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Tricia Ho
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August 17, 2009
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Export to PNG in InDesign?

  • August 17, 2009
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Hi all,

I have a simple question. Is it possible to export to PNG in InDesign? Right now, I've been doing a copy-paste into Illustrator, then saving it as PNG from there. Is there a better way to do this?

Trish

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InDesign can now export to PNG from File>Export and pick the file format.

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Eugene TysonCommunity Expert답변
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November 30, 2022

InDesign can now export to PNG from File>Export and pick the file format.

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Anonymous
August 17, 2009

export the PDF and open and save in Photoshop.

Scott Falkner
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Scott FalknerCommunity Expert
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August 17, 2009

No version of InDesign can export to PNG. But there is a much better way than copy/paste into Illustrator. Export a PDF then save that as PNG from Acrobat or rasterize in Photoshop and save as PNG from Photoshop.

Jongware
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JongwareCommunity Expert
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August 17, 2009

Oddly enough, that's not .. entirely .. true.

The CS4 scripting help lists "PNG Format" amongst its possible export formats. A  quick test

app.activeDocument.selection[0].exportFile(ExportFormat.PNG_FORMAT, File(new File("c:\\test.png")));

shows CS4 can export to PNG. However, there are no settings to change, which limits its usefulness.

Djspaceg
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May 20, 2011

Interesting. I'm actually very interested in PNG export from InDesign. It seems like that would be the ideal way for me to get what I need. I've explored as many other options as I can think of, all of which are sort of crummy. Here's what I've tried so far:

My document is composed of 35 pages, which represent 7 zoom levels for the 5 floor maps of my building. The floor maps are made in Illustrator and "placed" into master-pages. Indesign handles all of the text overlays for the maps. It's better than Illustrator for this because of the ability to create paragraph and character styles that are global.

  1. From InDesign: Export to PDF -> Open each page one at a time in Illustrator -> Export to PNG. <-- Clumbsy and time consuming.
  2. From InDesign: Export to EPS -> Open each file one at a time in Illustrator -> Export to PNG. <-- Time Consuming and doesn't preserve artboard/content position on page.
  3. From InDesign: Export to PDF -> Open each page one at a time in Photoshop-> Export to PNG. <-- Takes minutes to open one page, and is too slow to consider, Photoshop tries to open every page that slowly, in sequence.
  4. From InDesign: Export to EPS -> Open each page one at a time in Photoshop-> Export to PNG. <-- Rasterizes at too low of resolution to be useful and doesn't preserve artboard/content position on page.
  5. From InDesign: Export to JPG -> Open each image in Photoshop -> Run batch process that magicwands the color-key -> delete the background to make translucent background -> Export to PNG. <-- Fast, but no subtile translucency is possible since we don't get a true alpha channel to work with.

So that's the processes I've tried. Can anyone think of more I can try? The ulitmate goal is to have each page in InDesign export to a translucent backed image format, which I can then convert to PNG. TIFF, TGA, or PNG would all equally work. I just want to preserve the position of the content relative to the artboard/page AND preserve the translucency of the content.

I used to export using JPG, but the translucency has become a priority since these images will be stacked on top of other images as tiles on Google Maps.

Thanks for any advice or suggestions anyone can provide.

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