Indesign → Photoshop?
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- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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...
- 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
my usual: export giant pdf, import as high res such and such
- freshdude
Is the easiest way to convert an Indesign file to:
export to pdf, then open that in Photoshop?
Is there another way?