 pt stroke attribute. Adjust the stroke per your design needs.
NOTE: An additional benefit to this method of using a mask is that you now have the elements in place to simulate a "frame and image" paradigm like InDesign. Once you've created your mask, you can decide to "crop" your image by double clicking anywhere on the photo. This will put you into Isolation Mode. Now click on the frame edge and resize at will. When you're done, double click outside the image to exit isolation mode and continue working. This method works wonderfully when you're using the Selection tool (black arrow) and have the Bounding Box option turned on (in the View menu).
Technique #2: Use an Effect
At first, it may seem that applying a keyline with the use of an Effect is a tedious process. But we all know that once we've applied an effect, we can store it as a Graphic Style, at which point applying our keyline will become a single click. Go ahead, ask me why Adobe doesn't ship Illustrator with such an effect as a default setting in the NDPs (New Document Profiles). Go ahead, ask me why Adobe doesn't allow us to assign keyboard shortcuts to styles like InDesign does. I don't have answers to either of those questions (sorry). But let's get on with the styles, shall we?
There are two separate effects that we can use, and each provides a different benefit.
Choose File > Place and select an image to place into your Illustrator document. You can either Link or Embed the image. Once you've chosen the image, click the Place button.
The image is selected (or if your image already exists in your document, select it). Open your Appearance panel and from the Appearance panel flyout menu, choose Add New Stroke. We can't see the stroke yet, because all we have is an image. But we'll change that in short order.
With the Stroke highlighted in the Appearance panel, choose Effect > Convert to Shape > Rectangle. Check the Preview button, select the Relative option, and set both the Extra Width and Extra Height to zero (0). (Be careful not to press Tab after you enter the second value, or it will switch back to Absolute.) Click OK to apply the effect. Style the stroke attribute to match your design preference.
Now make this easier to apply in the future. With the object still selected, open the Graphic Styles panel and click the New Graphic Style button at the bottom of the panel. Give the style an appropriate name. If you then add this style to your NDPs, it will be readily available in all new files that you create.
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Placing images in Illustrator for print ready files

I'm designing a brochure in Illustrator that contains several logos and photos. (Yes, I know, Illustrator... I've read several forums and know that InDesign may be a better program for this, but I completely underbid this project and really need to stick with something I know for cost efficiency.)
I need to resize several images in Photoshop to place in Illustrator and I'm wondering if I should save them as CMYK jpegs, or tiffs, etc. I need the file to be the smallest it can be for upload to the printer. I need the basics on different file types and their pros and cons.
Also, when I'm sending out the proof to the customer, any tips on saving the pdf so the images aren't too blurry and the file is still sendable?
Please help!! Any other information or tips on how to prepare my file as a print ready would be great. I love to learn and really need some great resources.
Thanks!

How many pages are we talking about? The key to file efficiency is Placing images at their final size, so you are on the right track. Let me try to help...
"I need to resize several images in Photoshop to place in Illustrator and I'm wondering if I should save them as CMYK jpegs, or tiffs, etc. I need the file to be the smallest it can be for upload to the printer. I need the basics on different file types and their pros and cons."
-Do not save as JPG. The compression artifacts will show up in print. Just Place CMYK .tiffs or .psd's without sizing in Illustrator. Another thing to keep in mind is "Linking" the image files instead of "Embedding" them. You have a little more control saving your page files as EPS before creating the final PDF.
"Also, when I'm sending out the proof to the customer, any tips on saving the pdf so the images aren't too blurry and the file is still sendable?"
-There are a few different ways you can create a PDF viewable as a softproof. You could send the final as a Standard PDF using defaults. Don't forget to embed the fonts and leave color unchanged. What I do is Export > RGB TIF @ 150ppi > Open the .tiff in Photoshop and Save-As Photoshop PDF with a JPG compression of 8. You could do that for each page and then reassemble using Acrobat for one assembled, final PDF optimized.
"Please help!! Any other information or tips on how to prepare my file as a print ready would be great. I love to learn and really need some great resources."
-Get Adobe's Print Publishing Guide. It has enough information in it to help you wade through all of the disinformation out there. Get in touch with a couple of local print shops and have them take a look at your files. Good shops can spot problems and give you some handy tips. Not all shops will take the time, so finding one can be tricky.
Thanks!
-You're welcome. Let us know how it all shakes out.

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