Comments on: Exporting JPG Pictures from InDesign

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:48:35 +0000

Thanks!!! This is exactly what I was looking for.

1. Highlight the objects/text you would like turned into a jpg
2. Export
3. Make sure the Selections box is checked

By: Martha

Martha — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:48:19 +0000

I had the same problem but no Acrobat installed, only acrobat reader.

I found a plugin that exports images out of Indesign format like Acrobat does out of Acrobat format!

You can fiend it at http://imageexporter.blogsite.org.

The owner of the site sent me a fully functional beta version after i placed an email to his paypal adress.

You can see the adress when you click on the paypal buy button!

By: Tim Hughes

Tim Hughes — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:00:19 +0000

I am exporting a load of pages from ID to jpg, Make up page in ID then select the objects on said page and export to jpg, sweet mostly. But sometimes the resulting jpg is bigger by some 10 pixels then the selected objects. I cannot see why, anyone had this?

By: Jongware

Jongware — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:07:15 +0000

@Robert: You can’t. At least, not with JPEG — it simply does not support transparency.

Try exporting as PNG. Even better, try not to use a desktop publishing program, but use Photoshop (or similar), as that has a special “Export to Web” function that shows a preview of the result, including any transparency.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:46:31 +0000

I need to make a logo for my web page. I started with a box and entered the text. I made the text two colors. When finished with the layout, I exported it as a jpeg.

However, when it is placed over black, there is a white box around the letters. How can I make it so there is no fill around the letters so the background will be whatever color is behind the image?

Bob

By: Nuri Pazol

Nuri Pazol — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:34:41 +0000

So I bounced over here because my creative director wanted to export all (placed) images on all pages — a great number of them cropped in their frames — so that the modifications in InDesign could be exported as individual images again.

“Hey, Guru,” he said, “how can we automate this process?” I’d already known about the technique in this posting — but if I wanted to, say select more-than-one image on a page/spread and then export them to, say, a JPG, then the selected, farthest-extended images would become the edges for one, large-super image, and not just a batch of images.

Well, first I thought it might be listed as a sample script, pre-packaged with InDesign — but instead, it hit me:

Export all pages in the InDesign document as a PDF. Then, open the PDF in Acrobat Pro and select: Advanced>Document Processing>Export All Images…
Choosing a target folder will dump ALL images used in the document, cropped — just like he wanted them! Hurrah!

By: DanB

DanB — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:08:39 +0000

Good tip, wasn’t aware of the ’selection’ option for Jpeg export. There is a free script somewhere for doing the same with PDfs – search for “Export selection to PDF”.

A related tip is that to export all images from an InDesign document you can either export from the Links panel menu: “Copy all links to…” and select a folder (though this will export InCopy files too if you have any). Any cropping made in InDesign will be lost.

Or, to keep the image cropping done in InDesign, export the document as a high res PDF, open in Acrobat Pro and go Advanced > Document Processing > Export all images. Select the compression (or Tiff for none) and destination folder. Images are exported with crop as they were in the InDesign file.

By: cw_rld

cw_rld — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:44:08 +0000

Thanks for the great tip.

By: Sam Wilczak

Sam Wilczak — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:35:27 +0000

Thanks David great tip! Treat every day like your first and revist the old features, oh and act humbly!

By: Jerome

Jerome — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:02:45 +0000

There was an Xpert Tool Xtension for Quark that I used to use a lot that would export a selection as an EPS. This was great because I could export a portion of a page with a rough outline on various objects, rasterize it in PS then built the compost object. I can still do it in InDesign and get the HR files but as far as I know I need to do it as a whole page, and PDF seems to work better than EPS, which sometime various “flattened” items are distorted by a pixel from the “stitching”. (By the way, I hate that term, it is a binding term not a page layout term)