Vector output for indesign using photoshop files

[Graeme_McCormack@adobeforums.com]

ok (I am using the CS suite)

so I have vector shapes in my photoshop files, be it text or just shapes. I place the psd into the indesign file and create a PDF via canned PDF maker for indesign and try it with acrobat distiller. Everytime I get the same thing, the vector information in the psd's are now raster info (what should be clean type is now pixel information). What is happening. I have trying adjusting the settings everywhere, it seems like a glitch but I could be missing a pref somewhere that I don't know about. Everything works fine when I us Quark and print to distiller with photoshop EPS files in there. Should I just be using EPS files when I want my text to show up with it's vector info? Because I also noticed that when I preflight my indesign document with the psd file in there, no fonts show up as being embedded. Coincidence? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers :)

[Robert_Levine@adobeforums.com]

Save your Photoshop file as PDF from Photoshop (don't print to
postscript--use file>save as and select PDF).

Save with fonts embedded, vector data retained but turn off layers.
Place that in your ID document and use file>export to create your PDF
from InDesign.

Bob

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Robert is correct. Only Photoshop PDF and Photoshop EPS work to save vector information and editable text from Photoshop to place in a layout. PSD, TIFF, etc. always turn it to a bitmap.

[Graeme_McCormack@adobeforums.com]

Okay, you guys are great! I guess I assumed that the wonderful ability for indesign to import psd was just to good to be true. Thus comes my next question. How come it doesn't keep the vector information. I have yet to experiment with this, as I was primarily a quark user, but does this also mean that it will not import colour information aswell,. it will just flatten everything? Why is this the case is my second question. However the former questions is a little more important.

Cheers:)

[Robert_Levine@adobeforums.com]

My answer is a very strong "I don't know." I also don't care. I simply
use PDF.

Bob

[Larry_Grohman@adobeforums.com]

Photoshop (PSD) files imported in InDesign will carry everything except
vectors. For now, the only way to preserve vectors from Photoshop is to
print directly from Photoshop, save as EPS (similar to printing PS) or save
as PDF. That includes color information as well as layers.

Why? ... Well Adobe just hasn't fixed that yet. I would expect to see that
in future versions. So, as Bob said, just save as PDF and be happy your
pagelayout program can support vectors from Photoshop in that fashion, as
well as unflattened native PSD files.

Larry

[Brian]

> Save with fonts embedded, vector data retained but turn off layers.

> Place that in your ID document and use file>export to create your PDF
> from InDesign.

Note that you don't *have* to turn off layers (if the filesize of the
PDF isn't a concern to you); if you retain the layers you can open the
PSD back into Photoshop with all the layers preserved and editable.

Also, be aware that sometimes these PDFs placed into InDesign can
sometimes take a while to spool to the printer - I had one file where
the client included 15 or 20 text layers, plus one raster background
layer. This file, saved as a PDF and placed into InDesign CS, took
almost ten minutes to print.

Brian