Difficulty saving Indesign slides as images to insert into another Indesign document.

[NNAPHH]

I created an Indesign presentation for college as we needed to present background research for our thesis projects.

For the write up section of the thesis, we have been given a thesis template (in Indesign) and have to drop our slides from the research presentation into this; i.e: one page includes a rectangle box to drop the slide into and additional text boxes to explain the slide.

I have tried numerous options such as saving my slides as JPEGS, PDFs etc and trying to place them into the boxes for the write up section.

However every time I save them they seem to be greyed out and lose their opacity.

Any help or guidance with this issue would be much appreciated!!

[BobLevine]

Screenshots please.

[NNAPHH]

1. These are my slides that I did for my presentation on indesign.

2. Then, I saved my slides as JPEGS so they could be inserted into my thesis template. When I saved them as JPEGS they still maintained the right quality and colours.

3. Then I placed these JPEG images of the slides one by one into the thesis template. Template has a rectangle box for image of a slide and then two text boxes below to explain the slides. However, when I place the image it is all greyed out. The quality is still there but all the colours lose their opacity.

4. Even when I click into presentation screen mode the images of the slides are still appearing greyed out.

I would really appreciate any help with how to make sure my images are not greyed out as I am under time pressure with the thesis.

Thanking you in advance!!

[Jeff Witchel, ACI]

Hmm! Sceenshots would help.

But take a look at your View menu> Display Performance and make sure to choose either Typical View or  High Quality Display.

[NNAPHH]

1. These are my slides that I did for my presentation on indesign.

2. Then, I saved my slides as JPEGS so they could be inserted into my thesis template. When I saved them as JPEGS they still maintained the right quality and colours.

3. Then I placed these JPEG images of the slides one by one into the thesis template. Template has a rectangle box for image of a slide and then two text boxes below to explain the slides. However, when I place the image it is all greyed out. The quality is still there but all the colours lose their opacity.

4. Even when I click into presentation screen mode the images of the slides are still appearing greyed out.

I would really appreciate any help with how to make sure my images are not greyed out as I am under time pressure with the thesis.

Thanking you in advance!!

[BobLevine]

Use PDFs, not JPG.

[NNAPHH]

Hi Bob,

I saved as PDFs and the exact same thing happens once I place them into the thesis document.

Any other ideas of what could be going on?

Thanks,

Naomi

[rob day]

I have tried numerous options such as saving my slides as JPEGS, PDFs etc and trying to place them into the boxes for the write up section.

There have been reports of the GPU setting affecting preview color, you could try turning it of in your Preferences.

Also, you don't need to export your slides, you can place InDesign pages in another document. Just choose place, select your ID slides document and turn on options to select a page.

[NNAPHH]

Hi there Rob,

Thanks for the tip for exporting slides, I tried it just there and they appear greyed once played in the template also, so maybe it is something to do with the GPU setting you mentioned.

I'm very much a beginner user with indesign so would you mind explaining exactly how to turn off the GPU setting please.

Thanks,

Naomi

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[rob day]

Adobe InDesign GPU Performance feature enhancements

[NNAPHH]

Thanks for your help Rob!

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

Could be an effect. Select one and open the effects panel. Also check for object styles and transparency.

[NNAPHH]

I just tried that and the opacity was down on 30%!!!

Have been struggling with this for a while now so thanks for helping me see the light Bob!

Really appreciate your help!

[BobLevine]

Glad you got it sorted.