InDesign jpgs

When I save an indesign image/text 1024 x 786, as a .jpg it opens in photoshop back to its original size (much bigger). Is there a way of preserving the size of the Indesign doc so that it opens in photoshop 1024 x 768? With thankx

What makes you think it's not 1024 x 768? That's a lot of pixels and probably won't fit on screen in Photoshop without scrolling at 100%. Check the image size...
Photoshop displays pixels without regard to resolution. 1024 x 768 @ 300 ppi looks exactly the same as it does @ 72 ppi or 1200 ppi. Physical size doesn't exist until you put the image onto paper.

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InDesign JPG Compression vs Illustrator/Photoshop

I am working on a website and need to put in a lot of images. For most images, I use photoshop. I create the correct size then export using "Save As for Web & Devices." This works great, but I need to display several small images in a grid format. What works best for me right now is to layout the images in InDesign and then export the layout as a .jpg. I realize I could use CSS to create a grid of the individual images and I also realize I could layout the document in Photoshop, however, for now I want to use InDesign.
Doing this got me thinking about the compression qualities of the different programs within CS (I am using CS4). From what I understand each program is built a bit differently. For example, the text engine in InDesign is different than the text engine in Illustrator (making working with text between the two programs seamlessly a total *****). I believe differences in the programs is the same for compression engines used to create formats like jpg? I've heard people note differences between Photoshop's Save As for Web & Devices and Ilustrator's Save As for Web & Devices so maybe that is the case? (I personally cannot tell the difference). I want to know what's underneath the hood of these programs and am having trouble finding this information.
So in short, what program does the best job optimizing images (jpg or png) for the web?
My guess is Photoshop, but this is a guess. If correct, why not InDesign or Illustrator? What compression engines do Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop use? Are there strengths and weaknesses? Why doesn't all the programs use the same compression engines?
I realize, in the end, if it looks good it works. But curiousity is killing me and I want a deeper answer.
Thanks!

ComputerGeekette,
I don't doubt for one second that this is indeed your experience and that you have settled into what I can best describe as a very degenerate workflow in order to get your job done under the conditions you describe.
Having said that, I must say that your experience and the fact that you believe that this is the best workflow you can achieve given the conditions is an exceptionally sad commentary on the state of the graphic arts industry in general and the printing industry in particular. The workflow you describe is a “lowest common denominator” workflow that almost guarantees that in most cases in which you have anything other than pure raster imagery to print, you will get results that are not optimal.
You should be able to use PDF/X-4 files as the means of passing artwork from your clients to you and then subsequently from you to your printers. Source files (i.e., native Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop files as well as assets such as imagery and fonts) should not be the currency of the realm here.
When I need to go “outside” to print (for anything my fleet of laser printers and wide format printers can't handle including offset printing jobs), I typically go and interview the print service provider and provide a sample job to print using a PDF/X-4 job with live transparency and color managment. If they cannot handle it in their normal workflow or cannot adjust to the twenty first century very rapidly, I move on to another print service provider. For better or worse, there are plenty of very hungry printers out there and at least some of them realize that unless they learn to deal with modern workflows, they will be history like the many thousands of other such printers that have gone belly-up over the last half dozen years!
- Dov

CS5.5 InDesign & utilizing older, and new jpgs

I just upgraded from ancient versions of Adobe software & an old MAC, to CS5.5 and an iMAC7.
I moved a lot of older Illustrator-built pages and older Photoshop-ed images, psd originals, + images saved for web and web pages as jpgs,
all to the iMAC7.
I just started using InDesign a few days ago.
My question: why does CS5.5 InDesign balk at opening, or allowing my older jpg images as I try to add them to my InDesign pages?
Within CS5.5, it looks like jpgs have come a long way in the past ten years, based on the menue options I see in CS5.5, i.e.,
lots of choices, several new ways to save & use jpgs, etc.
When I try adding images to InDesign pages I get a message saying that "InDesign may not support the file format I'm trying to import, (one of my older jpgs),
or that a plug-in may be missing, or the file may be open in another application".
Seems odd that a new Adobe product like this can't utilize a jpg of any kind, though I appreciate that my previous Adobe software was about 12 years old,
and there have been a lot of additions and improvements from Adobe. Just trying to understand the brand new InDesign-jpg relationship.
Some learning curve going on here for me.
From really old software & MAC to really new software & MAC. Thanks for any help.

