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My placed AI files get pixelated upon placing in InDesign. High Quality Display Settings change nothing about it.
The content of my AI is completely vector-based.
The jaggedness gets exported into PDF and PS-File as well, so this is not just a display problem that would not affect the end product.
Whatever you do, this is a display problem. If the AI artwork is vector, whatever compression you use on the AI file or whatever display setting in ID, the final output — presumably a PDF saved from ID — should be vector and 100% sharp with no pixels. Compression and display settings do not turn vector into raster.
Ok, I have found the answer lies in the options used when saving the AI. It would seem that using the "Compress" option creates a kind of rasterized proxy and that is what you see in InDesign and what gets exported into the PDFs.
So, short answer, do not use Compression when placing the AI in InDesign. I will try to find out, where those options are and if you can change them.
