4 Replies Latest reply on Feb 27, 2014 12:42 AM by Peter Spier

Adobe Indesign CC image placement distortion

toriadele Feb 26, 2014 8:06 AM

Hi,

I just started using Indesign CC a couple of weeks ago and am building a document with a lot of images. I'm dragging and dropping the images from Finder and about half the time the images are coming in distorted and out of proportion, the other half of the time, they are maintaining their original proportions. Any idea what is causing the distortion? Is there someway to control the placement so the image maintains it's original proportions?

1. Re: Adobe Indesign CC image placement distortion

Peter Spier Feb 26, 2014 1:49 PM (in response to toriadele)

Are you dropping into existing frames? That might account for uneven scaling.
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2. Re: Adobe Indesign CC image placement distortion

toriadele Feb 27, 2014 12:38 AM (in response to Peter Spier)

Yes I am, but sometimes the photo scale is maintained and sometimes the scale is so out of proportion you can't even make out the photo. My team is using the preset frames for the page layout to save time, although we can't go quickly when we have to resize and reformat the photos. Is there anyway to set the frames to maintain the original dimension of the photos when you drop them in? Also, why are the original file dimensions maintained for some photos and not others? Thanks.
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Laubender Feb 27, 2014 12:40 AM (in response to toriadele)

@toriadele – do some of the photos directly come from a camera? Are the rest saved in eg. PhotoShop? Does that make the difference?

Uwe
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4. Re: Adobe Indesign CC image placement distortion

Peter Spier Feb 27, 2014 12:42 AM (in response to toriadele)

I bet the frame has some sort of fitting option applied, like fit content to frame...
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