how to export all images from an indesign doc to photoshop? 1

[enderty]

Howdy, I've got a huge indesign document that I have to chop up into little pieces. One thing that I need to do is copy every image out and save them as a bunch of separate eps files. I'd really like to automate this process as much as I can, because it's going to take a really long time to do manually.

So here's what I'm doing now, and perhaps the pros have some tips to speed the process up...

In InDesign:
direct select an image
copy
Switch to Photoshop:
new document (automatically sizes to fit the copied image)
paste
save as... eps (no preview, ASCII encoding)
close document
Back to InDesign and repeat...

So I know I can use photoshop actions to do most of the stuff there, but I still would have to copy each image one by one from indesign, and I'd like to avoid that if possible. So I guess I just want some way to export all images from indesign either to a folder on the hard drive, or directly into photoshop.

Tips?

 

[jimoblak]

Why do you need to chop this document up in this manner?

Are the original images in EPS format already?

Can you use File>Package to put all your images in a folder so that you do not need to copy and paste?

- - picklefish - -
Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[Genimuse]

If you have Acrobat (the full app), then export the ID doc as a PDF with no image compression. Open it up in Acrobat and there's an option to export all images. Poof, done. If the format doesn't work (I think it will save out as TIFFs), create a Photoshop droplet that just opens the file and saves it back out as EPS, and then just drag the files onto the droplet.

 

[Genimuse]

Oop, missed jimoblak's comment. Package would be even easier. Then go with the droplet.

 

[enderty]

We are chopping this document up in order to move it to latex. I'm not familiar with latex, I'm just doing what I'm told.

Using Acrobat seemed to work, just hope that the quality will stay high enough through the transfer. I think it should.

Thanks for the quick replies!