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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

InDesign CS4 | PC

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Correct answer Eugene Tyson

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

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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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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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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.

rob day
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May 26, 2011

Rob, you know your identity has converted to doppelgangerland?  See Why has my account spawned a similar identity?

Anyhow, yes, Javascript does. Note that the applescript dictionary doesn't appear to actually have the types enumerated, there's just a text string about them (that also gets offered as an error). So you can do this:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5" to export first group of active document format "PNG" to "path:to:mine.png"

and it works fine.


Cool—too bad it only works for page items and not pages.

Rob, you know your identity has converted to doppelgangerland?

Had that happen a few months ago and thought I had fixed it—can't see it happening from inside my account.

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