turn off thumbnails when saving the jpg.
When you save the jpg, make sure you are not saving it as a progressive jpg, I had a similar problem with that before in Pagemaker, it turns out that it doesn’t like progressive jpgs.
Thanks Dave. I assume you mean the thumbnails box at the bottom of the save as dialog box. If so, this thumbnails box is checked (and shaded), so I turned it off by using editing preferences, file handling, image previews — and choosing "never save." That shuts off the thumbnails box on the "save as" dialog box. But I still get the same error message when trying to place in PMaker. Am I switching off the wrong box. If so, where do I go to get the right one?
Erik
Is the JPG saved as progessive? If so, it won’t place in PM.
Bob
Thanks all. I made the changes and it works.
Erik
Hello Erik,
Hope you’re reading this. Can you explain:
Thanks all. I made the changes and it works.
Which changes did you make? I am having identical problems, and it is set to save as 8bit, so that’s not causing the error message. Somewhere I saw where you were removing a thumbnail version (or something) but can’t find that message now!
Hope you can assist me too.
Thanks
Jacqui Knight
Jacqui,
Edit>Preferences>File Handling>Image Previews. Switch to Ask When Saving and say ‘No’ for your JPG
Yes I did that, but still having the problem Len. 🙁 I thought that perhaps Erik had done something else as well.
Thanks for your response – hope we can fix this, it’s SO infuriating. I am trying to keep the file size of the finished item down – I can however cut and paste the photos into the Pagemaker document… What are the advantages and disadvantages of this method? They look terrible in the file but print out okay. We are working on a newspaper, 16 pages A4, and later we want to put this on the web.
Jacqui
Never cut and paste into Pagemaker. And if you’re going to press, stop worrying about files size. It’s quality that matters.
You might want to visit the PM forum.
Bob
I would echo Bob’s comments and add that InDesign is SO superior to PageMaker, that it would probably be a wise investment for you…
Thanks Len, I will look out for it.
Jacqui