Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 372)

364 USING INDESIGN CS4
Graphics
Use Place instead of Paste
The image may still be low resolution even though you changed the display performance settings. For these images,
make sure that you use the Place command to insert the image into InDesign. In some instances, pasting an image from
another application may result in the preview image being inserted instead of the original file.
Check your print settings
If your image appears in low resolution in print, check your print settings to make sure graphics are printing properly.
In the Graphics section of the Print dialog box, choose Send Data > All.
Avoid transformations in images of borderline quality
In addition, scaling or rotating an image could reduce its quality. You may want to choose Clear Transformations from
the Control panel menu.
Improve the image resolution
In some cases, such as with an image copied from a web page, you may need to replace a low-resolution image with a
high-resolution image.
Control graphics’ display performance
You can control the resolution of graphics placed in your document. You can change the display settings for the entire
document or for individual graphics. You can also change a setting that either allows or overrides the display settings
for individual documents.
Change a document’s display performance
A document always opens using the default Display Performance preferences. You can change the display
performance of a document while it is open, but the setting won’t be saved with the document.
If you’ve set the display performance of any images separately, you can override the settings so all objects use the same
settings.
1 Choose View > Display Performance, and select an option from the submenu.
2 To force objects that you have set individually to display using the document setting, deselect View > Display
Performance > Allow Object-Level Display Settings. (A check mark indicates it is selected.)
Change an object’s display performance
1 To preserve the display performance for individual objects when the document is closed and reopened, make sure
Preserve Object-Level Display Settings is selected in Display Performance preferences.
2 Choose View > Display Performance, and make sure Allow Object-Level Display Settings is selected.
3 With the Selection tool or Direct Selection tool , select an imported graphic.
4 Do one of the following:
• Select Object > Display Performance, and choose a display setting.
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the image, and choose a display setting from the Display
Performance submenu.
To remove an object’s local display setting, choose Use View Setting in the Display Performance submenu. To remove
local display settings for all graphics in the document, select Clear Object-Level Display Settings in the View
> Display
Performance submenu.
Updated 18 June 2009