Problem placing images in InDesign 5.0

I'm using InDesign 5.0 for a catalog project. On other catalogs I've placed hundreds of images without a hitch, but suddenly I am having this problem: After successfully placing several images in a document I get the spinning ball after selecting another image to place. It occurs after I've selected "Place" and have gone back to my InDesign doc. This problem began after I'd selected 25 images all at once and successfully placed them. After that I can't even select a single image without the spinning ball. I have to Force Quit and relaunch. I've tried restarting, shutting down for 20 seconds, making new documents (thought it might be a Save-As issue), but can't get more than a handful of images onto the layout before it has this problem again.

Do you use Linotype Fontexplorer? I ask because the latest plugin update broke illustrator in a similar way, if you do, try disabling the plugin and see if the issue resolves
Les

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How are you getting the image from InDesign and into Photoshop? How did you get the image into InDesign in the first place? Is the image linked or embedded?
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Unfortunately, Bob, I cannot see how this should help me as I am not battling with a screen artifact but with a print artifact and it is not just the edge between transparent and non-transparent areas, but with the entire transparent area. :-(
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Hello,
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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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)
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How does one deal with transparency in a placed file in InDesign?

I suppose this may seem elementary, but I'm relatively new to it so here goes:
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http://i.imgur.com/lZjtu.jpg
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If possible, one finds a new printer who can handle your files properly and doesn't insist on .eps.
What format are you delivering to the Printer? If it's anything other than PDF (and that's at their request) all the more reason to reread the first sentence. Why on earth are you moving things from Illustrator to Photoshop and back to Illustrator? Either one of those will save as .eps (ugh), though you need to use a clipping path for transparent areas coming out of photoshop (don't really know how Illy handles it when you say to save .eps with transparent background), but you are FAR better off with either native .AI or .PSD, both of which support transparencey, unlike .eps.If yo are delivering PDF, as you should be, it makes no difference to the printer what format the placed content uses (and it shouldn't matter to him even with native files unless he's hopelessly stuck in the 90s).
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No offense, but seriously read up on web design. Web image formats are PNG, JPEG, SVG and GIF. Beyond that, Adobe apps may support generic image formats liek BMP, TIFF and a few others and convert the monce you publish the pages, but it's simply unrealistic to assume Adobe would the native image format of a competing vendor such as Corel's PhotoPaint files...
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I just tried this and got the same results (CS6, 8.0.1, on WinXP SP3). One other tidbit: the same 500px × 750 px @ 72ppi image saved as TIFF instead of JPEG worked correctly (at least for me). I haven't tried any other image formats yet.
This sounds like a good candidate for an official bug report: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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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
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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?
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