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David Morgan
ParticipantFor what it’s worth, I’ve written an AppleScript that offers the following features:
• Export PDFs and/or JPEGs straight to the Indesign file folder or automatically to a sub folder with specific name.
• Exports individual pages. Each page is specifically named from one of the following options:
– Indesign filename & suffix-of-your-choice & page no.
– CSV or text file (names separated by returns).
– The content of a character style from each page.
– The content of a paragraph style from each page.
• It includes the option to combine the exported JPEG files into a single PDF meaning that you have a PDF that only contains flattened images.
• It can export the current document or all open documents.It’s a free download with no registration so if you want to hear about updates, leave a comment or your name through the contact form at drscripto.com
ParticipantHi David, I’ve created an AppleScript for dealing with the situations that I mentioned. We use an assortment of ink weighted CMYK images but we are beginning to use RGB images more and more in our workflow knowing that they are more versatile and can be converted on-the-fly to CMYK when we make the PDFs. The problem I mentioned is that sometimes we use transparency effects in Indesign and often have darkening vignettes over the top of images. We do this to make reversed out text more readable for example.
As mentioned, these areas can become over ink weight in the final CMYK PDF.
So anyway, you run this script after you have selected some objects that may cause the above problem. It will copy the selection, create an RGB PSD and save it in the nominated folder. Then it deletes the selected items on the Indesign page and replaces them with the RGB PSD placed as an image. Now the Indesign file is ready to be converted to a CMYK PDF without any risk of those items going over ink weight.
The script is here: https://www.drscripto.com/?p=668
I’d love to get feedback on this, there could be other reasons why people might like to convert Indesign objects into Photoshop documents!ParticipantI have experimented with the RGB workflow and I’m finding that Indesign can convert RGB images on the fly to their target CMYK profile and the total of the CMYK values are within the ink weight limit. However, Indesign doesn’t convert placed CMYK images which may be over ink weight to the target profile. Also, and this is quite surprising – Indesign doesn’t reduce the ink weight of its native objects that may have a CMYK value with high ink weight to the target ink weight.
Lastly, if you have an image placed with a gradient multiplying over the top (to darken an area for example), Indesign will not take into account the ink weight limit when it creates the PDF. So an RGB image with a darkening vignette over the top may result in a CMYK PDF with too high an ink weight.
Is there any way around this? Otherwise I will have to go back to creating a composite version of that image in Photoshop instead of doing quick image adjustments in Indesign.
ParticipantI wrote a script for this. It asks you to point to a top level folder and it searches all subfolders inside it.
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