export the PDF and open and save in Photoshop.

Hi Scott,

What version of PDF would you recomend exporting to?

Thanks,

George

Thanks for the good info. By the way Scott, how can i be sure to keep RGB features while exporting to PDF? I think the original logo is CMYK, should i choose change colour profile and change output (i don't know if those are the right words in English) but here is the dialog box in Spanish.

Thanks for any input.

By the way, i did a "than copy/paste into Illustrator. Export a PDF then save that as PNG  from Acrobat Pro" but the PNG is 4 Kb and even placing a high setting the resolution is very low res. I might be doing something wrong.

Thanks John. My post got longer than I originally expected. Otherwise I would have just made a new thread.

I feel like I should clarify my original post that you replied to. That list of processes isn't one sequence of actions to get a final product. It lists every seperate method I've tried (unsuccessfully) to get usable images out of InDesign. I'm not doing them all in sequence. That would be a real workflow issue.

Saving PDFs from Acrobat doesn't give you translucent PNGs, because of the white paper background it assumes; even if you didn't have a background set in InDesign. I tried that too and was disappointed. Also, there's no way to "delete" the paper/page/white-background in Acrobat Pro before saving as PNG.

Oh that's perfect! That's exactly the type of advice I was hoping for! I never knew what the significant differences were between those PDF/X-x formats. I was able to export my InDesign document as a PDF and successfully open the translucent pages in Photoshop.

I actually only have CS5 for Windows here at work, (and a copy of CS3 on my personal Mac) but am a Programmer and am familiar with AppleScript, so If you'd be willing to share, I'd love to get ahold of your script. If it just can't work with Photoshop as old as CS3, I'm sure I can create a Windows equivilant.

There must have been something wrong when I tried importing the PDF earlier. This X-4 opened very quickly and came with a convenient resolution and page selection dialog.

Much appreciated! Thanks.

If you're using a workflow like version 3 (open each page one at a time in Photoshop...), that's like a workflow I use every other month. If you drag the entire multi-page PDF file onto your Photoshop icon, you can tell it to open all of the pages at x resolution in y color space, and then go get some coffee -- when you get back, they're all open, stacked in order with page 1 on top, and you can flatten and save them all as PNG files pretty quickly. And if you do it often, I'm sure you can create some kind of script to do it. Scripts wouldn't help in my case, so I haven't looked into it.

Where's y'all imagination?

This is a Quick-and-So-Very-Dirty-Dirty-Dirty javascript with lots of traps and pitfalls; still, it works as a Proof Of Concept to do the dirty thang straight out of InDesign.

(In particular I cannot stress enough: Do Not Use On Your Live Document. Save a copy first, because this script messes up your document, and if good old trusty InDesign chooses to crash while running the script, this Messed Up Version will be saved as "current one"!!)

//DESCRIPTION:Export all pages to PNGs -- Do Not Use For Production Purposes
// A Move Along, Nothing to See Here Production
for (pg=0; pg<app.activeDocument.pages.length; pg++)
{
     page = app.activeDocument.pages[pg];
     for (mas=0; mas < page.appliedMaster.pageItems.length; mas++)
          try {
               page.appliedMaster.pageItems[mas].override(app.activeDocument.pages[pg]);
          } catch (bah) { }
 
     g = page.groups.add(page.pageItems);
     g.exportFile(ExportFormat.PNG_FORMAT, File(Folder.myDocuments.fsName+"/"+(page.name)+".png"));
}
 
 

After you've dumped it in there you go to the scripts panel to run it.  You'll find it under Samples, I prefer to open the scripts panel first, right click where I want to put it and choose Reveal in...  That opens up a window to paste it into.

If you've never noticed it before you're in for a treat, there's heaps of cool scripts installed by default and many more heaps cooler ones available for free!  This one here for example is my favourite.  Look here for some more but that's quite an old list.