Cannot copy images from InDesign

Hi Chris,

congratulations that Export to Word actually worked for you in Adobe Reader.

I tested this as well and it did not work at all. I was redirected to a subscription model for Acrobat:

After pressing the button "Export to Word" I landed on this page:

Of course with my installed Acrobat Pro I would be able to Export to Word.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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Chris said: "Thank you Uwe. Unfortunately I'm not prepared to pay £270 for this facility so I'll have to find a different workflow."

Hm. The first thing I would do is to invest in a license or a subscription to Acrobat Pro.

If you are working in the field of print production this is an absolute must.

If you have to establish an ongoing workflow between InDesign > Word > InDesign for whatever reason WordsFlow Pro is the tool of choice.

Chris, what nobody asked, but is important for any workflow:
What's your version of InDesign on what operating system?

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Barb,

your suggestion wouldn't work, because Chris has no Acrobat Pro licensed.

Mike's suggestion is working for images like JPGs, but perhaps would fail for other image types.

Chris did not specify if a certain kind of image type would not make it to Word through the RTF route or if there are other circumstances that this is not working. Also: RTF would not allow to retain any crop values, so always the uncropped image will shown in Word. I also doubt that the original resolution will make it, but didn't do any tests in this direction.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

EDIT: None of these responses were visible when I answered. Is that sort of delay happening to the rest of you?

Did you try exporting to PDF, and then using File > Save as > Word in Acrobat or File > Conver to Word in Reader?

~Barb 

If the InDesign document really does have a linked threaded flow of text, AND if the images are still inline anchored, then you could insert your Type tool anywhere in the text and go to File > Export > Save As Type > RTF and the resulting RTF will contain all the text and the inline graphics. Finally, open the RTF (Rich Text Format) file in Word and Save As to .DOCX (if you wish).

How hard are you willing to work to do this? Because if you absolutely want to do this, it's going to take some.

Some things will make it easier:

• If the text import allows extra space/returns, it'll make identifying the gaps for placing art easier.
• "Images" has a specific type of graphic definition, as in pixel-based images. These are relatively easy to pop out. Vector graphics will be more difficult
• If the art is truly embedded in the MSWord document, it'll let you get the best quality of the original images. Hopefully that will be enough for your needs.
• The art needs to be art. Things like charts generated in Excel and graphic elements appropriated from PowerPoint may make the process considerably more complex.

With that said, this is the bulletproof way to get your art:

1. Create a [Press Quality]... PDF of the InDesign file using the  File>Adobe PDF Presets>[Press Quality]... menu command. This ensures that you'll get quality image output.
2. Open your resulting PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Click the Tools link in the Options Bar then select the Export PDF icon

3.  This opens the Export PDF dialog. Choose Image, then JPEG. Make sure the Export All Images check box is selected. Then click the Export button.

4. Choose your location carefully. I would create a unique folder, and name the file for the purpose. Mine is named for illustrative purposes. You may choose to use more relevant nomenclature that better suits you.

5. This process reads your PDF first left to right, then up and down, and names the extracted images accordingly. For my example there were lots of them.

Which I could then place into my new Word document where I want them. As a bonus, I now have a discrete set of the image files themselves if I ever need them for future purposes.

Maybe some of our script wizards have some magic code that can automate parts or all of this process. But if you want those images in your new Word document, and you want the images themselves as discrete files, I know this will work.

Hope this works,

Randy

Hi Chris,

you could try the WordsFlow Pro plug-in by EM Software.

With that you could export a story to an docx file that also will contain the images.

Cannot remember if this is required, but if you need the full image pixels in Word, you could try to embed the placed and linked images in your InDesign document before you export to docx with WordsFlow.

There is a free 15-days trial on the installed WordsFlow that should be able to solve your issue:

http://emsoftware.com/products/wordsflow/

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

You should import the Word doc.