Indesign, repeat image to create pattern

Is there a way to tile an image in Indesign, like you can in Photoshop/patterns to Illustrator/patterns? I don't want to create an image, I want to import an image and how it repeat.
Why? To keep file sizes down and to speed up work.

Illustrator is the place to do patterns. The new Pattern creation feature in Illustrator CS6 is totally easy and intuitive.
InDesign has nothing similar natively. There is a pattern maker plug-in from Teacup Software:
PatternMaker - Powerful PostScript patterns ... - Teacup Software.

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(InDesign CS5)I have created hundreds of InDesign documents incorporating images stored on an external USB connected drive. I did a manual back-up to another drive at regular intervals but far from ideal. I now have a network drive which is properly backe

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I now have a network drive which is properly backed-up. I have copied all of the images and folder structure from the USB connected drive to this new drive.
My question is how I get all of the links in my indd files to point to the new drive. I am aware how to do it one file at a time, but is there a way of doing the same thing over many files/folders at a time?

It depends on how you organize your work. If you have one folder for images for a document, relinking one image should alert you that other missing images are in the same folder, but this assumes that images are missing. If the links window sees a clear path to the original location of the images, they aren't missing, so that won't work.
Another thing to try is to select all of the images in the links window and go to the fly-out menu and select Relink To Folder (navigate to the new folder, and you don't even have to select any images by name).
If you store your images in many different folders for the same document, you might want to either package the document to copy all of the images into one folder (you can specify to only copy images if you like) or use the fly-out in the links window (Utilities>Copy Links To…) and select or create a new images folder.

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I created a Logo in InDesign CS 5.5. It contains a number of different elements and I grouped all of the lements together. The original size of the Logo is approximately 15.5 X 7.5. I also formatted the interior of a book in InDesign. I copied and pasted the logo on the title page of the book, and resized the logo to around 6.75 X 3.25 by changing the percentage of the image. I am unable to change the width and height directly because it gives me a “Requested Value is not a Legal Dimension” message. After sending the interior to the printer for review, they replied indicating that the image was less than 300 DPI. Is there a way to manage or control the resolution of images originally created in InDesign so that when they are resized, the DPI will still be a desired resolution for print?

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If I understand correctly, I can control how my effects are rasterized by modifying the Transparency Flattener Presets, which is located in InDesign CS5.5 under "Edit" at the top of the screen. There is already an option for HIgh Resolution and it will Rasterize Line Art and Text Resolution to 1200 ppi and Gradeint and Mesh Resolution to 300 ppi. In addition, I think the Medium Resolution would work for me because it will rasterize Line Art and Text Resolution to 300 ppi.
Furthermore, in order for those effects to take effect, I understand that when exporting to a print PDF, I need to export with the compatibility as Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3) in order to be able to modify the Transparency Flattener to Medium or High Resolution.
On the other hand, since I was exporting to a print PDF wiht the compatibility as Acrobat 5 or higher, I assume that it was doing this at the Low resolution, which was 288 ppi, which is the exact resolution that the printer cited. It is my understanding that if you create images with effects applied like Bevel and emboss, drop shadow, etc., and exporting them to a print pdf, it would be best to export as Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3) in order to control the Transparency Flattener Presets.
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When I define a pattern from an ordinary colour image there is no problem - the full image is available as a pattern. But when I try to define an image which is black and white only a strip of the BW image is available as a pattern. When I add a strip of colour to a BW image and define a pattern from it, only the area of the colour is available as a pattern. How can I create a full pattern from a low contrast BW image?
I must be doing something wrong. Grateful for advice, please.

Thanks. I am trying to define a pattern from an image of watercolour paper texture. It is already rgb. The source image was created in another program - a matter of applying a native (to that program) surface texture to an image filled with white. Below is the source image substantially reduced in size:
Here is what the strip of pattern looks like:
I want to use it (and others that I make) to supplement Photoshops available artists' textures. The problem may well be somthing to do with repeated patterns as Chris has speculated, but I have found that so far, 20" at 72ppi gives me a full image, whereas 23" at 72ppi doesn't.

