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• • March 10, 2015 at 6:57 pm #73874
    eileen krahn

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    I have CS3 & often have many images & objects blending in the background of a page. Is there any way that these elements can be listed and/organized by a page (or group selection) so I can check to see that they are scaled at 100% without having to look for each one individually? I still have to look & click on them individually through links and then I just get the info on the resolution. I am looking for information on whether it is scaled at 100% or not with out having to hunt each one & click it. I also have the images sorted in each page as a layer but I still have to check them individually.
    Thanks!

    akek

  • March 13, 2015 at 9:43 am #73932
    Frederick Yocum

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    Eileen

    I thought there might be an easy solution using the Preflight Panel. This would seem to be the natural option. However a brief perusal of said panel made me think again.

    What do you mean by “images and objects”? Because ”scale’ is a variable thing and whether something is 100% depends on the object.

    If you know all of your images are 300dpi and you want them to all be used at 100%. In the Preflight Panel, you could set both the Image resolution maximum and minimum to 300 dpi. This way if one was slightly too large or too small you would get a preflight warning. You could also set the Non-proportional Scaling of Placed Objects alert to “on”. This won’t make much difference, but it would alert you to an image that is non proportionally scaled!

    There are no settings in the Preflight Panel that will alert you to text which not exactly to spec, except you can limit the Minimum text size.

    Vector based objects? I think you are out of luck from a Preflight Panel perspective. . .

    This seems like something a script could be written to do, but you would have to clarify more completely what you mean by images and objects. (InDesign objects? imported eps files? text?). You could then post a request in the scripting forum and hope that a talented scripter (scriptor?) wants a distraction from the more complicated problem they should be working on, and they will write you a script!

  • March 13, 2015 at 11:35 am #73935
    eileen krahn

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    Thank you for your comments! I see that I can check the actual & effective dpi in the preflight panel but will have to investigate on how to change things in the preflight settings in the CS3 version. It sounds like that might be a solution if it can tell me that the scale percentage on an image is at 100%.

    To answer your question – By scale (Images only) I will relate an example. Image A is 4″ x 5″in Photoshop. When I place it in Indesign and resize it to how I want it (let’s say to 1″ x 2″)… I then have to go to the original image (Photoshop) & change the size of it to 1″ x 2″. I then update the link in Indesign and check the scale percentage to ensure it is at 100%. (This is how I was taught).

    This process is great for a few images but when there gets to be many it can be a challenge to ensure they all have been (double) checked. Sometimes I have copied all the background elements into Photoshop and create one image of them for ease but I thought it was worth asking whether there was a way to track them in a listed format in Indesign.
    A script sounds like another great solution! Thanks!

  • March 13, 2015 at 7:38 pm #73943
    Frederick Yocum

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    Eileen

    I am in a very similar position for my larger projects. All the images are set to be 300 dpi (fairly standard for printing). At the end of the project I go through and resize the images, re sampling to ensure they are 300 dpi at the new size. I use a preflight profile that complains if they aren’t between 240 and 300 dpi, they would be at a higher dpi if they weren’t resampled to the smaller size.

    It is something of a open question whether it makes sense to resample, rather than letting InDesign handle it, if I am sending a print ready PDF. I think the software has improved significantly.

  • March 14, 2015 at 7:59 am #73945
    Sonu Yadav

    Member

    Thanks FrederickYocum,

    I was also having same problem.

    Now I can give extra time to my Document

  • April 18, 2015 at 4:28 pm #74822
    eileen krahn

    Member

    Thank you for taking the time to share your insights. This will be very helpful!

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