Expert: Kevin Stohlmeyer - 12/5/2008

Question
Hi Kevin,
I am making a portfolio in InDesign, which is a program I have been learning
the past few weeks.  So far the images I've been placing have all been TIFFs.  
Now, I want to use a graphic that I made in Illustrator.  I recently had to resize
it and change the lineweights in Illustrator so that it would fit the space I
have allotted for it.  

I have tried saving it as multiple different filetypes before placing it (tiff, ai,
pfd, jpeg) and all of them look fuzzy (the lines lost definition) and all lines are
the same weight in InDesign.  When I've saved it as a pfd and opened that file
in Acrobat, it looks great.  When placed in InDesign, it looks awful.  Do you
have any ideas of what I can do to get a crisp image?

Thanks!

Answer
Hi Kate,

This is technically an InDesign question but I know your issue. In ID go to view>Display performance and change it to High Quality. By default, ID previews images in low res to keep file refresh faster. Keeping it in High Quality will slow things down but you will see your AI file as a crisp vector image.

You can save your AI files as native Illustrator documents.

Thanks

Kevin