InDesign: Change Graphics Viewing Resolution – It’ll be Easier on Your Eyes

Versions: CS3-5.5

Tired of seeing crummy, low-resolution representations of your beautiful graphics in your InDesign layouts? Change the graphics viewing resolution by going to…

View > Display Performance > High Quality Display

Or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Alt-H (think “H” for “High resolution”).

Is the high quality display of your graphics (from above) slowing you down you move through your layout? (If you have an older computer or a very large document, the answer is “yes.”)

Go back to the crummy, low-resolution (but speedy) view of your graphics by selecting…

View > Display Performance > Typical Display

Or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Alt-Z (think “Z” for “Zippy documents”).