: 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.

@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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