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[kip_w]

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InDesign help needed! If that line means anything to you, please read on.

I'm putting a book cover together in InDesign. When I am set to finalize it, I need to know what size the art is being shrunk to in the program so that I can carefully shrink the original photos down to that size for optimum printing. Letting a computer, especially someone else's, choose how a picture gets shrunk is another way of saying, "Please turn my photos to mush for me. Thanks!"

Unfortunately, I can't find any palette, menu, window, widget, or anything that tells me what size a picture has been reduced to in the entire InDesign program. It is as if it assumes nobody would ever want to have any control over such a thing.

Can someone out there tell me how to determine what a photo has been resized to? Can someone point me to a person who might know, or a resource that might be able to tell me?

Thanks in advance.
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[redbird]

I've only worked with InCopy, which is a subset of InDesign, so all I can usefully tell you is that we figured our design department knew that, and they had us set placeholders for the art, so we could flow copy around it. One way of making those placeholders was to create a table of a precise number of pixels, inches, or centimeters. (What little information I have on this is mostly pasted to my cubicle walls, or on my desktop at work, and hence not accessible right now.)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Thanks, but I am the design department.

I've always been able to look at the palette in Quark and know just how much to reduce the original, after which I'd place the sized version and know that it would print correctly. I'll be making this into a PDF. I can't pass it along.

I could just let it go automatically, I guess, and accept the results. Chances are the client wouldn't know. But I'd know.

solved!

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Wow! If you go to Object > Select > Content, then the Control palette's numbers reflect the reduction factor. I can now proceed normally.

That's one small step for me!

Re: solved!

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[meggins.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on working out that problem!