White jagged edge around masked image in InDesign CS2

I have an image with a black background which I have masked out that I'm placing into a document in InDesign CS2 that has a black background. There is a jagged white "halo" along he masking line that gets worse the farther out you zoom and disappears if you zoom in closely. What can I do to to make the halo go away when I'm zoomed out to a normal distance? I want to feather the edges of the placed photo, but when I do this, it includes the white halo in the feather and creates a grey cloud around the image.

How does it print? That's the important thing. If the preview's really bothering you set the image's display quality to High Resolution. My guess is that InDesing generated a low-resolution preview when the image was placed and in the downsampling, the edge of your mask was antialiased, producing gray pixels at the edge.
You might get acceptable results using a clipping path instead of a mask. That way the edges will not be antialiased because the edges of the image will be hidden by the clipping path.
Make sure the Black in your image matches the CMYK values in the black of the page.

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See upper left image and lower right image-note: other images are not affected. Both both are native Photoshop images, placed on a gradient in IA. Perhaps the PDF settings: "Adobe PDF Preset" or "Standard" are not chosen correctly? Why the white lines?

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garlic541 wrote:
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After researching....
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Scott Powell wrote:
> I am creating an arrow with a transparent background,
however, there is a jagged edge or fuzz around the graphic. Any
ideas how to remove this?
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> Scott
Draw the arrow on a canvas colored to match the background of
the page
you will be using it on, then export with Index Transparency.
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