Export a jpeg from Id in good quality?

[laurab45391940]

I have produced works from Photoshop, then placed as PSD file into Indesign to complete with typography. When exporting files from Indesign as JPEG and PNG, the image quality is good but the wording loses all it's quality, very blurry. I must have these files as a JPEG, PNG in order to place on website building sites (they only allow JPEG, PNG file uploads.)

The whole point of using indesign was to produce works in high quality. I have tried everything and I am at a loss. What am I doing wrong?

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

One workflow could be place your PSD images in InDesign, add the text in InDesign, export the document to PDF, open the PDF in Photoshop and Save As a JPG/PNG. You can save an InDesign document as a JPG but some users suggest you get a better JPG via PDF to Photoshop.

[laurab45391940]

Thanks Derek, will give this a go and will let you know how I get on! Laura

[Derek Cross]

A point you should consider is that although it may be acceptable to have some text rasterised in graphics it's not best practice. Text on websites should be live so it can be searched and indexed by search engines.

And don't forget to add Alt text to your images, which you can do in InDesign: Object > Object Export Options. Although to be honest I haven't checked whether the above workflow would strip the metadata from the image.

[laurab45391940]

Hi Derek, So the files turns out pefect - the font too. I'm starting to think perhaps it's something to do with Squarespace (the website builder I'm using). If the quality is good on the file, why it uploads in poor quality? But I suppose that's a question for the squarespace discussion board. Thanks!

[Derek Cross]

Good. Don't forget the Alt text.

[Eric Dumas]

One one of the points to consider is that InDesign does not have Pixel-snapping features like Illustrator does.

So your text will be rasterized and anti-aliased when exporting it.

The only advantage of using a workflow like the one you suggest is if you were to take any benefit of the vector properties of the text (for print and/or pdf).

If you are only going to export for screen display purposes, I would use Photoshop only. Photoshop will offer a truer preview of the final result.