Sending ID file to Photoshop

I have a finalized book jacket in InDesign (CS3, 5.0.4). I need it in an image format that I can manipulate in Photoshop, and which will be beautiful on the web.
Have tried exporting into the available formats. Only some will then come into Photoshop (also CS3, 10.0.1) successfully, and of those few, all look really crummy - the fonts in particular stink.
What am I missing? I thought IND had an export-to-PNG format but I am not seeing it.
Thanks much
YC

The layer problem is ok, since I've not used much/many, but boy the fonts still look crummy. Viner Hand in par-
ticular.
Guess the best practice is to recreate in PS and then create a native PNG, sigh.
But thanks for helpful suggestions. On other kinds of docs probably that will be just fine.
YC

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