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Techboy · #1 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 10:27 AM

I preflighted a InDesign job from an outside designer whom imported artworks into layout using as small as 7% and most were at 12-20%. Has anyone experience problems when dealing with such jobs?

I was taught you should never import a graphic/art into layouts with more than 20% difference. A good practice is to resize all artworks appropriately. Although it's not always possible to keep that practice, but going from 100% to 7% is just crazy extreme.

:?

almaink · #2 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 10:39 AM

Depends on your rip I guess. I see this all the time these days and haven't had any issues except when exporting to PDF I have to down-sample so I don't end up with 1200 DPI images.

Techboy · #3 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 11:07 AM

Funny thing is these are RGB B+W cartoon arts scanned at 96DPI with dimensions like 35x20in.

FlightCheck is flagging all of the artworks and rightfully so. To me, the designer was too lazy to resize artworks.

almaink · #4 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 11:24 AM

Sounds more like a digital camera. They take large pics at small DPI.
I resize my work in Photoshop but designers R lazy if given the option they will resize in DTP apps.

Techboy · #5 (**permalink**) 07-09-2007, 07:36 PM

Nope, it was definitely scanned, digital cameras don't create files in TIFF format and certainly not 96 DPI either.

Oh well, I'll be resizing these artworks through using a combination of macro and batch processing in Photoshop. Part of my job is to create an efficient digital workflow. So using large LIVE image files in a layout, and using only 7%-20% of each image is extremely inefficient.