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Anonymous
January 23, 2017
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Indesign Sizing With Photoshop

  • January 23, 2017
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Hi,

I created a table in Indesign to export to Photoshop but for some reason when I import it the sizing is way off. Looking at the ruler in Indesign the object should have a height of around 2 inches but when it is in Photoshop it has a height of about 6 inches. Why?

Thank you,

JMSmash!

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    Steve Werner
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    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
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    January 23, 2017

    Your best bet is to export as a PDF file. Then open the PDF in Photoshop and size to the size you want.

    If you tried to use Export > JPEG or PNG, this will produce a better result.

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    Anonymous
    January 23, 2017

    I have been exporting in PDF. I have text in the table and it needs to be scalable otherwise when i resize in Photoshop all the text becomes unreadable. And now Indesign will no longer let me decrease the size of the table so it seems I have to start all over. I was using Indesign because its suppose to use vectors so I can go as big or small as I want.

    I will try the PNG file format.

    FYI I am using the CS3 suite.

    Thank you!

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    January 23, 2017

    Hi,

    I would suggest the following workflow:

    1. Do your table in a new InDesign CS3 document.
    2. Size the document so that the size of the text frame is holding the table is exactly the size of the page.

    3. Export to PDF with PDF/X-4:2007 preset. Do no downsampling of any kind if the table contains any images.

    4. Open the PDF as Smart Object in PhotoShop CS3.

    There is a special File/Open dialog for this. Do not use the standard Open dialog of PhotoShop!

    From my German PhotoShop CS3:

    If you want to place the table in a different PhotoShop document, drag the layer that is showing the smart object label with your table to the other opened document. Use PhotoShop's Transformation tool to scale or rotate the table. That would allow you to scale the table in PhotoShop as you wish and at the resolution as you wish.


    You can always change the resolution in PhotoShop from e.g. 72 ppi to 600 ppi and that would not affect the integrity of the vector information and the text in the smart object wrapper. The chosen resolution with PhotoShop will be important, if you like to render the smart object into actual pixels.

    Here a screenshot from CS3 to show you the opened PDF as smart object in PhotoShop and a second PhotoShop document showing the table after dragging the layer. In the background InDesign CS3 with the original table:

    That the color mode of the opened PDF as smart object is in RGB is not relevant.
    I dragged the smart object to a CMYK PhotoShop document. No problem. No color conversion.

    All the PDF's vector, text and color information is maintained until you will render the layer to pixels.

    Then PhotoShop's color management will dictate what will happen.

    Working with smart objects in PhotoShop CS3 (and above) is a non-destructive way of working with objects.

    Regards,
    Uwe

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