I am new to InDesign, coming out of Quark on a G4, OS9x . . . yes, really.
Thank you for the introduction to Sandee Cohen.
I'm hoping she's preparing a new book on CS5.5/InDesign. In the mean time I'm taking your suggestion and getting her current book.
I also have a specific use/opportunity/place for creating & utilizing a broad collection of mp4 files. From an Adobe tutorial-lesson on ID.5.5 I saw
mp4 files being integrated and anchored into pages, then made useable for epubs, iPhone, iPad, etc.
Further explanation regarding these aspects of ID5.5, and CS5.5 generally from Sandee would be terrific I'm sure.
I'm also a Dreamweaver user, and there the mp4 files will play a major role.
Thanks also for the Lynda connection. I'm going to sign up for the 7 day trial as soon as I get my first full project underway here shortly.
When I signed up for my Adobe account, my name was already taken, so I am apparently 'Prokofiev' here.
I may find out how I can actualy post my picture however, as you do. That there's only one of.
Thank you again Bob. Ron Vaughn.

JPG quality issues

I design wedding albums using InDesign CS5. My high res JPGs are about 8x12 inches at 300DPI, and my album page size is 10x15 inches. When I insert a JPG into the layout and resize it to 10x15 and export (maximum quality, 300DPI) there are severe artefacts clearly visible on screen and in print.
However when I just open up the original JPG and resize in Photoshop it is much, much cleaner. See an example here: http://www.photosbyjay.com.au/files/indesign-pain.jpg . There has been some sharpening applied but the artefacts are still just as bad before sharpening.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? If I don't size the JPGs up larger than their 8x12" size in InDesign they export fine. Is this a limitation of InDesign - does it have bad upscaling algorithms? One would assume they'd use Photoshop technology.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Jay

@John - I'm not doing the printing myself, I'm exporting and sending to my pro lab. The issue I'm having is the InDesign JPG exported file is showing terrible artefacts
Wait...are you exporting a JPEG from InDesign and sending that to your printer?
No no no no!
This isn't the only problem you'll have if you do that. The only kind of file you should send to your printer is a PDF exported from InDesign. If you save your work as a JPEG, you will certainly lose quality.
(Yes, the method you're using can make it a little bit better. But not really. And there will always be problems with text and lines and things with sharp edges -- because JPEG, by its very nature, cannot express those things without artifact).
Is there some reason you believe you are limited to JPEG? If so, it may be time to find a new printer.

Problems with exporting .jpg file in Indesign CS3

Hello! I've used Indesign to create a memory book I would like to now place in another program to have printed (blurb is the company I'm using). Now that I have created the spreads I need to export each page individually as .jpg files, so that I can place them in to this other program to have them printed. (The program does not read .pdf files...they have to be .jpg). I exported each page and noticed that about 20 out of 90 have pages that have black bars over some of the pictures. I'm not sure how to remedy this problem and have tried changing some settings but unsuccessfully so. I've also had problems with Indesign crashing when I've tried to export the entire book as a .pdf. Thanks for the help!

I think I've seen that reported before, but don't remember if an answer was found.
HOWEVER, InDesign's jpeg export leave a lot to be desired under any circumstances, and the best method is to export a good PDF (Use one of the presets intended for printed output) then open that in Photoshop using appropriate settings (if you have body copy sized type, I'd recommend using 600 ppi to keep it realtively crisp, but the printer will probably complain about the size of the file) then save as a high quality jpeg in whichever color profile is recommended by the printer.
I know you said you had some trouble exporting the whole book as PDF, but maybe we can solve that if you give some more details.
Peter

