Text Quality

[barryggg]

Hi

I create a text logo in illustrator and save in a variety of formats.

I then open an Indesign page and create some text, and then place all the different formats from illustrator on that page. I then drag from illustrator the original text into Indesign.

When I look at all the text at a large magnification, the edge quality varies horrendously.

The text created in Indesign is the best, next comes the text dragged from illustrator and then anything I have saved from illustrator and placed is horrible.

My problem is that I will be receiving files from my clients created in illustrator and cannot afford for them to look rubbish.

Any suggestions or pointers would be good.

[The_Black_Knight]

This sounds more like it has to do with your Display Performance preferences in InDesign than with a problem with the graphics that you have created. Depending upon your settings, different formats will preview with different quality.

If your vector files are appearing bitmapped when you place them in InDesign and you want a better preview, go to Preferences --> Display Performance. If the slider for "Vector Graphics" is set to "Proxy," then move it to the right for the "High Resolution" setting. However, if you are using a lot of placed vector graphics in a file, your redraw when you change magnification and your scrolling speed may suffer with this setting.

If you want to view just one object in a higher quality view (while keeping everything viewed by Proxy), select the object, then go to View --> Display Performance. Select the "High Quality Display" setting, and make sure that the "Allow Object-Level Display Settings" option is checked.

Of course, these settings only affect your on-screen preview of these items; these settings have no effect on how everything prints from InDesign.

[barryggg]

Hi

I tried altering the display performance - However it did not alter the problem.

I have attached a screen grab of the file from indesign. The top image section was produced in indesign. the next was created in illustrator and dragged to indesign. The third was created in indesign and saved as an .ai file and then placed in indsign.

Regards Barry

[The_Black_Knight]

I think you forgot to attach the screen shot, but something else occured to me.

You can't just drag or copy text objects from Illustrator to InDesign. You can convert the text into outlines first, then copy or drag these objects into InDesign (if your File Handling and Clipboard settings are set up properly in both programs), but you can't do that with just text.

[Neuro]

I have done the drag from Illy before but I am wondering why, if you are having an issue, you don't just typeset the text right in ID? To me that would seem like the way to get the clearest text. If there are elements to the text that I don't know about then that could be why. Just curious.

[barryggg]

Hi

Black Knight your right I forgot to attch the screenshot. However after further testing you were right previously about the way that different formats display differently on screen. I was just looking at what was on screen and not a print, just done that and they are all fine. I can just grab the image drag to indesign that paret seems to work fine.

Thanks for your help.


Neuro, the reason I wanted to do it in Illustrator was mainly that, that is the format others send to me.

Thanks.

Regards Barry