Icc profile: dot gain in indesign cs2

hi
wen i place picture gray scale (profile dot gain 20%) from
pS to iDcs2 - in dialog of "color" i dont have
the option to choose profile1?
but if the picture in cmyk or rgb the option its ok, i see the profile.
it's possible iD dont have option to see profile gray scale?
thanks

Igal,
It is possible to do a grayscale to grayscale conversion in InDesign in a roundabout way, provided that the destination profile is grayscale, i.e., you are printing one-color.
Here, your source and destination grayscale profiles will need to be replaced by CMYK profiles with GCR black generation set to 100%. InDesign can see these profiles, and the conversion will be K-only to K-only.
You can create max black versions of your grayscale profiles in Photoshop: just select Edit / Color Settings / Working Spaces / CMYK / Custom CMYK (this is a pull down menu), set GCR Black Generation to 100%, and fill in the necessary information for dot gain. Then save the profile via Save CMYK in the same pull down menu.
Things get a little more complicated if you don't have a grayscale profile of your destination to start with, but do have a CMYK profile. Here you'll need some way of extracting the K-only dot gain data from the CMYK profile to put in the max black profile that you create in Photoshop.
Hope this helps,
Larry

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