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: InDesign displays low quality linked AI file I'm creating a business card in InDesign. The best version of the company logo I have is an AI file which looks pixelated when placed in InDesign.

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I'm creating a business card in InDesign. The best version of the company logo I have is an AI file which looks pixelated when placed in InDesign. I've tried exporting the AI file into different formats, but the result is the same. What's my best course of action?

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@Ravi4787994

When doing complex work with hundreds of links dumped into a single INDD file, thats when InDesign starts slowing down and so the default behaviour is to show this fast low quality preview of linked files. InDesign will work smoothly for a business card, but does indeed slow down for very large documents (also depending on your hardware).

To permanently change this setting open InDesign and without any open documents, hit Ctrl+K. Go to the 'Display Performance' tab and change the 'Default View' from 'Typical' to 'High Quality'.

To temporarily switch between 'Typical' and 'High Quality' view, hit Ctrl+Alt+H with your document already open.

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@Chiappetta793

InDesign will show a preview image of an ai file which will use less memory. The file will print fine. If you want to see a more accurate image, change the Display Performance (found in the View menu) from Typical to High Quality Display.

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