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Hi there
When creating patterns with for example very easy dimensions like the artboard 400 x 400 px etc, and everything right placed, as you can see on the print screens, after having created the pattern, it never aligns center-aligned like I would like it too. Very annoying.
who can help? Thanks!!
Left: the original positioning before creating the pattern.
Right: the result of a perfect square, center aligned to the artboard and with the swatch applied, not too pretty he?

Hi CarlosCanto
You're right. So far so good, but this still doesn't help me getting a nice pattern centered on the artboard?
The image here is an example of the actual pattern I would like to use The smaller image is a print screen of the actual composition of elements in Illustrator which I made the pattern of.
Is there an easy solution for this?
Thanks!

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I'm running CS4 on a Macbook Pro, OS X.
I created a booklet in InDesign, and I want to display it as though the booklet had been photographed from above. For multiple reasons, taking pictures of the actual booklet didn't work, so I used pictures of a blank booklet.
I saved the files in InDesign as pdf, then placed them on the photoshop file of the blank booklet. I changed the layer display from regular to "Multiply" so the shadowing on the booklet pages shows through. They look great in Photoshop-- the images are still vectors, from InDesign, and the files are at 300 ppi, at the exact dimensions for print.
I save them from Photoshop as pdf, and place the finished pdf in InDesign to lay out for display. However, in InDesign, the images are extremely pixellated and distorted-- for example, letters are missing from words, hairlines have strange gaps that are not in the original file, and the overall look is very poor.
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Hi, I can't follow your post...I suggest taking a screenshot in photoshop of your image detail at 100% actual pixels, along with your layers pallet:
I save them from Photoshop as pdf, and place the finished pdf in InDesign to lay out for display. However, in InDesign, the images are extremely pixellated and distorted-- for example, letters are missing from words, hairlines have strange gaps that are not in the original file, and the overall look is very poor.
what compression settings are you selecting in photoshop> save> Ps PDF (screen shots are very usefull here to make your point)?

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I do not want a complete page covered with this design, merely the left-hand border side.
as mentioned background-repeat:repeat-y; will do just that.
Some of us, especially in this economic times, cannot afford to spend thousands to have a website created, so we do the best we can. While I agree tables are difficult for they were indeed designed to place data, and I have eliminated tables where ever I could, this was the only way I could get the result needed.
agreed times are tough, but seriously working in tables adds more time, more headaches and therefore costs more money.
Sorry to have bothered you. Shame Dreamweaver was bought out by Adobe but then, there are other programs; perhaps there forums will have more tolerance for one of us old duffers.
whats with being all touchy? you asked for "correct coding please for repeating image?"
and thats what I gave you.
apart from that I mentioned not to use tables. which is a good thing to take on board.
for example
1. Tables are usually more bytes of markup. (Longer to download, and more bytes of traffic for the host.)
2. Tables usually prevent incremental rendering. (Takes longer for the user to see anything on the page.)
3. Tables may require you to chop single, logical images into multiple ones. (This makes redesigns total hell, and also increases page load time [more http requests and more total bytes].)
4. Tables break text copying on some browsers. (That's annoying to the user.)
5. Tables prevent certain layouts from working within them (like height:100% for child elements of <td>). (They limit what you can actually do in terms of layout.)
6. Once you know CSS, table-based layouts usually take more time to implement. (A little effort up-front learning CSS pays off heavily in the end.)
7. Tables are semantically incorrect markup for layout. (They describe the presentation, not the content.)
8. Tables make life hell for those using screen readers. (Not only do you get the other benefits of CSS, you're also helping out the blind/partially-sighted. This is a Good Thing.)
9. Tables lock you into the current design and make redesigns MUCH harder than semantic HTML+CSS. (Have you seen CSS Zen Garden?)
(source - http://phrogz.net/css/WhyTablesAreBadForLayout.html)

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working, prompts me for a location to save the actual
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so try using images locally and then, if that doesn't work, upgrade to 10.4.7

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The patterns are only created inside the same file. If you want to have it in all new files, you need to edit the document profile you use.
http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeillustrator/2009/05/startup_profiles_a_great_tool.html

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