PSD file placing in to indesign

I can not place psd spot colour files into indesign

I think one of the issues here is spot colours - and my question is is anyone even using spot colours anymore?
I certainly have a spot colour mood board, but I haven't printed a spot colour job in about 10 years. Printing prices have come to a point where 4 colour is just as cost effective as 1 or 2 or 3 colour jobs. I even know one printer that takes a spot colour job in and runs it on a 4 colour machine because they don't have time or the need to clean up the 4 colour machine to run a spot colour. It just houses CMYK in the wells and runs every job that way. In 15 years not a single complaint.
Just wondering - is there any need for these files to be a CMYK+spot? Can't you just convert them all to CMYK and save them as a PSD or TIFF and be done with it?
Just to note, InDesign is very different to Quark - what worked in Quark won't necessarily work in InDesign - and you should forget how Quark works and focus on how InDesign handles things.

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I have an inDesign file that I've placed many PSD files in and when I go to print the PDF, boxes appear around some of the PSD files. This also happens in Illustrator. Am I not supposed to place PSD files? What other options do I have? I tried .png for the illustrator file but it didn't work so I ended up rasterizing the files but I'm sure there's a better way and I'm afraid embedding all of them will make the file gigantic. Thanks in advance for your help
amy

Amy,
You should be able to place PSD and AI files without issue.
What colour are these boxes? If they're white it could be transparency settings (or transparency blend space).
See here: http://indesignsecrets.com/eliminating-the-white-box-effect.php
To find out quickly, try exporting to a PDF x1a. If the problem disappears you have a transparency issue.
Have you checked the psd files and object boxes for the offending stroke?

InDesign CS3 placed inside another InDesign CS3

I have an InDesign file placed inside another and one of the picture doesn't print or export properly.
It's not the first time it's happened, nut usually the problem seems to occur with a complex PSD file placed in the 1st document.
This time the file is simple, but it's in multiply mode in the 1st InDesign document.
Any idea how to fix this?

I just tried to reproduce the image problem with PSD in ID in ID to show you screenshots but now everything seems to be working correctly (I had some files from last month that were causing a problem but now they're not). I'll just have to wait for it to happen again.
As for the place ID into ID causing a crash, I figured this isn't a widespread quirk, but several others in my office have this issue, although one colleague does not. We're all using the same workflow, the same hardware/software/fonts (OS 10.5.8; CS3 5.0.4), etc.
ID crashes the first time I place an ID file into an ID file, whether by file>place or drag-and-drop. Doesn't matter if the files are local or on a server. It also happens when the placed ID file has changes that causes the "container file" to be updated (the relinking causes the crash). If I quit ID before doing any of these operations, so that the place/relink is one of the first operations that I do, then the program doesn't crash. If I've been working for a little while then place/relink, that's when I get the crash.
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PSD preview doesn't update when i change psd-file

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Same problem with PDF files.
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I request capability to add either LINKED or embedded graphics to Muse (either AI or PSD files)

I notice there is no way to place a linked PhotoShop (PSD) file in Muse. In comparison, PhotoShop now has the capability of placing both embedded and/or linked files (including AI files) within PSD files. I am request this feature in Muse as well. Ultimately I would love to place either embedded or linke vector (AI) files in Muse, but the best I can do for now is place a PSD file which is linked to an AI file, into Muse. I was hoping to be able to make changes to the original AI file which would automatically update the PSD file to which it is linked which in turn would update the PSD file placed onto my Muse page, but it did not work. It does not appear to work because the placed PSD file (onto the Muse page) is embedded into the Muse page, and there no longer is any kind of link between the original PSD file and the version placed on the Muse page. Help me Adobe, I can't believe what I am asking would be difficult to pull off, and you already offer this feature in PhotoShop. The capability I am requesting would greatly enhance the power and elagance of the Muse program. By the way, I believe Muse is a fantastic product, and just what I have been waiting for for the last several years.

Yeah, I know that changing the mode results in different colors. I just switched back and forth to check out what's going on.
For CMYK I'm using ECI profiles which are common in Europe and for RGB the normal Adobe RGB 1998 profile. The profiles are synced between all Creative Suite products. I tried sRGB and some of the default profiles which shipped with CS5 but it produces the same result. I also deleted my whole Illustrator profile but without success.
My graphics card doesn't have any updates. But it would be very unlikely anyway that both drivers for both cards had the same issue. If it has something to do with my graphics cards it's more likely the switchable graphics in general.

REMOVING files / layers / graphics from Indesign

Hi, I have used 100s of photos and graphics in a book production but now I see that many of them were not used in the book. If I delete them from the Indesign file, they keep coming up as missing files and links. Is there a particular way to remove files from an Indesign work? thank you
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What I mean to say is that I go into Finder where all the TIFF and PSD file used in the Indesign project are sitting and those that are doubled up or created at some point but no longer needed, I then remove them. I do not wish to delete files that are sitting on the Indesign pages since they are final. I am referring for example to file that I created with a graphic which I now no longer need, a photo that I saved as psd but created the same one as tiff etc.
I have removed some of those in past because they just take room for no reason and increase the size of the indesign file. But when I reopen the Indesign file I get a pop up message that links and files are missing, referring those I have deleted and asking to find them and reinsert them.
The project I am working on is a large coffee table book with over 1500 photos and graphics over 457 pages (13" x 13"), so in the process of producing the book, obviously many psd and tiff files are created which I dont want to use anymore. All my other final graphics and photos which will show in the book are safely stored and backed up. So how do I get rid of those that I no longer need?
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I wish there was a way to get a layered PSD file

I wish there was a way to get a layered PSD file from a layered InDesign file.
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My PSD file is larger when placed in InDesign both documents are the same dimensions.

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I have drawn guides in both files in the same place but when I place the PSD file the image appears larger and the guides do not align even though InDesign indicates that the PSD file is placed at 100%.

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Placing PSD files in Indesign CS4 error message

I recently upgraded at work to CS4 and leopard. Here is my problem everytime I try to place a photoshop file off of my network filesever I recieve this error "This file is already open by another user or another application. This file may be stored on a network server and cannot be opened until the other user closes it." This happens with every psd that I try to place and I know that these files are not use. The photoshop files are CS3 files. Does anyone know why this is happening? Thanks in advance!

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Do not drag the contents of your Users/olduser/Library folder into you new user folder. More than likely this contains the source of the problems that got you into this trouble in the first place.
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Indesign crashes when exporting to pdf with .eps and .ai files placed

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I have an Indesign file with 4 placed Illustrator .eps file placed. Whenever I try to export to pdf, it starts to export and then when it reaches a page with a .eps file on it, it hovers for a minute and then Indesign crashes. I decided to save these 4 .eps files as .ai files and replace them. Now when I export to pdf, it gets through the export and a pdf file is created but immediately after, Indesign crashes.
Is this a sign of corrupt .eps or .ai files or a corrupt Indesign file? All I know is that if I remove all the image files, then the ID file is fine, ie. it exports and ID doesn't crash.
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