Saving files as jpg from InDesign CS4 js

Hi, Kasyan.
You originally gavy me this script to re-save files as pngs, and now I need it to re-save them as jpgs instead. I made some changes, but I must have missed something, because it's not working. Could you take a look at it:
#target indesign
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("Select the output folder for JPG images");
SetDisplayDialogs("NO");
OpenFiles();
SetDisplayDialogs("ALL");
UpdateAllOutdatedLinks();
alert("Done");
function OpenFiles(){
     for (var i = myDoc.links.length-1; i >= 0; i--) { // process links collection backwards since it's changing!
          var myLink = myDoc.links[i];
          if (myLink.linkType != "Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)"){
               var myImage = myLink.parent;
               var myImagePath = myLink.filePath;
               var myImageFile = new File(myImagePath);
               var myNewPath = myFolder.absoluteURI + "/" + GetFileNameOnly(myImageFile.name) + ".jpg";
               CreateBridgeTalkMessage(myImagePath, myNewPath);
               Relink(myLink, myNewPath);
function CreateBridgeTalkMessage(myImagePath, myNewPath) {
     var bt = new BridgeTalk();
     bt.target = "photoshop";
     var myScript = ResaveInPS.toString() + "\r";
     myScript += "ResaveInPS(\"" + myImagePath + "\", \"" + myNewPath + "\");";
     bt.body = myScript;
     bt.onResult = function(resObj) {}
     bt.send(100);
function ResaveInPS(myImagePath, myNewPath) {
     try {
           var myPsDoc = app.open(new File(myImagePath));
             if (myPsDoc.mode == DocumentMode.CMYK) {
                    myPsDoc.changeMode(ChangeMode.RGB);
           var docName = myPsDoc.name;
          var myJPGSaveOptions = new JPGSaveOptions();
          myJPGSaveOptions.interlaced = false; // or true
          myPsDoc.saveAs(new File(myNewPath), myJPGSaveOptions, true);
          myPsDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
     catch (err) {
          try {
               app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
          catch (err) {}
function Relink(myLink, myNewPath) {
     var newFile = new File (myNewPath);
     if (newFile.exists) {
          var originalLinkFile = new File(myLink.filePath);
          myLink.relink(newFile);
          try { // for versions prior to 6.0.4
               var myLink = myLink.update();
          catch(err) {}
function SetDisplayDialogs(Mode) { // turn on-off DialogModes in PS -- don't want to see the open file dialog while the script is running
     var bt = new BridgeTalk;
     bt.target = "photoshop";
     var myScript = "app.displayDialogs = DialogModes." + Mode + ";";
     bt.body = myScript;
     bt.send();
function UpdateAllOutdatedLinks() {
     for (var myCounter = myDoc.links.length-1; myCounter >= 0; myCounter--) {
          var myLink = myDoc.links[myCounter];
          if (myLink.status == LinkStatus.linkOutOfDate) {
               myLink.update();
function GetFileNameOnly(myFileName) {
     var myString = "";
     var myResult = myFileName.lastIndexOf(".");
     if (myResult == -1) {
          myString = myFileName;
     else {
          myString = myFileName.substr(0, myResult);
     return myString;
Thank you.
Yulia

On first sight:
myJPGSaveOptions.interlaced = false;
JPEG save options don't have an 'interlaced' property; that was for PNGs only. Check Photoshop's Script Help for the specific JPEG options.

Photoshop CS2 opens but wont perform any task (open jpgs, create new jpgs etc). Other CS2 progs such as indesign are fine. MAC shop, couldn't fix, said I should ty install op system 4 Powerbook G4-dont have discs- can I get them?other solution? OS 10.4.11

Photoshop CS2 opens but wont perform any task (open jpgs, create new jpgs etc). Other CS2 progs such as indesign are fine. MAC shop, couldn't fix, said I should try install op system 4 Powerbook G4-dont have discs- can I get them? or other solution? Am using OS 10.4.11 Thanks for any help

Hi
I actually dont think its Lion (sorry i put that as couldn't remember) as not on that computer at the moment, its at home, I am at work. I know CS2 is compatable with whatever OS I am using because I can using CS2 indesign etc and I was able to use CS2 photoshop until I updated the Camino browser (I believe this is when it stopped working). I have CS5 but it wont work at all on my Powerbook G4.
I can send a message later with the OS I am using and maybe you can suggest other help? They told me in the MAC shop to try and get the installation discs. They also said I would be able to get these via Apple's 'media replacement programme' which I cannot find anyway! To be honest, I am not even sure getting the install discs will work but I'll try whatever I need to try and get Photoshop working on it again!
Thanks

BUG: Indesign CC 2014 - significant image artifacts with 'export as JPG'

