Then you can go to View > Display Performance, and use those settings. Note that you can lose these settings if your preferences are reset, which can happen with a crash, update, or when installing plug-ins. Once you’ve set your preferences as you want them, click OK. After you select one of these views, you can customize its settings in D, E, and F.ĭ: Raster Images: Adjust the slider to control the onscreen appearance of pixel-based images (like those from Photoshop) in your layout.Į: Vector Images: Adjust the slider to control the onscreen appearance of vector-based images (like those from Illustrator) in your layout.į: Transparency: Adjust the slider to control the onscreen appearance of transparency effects. In Adjust View Settings (section 2 in the screenshot), there are the following controls:Ĭ: A drop-down list where you can choose between Fast, Typical, or High Quality views.

In Options (section 1 in the screenshot), there are two controls:Ī: Default View, which determines which Display Performance is to be used (Fast, Typical, or High Quality).ī: Preserve the Object Display Settings, which we’ll touch on later. Go to InDesign > Preferences (Mac) or File > Preference (Windows) and click on Display Performance. This means that you will see high-resolution images by default.

High Quality: Shows a high-resolution proxyīy default, InDesign is set to display images using the High Quality view, with high-resolution images for Raster and Vector.

Fast: Displays a gray box and you won’t see the image at all.

InDesign has three options for how images/graphics are displayed, which you can access via View > Display Performance. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.

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