Export InDesign Files to PSD

You can copy objects in InDesign and paste a Smart Object into a layer in a PSD file in Photoshop.

Probably not what you want, tho, yet interesting.

Mike Witherell in Alexandria, VA

Try this script:

http://www.zenodesign.com/scripts/PagestoPSLayers.zip

The script exports the layers as PDFs then opens them in PS. It asks you to choose a PDF preset and a target folder for saving the PDFs. The PDF preset enclosed in the .zip archive works well with the script.

Hi Karl,

I know of no way to export to layered PSD directly but
perhaps the following could work for you:

Click your first InDesign-layer to be visible and deselect
the others so that they're invisible. Now export a PDF
with your settings you need (is it for the web or print?)
Open the PDF in Photoshop. The PDF becomes pixelized
but should keep transparency. Now click your 2nd layer
in InDesign to be visible and export this also with the same
PDF-setting. Open it in Photoshop excactly the same way
(important: box-settings like bleedbox, trimbox etc.) as
the first. Now drag and drop this layer into the file already
containg the 1st exported layer and go on like this.
I know it's not automated but only an idea ...

Regards,
Sacha Heck

No.

Bob