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All full colour with many images in it, a few of them the whole page covering. Last week I’ve completed a magazine lay-out of 36 pages. I’m working with InDesign CS3 about a month now. Keep your files at a reasonable size! Don’t use such high resolutions. I might increase to 350 or 400 when printing with stochastic screening, but even then I think its highly unlikely that any normal person would be able to see the difference between a 300 ppi and 400 ppi image. I would never use any image resolution above 300 ppi for halftone printing because the resolution is too small for the human eye to resolve. (Doesn’t sound like much, but try it!) So the only time you need 300 dpi is if you’re printing at 200 lpi (still not that common). There is a huge difference between file sizes at 225 and 300. Therefore, if you’re printing with a 150 lpi halftone screen, you almost definitely don’t need more than 225 ppi images. For traditional spot halftone printing, 1.5 x lpi is good. Yes, I know everyone says “2x lpi” but when pressed they insist that they do this only because they were taught it by someone else. There is very little reason to ever use more than 1.5 x your halftone screen frequency. Stuart and Jerome, you guys are just baiting me because you know this is a pet peeve of mine, aren’t you? ) Doesn’t anyone read Real World Scanning & Halftones, or Real World Photoshop anymore? Sigh. This is especially important when building images for web that you think they might also want to incorporate into a print product. I usually like to build files at a larger resolution so that I don’t have to rebuild them when the client decides that they want to repurpose the image for another application. So I would make them at 72ppi, 144ppi, 288ppi. If we don’t know what the lpi is going to be when we start building the files then it’s best to make them at a larger resolution.įor video display I typically build in multiples of 72ppi since most video applications are build off of this standard. When doing covers we typically do them at 350ppi for 175 lpi or 400 for 200lpi. As Stuart said 300ppi is a good base for most print because the RIP can throw out the extra data of the larger image that it doesn’t need when processing the image for a lower lpi and the files are not that much larger than the 266ppi files are. The two most typical lpi’s that we use for products at work are 133lpi and 150lpi, so the image should be at 266ppi or 300 ppi. Technically speaking ppi for print should be at twice the lpi that you are going to print at. Sure, there are other reasons that InDesign files can get huge, but images are the main problem I’ve encountered. InDesign places the image at the proper size, makes a much smaller proxy image, and the next time you do a Save As, your file size should drop considerably. Now save the file and reimport it into InDesign. The solution: Open your file in Photoshop, choose Image > Image Size, turn off the Resample Image checkbox (if you don’t want the image data to change), then set the resolution to something reasonable (such as 225 or 250 ppi). But when you import a 72 ppi image, InDesign saves the entire image as the preview! It essentially embeds the whole thing because it’s trying to save a low res (72 ppi) version of your 72 ppi image. Now here’s the rub: When you import an image, InDesign saves a low-res “thumbnail” preview of it, right? That’s what’s stored in the InDesign file itself (so you can still see the image if the original on-disc image is missing). So you import it into InDesign and scale it down to the proper size, which increases its effective resolution (watch the Info palette to see original vs. It may be a 17 MB, 3000 x 2000 digital capture, but if it’s saved at 72 ppi, then it’s about 41 by 27 inches large. Unfortunately, many cameras save their files at 72 ppi (pixels per inch, sometimes called dpi). These images were probably saved from a digital camera to disk, and then imported directly into InDesign. However, in this case, the problem is, in fact, your images. That clears out any gunk that has accumulated while you’ve been working on the file. The first thing to always try when trying to reduce file size is to choose File > Save As. There are a number of things that can make your InDesign files huge. Ironically, I know the answer to this one because of my long history with QuarkXPress, which also exhibits this curious phenomenon. jpg images, why would this file be so large? If it’s not saving any image data and merely linking 500. The linked photos themselves are high resolution, around 2-3MB a piece. Doing a quick preflight check shows that there are no embedded images nor saved image previews. I have a 60+ page CS3 file that saves at around 450MB and growing.