Issue
Spreads exported from InDesign as maximum quality JPGs have heavy artifacts not present in PDF's with equivalent image compression settings.
Steps
Export spread to JPG (max, baseline, 300ppi)
Export spread to PDF (image compression set to JPG, maximum)
Compare both files in Photoshop at 100%
Results
Maximum quality JPGs are significantly artifacted.
Expected Results
Maximum quality JPGs should be identical to PDF images with equivalent image compression settings (and should be virtually indistinguishable from original files sized equivalently in Photoshop (and saved via Photoshop's 'Save for Web').
Please Note
I'm very familiar with the limitations of JPG's in pre-press work. Please trust that I have legitimate reasons for needing InDesign to export spreads as JPGs with the same image quality as is possible when exporting as a PDF (or using Photoshop's 'Save For Web' function with the source file sized identically as the spread in question.)
Samples
exhibit A: spread exported as PDF (compression set to JPG, maximum quality)
exhibit B: spread exported as JPG (maximum quality)

Rob,
Thank you for running your test!
Since posting (and just before reading your reply), I discovered an additional constraint on replicating the issue:
–it only appears when the linked image has been upscaled* (in my example, 107.1%)
*keep in mind, the PDF was upscaled to the same degree, ruling out it being solely an upscaling issue
–testing at 'even-magnification' scales (i.e. 150%) simply resulted in increased pixelation compared to the same PDF export (see samples below)
–testing at 'odd-magnification' scales (i.e. 101%) generated random artifacts (like those visible in the samples of my initial post)
–as such, this is likely more of a resampling/aliasing issue than jpg-artifacting.
That is, it would seem that upscaled images seem to enjoy a higher-quality resampling method when exported as PDFs.
I'd be curious to see how your test fared with upscaled images.
samples
image scaled at 150%, exported as PDF (compression set to JPG, maximum quality)
image scaled at 150%, exported as JPG (maximum quality, anti-alias**)
**tested with & without anti-aliasing, results were identical

INDESIGN CS5 V. 7.0.4: Can't Open a .jpg file in InDesign made with InDesign (It's Grayed Out)

I do have this problem with placing jpegs in InDesign. Very specifically, I can’t place or relink to a jpeg that was made by InDesign (export page > jpg), although I can drag and drop it into the file, and it shows up correctly. I can place or relink to a jpeg made by Photoshop.

ok, sorry... I'm novice.. I have reposted the answer in correct forum and added basics infomrations.... INDESIGN CS5 V. 7.0.4: Can’t Open a .jpg file in InDesign made with InDesign (It’s Grayed Out)
How I can stop/delete this discussion?

Problem with exported JPGs from InDesign (CS6 and CC): double rows of pixels

We are using a javasscript for exporting cropped pictures out of our InDesign Layouts. But there is a problem that comes witch each file. No matter what wie change in the export options, it always appears. It seems like there is one row of pixels two times in the jpgs. Can anyone explain - or even better - provide a solution for this?
Here is an example image. the two rows can be seen in the middle of the image:

Well if i do that, the video will raise up GBs larger (and that is really bad).
Why is it really bad?
Its a fact of digital life. High datarate = quality.
example ...even the Youtube preset is in the 8mpbs area.
...and you are exporting 1 hr 35mins of media.

Problems with JPGs that have been exported from InDesign

I have used InDesign CS4 for years and recently been upgraded to the Creative Cloud package, I have gone from a PC to a MAC as well.
The problem seems to be when I export a document in InDesign to a JPG file, when I try and use the JPG in other applications such as Powerpoint (for the Mac), the jpg isn't highlighted as an option to insert...like it hasn't been recognised.
I also recently had a problem uploading some jpg photos I had edited and exported to jpg and tried to upload to Snapfish and although I have done this many times before, it said my jpg file was corrupt.
No virus, or anything like that.
Does anyone know whether you can tweak the 'export' settings for indesign, I wondered if it was a compatibility issue?
Anyone help me?
Thanks

