Help please!
I have a tif file of a line drawing (i cannot locate the original illustrator file). This file is 9 x 9in at 300dpi, looks good and lines are crisp when printed at 100% scale.
I need this file to be as big as 2 x 2in in my Indesign page. When I place the file in Indesign and scale down to 2 x 2in, and then print the Indesign page, it comes out extremely blurry.
Of course, if I place the tif file in Indesign as original size 9 x 9in, the print comes out fine and crisp.
Any suggestions?
can you re-size it in another program? Photoshop or Gimp? i think Indesign only gives you JPEG compression choices... which are lossy. choose cubic if you can, and be sure to save it as a tif.
Indesign and tif quality relationship
Help please!
I have a tif file of a line drawing (i cannot locate the original illustrator file). This file is 9 x 9in at 300dpi, looks good and lines are crisp when printed at 100% scale.
I need this file to be as big as 2 x 2in in my Indesign page. When I place the file in Indesign and scale down to 2 x 2in, and then print the Indesign page, it comes out extremely blurry.
Of course, if I place the tif file in Indesign as original size 9 x 9in, the print comes out fine and crisp.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!
just resize to 2x2, then link
That would reduce the size of the original file, therefore compromising the line quality - prints out blurry
can you re-size it in another program? Photoshop or Gimp? i think Indesign only gives you JPEG compression choices... which are lossy. choose cubic if you can, and be sure to save it as a tif.
Is the image greyscale? If so, that's your problem. Convert it to to CMYK and your problem should be solved.
Greyscale tiffs print as a series of rather noticeable dots.
Like so.
that would reduce the dimensions, but not necessarily the resolution
convert the file to bitmap in photoshop or equal, then reduce size and increase dpi - save as a copy so you still have your original.
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