ADOBE INDESIGN WINDOWS 36 VECTOR OUTPUT FOR INDESIGN USING PHOTOSHOP FILES
From: Graeme_McCormack@no-spam
Subject: Vector output for indesign using photoshop files
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 00:43:08 -0800


ok (I am using the CS suite)

so I have vector shapes in my photoshop files, be it text or just shapes. I place the psd into the indesign file and create a PDF via canned PDF maker for indesign and try it with acrobat distiller. Everytime I get the same thing, the vector information in the psd's are now raster info (what should be clean type is now pixel information). What is happening. I have trying adjusting the settings everywhere, it seems like a glitch but I could be missing a pref somewhere that I don't know about. Everything works fine when I us Quark and print to distiller with photoshop EPS files in there. Should I just be using EPS files when I want my text to show up with it's vector info? Because I also noticed that when I preflight my indesign document with the psd file in there, no fonts show up as being embedded. Coincidence? Help would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers :)





















From: Robert_Levine@no-spam
Subject: Re: Vector output for indesign using photoshop files
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 05:37:35 -0800

Save your Photoshop file as PDF from Photoshop (don't print to postscript--use file>save as and select PDF).

Save with fonts embedded, vector data retained but turn off layers. Place that in your ID document and use file>export to create your PDF from InDesign.

Bob

From: Steve_Werner@no-spam
Subject: Re: Vector output for indesign using photoshop files
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 06:00:58 -0800

Robert is correct. Only Photoshop PDF and Photoshop EPS work to save vector information and editable text from Photoshop to place in a layout. PSD, TIFF, etc. always turn it to a bitmap.



From: Graeme_McCormack@no-spam
Subject: Re: Vector output for indesign using photoshop files
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:17:35 -0800

Okay, you guys are great! I guess I assumed that the wonderful ability for indesign to import psd was just to good to be true. Thus comes my next question. How come it doesn't keep the vector information. I have yet to experiment with this, as I was primarily a quark user, but does this also mean that it will not import colour information aswell,. it will just flatten everything? Why is this the case is my second question. However the former questions is a little more important.


Cheers:)


From: Robert_Levine@no-spam
Subject: Re: Vector output for indesign using photoshop files
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:39:23 -0800

My answer is a very strong "I don't know." I also don't care. I simply use PDF.

Bob

From: Larry_Grohman@no-spam
Subject: Re: Vector output for indesign using photoshop files
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:34:27 -0800

Photoshop (PSD) files imported in InDesign will carry everything except vectors. For now, the only way to preserve vectors from Photoshop is to print directly from Photoshop, save as EPS (similar to printing PS) or save as PDF. That includes color information as well as layers.

Why? ... Well Adobe just hasn't fixed that yet. I would expect to see that in future versions. So, as Bob said, just save as PDF and be happy your pagelayout program can support vectors from Photoshop in that fashion, as well as unflattened native PSD files.

Larry