gillybardo wrote:
Does anyone know whether you can tweak the 'export' settings for indesign, I wondered if it was a compatibility issue?
Well of course, there are the settings in InDesign's JPEG Export dialog, but there, all you can really do is make sure you're writing a "baseline" JPG in RGB mode. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen the 'CC' dialog, so there may be more about which I'm unaware.)
...when I try and use the JPG in other applications such as Powerpoint (for the Mac), the jpg isn't highlighted as an option to insert...like it hasn't been recognised.
That sounds like it could be a Microsoft Office issue. Can you insert a JPG that isn't the product of InDesign export? This is also why I mentioned RGB. I've seen Office apps choke on or ignore CMYK JPG's.
The number of posts in this forum on the subject of InDesign's JPEG export is unsettling to me. I truly believe it's a case of "Just because you can doesn't mean you should." Maybe I was "raised differently," figuratively speaking, but it would have never occurred to me to develop a workflow around the regular/routine export of raster images from my page layout application. If JPEG is my intended output, InDesign is the last application I'd reach for, perhaps unless I had a rare and specific need of a raster image depicting an InDesign-originated page layout. But even then, chances are I'd export from InDesign to PDF, then rasterize that by opening in Photoshop. If you need full control over raster image output, Photoshop is the much better bet.

InDesign Adding Shadow/Lines to Transparent PSD & JPG Files?

I'm relatively new to InDesign, but as I've run this issue through an expert friend of mine who could not puzzle it out- I'm coming here.
I have a number of different images, both JPG's & PSD's that have some transparent areas in them. I'm incorporating them into InDesign files using the "place" command, but when I export the InDesign file to PDF a strange sort of drop-shadow looking effect is coming up between the areas that have images and those that were transparent on the JPG & PSD.
The transparent areas on the JPG & PSD's were created by simply deleting areas of a graphic, or by placing a small image onto a larger transparent background. No masks or clipping paths involved.
Thank you for your help!

I recently attended a seminar with Terry White (http://terrywhite.com/techblog/) and asked him about my issue here. He said, and I am paraphrasing here, that the problem is that my image with a transparent background is being processed through a filter (or something) that readies it for the final image- but the image behind it is not going through this transparency process, and that the inconsistency adds weird black shadows and/or halos under some printing situations.
His solution was fairly simple- take the image BEHIND the one with the transparency, and set the transparency of that image to 99%. Its not visible to your eye, but it means that both images will be process through the "filter" and you won't get those weird halos and shadows.
I haven't had the opportunity to play with his solution much- but on first run-through, it seems to be working for me.

Can't InDesign Server make a jpg export of a large page? (4000x4500mm)

Hi guys,
I don't have InDesign Server installed so thats why I ask here.
I'm using a solution where an InDesign server should return with a jpg of an InDesign document, but for some reason it doesn't work with this document:
http://ge.tt/8w1EmaP/v/0
Can anyone clarify if InDesign Server really has a problem in exporting larger dimensions of if it is just the solution which I'm uploading to, that has a problem?
Thanks in advance!
BR
Ole

It also depends on the Resolution of the JPG. I just exported a 72 ppi JPG from InDesign desktop. However, it would not export a 2400 ppi JPG (maximum size exceeded).

In placing a high resolution jpg into InDesign some whites tended to gray out. Why?

In placing a high resolution jpg into InDesign some whites tended to gray out. Why?

Have you checked the whites in Photoshop and made sure they are all 255|255|255? Depending on the compression used, JPEGs can have artifacts in an otherwise white field like in the edges of this low quality jpeg:

.jpg resizes when placed into InDesign

I am trying to place two images into my ID document. The first one is a 350x200px jpg. The second is a 728x90px jpg. Both have been saved out of PS in the exact same way. The first jpg places at 100%, but the second places at 50%. I have tried creating new jpegs for testing, checked all my settings, but I can't find why this is happening. Why aren't both of my images placing at 100%?
I am on the most up-to-date version of InDesign (8.0.1).

Hi HammyKG,
You need to take a look at the document settings for your images. It sounds like they have different pixels per inch (PPI) measurements.
If I have two images that are both 300px by 300px:
and place them in InDesign, but one is 72ppi and the other is 300ppi they will place at different sizes:
It is a little bit confusing if you are coming from a web design background where pixels are the only way to define size, but in print PPI is king. If you have Photoshop you can open these images and change their PPI by going to Image > Image Size and changing the Resolution option. If you are printing the document I would recommend you make the PPI 300. If you are using it on the web I would make it 72ppi.

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