Adobe Indesign help

My company decided they want to switch to Adobe indesign.

The problem is when I import a file (emf, wsf, eps etc...) it is pixelated. Any ideas of how to fix that?

Hey Availor,

I do not have indesign but if you have a pixelated image, then you are importing bitmaps. Create you outputs as adobe illustrator (.ai) or increase the DPI of your outputs.

This is a 100% OLE object - swf and emf.

Ummm... unless I am totally wrong again... Only a bitmap can be pixelated. So if you are seeing a pixelated shape.... odds are it is a bitmap.

That's the whole point of me posting this topic:
I import vector images and they are seen and printed as a very bad resolution bitmap image.
Here is a print screen:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20.../pixelated.jpg

It is not seen very well in the print screen - the upper picture is very pixelated while the lower one is a sharp vector image

I am trying with what extremely limited knowledge I have. I think the search function is working again. I know there are one or two users here that play the indesign game. Do a search for indesign, and PM those users and maybe you can get some real help, not just me mouthing off again. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

100% OLE objects? You're not importing them from disk? OLE is very dangerous crap, I never ever resort to that.

I've tried to import and I've tried to copy-paste

I would have imagined it could just be a preview thing, but as you said, it also prints out pixelated. A little Googling came up with this article:
http://www.senecadesign.com/designge...signgeek37.php
Possible solutions are under The Fix part.

Hi Availor,
I use InDesign fairly frequently and the best solution to you problem, if I have read your question right, is to produce your art work in Xara and then save as a tiff.doc where you can select the quality that you want and the place the file into InDesign. If you have saved in a very high quality you will need to re-scale your picture to fit the frame from the top menu line.

Also as Grafiman link has shown, make sure you have set the view quality correctly as the default is for "Optimized Display" which will give a pixilated display for as you know InDesign is memory hungry.

Thanks for the reply....


The thing is I need to put a math equation into my indesign text, meaning I need to copy the equation
from math magic or math type and paste into Indesign. Math Magic will not install for some reason in Indesign CS, and Math Type does not work as a plug-in. I've made a flash file which I tried to load. I don't know if it is my software copy problem or just a preview problem that for some reason prints like so as well.

I cant use TIF since I need vector objects.
When I copy from Illustrator and paste into Indesign all is fine, that's what strange.

Hi Availor,
InDesign will import a chart, graph, or spreadsheet from Excel or Word natively. If the chart or graph is within a document, and you want to import ONLY the chart or graph, you must copy and paste it into a new Word or Excel document first, and then import it into InDesign. Use the "place" command under the "File" menu to import these documents.
If it is just the formula you can use "glyphs" under the type menu.
Sorry for the delay, forgot about the reply to your question

InDesign as well as PageMaker have a lower screen resolution for saving memory and then when you print you have the linked file that is actually printed. The on-screen graphic represents the actual printing file which is separate from InDesign. When people don't know how InDesign thinks, they get really bad results.

InDesign maybe able to output to the web (everything creates HTML these days) but that doesn't mean it is desireable to do so. It is not primarily a web-authoring tool and have you ever looked at the code an non-web-authoring program spits out, nighmarish to say the least. Trying then to edit it, start over.

InDesign has a steep learning curve. Many people who use it for print are outputting spot color, of course some know what they are doing, and some don't and often the medium of exchange is Acrobat. Which they should check before they send it off, but ..... That is why there are so many do-overs. In addition, because a newsletter can be printed and used as well as a .pdf publication for the web, guess which one they take to the printer, the one with 72 dpi! And with RGB images.

You need to get a book and do the tutorials, hopefully there are some that come with it.

InDesign is meant for the graphics professional. It is to graphics what AutoCAD is to drafting. Quark is in the same category, but you can build a newspaper with Quark and you can with InDesign as well. So you have sacrifices to be able to get such a bloated giant to move.

Does it come across yet, that it isn't an easy program?