Adobe Indesign help

[Availor]

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?

[John Rayner]

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.

[Availor]

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

[John Rayner]

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.

[Availor]

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

[John Rayner]

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

[Klaus Nordby]

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

[Availor]

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

[Grafixman]

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.

[Albacore]

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.