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- max_prophet0
*knock knock* come on folks he probably meant mm
- Probably,
but a 2"x2" CMYK file doesn't add up to 46meg either...
unless it's a layered TIFF I guess.pylon
- Probably,
- neue75_bold0
The fact that you have scaled them down in InDesign, could be the issue... In my old editorial days with Quark, I was always told to resize the images so that when placed in the layout they were as close to 100% as possible...
- i reckon this is the issue, just wondered if there was a way round italnove
- obviously the artworker didn't get round to re-sizing the imagesalnove
- fucking artworkers... you can;t trust the lot of them..neue75_bold
- JamesBoynton0
Are you sure its not just missing links that the printer hasnt bothered to find? that results in lo-res output.
- there's that too..neue75_bold
- he reckons they've checked the files as well, so i presume they aren't missingalnove
- Surely the printer can explain why this is happening if the files are fine? or are they rubbish?JamesBoynton
- he's just passing it back onto me saying they can't see anything wrong and can i re-supplyalnove
- the files are fine, spot on in photoshop. Had this problem on another job recentlyalnove
- I scale large images in InDesign all the time. I think he didn't link to the image files. Have you tried exporting the problem pages to a high-resolution PDF?Josev
- files to a high-resolution PDF?Josev
- SoulFly0
you could hire a designer to fix your files properly
- jayoh0
why not PDF it and give the printer that?
- marchelo0
Are they images of like a dress or something with it's own pattern ? What's the term when something like that affects printing, I forget.
- johndiggity0
is that m as in meters?
- hallelujah0
are they pixelated, or fuzzy? if you scale down too much without sharpening they can get soft
what is the net dpi after scaling?
- pylon0
Do you have any other effects on images near or overlapping? Drop-Shadow, etc?
Or most likely as suggested above...
- MrOneHundred0
Check the Transparency Flattener settings in the Print dialog or Export dialog boxes. It needs to be set to High Resolution.
- 100 it alarms me when you show up because it means that I really should be done work for the day...
Good Morning!pylon - Good Morning!pylon
- haha. I sense the “end of the day” malaise when I get in!MrOneHundred
- 100 it alarms me when you show up because it means that I really should be done work for the day...
- horton0
50m images? holy fck!
save your ID files to PDF with downscaling to 300ppi, jpeg max.
- wait you say 50m x 300dpi = 46mb??? something ain't right.horton
- There's no way a 50m file, CMYK@300dpi is 46mB is there?pylon
- Damn, posted same time as you, H.pylon
- 46gb maybe? :Dhorton
- I guess that'd be about right... but a 46gig image? In InDesign? That's a huge brochure ;) Maybe we're missing something.pylon
- something.pylon
- horton0
alnove please come back and explain your math!
enquiring minds want to know.
- johndiggity0
if they are 50 meters then you should save them as .psb's and have them linked not embedded.
- pylon0
Maybe it's late in the day....
50 metres at 300dpi? What are these images captured with, a satellite? That would be something like a terabyte if it's 50m square, no?