Copy/Paste image from InDesign to Photoshop without extra space?

[John255126320wha]

Hi,

I am trying to copy formatted tables from InDesign in to Photoshop. When I paste in to my Photoshop document it is adding space around the file, ie the box is not flush with the object.

Here's the object in InDesign:

And here's how it pastes in to Photoshop:

Note the additional space being added around the object.

How do you stop this from happening?

Cheers!

[Stephen Marsh]

Copy/paste between apps can sometimes be problematic. You could try exporting the table to PDF then placing or rasterizing the PDF in Photoshop.

[John255126320wha]

Hi Stephen, thanks for the reply. Yeah, exporting each individual element will be painful, kind of feels like lots of unnesesary steps really. I just wish I knew why Photoshop is adding this arbitary extra space, its not even equal pixels around the object! Cheers!

[Stephen Marsh]

I'm going out on a limb by saying that there is some data in the clipboard padding out the data. It would be good to confirm if PDF has this issue or not.

[Stephen Marsh]

Perhaps the following may help:

https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-export-a-portion-of-an-indesign-project

https://carijansen.com/selection-to-pdf-new-indesign-add-on/

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/exportfile-export-selection-option-via-script/m-...

[John255126320wha]

The export to selection worked! I think that will be the best way to do this, its not quite as efficient as copy/paste but much quicker than resizing each element or exporting.

Thankyou so much for your help, appreciated.