PowerPoint to InDesign

[Sharon_Berry@adobeforums.com]

I am desperately trying to import PowerPoint slides that include pie charts into InDesign. The problem is that I only need to export the black plate. The grays in the pieces of the pie chart disappear when I do that so all my pie is black and white.

When I export the all plates to PDF, the PowerPoint slides come out unreadable when they looked fine in InDesign. I have tried importing as .eps and .ai and no luck. Ideas? I appreciate any help!

[Bob_Levine]

Print the PP slides to postscript using a grayscale printer PPD. Distill
that into a PDF and then place the PDFs in ID.

Bob

[Sharon_Berry@adobeforums.com]

That worked! Thanks!

Now, do you know how to export only one color to PDF? I need to export the black plate only. Currently, I do it the hard way. I save a separate version and delete all color items. Not exactly efficient.

[Bob_Levine]

You'd have to drop those PDFs into ID, then print to Adobe PDF or
Distiller. Choose separations and turn off the other inks.

Bob

[Bob_Levine]

I'm not sure that will give you exactly what you're looking for. The
PDFs from PowerPoint will be RGB so even the blacks will wind up on all
four plates.

Bob

[John Mensinger]

Bob's right. PowerPoint knows no "black plate."

[Sharon_Berry@adobeforums.com]

Ok. Now, not looking at PP, do you know how to export black plate only from InDesign to PDF? I know how to view just the black plate in InDesign but I don't know how to export just the black plate. Any help would be terrific!

[Gernot_Hoffmann@adobeforums.com]

Sharon,

assuming that the result should be a pure Grayscale (images)
and Black (text) PDF:

1. Assemble everything without changes in ID.
2. Export to PDF (Leave Color Unchanged).
3. Convert the whole stuff to Grayscale (images) and Black
(text) by Quite a Box of Tricks
<http://www.quite.com>
Trial version is free.

Result is a K-only PDF. Of course, color ingredients are
replaced by gray or black ...

By the way: different colors in diagrams can deliver the
same gray results.

Second question:
The black plate is exported by printing to file, as separa-
tions, using Acrobat Distiller PS Printer Driver. Then distill.
Eventually resulting empty pages C,M,Y can be deleted or ignored
(not used). This will show whether CMY plates are really empty.

Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

[Bob_Levine]

Not with export. You'd have to print separations to distiller or Adobe
PDF and turn off the CMY plates with the ink manager.

Bob

[Sharon_Berry@adobeforums.com]

Thanks Bob. I export the separations and some pages turn out fine, but some keep the color + black. How do I turn off the CMY plates in the ink manager? TIA.

[Bob_Levine]

Just turn them off. There are check boxes that aren't very obvious on
the left side of the colors.

Bob

[Sharon_Berry@adobeforums.com]

Genius! Thanks. I'm not sure why I didn't think to click those printer icons. One more question ... is there a way to export only the all black items? Meaning, some items--such as a logo--contain some black. I want only all black items. So ... text, a few grayscale photos, etc.

[Bob_Levine]

Not that I know of.

Bob