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You can build an Adobe Photoshop file with layers. How those layers get represented as the image moves through the creative workflow (Photoshop -> layout application -> Prinergy) can sometimes be confusing.

There are 2 basic ways that the Photoshop Layers are represented when you save a file:

1. A PSD file (with layers) saved as TIFF, etc. In this case, Photoshop "flattens" the layers and effects and saves it as the "main image data" inside the file. This can be placed in QuarkXPress. Layers can be preserved in "private" portion of TIFF in Photoshop 7 (so that if you re-open it in Photoshop, you can still edit the layers). However, from Prinergy's point of view, it is just dealing with 1 "flattened" layer of TIFF data (since the "private" portion of the TIFF is ignored). Saving as EPS out of Photoshop 7 does not allow preservation of layers. So, for either TIFF or EPS, it's really a non-issue from Prinergy's point of view.

2. A PSD file (with layers) cannot be placed in QuarkXPress or input into Prinergy. However, you can have a PSD file placed directly in InDesign 2.0. In this case, "PDF 1.4 flattening" takes effect (when you save as PS or PDF 1.3). If you flatten the layers and effects in InDesign, Prinergy treats it as any typical PS/PDF 1.3 file. If you save as PDF 1.4 (layers, effects are still present), when you Refine in Prinergy 2.1, Prinergy will flatten the PDF 1.4 effects to PDF 1.3, and only the "visible" layers/effects (in Photoshop) will be included in the final PS/PDF.

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See also

Keywords

InDesign, Photoshop, Quark

Technical contact(s)

James Bredenhof

Submitted by

James Bredenhof

Date submitted

13 Dec 2002