Hi.
I have an inDesign document. My friend reckons one of the images in it is 72 dpi, and the other is 300dpi.
is this possible or does the document dpi need to be set as a whole?
One Comments to “Multiple dpi images in InDesign Document?”
No related posts.
Filed under inDesign HELP
You should be using the same dpi for all images. Go back to the original images, open them in Photoshop to make the adjustments. Only do minor adjustments within InDesign.
Note that the 72 dpi image is going to print terribly. It is NOT meant for use in a document, but only for on-line viewing. You need to get a higher resolution image if you have any hope of printing quality.
Also note that InDesign will show low resolution versions of the images as working files. It is possible that the 72 dpi image, if you know it’s actually a higher resolution than that, is the linked image file, not the actual image, and the 300 dpi image is embedded in the InDesign file rather than linked.
Normally you just link to the files while working on the document to help keep the file size down. If you have a lot of images, and they were all embedded, you would end up with huge files. Instead, you link them, then do the packaging and preflight before you go to press. The packaging process brings all your necessary files together into one folder, all images, fonts, etc. plus the InDesign document.
Hope that helps.