Indesign → Photoshop?
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- freshdude
Is the easiest way to convert an Indesign file to:
export to pdf, then open that in Photoshop?
Is there another way?
- prophetone0
my usual: export giant pdf, import as high res such and such
- Amicus0
"I made a website, now the programmers need .psd files for some reason"
Well... you may have designed a website, but it's only part of the process... don't consider it made until the programmers have had at it and umpteen million changes have been made by you, the client, the programmers, the clients wife and the clients nephew who owns frontpage.
- I only ever use PSD's anyway, thought that was standard practice?biusness
- prophetone0
can i edit this psd you made me in publisher? i only ask because my nephew has a laptop and software and wants to help out which is great...
- sausages0
Just curious, do you web guys have issues with InDesign web layouts which have been set up using pixel measurements in an RGB colour space (i.e. correctly) or is the concensus that InDeign web layouts suck in general? If a file is numerically correct in terms of measurements and the colour space is all good, it shouldn't bother a developer what the source program is no?
- i dont do much web but i hate indesign webstuff. Could be not sure how to make it work easily. i dont see whats hard to develop in PS. if u know indd u should know psdeathboy
- build in PS. if u do print work u should be capable in PSdeathboy
- sure large text formatting sucks but shoulnt be an issuedeathboy
- Aligning, grids, pathfinder and text formatting is clearly easier in InDesign. Pretty big part of web design no?!biusness
- "Aligning, grids, pathfinder and text formatting" Fireworks does all this and pages. It also works in true pixels.animatedgif
- InDesign also works in true pixels, and it's tons easier than the alternatives for layout.monospaced
- monNom0
^ if everything is isolated and editable, and transfers to PS with no hitches, then it's probably fine.
however that's almost never the case and files not done in PS are (generally) a non-stop cluster-fuck of soft edges, flattened layers, and really small type... but only in some places (ie: no continuity).
I've rebuilt enough of them to know: it almost always ends badly....Which sucks, because inDesign makes a lot of sense for large sites with many pages needing design work. But I think you need a workflow, and devs who know how to work with those files. and designers who know how to prep the file for the devs.
A big issue (I think), is that many (non web), designers don't put emphasis on precision in their designs. In Illustrator or InDesign they drag the handles, reposition things at will, eyeball-it, and when it looks good they're done. However for web in those apps, even something like a stroke needs to be a full pixel value, and the stroked box must be offset by 1/2 the stroke value for it to rasterize sharp. (snap to pixel may help this, not really sure)
If your devs want a PSD. you should probably just make a PSD from the start.
- prophetone0
"...many (non web), designers don't put emphasis on precision in their designs."
so true. i've been called the "pixel police" by colleagues. trying to explain that a rasterized 1pt line is not really the same as a 1px line never ends well in my experience.
- and a 1px line needs to be lined up on a half pixel.Amicus
- pillhead0
This is why It does my head in why people use Indesign to design bloody websites, it just scream I know fuck all about website design, it's like given a printer a Flash file and asking him why can you not print this 500 page document. Really.
- goldieboy0
Just rebuild in PSD taking all your measurements from InD. And as a bonus the dev person won't kill you and you'll be able to edit until your hearts content
- animatedgif0
Use Fireworks FFS, InDesign wasn't designed for this.
- fadein110
web design in InDesign - just don't get it
- awebdeveloper0
Don't design for web in InDesign, Don't design for web in illustrator.
It will end badly and we will ignore your pixel measurements and just round to pixel multiples of 5 and make it in MS word fr you.
- qTime0
Photoshop is not fit for purpose!
Someone really needs to create a better program. You can't even make custom grids that are useful in PhotoShop without a plug in.
- animatedgif0
- Hmm, I still don't find this has the functionality of inDesignqTime
- OSFA0
PLEASE, stop using InDesign for web design. Please?
- qTime0
To me it feels like webpages were first build by non designers so they used Photoshop. Now we are finding out that its totally unsuited to designing webistes.
- If you are just designing templates PS is fine. If you are being asked to show the whole website (ie all content pages) it may get trickierfadein11
- gets trickierfadein11
- Exactly! I love how I can set type styles in indesign.qTime
- Spot on qTimeanimatedgif
- Fireworks allows you to set styles. It doesnt allow you to edit them, but they work well otherwiseJosev
- Ambushstudio0
We would give our developer AI fies, sometimes PSD sliced files, he has it down, he likes AI, is he crazy?
- monospaced0
The developers I work with don't give a damn. They usually take the design and make it much tighter and cleaner anyway, regardless if they receive PSD, InDesign or Illustrator files. I sometimes think they just print them out and use them as visual reference. It's awesome.
- qTime0
For me inDesign is much more suited to designing websites that PhotoShit.
You can design multiple pages, set type styles, custom grids.Devs should be more flexible.
A lot could be gained from using indesign.- Fireworks has pretty much ALL the advantages of both apps.animatedgif
- monospaced0
I guess it really depends on the developer and the kind of site being built. Some sites are pure code and all that with only the minimal use of raster graphics, others are all about the pixel effects that can only be made in PS. Some developers like to copy and paste from a PSD, some like to rebuild efficiently, and each job is unique.