indesign help
- Started
- Last post
- 11 Responses
- effour
I need a little advice/help on methods of putting a catalog together.
I'm making my catalog, cutting and pasting from illustrator into indesign and everything is fine and dandy and then, when trying to paste another vector image from illustrator:
‘This command would create a large number of page items would severely degrade performance. Data will be placed as embedded EPS.’Anyone know why this is happening? I have a mb pro with 4 gigs of ram...so i can't see it being a computer issue...
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Thx,
R
- MrOneHundred0
Are you pasting text elements and vector elements at the same time?
- effour0
no, just the vector image.
- MrOneHundred0
How about saving the vector image as an Illustrator file (.ai with PDF compatible preview) and placing it in InDesign?
- monospaced0
When it gets complicated, it replaces it with an embedded EPS because that's just how it works. You can view High Quality to see what it will look like, but InDesign is really about 'placing' images instead of pasting them.
- effour0
ya, i'm a newbie to indesign, just got a catalog dropped on me, so I just went about by just cutting and pasting the illustrator files into indesign and resizing them within indesign.
i'm guessing i'll lay every pproduct out in it's own individual eps file, then 'place'
ugh....it's gonna get time consuming....
thanks for the feedback.
- you should place them, it works faster that way even if it involves a lot of setupmonospaced
- MrOneHundred0
Just use .ai files instead of .eps
- effour0
ai it is...not looking for to the daunting task ahead!
- MrOneHundred0
So stop pissing around on QBN and get to it! ;-)
- i_monk0
Is there an easy way to save printer spreads without going through Print Booklet and Distiller?
- You can just output as a PDF, as spreads, selecting all the relevant info you needIanbolton
- What Ian said.monospaced
- Where are you seing these options?i_monk
- In PDF export dialog. There’s a check box to export as spreads. This only works if you set up the document as spreads of course.monospaced
- Obviously that's not useful, as Print as Booklet does that for you and manually building printer spreads would fuck up page numbers and section names.i_monk
- Sorry this is a blag. How are you setting up the document as the printer should be dealing with all that shit? I’ve not used distiller in yearsIanbolton
- Beeswax0
- also it displays hi-quality only when I'm editing the textBeeswax
- Must be a PC thing. Never seen anything remotely like this on a Mac except for a preview mode in other software.monospaced
- Check settingsnb
- Prefs > Display Performance > Enable anti-aliasingnb
- none helped. So it's an unsolvable adobe bugBeeswax